significant challenge.This paper presents an approach to capstone course design that explores how Human-CenteredDesign (HCD) mindsets and practices can be foregrounded in a heavily technology-centriclearning experience. We developed a capstone course for undergraduate STEM students thatforegrounds human-centered mindsets in a technical project focused on 3D printing prostheticdevices for a participant with a limb difference.We analyzed data collected from the course to shed light on specific challenges in foregroundinga deep human-centered perspective in technical STEM courses, and we provide guidance foreducators who also seek a similar reorientation. Our analysis consisted of a thematic coding onwritten deliverables and instructor observations from
developed and ran for 8 years a faculty-led international program to Brazil focused on Sustainable Energy and Brazilian Culture. This program educates students on the effects of various energy systems and the challenges of social and environmental justice in developing countries. In 2017, Dr. Pfluger moved into the ChE department where she implemented improvements in the Transport 2 Lab and Capstone courses. She assists Capstone students to develop dynamic design projects that address and help solve real-world, global challenges. Dr. Pfluger has served as the AIChE Student Chapter Faculty Advisor for 10 years and will become chair of the AIChE Student Chapter Committee in November 2021. She is a Mathworks Teaching Fellow and
issues. She developed and ran for 8 years a faculty-led international program to Brazil focused on Sustainable Energy and Brazilian Culture. This program educates students on the effects of various energy systems and the challenges of social and environmental justice in developing countries. In 2017, Dr. Pfluger moved into the ChE department where she implemented improvements in the Transport 2 Lab and Capstone courses. She assists Capstone students to develop dynamic design projects that address and help solve real-world, global challenges. Dr. Pfluger has served as the AIChE Student Chapter Faculty Advisor for 10 years and will become chair of the AIChE Student Chapter Committee in November 2021. She is a Mathworks
, thermo-fluid andenergy systems, and devices that introduce a new problem-solving approach or innovate acapability that improves people’s life. Students are allowed to select from a set of department-proposed and industry-sponsored projects. Students work in teams of three to five members,depending on the expected scope of the capstone project. The establishment of the 1500 squarefeet VR Lab in the College enhances the access to research tools in VR field for both teachingand research, hence fulfilling one part of the priorities of the College. The VR Lab attractedexternal equipment funding that facilitated expanding the three-wall system into 4-wall system.The Mechanical Engineering program is a fairly new program and is growing very rapidly. It
task-oriented roles and from the perspective of the students, the first phaseof the study uses student surveys to explore how students choose suggested roles, how theseopportunities affect their course satisfaction, engagement, and perception of team success, and ifthere are limitations towards assuming desired roles. This WIP paper presents preliminary resultsfrom one course. This work aims to promote strategies that increase student team engagementwithin a collaborative and inclusive environment and identify indicators for early intervention.IntroductionIn multidisciplinary engineering capstone courses, students of a variety of disciplines work inteams to complete design projects. The importance of working in teams throughout theengineering
active, project-based learning in class promotes projectcompletion. Students learn about FDA design controls through small group design reviewmeetings and by completing a design history file. In summary, this course prepares students fortheir capstone or senior design project as well as for employment in the medical device andbiotechnology industries.References[1] Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/biomedical-engineers.htm[2] ABET Student Outcomes https://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/criteria-for-accrediting-engineering-programs-2021-2022/[3] Design Control Guidance https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidance-documents/design-control-guidance-medical-device
design and computational problem solving using the Engineering Grand Challenges as real-world applications of global issues. She developed and ran for 8 years a faculty-led international program to Brazil focused on Sustainable Energy and Brazilian Culture. This program educates students on the effects of various energy systems and the challenges of social and environmental justice in developing countries. In 2017, Dr. Pfluger moved into the ChE department where she implemented improvements in the Transport 2 Lab and Capstone courses. She assists Capstone students to develop dynamic design projects that address and help solve real-world, global challenges. Dr. Pfluger has served as the AIChE Student Chapter Faculty
achievable capstone projectaligned with the university’s ECE curriculum revision that expands the range of disciplinaryexperiences for students. The foundational knowledge students will be required to integrate intotheir design are a simple controls system, microcontroller programming, Bluetoothcommunication, and circuit design. Following Prince and Felder’s findings that it is more likelythat students can connect their learning to existing cognitive models when engineering work isrelated to a local context, we chose to situate technological design in autonomous farmingbecause the university is in a rural area [2]. The effectiveness of this project in terms ofencouraging student engagement, the alignment of skills to course goals, and
offeringpredominantly undergraduate engineering programs of limited size. Robotics and Mechatronics Projects at UM-FlintThe Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory was started at UMF in fall 2001. The labprovided the resources for a lab course to accompany an introductory senior-level courseon robotics and mechatronics. The resources additionally came to be used to supportsenior capstone engineering design projects, senior/junior Independent Study courses,junior/sophomore Supervised Study courses, as well as faculty research in the areas ofcontrol, robotics, and mechatronics. Most of the projects involved teams of three or morestudents. A summary of the projects and their outcomes is given in Table 1.Computer hardware and software issues are
Powered by www.slayte.com Integrating DevOps to Enhance Student Experience in an Undergraduate Research Project Ryan Gniadek, Godmar Back, Kirk Cameron, Margaret Ellis Virginia TechAbstractDevOps technologies that often accompany an agile workflow such as Continuous Integration andContinuous Delivery have become much more widespread in professional software development in thepast decade. In recent years, many undergraduate research projects or capstone experiences have begun toincorporate such agile workflows, helping with student self-regulation and teaching themindustry-standard practices before entering the workforce. Existing literature shows that
techniques and executed the projects as per the phasesin Fig 3.III. CONCLUSIONGoing by the encouraging student responses, it is evident that students benefitted immensely fromthe introduction of the Project Management concept for executing academic projects. This was thefirst time such an innovative concept was introduced in this course. Hence there remains a lot ofscope for future improvements. Encouraged by the results, it is intended to continue this initiativewhen teaching courses with projects including Capstone Design projects. It is also intended tocontinuously keep improving this process to make it more beneficial for the students both from anacademic and industry perspective.REFERENCES[1] Accessed Feb. 6, 2022. [Online]. Available: https
teaching in capstone design courses, and she is PI or co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring communication, teamwork, design, identity, and inclusion in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her research explores examines the ways in which engineering education supports students’ professional development in a range of contexts across multiple dimensions of identity.Rachel Claire Riedner (Professor) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com The WRI2TES Project: Writing Research Initiating Identity Transformation in Engineering StudentsAbstractThe NSF Research
requirement for capstone courses. Continuous improvements havebeen in progress to provide a systematic approach while remaining flexible for innovation. Thishas proved valuable in sustaining the continuity of the experience during the COVID-19 pandemic.Activities are organized each semester using project management techniques (plan, logbook,reports, and meetings). The instructor monitors and coaches these activities using a virtual platformMS TEAMS. Activities include an early presentation of the project proposal (week 2), a scheduledprogress report presentation (week 4), a meeting with the instructor before delivering the activityto the selected community (weeks 4-8), a poster and a final presentation (weeks 12-14). Studentsalso deliver a package
Paper ID #37585Developing Collaborative Online International Learning(COIL) projects in Engineering EducationMeredith Blumthal Meredith Blumthal became the Director of International Programs in the Grainger College of Engineering in 2017, and has 15 years of experience in international education. She collaborates with faculty members across the college to create international education opportunities for engineering students, including semester, short-term faculty-led and summer research experiences. Meredith has doubled faculty led programs since her start, and was instrumental starting COIL courses in
, the peer-mentoring organization and delivery, and the social gathering of the BEES scholars and their faculty mentors (both in-person and virtual). © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comChallenges and Benefits of Industrial Sponsored Engineering Senior Projects in the Time of COVIDIntroductionThe capstone project experience is a major component of the senior year of all engineeringprograms. The ability to conduct this during the time of COVID presents unique challenges thatdiffered significantly from those encountered in other courses in the curriculum. Theseundoubtedly vary depending on the strategies
-year programs in engineering andtechnology providing capstone experience to students (1-4). An open-ended engineering designand product development problem with constraints provide sufficient challenges to students indeveloping skills in all aspects of engineering, including project management. In this regard,projects sponsored by industries are a boon to students and colleges. Often, industries support theirprojects with funding, materials including access to their experts (5-7). Now, it is up to studentsand project advisor(s), prudently use this opportunity, to deliver a successful project. This can beachieved with hard work and dedication by project teams. Several documented research shows thatfriendly rivalry among competing teams produce
. The studentsurveys showed that these projects were effective in achieving the course outcomes [1]. AtWestern Carolina University (WCU) that multiple authors are affiliated with, a five-PBL-coursesequence (one course in each of the first three years and two courses in the senior year) isincorporated into the curriculum of all the programs within the department (encompassingelectrical and mechanical disciplines in engineering technology and engineering programs), sothat the students can gradually sharpen their technical expertise, professional skills, andteamwork to perform well in the year-long capstone projects in their senior year, often sponsoredby the local industry.For an instructor or a class of students new to PBL, the uncertainty in
3). All students were in their Junior or Senior year. The survey was deployed prior to final grades inthe subject semester and then again within the first month of the subsequent semester. The request toparticipate was presented to the students no more than four times total. All students agreed to a standardconsent form prior to completing the survey, no signature was required. The subject group of students waspulled from a variety of classes all of which utilize a project-centered curriculum. Each courserepresented integrates the course project in a different style and the course grade, course lessons, andprofessor emphasis on the technical and professional skills vary.At USMA CE493/494 is a year-long capstone design course. The course is
-Engineering Design Lab VII and ENGR 498-Engineering Design Lab VIII) where they work inmultidisciplinary teams on open-ended projects from external clients or design and fabricatecomplex systems to meet the requirements of regional and national competitions. The knowledgeand experience from earlier courses are applied to develop solutions that meet set requirementsand constraints while considering public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural,social, environmental, and economic factors. The key phases of a DesignSpine capstone projectinclude identifying constraints, creating and analyzing design alternatives, fabricating and testingthe designs, optimizing the designs, and completing a final prototype. Additionally, the courseshave
projects, and several undergraduate capstone projects, and has served on two master’s committees. Dr. Natarajarathinam was chosen as of the “40 under 40” faculty by the American Society of Engineering Educations, Prism Magazine in 2018. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Detecting food pantry clients’ needs post-COVID-19: A project design for future service- learning coursesDr. Shaoping Qiu, Texas A&M UniversityShaoping Qiu, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Engineering Technologyand Industrial Distribution, Texas A&M University. His research interests include
introduces design in engineering followed by an ECE specific design course in thesecond semester (ECEG 100) that introduces students to various sub-areas in the discipline andwhich is supported by a basic Internet of Things (IoT) project. There is a half credit course ineach of the second and third years. The second-year course, described in detail in this paper,emphasizes providing students practical skills in design while the third year course introducesteam projects contextualized in larger social issues. The design thread concludes with a two-course capstone sequence in the fourth year in which students undertake client-sponsoredprojects.The concept of a design “thread” in the curriculum purposely evokes continuity, that coursesbuild on each
yourlearning?” This project has been an obvious fit for our curriculum as college faculty have been taskedwith incorporating engineering design in more courses before the students take their capstone seniordesign experience.At DU, we believe the Engineering for People Design Challenge is a great way to accomplish many ofour engineering goals. First, it allows us to introduce the design process to freshmen. We expect thesefreshmen to thus be better prepared for our more advanced junior and senior design project courses.Second, this project really helps to motivate many of our students to stick withengineering. Often, courses in the first two years of engineering are not very applied and some studentslose interest. Seeing how engineering can help solve
Researcher at General Motors’ Global Research and Development Center, Mr. Donndelinger served as PrincipalInvestigator on 18 industry-university collaborative projects focusing primarily on conducting interdisciplinary de-sign feasibility assessments across the engineering, marketing, finance and manufacturing domains. Prior to this, heheld positions in New Product Development at Ford Motor Company and Onsrud Cutter. He currently serves as leadinstructor for the Baylor Engineering Capstone Design program and teaches additional courses in the areas of Engi-neering Design, Technology Entrepreneurship, and Professional Development. Mr. Donndelinger has published threebook chapters in addition to 33 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conference
processes. Focused on co-creating long term partnerships that synergize community vision with Pitt’s core competencies of research and education, Sanchez has built up Pitt Hydroponics in Homewood, founded Constellation Energy Inventor labs for K-12 students, and re-created the Mascaro Center’s Teach the Teacher sustainability program for science educators in the region. As a teacher he designed and created the Sustainability capstone course which has annually partnered with community stakeholders to address sustainability challenges at all scales. Past projects have included evaluating composting stations in Wilkinsburg, studying infrastructure resilience in Homewood, enabling community solar in PA, improving energy
Paper ID #37660Female Student Attitudes Towards Engineering: Are TheyInfluenced by the Roles They Take on Project Teams?Malinda Zarske Dr. Malinda Zarske is the Chair of ASEE's Commission on P-12 Engineering Education. She is also a Teaching Professor in the Integrated Design Engineering program at the University of Colorado Boulder. She teaches undergraduate product design and core courses in engineering, as well as STEM education courses for pre-service teachers and professional development around equitable STEM teaching for inservice teachers.Evan Elizabeth WetzelChristina N Lacerenza
the MechanicalEngineering Technology Associate in Applied Science (A.A.S) degree program atQueensborough Community College, City University of New York. The course is a study of theprinciples and practices involved in conceiving, designing, producing, and measuring productsquickly and effectively using additive manufacturing processes or three-dimensional (3D)printing and coordinate measuring machine technology.A PBL pedagogy is assigned to student groups for (1) designing a three-dimensional modelconsisted of required geometric shapes using a 3D modeling software, (2) manufacturing themodel using a 3D printer, (3) presenting a presentation of the project, and (4) writing a technicalreport in a team.The project is an integrating or capstone
team members need to be happy about the work they’re doing Responsibility get the work done on time Achievement team members collectively want to succeed to their best ability The personal growth and/or new goals the participants felt developed during theirteamwork projects were diverse and far-ranging, including the following: starting more projects,using more SolidWorks and coding software, thinking about their senior year capstone project,finding their desired career path niche, improving their understanding of MatLab and coding,restoring their faith in
engineering leadership. First,students were tasked with a problem that required them to influence and collaborate with oneanother to solve a complex problem. Second, with multiple requirements and limited time,students needed to divide up their priorities according to each team member’s unique expertise.Lastly, the setting of the activity (emergency shelter on MIT’s campus) asked students to usetheir technical knowledge to find an innovative solution that positively influenced a communitythey are a part of.References[1] Ishii, Kosuke, Olivier de Weck, Shinichiro Haruyama, Takashi Maeno, Sun Kim, and Whit Fowler. "Active learning project sequence: capstone experience for multi-disciplinary system design and management education." In DS 58-10
curriculum in earthquake engineering and spatial visualization. In 2016 Lelli co-founded eGrove Education, Inc. an educational software company focused on teaching sketching and spatial visualization skills.Nathan Delson (Professor) Nathan Delson is a Teaching Professor at the University of California at San Diego. His research interests include robotics, biomedical devices, and engineering education. He teaches introductory design, mechanics, mechatronics, capstone design, medical devices, and product design & entrepreneurship. His interests in design education includes increasing student motivation, teamwork, hands-on projects, and integration of theory into design projects. In 1999 he co- founded Coactive Drive
Paper ID #36866Enhancing Engineering Students’ Innovation Self-Efficacythrough Design of K-12 STEM ProjectsAzadeh Bolhari (Associate Teaching Professor) Dr. Bolhari is a professor of environmental engineering in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (CEAE) at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her teaching focuses on fate and transport of contaminants, capstone design and aqueous chemistry. Dr. Bolhari is passionate about broadening participation in engineering through community-based participatory action research. Her research interests explore the boundaries of engineering and social