abilities to incorporate sustainability into capstone design projects in ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. 2013. Atlanta, GA.25. L., C.A. and M.C. A., Teaching sustainability as a contested concept: Captializing on variation in engineering educators’ conceptions of environmental, social, and economic sustainability. J. Clean. Prod., 2008. 16: p. 105.26. A., Y., S. D., L.M. A., and B. C., Problem-based learning: Influence on students’ learning in an electrical engineering course. J. Eng. Educ., 2011. 100: p. 253.27. Sattler, M.L., Y.P. Weatherton, V. Chen, S.P. Mattingly, and K.J. Rogers, Engineering sustainable civil engineers, in American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &
.). These attributes are akin to competencies. Therefore, all futureengineers must develop solutions to complex engineering problems (A04 - design) whileconsidering differentiated social impacts based on gender, gender identity, and other identityfactors during the design of an engineering product or process (A09 - engineering's impact).The following example demonstrates the application of GBA+ in a capstone student project. Thisproject focuses on the design of a robotic arm intended for quadriplegic individuals. In thisexample, GBA+ allows for the consideration of various identity factors to design a robotic armadapted to the diverse realities of quadriplegic individuals. First and foremost, the factor ofdisability is central to the development of
has been achieved in successfully chairing ten or more graduate student culminating projects, theses, or dissertations, in 2011 and 2005. He was also nominated for 2004 UNI Book and Supply Outstanding Teaching Award, March 2004, and nominated for 2006, and 2007 Russ Nielson Service Awards, UNI. Dr. Pecen is an Engineering Tech- nology Editor of American Journal of Undergraduate Research (AJUR). He has been serving as a re- viewer on the IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing since 2001. Dr. Pecen has served on ASEE Engineering Technology Division (ETD) in Annual ASEE Conferences as a reviewer, session moderator, and co-moderator since 2002. He served as a Chair-Elect on ASEE ECC Division in
Paper ID #12608Students Writing for Professional Practice: A Model for Collaboration amongFaculty, Practitioners and Writing SpecialistsProf. Susan Conrad, Portland State University Susan Conrad, Ph.D., is a Professor of Applied Linguistics and head of the Civil Engineering Writing Project. She has written numerous articles and books about English grammar, discourse, and corpus linguistics.Dr. William A Kitch P.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Dr. Kitch is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona. Before starting his academic career he spent 24 years as a practicing engineer in both the
report the results oflaboratory activities and projects in various formats that require strong communication skills.Much of the knowledge, skills, and abilities students gain in this class is used during the yearlongcapstone course the following year in the recommended curriculum.IntroductionThe stated purpose of the Thermal Fluid Science lecture and lab course is for students to learnskills and gain a level of knowledge that will allow them to be successful in laboratory and testsettings in industry and academia. The learning outcomes stated in the course syllabus are: - Students will: 1. Be able to design experiments to characterize a temperature, pressure, mass flow rate within a region of fluid, system or subsystem
Paper ID #34832How Well Can Makerspaces Build an Entrepreneurial Mindset?Dr. Stephanie M. Gillespie, University of New Haven Stephanie Gillespie is the Associate Dean of the Tagliatela College of Engineering at the University of New Haven. She previously specialized in service learning while teaching at the Arizona State University in the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program. Her current teaching and research interests are in developing study skills and identity in first-year engineering students and improving re- tention rates. She acts as a faculty liaison for the University of New Haven Makerspace
. Once a community project and partner have beenprudently chosen, Sutton suggests the following transformative strategies to utilize in servicelearning pedagogy: “cumulative exposures, comprehensive experiences, capstone experiences,immersion experiences, interdisciplinary experiences, community participation, youthparticipation, reflective practice, long term participation, and institutional participation” (Sutton2012). While this is a lengthy list of strategies, not all of these concepts can be applied to asingle course, as several are realized over the duration of one’s academic career. The strategiesmost applicable to this paper are immersion experiences and reflective practice, due to theduration of this particular community engaged
software product is likethat used to specify any other type of software product. However, unlike most software products,games have an entertainment dimension. People play computer games because games are fun[6].The authors believe that the capstone design course should not be the only opportunity forstudents to manage complex software development projects. This suggests the use of othercourses in the curriculum such as a game design course as a means of providing additionalsoftware engineering experiences. This paper describes the authors’ experiences revising andemploying active learning materials to teach software engineering content in a sequence of twogame design courses offered in both face-to-face and asynchronous online modalities during
leadership and has already resulted in offersof student internship programs by federal agencies.This course follows the path of previous highly successful rocket design/launch programs (eg, theUSAF Academy). Support for this course is high, both among student groups and university faculty andleadership. This course is already supported by various academic departments and student groups,including one mechanical engineering senior capstone team which designed a portable launch rail fortheir senior design project. The course is also being examined as one possible multidisciplinary seniordesign project which can satisfy various other department capstone requirements. Additionally, thecourse has sparked student interest in forming a design club
-scale interventions and chose to approach changes cautiously byconducting a small pilot study involving the courses in the professional “core.”Three course were selected (CVEEN 1000, 3100, and 4910) as appropriate candidates. Thesecourses represent students from across the program and constitute the core of the department’sprofessional skills-related offerings. Practical issues caused the co-authors to implement theinfrastructure theme in only two courses: CVEEN 1000 and 3100. The capstone course (CVEEN4910) was already overloaded with a focus on development and execution of design projects; aswell, many aspects of an infrastructure perspective were already embedded in the course from theoutset of this study.4 Rubric DevelopmentThe initial
UIC1 include i) Multi-university and Multi-company Collaborations, ii)Single-university and Multi-company Collaborations, iii) Multi-university and Single-companyCollaborations, and iv) Single-university and Single-company Collaborations. Although eachform serves a different purpose and requires a different scale of supporting infrastructure,collaborations on all levels of education and research are beneficial for the ecosystem.Traditionally, U-I partnerships include the following activities: • Classroom Activities: guest lectures by industry representatives, industry supported class projects and capstone projects; • Seminars: joint seminars for faculty, students, industry professionals and leaderships; • Field Visits: tours
. C. (2014) ‘Curriculum Design in the Middle Years’, in Johri, A. and Olds, B. M.(eds) Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,pp. 181–200. doi: DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139013451.014.Nasir, M., Kleinke, D. K. and McClelland, M. (2016) ‘Multidisciplinary patient-centered capstone seniordesign projects’, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings. New Orleans,Louisiana: ASEE Conferences. doi: 10.18260/p.25764.Nezafati, M., Chua, M. and LeDoux, J. M. (2020) ‘Work in progress: A case study of integrating inclusiveengineering skills into a middle-years biomedical engineering course via model-based reasoning’, ASEEAnnual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings. Virtual On
Paper ID #17396Approaches to Entrepreneurship and Leadership Development at an Engi-neering UniversityMrs. Galina Burylina, Kazan National Research Technological UniversityDr. Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University - West Lafayette Dr. Sanger is a professor in the School of Engineering Technology in the College of Technology of Purdue University. His focus and passion is real world, industry based, senior capstone experiences both domes- tically and internationally. He has successfully developed this area at Purdue and at Western Carolina University. Prior to his career in academia, Dr. Sanger had a successful 30 year
it is used, a total of70 individuals (61 ED and 9 ETDC) provided open-ended responses. Of these respondents,approximately two-thirds of ED and all ETDC shared that their makerspaces serve primarilyeducational objectives. Respondents shared a variety of educational uses for these spaces; someare used to support classes and individual student projects (including capstone projects andindependent study projects), while others are used as a direct supplement to curricula (onerespondent noted that their makerspace is used for a required course for all introductoryengineering students).Aside from a solely educational focus (in that the makerspaces uses and activities primarilysupport curricular activities), a significant number of university
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Required CE Courses 9 Project Management 10 Engineering Economics 11 Risk and Uncertainty Probability and Statistics 12 Breadth in Civil Engineering Areas Technical Four CE Areas Required 13 Design Capstone Design Course 14 Technical Depth Technical Electives 15 Sustainability Required CE Courses 16 Communication Capstone Design Course 17 Teamwork and Leadership Capstone Design Course 18 Lifelong Learning CE
, families, and students from underrepresented communities. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Early Internships for Engineering Technology Student Retention: A Pilot StudyAbstractResearch in engineering technology major retention suggests that early internships present anoutstanding opportunity for freshman and sophomore students to engage, socialize, and learn incommunities of practice and to “discover” the link between theory and practice early in theiracademic tenure, leading to a consequent improvement in retention rates. At Texas StateUniversity, the traditional senior-level capstone internship program was reengineered andconverted into a sophomore level
PN DN [4] Timothy J. Kriewall and Kristen Mekemson, "Instilling the Entrepreneurial Mindset into Engineering Undergraduates", J. T-4 Environmental 19 22 27 20 8 Engineering Entrepreneurship, vol. 1, no. 1 (July 2010), pp. 5-19. S-3 Environmental 5 10 26 36 17 Online: http://www.jeenonline.com/Vol1/Num1/Vol1No1P1.pdf [5] John K. Estell, Kenneth J. Reid and Jed Marquart, “Addressing Third-These results indicate that many students are able to World Poverty in First-Year Capstone Projects,” American
Paper ID #48435BOARD #149: Nanoimprint lithography – a nanotechnology demonstrationlab for STEM undergraduate instructionProf. Daniela Topasna, Virginia Military Institute ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Nanoimprint lithography – a nanotechnology demonstration lab for STEM undergraduate instructionAbstractThe CHIPS and Science Act introduced in 2022 aims to enhance all aspects of semiconductorindustry, including related efforts in STEM education and work force training. We present ourproject in support of this broad goal. The project aims to introduce to and instruct students on analternate
activities which have been shownto enhance retainment of those individuals most likely to leave engineering career pathways.While EIA is only one of these experiences, future work could investigate the impact of otherextra-curricular activities, in addition to embedded experiences such as internships, co-ops orsenior capstone projects. Experiences which provide students with a connection to their peersand to communities, while reinforcing a sense of belonging to the engineering community arecritical to retain those at risk. The researchers continue to work with EIA investigating the on-going collection of data, as well as a deeper understanding of the qualitative responses.Additional studies will also compare responses to these survey questions by
abroad, service-learning, entrepreneurship programs, interdisciplinary courses) do E/CS students engage / not engage in? 2. How do the HIEP participation rates in E / CS students vary as E/CS students’ progress in their programs?To create a historical picture of the E/CS participation, we gathered and analyzed existing NSSEsurvey data to investigate the possible relationships between student demographics, andparticipation in HIEP.Data Analysis / ResultsThe main objective of this study is to examine the extent to which E/CS students participate inHIEP. The NSSE survey results indicate that the E/CS students engage in culminating seniorexperiences such as capstone courses and senior projects and internships or co-op programs
A web-based survey collaborative deployed near the end of the information behavior of academic year following a undergraduateSaleh [18] 2011 Canada 42 n/a project that took 8 months engineering students project for a final year working on a course- capstone design course. based engineering project
a two-semester capstone Senior Project course. However, particularly motivated students canpursue additional design and research experiences by seeking out a faculty member andproposing a project, which may consist of either a novel, student-generated concept or a furtherdevelopment of a pre-existing project. These directed research experiences can take place at anypoint during the student’s four years, whether during the academic year or the summer.In this case, the experience itself took place in a seven-week span during the summer between thesophomore and junior year. Funding for the experience was available through the college’ssummer Scholarship and Creative Arts Research Program (SCARP). As mentioned in theIntroduction, both the
. Knowing that 20% of engineering school graduates arewomen, yet women make up only 11% of practicing engineers is a concern for the fieldof engineering and for the future of female engineers in the engineering profession [1].We are looking to quantify what we are seeing and develop strategies for eradicating itfrom our engineering environment.Current efforts are underway in our capstone design course (CED) – a course mandatedfor all seniors at our institution. In CED, students work in teams of 3 to 5 to accomplishtheir capstone project over the course of the Spring Semester. In these teams, we continuetheir leadership education using the LEAD model. Students have Learned the leadershiptheory in previous course work and we build on that theory
preserved in thescaled IST. The core region, heat transfer, flow patterns, and coolant inventory in the downcomer, coreand the riser above the core were all kept in similitude with an actual reactor. The steam generatorpreserved the heat transfer and boiling effects and the condensation with and without non-condensablegases [2]. Outside of these, the design of the IST included features to support its adaptation for otherdesign or research missions. While testing in support of the mPower SMR ended in 2014, the facility has been maintained tosupport other projects. The facility is still in use by several companies and Liberty University for thepurposes of furthering nuclear engineering research on multiple fronts.Description of Thermal Hydraulic
mechanical engineering capstone projects, introducing non-profit partnerships related to designs for persons with disabilities, and founding the Social/Environmental Design Impact Award. He manages several outreach and diversity efforts including the large-scale Get Out And Learn (GOAL) engineering kit program that reaches thousands of local K-12 students.Jennifer Bishop, University of Maryland, College Park Jen Bishop is the Assistant Director - Outreach and Recruitment for the Women in Engineering Program at the University of Maryland, A. James Clark School of Engineering, where she draws upon her 10+ years of STEM and Maker education experience to inspire future engineers. Jen has a Bachelor’s degree in
where she was responsible for the structural and thermal analysis of payloads. She served as Director of the Space Engi- neering Institute and in 2010 she accepted a position with the Academic Affairs office of the Dwight Look College of Engineering where she oversaw outreach, recruiting, retention and enrichment programs for the college. Since 2013, she serves as the Executive Director for Industry and Nonprofit Partnerships with responsibilities to increase opportunities for undergraduates engineering students to engage in experiential learning multidisciplinary team projects. These include promoting capstone design projects sponsored by industry, developing and teaching the Engineering Projects in Community
focused on engineering courses, a controlscourse that applied to both engineering and engineering technology, and a lab course inpharmacy. A work in progress conference paper was found with results of self-directed learningoutcomes for an engineering capstone design project course [4]. A study of learning objectivesand concepts in control systems laboratory courses contained engineering and engineeringtechnology programs in its sample, but resulted in a consensus mapping that did not mapCriterion 3(i) to the course laboratory learning objectives [5]. Sample instructional methods for3(i) and other parts of Criterion 3 for ABET EAC programs emphasized that course designshould connect the learning objectives, assessment, and instruction [6
(2nd ed.). Oxford Press. 4. Leidig, P. A. & Oakes, W. C. (2021-a). Model for Project-Based Community Engagement. International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering, Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship, 16(2), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.24908/ijsle.v16i2.14809 5. Howe, S., and J. Goldberg. (2019). Engineering capstone design education: Current practices, emerging trends, and success strategies. In Design education today: Technical contexts, programs and best practices, edited by D. Schaefer, G. Coates, and C. Eckert. Springer.6. Leidig, P. A., Khalifah, S. M. & Oakes, W. C. (2023). Capstone design in engineering community engagement course. Journal of Civil Engineering
anexample conversation loosely synthesized from an engineering senior capstone project (detailschanged) follow: Person A: We're falling behind on our capstone project. I really don't think the software platform we're designing is appropriate for the high school students we are supposedly making it for, and want to switch to a more beginner-friendly programming language for them, but we're already two weeks behind and my teammates just want to keep going... (continues describing the issue, then steps back for B and C to discuss) Person B: It sounds like A feels like she should be working extra hours outside of class to prototype the project in a different language so she can show her team it works
first program was an optional senior capstone project taking place with a community inCentral or South America, including two weeks of field work abroad. The second program was agraduate research program with a local service component developing sustainable developmentteaching materials with K-12 teachers based on the graduate student’s research. The thirdprogram involved short-term (three months) of field research in East Africa embedded within atwelve-month long research program on small-scale infrastructure research. The fourth programwas the Engineers Without Borders chapter at MPuT. The last student program was a graduateprogram comprised of one year of campus course work, followed by two years of field researchin a community partnering