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Partnerships in IE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Emanuel

Session 3657 The Community Based Capstone Design Experience: More than Meets the Eye Joseph T. Emanuel Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Technology Bradley UniversityAbstractFor the past 36 years, Bradley University’s Industrial Engineering program has used community-based projects as the basis for the Capstone Design experience. For the past 25 years, the“clients” for these projects have been asked to pay for the service provided. The courseemphasizes real-world team problem solving and the need for strong

Conference Session

TC2K Issues and Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lin; Harold Broberg

programobjectives [1].The Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) has been continuouslyaccredited for over 30 years, was last accredited in 1998, and is preparing for areaccreditation visit in 2004 during the first year of exclusive use of the TC2K criteria.While in the process of refining our curriculum as outcome-based, the authors found thatthe importance of capstone or integrating experiences is also recognized by ABET andhighlighted in the Self-Study Questionnaire [1]. The Senior Design Project courses havebeen in place since 1968 and it was concluded in [2] and [3] that the course providesstudents with the best possible preparation in terms of current technical knowledge,techniques, skills, and written/oral reports for industry

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Nicholas Krouglicof

Session 3425 The Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design Experience at Union College Prof. Nicholas Krouglicof Union College Department of Mechanical Engineering Schenectady, NY 12308AbstractDesign of Mechanical Systems (MER-144) is a project-oriented course that provides a capstonedesign experience for the mechanics area of the mechanical engineering curriculum at UnionCollege. Choosing an appropriate design project for this course, one that integrates all of

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steven Beyerlein; Jeff Williams; Beth Milligan; Andrew DuBuisson; Robert Drew; Karl Rink; Edwin Odom

Session 2793 Early Development of Capstone Design Teams through Graduate Student Mentoring and Team Building Activities Robert Drew, Andrew DuBuisson, Beth Milligan, Jeff Williams, Steven Beyerlein, Edwin Odom, Karl Rink University of Idaho Mechanical Engineering DepartmentAbstract Capstone design teams at the University of Idaho undertake year-long, industry-sponsoreddesign projects extending from conceptualization through realization of functional prototypes.Team experiences at the U of I have shown that teams that have

Conference Session

Partnerships in IE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Griffin; Paul Griffin; Donna Llewellyn

The Impact of Group Size and Course Lengthon a Capstone Design CoursePaul M. Griffin¹, Susan O. Griffin and Donna C. Llewellyn²¹School of Industrial and Systems Engineering²Center for Excellence in Teaching and LearningGeorgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta, GA 30332January 15, 2003AbstractIn the spring semester of 2003, the School of Industrial Engineering at Georgia Tech ranan experimental one-semester version of their capstone course, Senior Design. Thestandard version is two semesters in the length, and the purpose of the experiment was tocompare the marginal benefit of the second semester for the student (and project sponsor)to the cost of running the second semester in terms of faculty and sponsor resources. Inaddition, a survey was

Conference Session

Manufacturing Competitiveness

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2003 Annual Conference

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Todd Johnson; John Fesler; Kenneth Stier

-based manufacturing capstone course. It will explain how concepts are learned throughsimulation and applied through project work within the university context. Page 8.1070.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2163Nationwide Network and Its Services The Illinois Manufacturing Extension Center (IMEC) originated in the 1990's as aresult of a funded NIST project. IMEC is staffed by an experienced group

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Paul Kauffmann; William Peterson

Session: 3242 A Graduate Case Study – Integration of Capstone Concepts in Engineering Management Paul Kauffmann and Bill Peterson Old Dominion UniversityAssessment and Capstone Case ProjectsMany master in engineering management programs are considering accreditation by ABET,ASEM or similar organizations as a means to demonstrate and assure quality. In manyassessment systems, a capstone project is employed to provide a consistent and controlledopportunity for students to demonstrate proficiency in key learning outcomes. This papercontributes to the literature

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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Wagdy Mahmoud; Tom Timmermann; Bonita Barger; Ahmed Elsawy

Session 1931 Managing Virtual Teams in Senior Industrial Projects Ahmed ElSawy*, Bonita Barger**, Tom Timmerman**, and Wagdy Mahmoud* *College of Engineering/**College of Business Administration Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN 38505-0001AbstractThe Industrial Projects course at Tennessee Technological University represents the practicalexecution of the technological skills and knowledge the students gained from all sourcesthroughout their college career, work experience, and life. This course is the capstone experiencethat requires both teamwork and individual skills in

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

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Zbigniew Prusak

Session 3548 Do Not Optimize, Solve the Problem – Development of Critical Thinking Skills in DFM Small Projects Zbigniew Prusak Central Connecticut State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes activities, requirements and assessment techniques used in small projects inDesign for Manufacturing course. The projects are assigned to teams of 3 to 7 students, and thevast majority of work is done in class under specific time constraints. The team size and timeconstraints for each problem on hand try to imitate real work environment of time-constrainedmeetings

Conference Session

Design Projects in Manufacturing

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Kashef; Mark Rajai

Session 2563 Innovative Approaches to Collaborative Design Projects Mark Rajai, Ali Kashef University of Memphis/University of Northern IowaAbstractRapid changes in technology and a global economic recession have prompted many leadingmanufacturing companies to reevaluate and upgrade their design and manufacturing process.An increasing number of these companies have moved from traditional design environment to avirtual one. Companies such as Boeing have utilized various new software/tools and adoptedinnovative technologies to reduce cost and time to market for new products. In

Conference Session

EM Skills and Concepts in the Real World

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Cheng-Hsin Liu; S. Gary Teng

approach provides students the opportunities to work withindustry on projects in a real operational environment. These experiences give students solidtechnical education, strengthen their project management skills, and expose them to significantengineering challenges found in real industrial settings.Lenoir10 presented guidelines for success for capstone projects. Moore11 discussed issues Page 8.301.1involved in externally sponsored senior projects. Jordan and Schell12 pointed out some legal Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rana Mitra; John-David Yoder; Michael Rider

Session 1566without him.Bibliography[1] Faste, R., B. Roth, and D.J. Wilde, “Integration of Creativity into the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum,”ASME Resource Guide to Innovation in Design Education, Cary A. Fisher, Ed., American Society of MechanicalEngineers, New York, 1993.[2] "Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, Effective for Evaluations during the 2001-2002 AccreditationCycle," ABET, 2000. (http://www.abet.org/images/Criteria/eac_criteria_b.pdf)[3] Dutson, Alan J. et al, 1997. "A Review of Literature on Teaching Engineering Design Through Project-Oriented Capstone Courses," Journal of Engineering Education. 86(1):17-28.[4] Marin, John A., James E. Armstong Jr., and James L. Kays, "Elements of an Optimal Capstone Experience,"1999

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

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2003 Annual Conference

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Marian Stachowicz; Rocio Alba-Flores

completing the ECE program at UMD can satisfythe requirement for a senior design project. The design workshop topic for the spring 2002 wasthe use of fuzzy logic to control mobile robots. In this workshop, students worked in smallgroups and were required to design, build and program a mobile robot with intelligent behaviorsusing fuzzy logic. In this workshop no formal lectures were taught, however the studentsreceived an intensive review covering the topics of the 68HC12 microcontroller, principles ofmobile robots, sensors, and fuzzy logic.IntroductionIn the last decade, the topic of mobile robots has become very attractive to engineering students.It has been shown that students working in this topic show more interest in learning digitalelectronics

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alok Verma

3648AN AIR-FILTER SENSOR FOR HOME-USED AIR CONDITIONERS Cheng Y. Lin, Gary R. Crossman, Alok K. Verma Department of Engineering Technology Old Dominion University Norfolk, VirginiaAbstract This paper presents a successful senior project of instrumentation developed in aMechanical Engineering Technology senior capstone course. Students were encouraged toapproach the problem of designing an air-filter sensor and to propose an optimum

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Anderson; Heather Cooper

this need, an applications-oriented heat transfer instructional module was developedfor use in design project or capstone courses. The module includes both a review of basic heattransfer concepts and an introduction to their applications in design-type situations. The moduledescribed in this paper specifically targets a senior design course in plastics manufacturing in amechanical engineering technology curriculum, but the basic structure is such that it can be easilyadapted for other capstone courses. The following discussion presents the development of themodule itself as well as results from its recent implementation in the classroom.Module DevelopmentDevelopment of the instructional module began with reviewing the material currently

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

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Dr. Maria Kreppel; Max Rabiee

private investment, they seem all themore appropriate for the investment of public university resources. Enlarging the scope of designproblems via community-based projects should enrich the capstone experience for all involved. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 8.1225.1 Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationIntroductionWithin the University of Cincinnati, the College of Applied Science (CAS) provides engineeringtechnology programs for a student body of approximately 1400. In its 175th year of operation,CAS honors its

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hanna Lee; Sven Bilen; Robert Pangborn

Session 2625 Linking Student-Initiated Projects to Engineering Design Education Sven G. Bilén, Robert N. Pangborn, and Hanna Lee College of Engineering The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 168021. Introduction The engineering design process is paramount to the practice of engineering; hence,engineering programs have made increasing commitments to teaching design as part of designcourses, particularly capstone design classes. In the engineering colleges of most

Conference Session

Projects in Ocean and Marine Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Miller

written of these projects. This paper presentsthe details of five courses using this approach in the Naval Architecture and Ocean EngineeringDepartment (NAOE) at the United States Naval Academy (USNA). The first course is themajor’s introductory course for sophomores where after seven weeks each student submits thespecification, calculations, lines plan and construction drawings for a towing tank model. Theseplans are then turned over to another student to build and test. The second course is a junior-levelstructures course focusing on ship structures. The students design a full midship section. Thefinal three courses are at the senior-level and include an elective in marine fabrication methodsand two capstone design courses. In the fabrication

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

K Muraleetharan; Gerald Miller; Dee Fink; Robert Knox; Randall Kolar; David Sabatini; Baxter Vieux; Michael Mooney; Carolyn Ahern; Kurt Gramoll

Session 2630 The Sooner City Project: A 5-Year Update C. C. Ahern, L. D. Fink, K. K. Muraleetharan, R. L. Kolar University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019AbstractThe Sooner City project at the University of Oklahoma (OU) seeks to reform the traditional civilengineering curriculum by including design projects at every level of the curriculum, not simply asa senior capstone project. The project can be implemented without changing the traditional coursesequencing, which enhances faculty buy-in. It is part of a larger movement to reform engineeringeducation by teaching students to

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Hensel; Paul Stiebitz

Session 2242 A Design Project Management Course at RIT E. C. Hensel, P. H. Stiebitz Mechanical Engineering / Industrial and Systems Engineering Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY 14623-5604Abstract Rochester Institute of Technology is currently implementing a college-wide initiative toincorporate multi-disciplinary design as a central theme for all students in the capstone designsequence. For several years, the Kate Gleason College of Engineering has supported a number ofmulti-disciplinary design teams

Conference Session

Improving Communication Skills in ME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Theresa Jones

Session 2166 Conveying Instructor Expectations in a Project-centered Course Theresa L. Jones The University of Texas at AustinAbstractInstructor expectations of student behaviors in a teacher-centered course are different from theinstructor expectations in a student-centered course. Many students successful in traditionallecture-based courses are frustrated and anxious when working on open-ended projects becausethey don’t understand what is expected of them. Faculty teaching courses with open-endedprojects may be equally frustrated that their students do not seem to be

Conference Session

Improving Communication Skills in ME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Norman Asper; Bijan Sepahpour

. Page 8.1273.3 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationFinally, in their two-semester "senior design project" (the capstone engineering design course),students review, reinforce, and tie together all the previously learned concepts of their education(including team work concepts). They use the full two semesters to work on one design projectof their choosing. These projects are primarily group efforts with students drawn from severaldifferent engineering disciplines. These design teams often include students from such fields asphysics, business, art, and computer science. One member of the group

Conference Session

Teaching Design Through Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stacy Wilson; Mark Cambron

5: EE Design II Project.ConclusionThe “bug” robot and the PLC robot are valuable experiences in the Electrical Engineeringprogram at Western Kentucky University. Through these projects, students are able to develophands-on skills that will aid in other courses and to use knowledge from previous courses. Also,these projects and their respective design courses form important bases for the third designcourse, fourth design course, and ultimately the senior capstone project. These projects support aproject-based, integrated curriculum.Bibliography1. J. Lenior and J. Russell, “The Roles of the Student in a Project-Based Engineering Curriculum,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Practice-Oriented Educati on: Transforming Higher

Conference Session

Energy Project and Laboratory Ideas

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

quality and reallife design projects to work on.The task to design, develop and construct an instructional laboratory apparatus to demonstrateheat recovery principles and heat transfer processes began with an application to the ASHRAEUndergraduate Senior Project Program. The proposal was to design a refrigeration system for asmall compartment. Subsequent to the awarding of the project grant in the amount of $1835.00from ASHRAE, a student senior design group was selected to work on the project.II. The Design ProcessThe design process that the students follow in the capstone senior design projects is the oneoutlined by Bejan et al. [3] and Jaluria [4]. The first essential and basic feature of this process isthe formulation of the problem

Conference Session

Energy Project and Laboratory Ideas

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Greguske; Justin Reese; Frederik Betz; Chad Weis; Michael Swedish; Glenn Wrate

analyze this cogeneration plant is extensive. Thestudents working on this project have specified a variety of thermocouples, pressure transducers,flow meters, vibration sensors, and decibel meters. Utilizing these sensors, along with theprovided information from Capstone, will allow the students to complete a first and second lawanalysis of the cogeneration plant.At the time of this writing, the instrumentation for measuring the data points necessary foranalyzing the micro-turbine from both a thermodynamic first and second law approach havebeen specified and ordered. Many of the sensors have arrived and have been installed.Furthermore, a couple of necessary and critical data points which are internal to the micro-turbine are not capable of being

Conference Session

Teaching Design Through Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Pavlic; Prabal Dutta; Michael Hoffmann; Jeffrey Radigan; James Beams; Erik Justen; John Demel; Richard Freuler

/build project. It is this third course ofthe FEH engineering sequence that is described in the present work.2. The Comprehensive Freshman Hands-On CourseThe ENG H193 design project is a focal point for the FEH program. In many respects, thisfreshman design project course is comparable to a junior level or senior "capstone" design coursein which a student might participate as part of the requirements for his chosen engineeringdiscipline. A major difference is that the first-year ENG H193 course teaches the variousplanning, management, 3 documentation, 4 and presentation aspects of a design project, whereasmany senior level design projects focus on the specific design problem alone, assuming someprior instruction in or knowledge of what is needed

Conference Session

Design Projects in Manufacturing

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson; Scott Almen; Russel Biekert; Norbert Richter; Al Post

phase to finished production assembly and inspection (including statistical processanalysis and charting). This analysis will involve process control charts and process variationcharts to analyze the quality of the processes created by the classes for that product cycle.Sponsoring industry representatives interact with students throughout the project. Various designcourses within, e.g., MET 331, Machine Design or MET 460, Manufacturing Capstone I, also canparticipate depending on the needs of the MECO project. Table 1 Critical Manufacturing Courses in MECO MET 341, Manufacturing Analysis MET 344, Casting and Forming MET 443, CNC

Conference Session

Projects in Ocean and Marine Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Diane DiMassa

Session 1478 Ocean-Related Senior Design Projects for Mechanical Engineers at UMass Dartmouth1 Prof. Diane E. DiMassa Mechanical Engineering II-116, U Mass Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Rd., North Dartmouth, MA 02747 508-910-6606 ddimassa@umassd.eduAbstractThis paper discusses several ocean-related capstone design projects completed bymechanical engineering students at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Someprojects are detailed analytical projects that involved complex simulations, others aresystems engineering projects

Conference Session

Design Through the Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ellis

. I. INTRODUCTION Capstone courses in which students participate in a design project are an accepted part of theengineering curriculum at most schools1. In the Department of Mechanical Engineering atVirginia Tech, the capstone experience is a two semester sequence of courses in which studentsdesign and implement a product or engineered system. The first course in the sequence,ME4015, introduces the product development process and stresses concept development andpreliminary design. The subsequent course, ME4016, focuses on detail design, implementation,and testing. The courses are taught in multiple sections with each section assigned a specificteam project. Enrollment in each section ranges from 5 to 30 students depending on the scope ofthe

Conference Session

Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Smith; Wayne Walter

example, contained numerous papers on newprograms and important findings from existing programs [1-9]. Traditionally, these designcourses have taken the form of a capstone project or formal course for students in the final yearor two of a baccalaureate program, but many schools have instituted courses and fully integratedproduct development programs beginning with first year students [6,7,10]. ABET has alsorecognized the importance of a team-based design experience for necessary skill development inundergraduate engineering students [11].Many authors have suggested and documented a number of benefits associated with collaborativedesign projects [2,3,5-8,10,14-16]: innovative problem solving, improved handling of complexityand ambiguity, enhanced