Conference Session

Capstone Course in Industrial Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Ray Diez; Luke Huang; David Yearwood

Session Number 3250 CHARACTERISTICS OF AN INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY CAPSTONE COURSE CLAYTON RAY DIEZ, DAVID N. YEARWOOD, LUKE H. HUANG University of North DakotaIntroduction An undergraduate program may normally provide students with about 40 coursesin the process of preparing them for training towards a profession. While these coursesare spread out in different fields, it is often a challenge for students to effectivelymaximize the application of knowledge learned from theses course to carry out aprofessional project. Yet, it is precisely what is expected of graduates. On the other hand,after several years of

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

SESSION 1566 The Balanced Scorecard in a Capstone Design Course John I. Hochstein, Jeffrey G. Marchetta, William S. Janna Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Memphis Memphis, TennesseeAbstractIn response to a perceived need to improve the project management skills of program graduates,the authors introduced the general principles and structure of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC)system to seniors in a capstone design course. This paper briefly presents the principles of theBalanced Scorecard, describes how they were

Conference Session

Design Through the Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Philips; John Hochstein; William Janna

recommended that the program be continued in the future.Background“Design of Fluid Thermal Systems” is a senior-level, capstone design course at the University ofMemphis. Students in this course are divided into groups of 3, 4 or 5 members who work togetheras a team on a design project. Selected projects are presented to the design teams who must bidcompetitively on three of the projects. The design team with the lowest bid is awarded thatparticular project to work on for the entire semester. (See the text listed in the Bibliography forinformation on the bidding process.) Design teams are treated like companies and as such, eachgroup chooses a company name and designs a company logo. Titles of projects for the Fall 2002semester are provided in

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Philips; John Hochstein; William Janna

recommended that the program be continued in the future.Background“Design of Fluid Thermal Systems” is a senior-level, capstone design course at the University ofMemphis. Students in this course are divided into groups of 3, 4 or 5 members who work togetheras a team on a design project. Selected projects are presented to the design teams who must bidcompetitively on three of the projects. The design team with the lowest bid is awarded thatparticular project to work on for the entire semester. (See the text listed in the Bibliography forinformation on the bidding process.) Design teams are treated like companies and as such, eachgroup chooses a company name and designs a company logo. Titles of projects for the Fall 2002semester are provided in

Conference Session

ETAC/ABET RELATED OUTCOME BASED ISSUES

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wesley L. Stone, Western Carolina University; Guanghsu A. Chang, Western Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Education, 2013 An Evolving Capstone Course used in ABET AssessmentAbstractThe Department of Engineering and Technology at Western Carolina University (WCU) hasdeveloped a capstone design course sequence that provides students with industry-relevantprojects, while generating an excellent opportunity to assess many of the ABET (AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology) student outcomes, commonly called “a through k.” Inits sixth year the two-semester course sequence sees a healthy list of projects that provide cross-functional opportunities for teams composed of undergraduate students in EngineeringTechnology (ET), Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET), and ElectricalEngineering (EE).Each of the capstone projects

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone Design

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Cherif Megri, North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

ofinterprofessional projects (IPRO) program.Areas of Interests:- Zonal modeling approach,- Integration zonal models/building energy simulation models,- Zero Net Energy (ZNE) building,- Airflow in Multizone Buildings & Smoke Control,- Thermal Comfort & Indoor Air Quality,- Predictive modeling and forecasting: Support Vector Machine (SVM) tools,- Energy, HVAC, Plumbing & Fire Protection Systems Design,- Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) Application in Building,- BIM & REVIT: application to Architecture and Electrical/Lighting Design systems. Page 24.765.2ASEE Annual Conference, 2014 Integrated Capstone Design in Architectural Engineering

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovations in Architectural Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Cherif Megri, University of Wyoming

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

, and their progress is monitored, by theinstructor, who will assign a grade for the course. Although varied to a limited extent, theassignment of the grade is generally based on (a) homework problems, (b) quizzes and mid-temexams, (c) final exam, (d) project and laboratory reports (if any), and (e) other assignmentsincluding presentation of projects, which may be required in some courses.The senior capstone design course (ARE 4740 and CE 4740) requires a group project involving acomplete design that may contain a host of modules including architectural design, structuraland foundation design, cost estimating and bid document preparation, construction scheduling,building mechanical and electrical system design, lighting and acoustic systems

Conference Session

DEED Technical Session 3 Capstone Design

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Austin Talley, Texas State University; C. Compeau, Texas State University

part of the improvement [5]. This research goes a step further with main focus on how3D printing and fabrication design can influence the electrical engineering capstone experience.Ingram Hall Makerspace also has a well-equipped shared research operations center with analyticaltools [6]. The waveguide project was defined so that students on the team would have to learn and useat least two analytical tools to characterize their electroplated 3D prints, the Scanning ElectronMicroscope (SEM) for film coverage and thickness, and the four-point probe to measure film resistivity.No EE Senior Design students had interacted with the center before the Waveguide Project.Four research questions were defined for purposes of this study. The first question

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Hart; Ronald Welch

Session 2793 USMA Regionalized Drinking Water Treatment Facility Multidiscipline Capstone Ronald W. Welch, Steven D. Hart United States Military AcademyAbstractLast spring, 95 civil (CE) and environmental (EV) engineering majors in the ABET-accreditedCE and EV programs at the U.S. Military Academy (USMA) worked on a multidisciplinarycapstone project to design a regionalized drinking water treatment facility for West Point andsurrounding communities. This paper assesses the project through student comments andinstructor evaluations. The one-semester

Collection

2018 ASEE Conferences - Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration / San Antonio proceedings

Authors

Bill Hemphill

Session ETD 325 Design, Prototype, & Build: The Engineering Technology Capstone Experience Mr. Bill Hemphill Engineering, Engineering Technology & Surveying ETSU College of Business & Technology East Tennessee State UniversityASEE Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration (CIEC) Session #ETD 325—Best Practices for Engineering Technology Capstone Projects St. Antonio, TX Feb. 7, 2018 Proceedings of the 2018 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration

Collection

2005 GSW

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren

Session T1A4 Mechanical Engineering Laboratory: A Capstone Senior Course Kenneth Van Treuren Engineering Department Baylor University AbstractThis paper characterizes the current Mechanical Engineering Laboratory course taught atBaylor University. As a course typically taken in the last semester of their senior year,student review topics taught in the fluids/thermodynamics stem of the mechanicalengineering program, as well as learn new experimental techniques. For approximatelythe first half of the course, each week

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Williamson; Randy Winzer

students have gained duringtheir tenure at PSU. In 1996 the two professors in charge of the class decided to use the NASAsponsored human powered moon buggy competition (http://moonbuggy.msfc.nasa.gov/) as acommon project for the students to accomplish the goals and objectives of this class. In 2002some of the students from the Electronics Engineering Technology Program’s “Capstone” coursedecided to design and build a system to gather telemetry from a student built moon buggy.IntroductionPittsburg State University in 2003 will celebrate 100 years of providing learning opportunities tostudents. Pittsburg is located in the southeastern corner of Kansas and is centrally positioned nearlarger cities such as Wichita, KS, Kansas City, MO and Tulsa, OK

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elvin Shields, Youngstown State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

AC 2007-71: FOSTERING CREATIVITY IN THE CAPSTONE ENGINEERINGDESIGN EXPERIENCEElvin Shields, Youngstown State University Dr. Elvin Shields is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. His research has been generously sponsored by a University Research Professorship during the 2005-2006 academic year at Youngstown State University. Since 1995, Dr. Shields has coached approximately 250 mechanical engineering students through nearly 90 capstone design projects ranging from collegiate competitions to industrial problems. Page 12.756.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007

Conference Session

Innovations for the Senior Year of the ME Curriculum

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elvin Shields, Youngstown State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

AC 2007-72: FOSTERING CREATIVITY IN THE CAPSTONE ENGINEERINGDESIGN EXPERIENCEElvin Shields, Youngstown State University Dr. Elvin Shields is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. His research has been generously sponsored by a University Research Professorship during the 2005-2006 academic year at Youngstown State University. Since 1995, Dr. Shields has coached approximately 250 mechanical engineering students through nearly 90 capstone design projects ranging from collegiate competitions to industrial problems. Page 12.757.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Graham Walker; Henry Chaya

Session 2525 A "Real-Life" Interdisciplinary Capstone Design Course. Henry Chaya, Graham Walker Manhattan College Riverdale, New YorkAbstractA new interdisciplinary design course has been developed. A unique feature of this course is theparticipation of alumni who have been involved with engineering practice for a number of years.These alumni assume the role of clients for the design project. Their involvement added uniqueinsights to the real practice of engineering design. It also greatly enhanced student interest in thecourse.I

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) Technical Session 6

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brandon K Harrison; Michael Alexander Phelan; Vahid Alizadeh; Aratrik Guha; Yah-el Har-el, Temple University; Ruth Ochia, Temple University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

quantitative requirements, identification of opportunities, performing analysis andsynthesis, generating multiple solutions, evaluating solutions against requirements, consideringrisks and making trade-offs for the purpose of obtaining a high-quality solution under the givencircumstances. [1] Therefore, engineering design is an important aspect of today’s engineeringcurriculum.For a majority of institutions of higher education, the engineering design courses start early inthe academic career and are meant to encourage first year students’ interest in engineering withfun, hands-on projects that require minimal foundational knowledge. Later in the undergraduatecurriculum, senior capstone engineering design courses are meant to give graduating

Conference Session

TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wei Zheng; Dong Young Jang; Donald Harby; Yuyi Lin

design course. The capstone course is a summary and reflection ofthe whole undergraduate curriculum. Therefore, internationalizing this course has special significance.The effort on this course will serve as the basis for discussion and exploration for internationalizing othercourses. In addition, it is reasonable to assume that engineering schools in different countries have somecommon requirements and expectations for graduating mechanical engineers, and some common practiceto achieve these requirements. There are some common practices in this course, including centering ofthe course around a capstone design project, organization of the students into design teams, and therequirement for team presentation and defense of their design at the end

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein

Role of Axiomatic Design in Teaching Capstone Courses Edwin Odom, Steven Beyerlein, Christopher A. Brown, Daniel Drew, Lloyd Gallup, Sam Zimmerman, and Jeremy Olberding University of Idaho/Worcester Polytechnic InstituteAbstractHelping undergraduate engineering students learn effective design practices that are applicable tothe modern workplace is one of the most complex challenges of engineering education. Onestrategy to help students master open-ended design projects is to use a systematic process.However, students often want to jump past the front end of the design process and thiscompromises the quality of the final product. This paper examines the suitability of

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen C. Davis, University of Cincinnati; Fred Richard Beyette Jr., University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

the descriptive words were altered (from “Capstone” to “Excellent,”for example). The additional commentary on the right side of the rubric was intended to capturenotes about how the pitch could be improved. The top half of the rubric focuses on content:hook/intro, goals for the solution, target audience, competitive advantage, and closing. Thebottom category is for the presentation’s delivery and it includes evaluation of clarity andimpact.Figure 5.1 Elevator Pitch Rubric6. Assessment and ConclusionsThe rubric was employed for assessing elevator pitches for 20 senior design team projects. Allof the students completed the KEEN elevator pitch module and participated in the in-classactivities. The rubric was available to the students prior to

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Dees; Megan Perkey; Karen Davis; Nicholas Harth

Session 1510 STEPing into the Classroom: An Alternative Capstone Experience Karen C. Davis, Megan L. Perkey, Nicholas B. Harth, Nathan Dees Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 45221-0030This paper describes the experiences of three Electrical Engineering seniors who chose analternative to a traditional capstone design project; they applied their undergraduateengineering education in high school math and science classrooms as NSF STEPFellows. Project STEP: Science and Technology Enhancement Program is sponsored bythe

Conference Session

Design for Special Services

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Don Dekker, University of South Florida; Stephen Sundarrao, University of South Florida; Rajiv Dubey

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Rehabilitation Engineering & Technology Program that isbased at USF. This program is a unique program that integrates services to individuals withdisabilities with education, research and development. Seven field engineers and six techniciansdeployed throughout the state identify barriers to accessibility for individuals with disabilitiesand refer projects that do not have commercial solutions to the Capstone students. Theseprojects range from devices for personal hygiene, wheelchair mobility, driving adaptations torecreation and sports equipment. The program helps people with disabilities becomeindependent and have a better quality of life. These projects are ideal projects for mechanicalengineering students and several students have proposed their

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Don Dekker, University of South Florida; Stephen Sundarrao, University of South Florida; Rajiv Dubey, University of South Florida

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

howtwo heads are better than one. In fact, two people are necessary to operate a Capstone Designcourse. Directing the student teams, grading tests and papers, and preparing discussions in aCapstone Design course is a full course load. In addition to these usual responsibilities, theinstructor for a Capstone Design course is often required to visit industry and non-profitorganizations to find the projects for students to develop. It seems commonplace for academicinstitutions to expect this extra effort from Capstone Design teachers, but this is unrealistic.Capstone Design is a wonderful course to teach because of the mature, motivated students andthe exciting projects, but it shouldn’t be a time-consuming backbreaker for the instructor.Course

Collection

2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

W. R. Penney; G. J. Thoma; R. R. Beitle

one another in solving real environmental problems. Typical projects include thethinning of forests to minimize the potential for fire damage, the prevention of foodborneillnesses due to bacterial contamination of tomatoes, and the design of a mobile treatmentfacility to treat mixed transuranic wastes. The students must select the “best” technologyfrom a number of alternatives, run the necessary experiments to prove the concept,construct a scale model of their design, prepare a market analysis and business plan whileaddressing community relations and environmental regulations, and make oral and posterpresentations at the competition. This paper compares and contrasts the WERCexperience with the traditional classroom capstone design experience.

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Gerlick, Washington State University; Denny Davis, Washington State University; Shane Brown, Washington State University; Michael Trevisan, Washington State University

students to gain experience in design, but experience alonedoes not guarantee learning of skills and knowledge, or the ability to transfer this knowledge tonew situations. Researchers and theorists have long trumpeted the value of reflective practice asa differentiating factor in the effectiveness of practitioners. As shown by the growing number ofpublications on the topic in engineering education literature, teaching students the process andvalue of reflection is increasingly recognized as an essential component of engineering designeducation.To support teaching and learning of reflection in engineering capstone design courses, this studyseeks to understand how students reflect—individually and as a team—as they are engaged in adesign project

Conference Session

Design in the BME Curriculum

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Johnson, University of Cincinnati / Engineering; Mary Beth Privitera, University of Cincinnati; Daria Narmoneva, University of Cincinnati; Balakrishna Haridas, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

. Concepts are generated and evaluated, and a plan is generated for thePage 13.359.4The faculty concluded that completely independent capstone experiences were not conducive tocreating a comprehensive design or experimental capstone experience.Phase II: Selective Integration of Capstone ExperiencesWe implemented a pilot study (Phase II) in which two of the design teams were allowed toremain intact for the experimental capstone experience. Furthermore, those teams were alsoassigned the same project in both capstone sequences. All other students experienced thecapstone courses in a manner identical to students in Phase I. We found that the students in theÐukping-team, single-rtqlgevÑ"rgthqtogf"cv"c"jkijgt"ngxgl as measured by quantitative

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Arch. Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Davis

Session 1606 A CAPSTONE DESIGN EXPERIENCE IN ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY Daniel Davis University of HartfordAbstractAt the University of Hartford, we have developed a “Capstone Design Experience” in an effort toimprove our Architectural Engineering Technology curriculum. By increasing the awareness ofthe interrelationships between different areas of study, we are attempting to strike a new balance.We have integrated the following into a single yearlong design project: research, programming,planning, history and theory

Collection

2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Keith L. Hohn

Incorporating Creativity into a Capstone Engineering Design Course Keith L. Hohn Department of Chemical Engineering Kansas State UniversityAbstractCreativity is a critical part of engineering design that should be encourage and nurtured inengineering students. Two creative exercises were implemented into a senior chemicalengineering design course. The first exercise was designed to enhance student awareness of therole of creativity in engineering design. In this exercise, students were asked to create a piece ofartwork depicting their major (chemical engineering) in some way and to reflect on the processthey followed to produce

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachel Murdell; Piper James; Gary Kinzel; Blaine Lilly; Anthony Luscher

the issues associated with conducting and managing a large design project.In addition, design is now commonly considered to be a topic that permeates all of mechanicalengineering. Therefore, in a capstone design project, the topics may just as easily involve thethermal sciences as the mechanical sciences. Because of this, a larger percentage of a given facultyare likely to teach the capstone design course than any other course. Because of the variation in thetypes of faculty who might be teaching the capstone design course, it is important to have clearguidelines on the details of the topics that need to be taught.To help faculty who might be teaching the capstone design course for the first time and to provideuniform coverage of the

Conference Session

How to Effectively Teach Using Teams

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vincent Drnevich, Purdue University; John Norris, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Engineering Education, 2007 Assigning Civil Engineering Students to Capstone Course TeamsAbstractAssigning students to teams for project courses that systematically accounts for balance anddiversity affects the functioning and success of the teams. This paper presents an implementationof a goal programming model for grouping senior civil engineering students into a semester-longcapstone design project course. Student attributes consisting of overall GPA, grades in priorselected coursework, cooperative work experience, skills with relevant computing software, andJung-Typology (J-T) or Myers-Briggs Type Indicators (MBTI) were all considered in theallocation of students to project work groups.Student team assignment is achieved through goal

Conference Session

International Developments & Collaborations

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Harby; Yuyi Lin

chipbased logic controller, PLC and general purpose CNC controllers with application examples arepresented.Students who have taken this course welcome such a totally different approach. In a typicalmechanical engineering curriculum in Asian countries, teachers and students spend much longertime in studying sub system design. For example, Machine Element Design course will contain aweek long project to design a speed reducer in great detail. A jig design project will be includedin a Manufacturing technology course which not only teaches detailed step by step processplanning but also special tool design for the established process. When the students and facultycome to the capstone design, it is more an integration process to pull together and