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Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu

the undergraduate curriculum of the Electrical and ComputerDepartment, the Engineering Technology Department and the Computer Science Department.Our proposal, “Deep Space Exploration using Smart Robotic Rovers”, was selected for fundingand we established our first interdisciplinary team of students and faculty to develop a smartrobotic rover.During the last two years, students and faculty participating in this program have developed arobotic rover that has successfully accomplished the initial goals of the project. The rover iscapable of climbing 30o inclines, rotating about its center axis, strafing, and maneuveringdiagonally while maintaining stability. It was also designed to protect the vital internalcomponents from outside contaminants

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ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Lamancusa; Laura L. Pauley; Thomas Litzinger

steps in the design process are: • Identify Need, • Define Problem, • Generate Alternative Solutions, • Analysis and Feedback, • Winnow, • Detailed Design, • Test and Refine, and • Implement.Identify Need Previous experimental courses in the department have integrated active learning componentsinto lecture courses. Department-level initiatives include industry-sponsored capstone designprojects, the hands-on Integrated Design, Engineering, and Life Skills (IDEALS)1 courseincorporating team design and building projects, the Case Study Web Site2 that incorporatesexperimental data analysis into core lecture courses, and the Energy Systems Laboratory3 used inseveral required junior courses to demonstrate the integration of

Conference Session

Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Hurteau; Cedric Demers-Roy

real-timeimplementation of a given control theory. Moreover, a survey done in 1999 by ITRON [1]shows that performance, proved track record, industry usage and reliability are the main criteriafor the selection of an operating system for a given control engineering project. In this paperMatlab and LabVIEW are explored as an integrated environment since they are commonly used Page 10.210.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationin industrial and academic context and they show good performance at

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ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Milton Bryant; Paul Biney

x 4093 Finite Element x x x x M10 x X x M M45 4123 Energy System x x x x X M20 M15 x M15 M40 x x 4473 Senior Project I x x x x X x M20 M45 X M70 M15 x X x x 4483 Senior Project II x x x x X x M20 M45 X x M15 x M50 x x 3031 Manuf. Processes Lab x x x x M10 M10 CVEG 2043 Engr Mechanics I x x M10 M5 CVEG 2053 Engr Mechanics II x x

Conference Session

Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yong Yang; Andrew Bennett; Steve Warren

opportunity for a student to reworkcategories of problems until they receive their desired score. From an assessment standpoint, theresulting database offers opportunities to correlate module scores with scores received on otheronline modules, projects, or exams, where scores can be aggregated or associated with specificproblems. Cross-semester comparisons can also be performed. Additional parameters such ascompletion date/time, the number of attempts per module, the location of the student’s machine,and the time required to complete an exercise provide a rich information set for understandingstudent work habits. The ultimate goal is to close the assessment loop and improve coursecontent based upon previous semester analyses. Early surveys and

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Innovative Practices in NRE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Monty Smith; Jerome Davis; Charles Bittle; Mitty Plummer

Session 0000 Building a Reactor Simulator as a Senior Project By Mitty C. Plummer, Monty Smith, Jerome J Davis, Charles C. Bittle University of North TexasI. Introduction.The Senior Design Project is intended to provide an “integrated educational experience”or capstone, for the engineering technology curriculum. As administered at the Universityof North Texas, the capstone “Senior Projects “ is a two credit hour, one semester course.The course concludes with a presentation of the students’ projects in which faculty,family members, business leaders, and other

Conference Session

Education Ideas in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Gassert; Deepti Suri

importance ofrequirements as sophomores in SE-2831 (Introduction to Software Verification), and SE-280(Software Engineering Process). The concepts learned in SE-3821 are reinforced in SE-380(Principles of Software Architecture) and the process is scaled up for the students in their three-quarter experience of “Software Development Laboratory” [5], where the students work on large-scale projects in a “real-world” setting.The unique thing about the Biomedical Engineering (BE) program at MSOE is that the studentsstart working on their design capstone project as freshman. The freshman and sophomore yearsare typically devoted to market and technology research phase. The various project groups aresupposed to have their design presentations sometime in the

Conference Session

Problem-Solving & Project-Based Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

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Karen High; Ben Lawrence; Cynthia Mann

of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThe College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology is in the early stages of developingand Entrepreneurship Program. This as well as other efforts to improve the curriculum for earlyEngineering Students will rely on several of the ideas presented in the described ENGR 1111course. Focus will be expanded on product and process innovation, business skills,brainstorming, project planning and management, creativity, problem solving, intellectualproperty, and a capstone entrepreneurship project.References1. Jones IV, Jesse N., Livia Racz, and Chris Rogers, “Musical

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Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2005 Annual Conference

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Dawson Plummer; Sheldon Jeter

cell utilizing the ideal fuel mixture is connected to a model electricvehicle to race against fellow students. The more advanced students will also exploreimproving the current collectors during their yearlong senior capstone projects. Page 10.954.4 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copy right @ 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” The work at West Point is part of a much larger overall effort. Recent advances in fuel celltechnology and the decline in cell construction cost, have prompted studies in improvingefficiency of fuel

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Useful Assessment in Materials Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech

AC 2005-683: USING PROJECT PORTFOLIOS TO ASSESS DESIGN INMATERIALS SCIENCEMarie Paretti, Virginia Tech Page 10.1422.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2005 Using Project Portfolios to Assess Design in Materials Science and Engineering M. C. Paretti Department of Engineering Education & Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Virginia TechAbstractThis paper evaluates the effectiveness of capstone design project portfolios as tools to assessstudent performance with respect to ABET’s EC2000 Criterion 3 outcomes. After reviewing thepotential for

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2005 Annual Conference

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Pierre Larochelle

Tech was initiated. The purpose of this overhaul was to develop an experiencethat would serve to: (1) prepare students for the ME curriculum, (2) motivate students tocomplete their studies, (3) provide students with academic success skills, and (4)introduce students to the engineering profession. The format chosen to realize this goal isa yearlong sequence of two courses that freshmen take entitled Introduction toMechanical Engineering I (MAE1022 Fall, 2 credits) and II (MAE1023 Spring, 1 credit).This sequence is a project-motivated experience inspired by traditional capstone designcourses. In the fall students are taught basic academic success skills such as timemanagement, study skills, working in study groups, self-motivation, and goal

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Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Joan Gosink; Catherine Skokan

attract larger numbers of female and minority students into the pool ofapplicants to CSM through the program in Humanitarian Engineering. As we discuss below, thenewly inaugurated Senior Design projects with humanitarian themes are attractive to currentfemale upper-class students. The next step is to publicize these activities to K-12 students andteachers to improve their understanding of the contributions that engineering makes to society.Through these efforts, both the K-12 teachers and students will learn that engineering is aprofession dedicated to the benefit of the community. We believe that this awareness willencourage more students to seriously consider careers in engineering.Senior Design ProgramThe CSM Engineering Division Capstone

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First-Year Design Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tonya Peeples; Julie Jessop

educational mandate in the University of Iowa College of Engineering (UICoE) as expressed by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET): “Eachgraduate will have an education that is supportive of a broad awareness of the diversity of theworld and its cultures, and that provides an understanding of the impact of engineering practicein the global/societal context.”9 This paper provides an overview of the lectures, materials andactivities that comprise the Emergency/Homeless Shelter Design Project that we give our Page 10.555.2students as a capstone design project in our EPSI project sections. Proceedings of the 2005 American

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Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Saeed Foroudastan

Engineering Education: Not Just about the Math" 2004 Proceeding of IMECEInternational Mechanical Engineering Congress, Anaheim, California, November 13-19.3. Akins, L., “Partners in Recruitment and Retention,” 2001 Proceeding of the ASEE Annual Conference andExposition, Albuquerque, NM, June 24-274. Foroudastan, S., “How to Bring Reality into the Classroom through Project Innovation,” Proceedings of the ASEESoutheast Section Conference, Macon, GA, April 6-85. Foroudastan, S., “Capstone Design Projects: More than a Matter of Meeting a Program Requirement,” 2004Proceeding of the ASEE Southeast Section Conference,BiographyDr. Saeed D. ForoudastanSaeed Foroudastan is a Professor in the Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies Department. He received

Conference Session

Design and the Community

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2005 Annual Conference

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Leah Jamieson; Carla Zoltowski; William Oakes

Equipping Multi-disciplinary Student Teams to Manage Multi-Semester Design Projects Carla Zoltowski, William Oakes, Leah Jamieson Purdue UniversityIntroductionA challenge facing many institutions is how to bring “real” design experiences into thecurriculum. Introducing “real” design experiences, where the purpose is to expose students toopen ended problems and multiple solution paths and to encourage creativity, into the classroom,brings many concerns for the faculty. These include guiding the students through the designprocess over multiple semesters with multidisciplinary and vertically integrated teams thatchange from semester to semester

Conference Session

Controls, Mechatronics

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stephen Pennell; Peter Avitabile; John White

Session 1166AN INTERWOVEN MULTISEMESTER DYNAMIC SYSTEMS PROJECT TO INTEGRATE STEM MATERIAL Dr. Peter Avitabile, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department Dr. Stephen Pennell, Professor, Mathematics Department Dr. John R. White, Professor, Chemical Engineering Department University of Massachusetts Lowell One University Avenue Lowell, Massachusetts USA Peter_Avitabile@uml.eduAbstractStudents generally do not understand how basic STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Lorin P. Maletsky; Charles E. Gabel

, hands-on projects wherestudents are asked to proceed from concept to production are invaluable. Frequently this type ofexperience may be an integral part of a senior capstone design project that may last a semester oryear. Shorter projects are a common part of semester-long courses and usually focus on basicdesign concepts and practices that may result in production of a single item, if fabrication isrequired at all beyond the design analysis. At the University of Kansas the senior-level courseDesign for Manufacturability taught students design techniques that were important for massproduction. Course topics included subjects such as reliability, quality control, robust design, andcommon mass production fabrication methods. A project was

Conference Session

Ethics Classes: Creative or Inefficient

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2005 Annual Conference

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Christy Moore; Stephanie Bird; Steven Nichols

industrial representatives. He also preparedproposals for industrial support for Departmental Activities. Dr. Nichols also serves as adesignated contact for alumni. As part of his responsibilities, Dr. Nichols has raised more than $8million in industrial support for educational activities.Dr. Nichols previously served as the Director of the Design Projects Program. (Department ofMechanical Engineering) Dr. Nichols taught the Department's capstone design courses (ME 466Kand ME 279M) for 14 years, supervising approximately 200 students each year in approximately60 industrial sponsored projects annually. He emphasizes design methodology and has introducedmaterial on engineering ethics, and engineering professionalism. While serving as Director for

Conference Session

Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

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Charles Feldhaus; Kenneth Reid

Articulation Agreements With High Schools Implementing Project Lead The Way (PLTW) Kenneth Reid and Charles Feldhaus, Ed.D Purdue School of Engineering and Technology Indiana University Purdue University IndianapolisBackground:Recently, the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) has embarked on anambitious effort to promote and improve K-12 engineering and engineering technologyeducation. Since 2003, the ASEE has created a new K-12 division dedicated to K-12engineering education, created a guidebook for high school students called Engineering,Go for It! that was distributed to almost 350,000 secondary students, created an e-newsletter that

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonard Perry

with the framework and structure necessary to successfullycomplete an open ended project within the specified timeframe. The paper presents how theDMAIC methodology has been incorporated into the senior design project at USD.BackgroundThe Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE) department at University of San Diego includesbroad coursework across the spectrum of ISyE disciplines including engineering economics,statistics, manufacturing, human factors and operations research. The number of students in eachcourse varies, but usually ranges from 10 to 25 students. The Senior Capstone Course is onesemester course that culminates the students’ experience within the department. ISyE studentsare also required to complete a comprehensive set of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Schultz; Arnold Johnson

• Electrical • SoftwareThe entire system must be decomposed into a number of smaller subsystems, and prioritizedwith respect to completion date. All three types of engineering students, including mechanicaland/or aerospace, electrical and/or computer, and electrical, computer, and/or software, shouldbe assigned subsystems with a relatively equitable contribution to the overall system. Figure 2depicts a fairly simply organization chart for the multidisciplinary engineering team, whichincludes a project manager to oversee the systems engineering process, faculty mentors, graduateresearch assistants (GRAs), undergraduate research assistants (URAs), and capstone designstudents (generally senior-level undergraduates). The science advisor (or multiple

Conference Session

Understanding Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan Kremer; Madara Ogot

preliminary data.1.0 IntroductionThe current criteria for ABET accreditation1 state that “engineering programs mustdemonstrate that their graduates have: …an ability to design a system, component, or processto meet desired needs,” and “an ability to function in multi-disciplinary teams….” Becauseengineering design in industry is a team activity, the integration of design into engineeringcurricula is generally done through the use of design teams. In many cases, this integrationalso uses industry-sponsored design projects.Most of the industry-sponsored design project applications are at the capstone design level,and many examples of these are documented in the literature 2-9. Capstone design courses areused to ease the transition from the education

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sookram Sobhan; Noel Kriftcher; Nerik Yakubov; Alon Kadashev; Magued Iskander; Vikram Kapila

articles, and 73 conference papers. He has mentored 54 high school students, 21 high school teachers, tenundergraduate summer interns, and seven undergraduate capstone-design teams. In addition, he has supervised twoM.S. projects, two M.S. thesis, and two Ph.D. dissertations.NOEL KRIFTCHER is Executive Director of the Packard Center for Technology and Educational Alliances atPolytechnic University, where he also holds an appointment as Industry Professor of Humanities. At the PackardCenter, he coordinates an extensive array of faculty development services, directs a consortium of colleges known asthe Knowledge Workers Educational Alliance, and organizes varied hands-on scientific experiences andcompetitions for students in middle and high schools

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Feemster

dynamometer system held interest due to the capabilities of illustrating loading effects onmotors. In previous senior capstone design projects, many motor drivers were destroyed due to over “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” current situations that occur when the motors were placed under significant load or when the rotor velocity compensator attempted to change directions instantaneously. Rather than trying to saturate or to insert delays in the desired rotor velocity commands, a more sophisticated approach is to include current control within the overall design objective (i.e., we are now

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Venubabu Vulasa; David Grieve; Chetan Sankar; Bob Bulfin; Paul Swamidass

. The dean of the COE is a majorsupporter of the implementation of this ideas. University of Plymouth (UP) faculty have workedwith Auburn faculty from the colleges of business and engineering on joint research andeducational projects in the nineties. Therefore, UP was tapped for the initial experiment inconducting an overseas design team project.Project Description Students from Auburn University (two from engineering and two from business) workedwith their colleagues in UP in designing a tail-gate opening mechanism for an SUV. The detailsof the project are: 1. At Auburn, the students were enrolled in fall 2003 in a two-course sequence of courses called the BUSI/ENGR 4970 and BUSI/ENGR 4980: Capstone Design

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Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sara Tracy; Jason Immekus; Susan Maller; William Oakes

Evaluating the Outcomes of a Service-Learning Based Course in an Engineering Education Program: Preliminary Results of the Assessment of the Engineering Projects in Community Service - EPICS. Jason C. Immekus, Susan J. Maller, Sara Tracy, & William C. Oakes Purdue UniversityAbstract Design courses embedded in service-learning are rapidly emerging within the curricula ofmany engineering programs. The learning outcomes service-learning courses seek to promote arewell aligned with the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology criteria 2000 (EC2000)1. The Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Powell

connecting activity for senior cadets and provides the basis for maintaining the linkbetween the workplace and the classroom. The capstone course requires students to apply theircomprehensive set of skills and concepts to a real-world problem for a real-world project, or to aspecific research area. The actual projects themselves combine elements of systems engineering,information systems engineering, engineering management, and operations research theory and Page 10.793.3practice, allowing students to conduct design and experimental work for clients along the lines of “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Powell

, and 5) Fighting the force.Current examples of capstone projects and clients are listed in Table 1. DoD and civilianorganizations comprise the list of clients. Projects are routinely recruited through thedepartment’s research center and in some cases organizations initiate contact with the researchcenter themselves.There is a great need for university programs and/or courses that integrate practice intoengineering education, particularly when faculty have little or no industry experience or havebeen away from industry for some time. Benefits have been noted for both the student and theinstitution (see Ceylan and Lee 2004; Johnston 2004; Todd et al. 1995, Miller and Olds 1994,Dutson et al. 1997, Bright and Phillips 1999, Farr et al. 2001, and

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Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John-David Yoder; Juliet Hurtig

Lessons Learned in Implementing a Multi-disciplinary Senior Design Sequence John-David Yoder and Juliet Hurtig T.J. Smull College of Engineering Ohio Northern UniversityAbstract:During the 2003-4 academic year, the authors advised four student senior capstone teams.Unlike traditional capstone teams at Ohio Northern University, these teams were intentionallychosen to be multi-disciplinary, including students from two departments and a variety ofmajors, and faculty with varying specialties. Two teams worked on a national roboticscompetition, one team for an industry-sponsored project, and one team on

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IE/EM Skills in Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Palmer; Terri Lynch-Caris; Laura Sullivan

whounderstand and are comfortable with the integration of technologies. An increasedunderstanding of the value of different disciplines will enable the engineering graduate tocollaborate fully in their job after college. At Kettering University, like many other engineering schools, each of the engineeringdepartments provides students with a culminating experience in the senior year. Thisculminating experience is in the form of a Senior Project Design Class also referred to as theCapstone Project. Redesigning the IME Capstone Project was a primary outcome of thisresearch. The collaboration between IME, ME and EE began by attempting to integrate therelationship between the three disciplines into the IME Capstone Course. In an attempt to make