Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jen Symons, University of Portland; Kate Rohl, University of Portland

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Diversity

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College Industry Partnerships

capstone programs may enhance student learning and engagement. For students, industry partnerships in capstone are seen as providing an intersection ofstudents’ academic learning and their future careers in industry. Our institution supportssponsored projects that can prepare students to approach open-ended problems, improve designand communication skills, incorporate stakeholder needs, and work effectively on teams. Theconnections they build with industry partners can also be the beginning of a professionalnetwork. Furthermore, experience working on a real-life project can help students identify orclarify their career path within engineering. For engineering programs, these industry partners can serve as a resource to benefit

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Dr. Martin Pike

design projects can be either verycomplex as are many “capstone” design projects, or simpler one to two week exercises. Lowerdivision students are limited in their technical background, skill base, and maturity level. Thesefactors limit the scope of potential design projects to a few topic areas and limited complexity.Creating good design projects for lower division courses tends to be more difficult because ofthis in addition to the trend that lower division courses have overly full schedules to cover allrequired topics. This paper will discuss techniques and suggestions on how to design a gooddesign project with a stress on the lower division courses

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

George Havener

performances were the same. Distinctions in GPA performance (inEngr 410) seem not to be a good basis to claim effects created by Engr 110Z. Distinctions aremore likely the result of cadet attitudes, project difficulty, Project Manager leadership, andinstructor guidance.” Table 4 Instructor Ratings for Educational Outcomes in Capstone Design Course Category Engr 110Z Grads Control Group Problem Solving - Framing 4 4 - Organization 4 3 - Critical Thinking 4 3 Intellectual Curiosity

Collection

2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Andy Pardue, Tennessee Technological University; Sally J. Pardue, Tennessee Technological University

former director (2009 - 2018) of the Oakley Center for Excellence in the Teaching of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Capstone Design Courses Managed in an MS Teams FrameworkAbstractThe work in progress will outline using Microsoft Teams to manage a Mechanical Engineeringcapstone program with 120 to 140 students and 25 to 30 projects. The MS Teams project sitebecomes the central repository for all the information regarding the student's work on theirproject. A focus of the design of the project site has been an effort to effectively determine theindividual contributions of a student versus the overall project outcomes driven by the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilfrid Nixon

benefits are substantial. Thepaper describes both, and reports on the problems and successes of this particularapproach.INTRODUCTIONThe capstone design class is a critically important part of any engineering curriculum. Inthe ideal, it offers students the opportunity to demonstrate that their educationalexperience has not been merely a disjoint collection of classes with only tenuousconnections, but rather a well-founded continuum that has brought them to the point fromwhich they can begin to be effective in the workplace. However, a perennial challengefor capstone classes is finding a project that is sufficiently challenging to present acomplete test of a student’s education, yet also can be completed within a single semester

Conference Session

Trends and Applications in Curricula and the Capstone Experience

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel M. Dulaski PE, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

“real-world” project, others continue to offer a traditional project that falls under therubric of “textbook” problems. Although there may be sound, legitimate support for offering a“textbook” capstone, including the magnitude of work involved for instructors, using a real-world project offers tremendous benefit.In order to ensure that the students’ capstone experience is true-to-life, and emulates consultingfirms, the transportation capstone program in the Department of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering (CEE) at Northeastern University (NU) has created a program that benefits thestudents and the surrounding communities. The 14 week semester emulates a major project in aconsulting firm with project requirements, deliverables, and community

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

William Michalson; Robert Labonté

Session 1232 Capstone Design in the ECE Curriculum: Assessing the Quality of Undergraduate Projects at WPI William Michalson, Robert Labont6 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Worcester Polytechnic Institute AbstractSince adopting the WPI-Plan in 1972 at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, one of the degree requirements forundergraduates has been the completion of a Major Qualifying Project. Although this project

Conference Session

Capstone and Senior Design in Electrical and Computer ET

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fernando Rios-Gutierrez, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

successful and interesting projects, in its original format, the capstone course was tooshort and did not afford the students time to truly demonstrate their capabilities.Also, in order for the EET program to fullfill more strongly the ABET outcomes related todemonstrate that students are able to function on multi-disciplinary teams (outcome d), that theyshow a strong ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems (outcome e) andare able to understand professional and ethical responsibility (outcome f). Based on these goals,the EET faculty and its Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) agreed to modify and expand the EETSenior Project Course into two courses. TEET4610 is a 1-credit course offered in the fallsemester, and a TEET4620 is a 2

Conference Session

Pedagogy

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Pezeshki

Session 2566 Managing a Capstone Design Clinic—Strategies for Pedagogic and Financial Success Dr. Charles Pezeshki School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-2920 pezeshki@wsu.eduMany ABET-certified programs in mechanical engineering have a team-orientedpracticum involving projects generated by outside industrial sponsors that are supportersof the university. A smaller subset of these programs are financially successful, andgenerate

Conference Session

CoED: Potpourri

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Varun Agrawal, Georgia Institute of Technology; Amit Shashikant Jariwala, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

impact scientific research results. Dr. Jariwala has participated and led several research projects from funded by NSF, the State of Georgia and Industry sponsors. At Georgia Tech, he is responsible for enhancing corporate support for design courses, managing design and fabrication/prototyping facilities, coordinating the design competitions/expo and teaching design courses, with a strong focus on creating and enabling multidisciplinary educational experiences. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Web-based Tools For Supporting Student-driven Capstone Design Team Formation Varun Agrawal

Conference Session

Embedded Systems & Cybersecurity for ECE

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron Carpenter, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Raymond A. Hansen, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Carpenter and Raymond Hansen* {carpentera1, hansenr2}@wit.edu Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering *Dept. of Computer Science and Networking Wentworth Institute of TechnologyAs cybersecurity grows as a specialty within electrical and computer engineering and computerscience, students increasingly choose to pursue projects in the area. These projects come in theform of class projects, senior design/capstone projects, and extracurricular research of varyingdegrees of difficulty and sub-genres of cybersecurity. However, it is easy for these cybersecurityprojects to put students in danger of violating laws or compromising equipment; thus, it is

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Somerton, Michigan State University

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Design in Engineering Education

1982, all in engineering from UCLA. Page 14.84.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 A Partnership between Capstone Design and K-12 OutreachIntroductionThe nation continues to face a shortage of engineers. Concurrently, public schools are strugglingfinancially and making severe budget cuts which significantly impact STEM enrichmentprograms. This can lead to even a further reduction of potential engineers in the pipeline. Themechanical engineering design program at Michigan State University has addressed this issue bypartnering with a local elementary school on capstone design projects. A team of

Conference Session

Software Applications in ET Programs

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen A. Strom, Pennsylvania State University, Erie

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Innovative Embedded Systems ProjectAbstractThe goal of an Embedded Design course is to teach programming, embedded circuits and softwarealgorithms. There are also related goals, such as learning to use development tools, lab equipmentand proper debugging techniques. There are tangential goals such as working in teams andpreparation for senior/capstone projects. And while there are a variety of approaches to teaching,the common theme is that you want the students to be successful and understand the material asthoroughly as possible.Each year, there are new peripherals, new processors and most engineering departments do not takea static approach to education and try to include more

Conference Session

ConstDiv Technical Session 1 - Capstone & Case Study

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William P. Manion, University of Maine; Philip A. Dunn Jr. P.E., University of Maine

Tagged Divisions

Construction Engineering

-ended qualitative questions. The survey results are presented, with some examples,qualitative responses, and discussion from the authors. By presenting and publishing this paper,the authors hope to learn from similar programs in practice, share our experiences, and perhapsinspire others to try such ventures.Literature reviewMany construction educators understand that learning through service can be very effective,providing students with opportunities to practice professional and independent learning skills inthe context of “real world” problems which they all seem to enjoy. According to Scott Stanfordet al. [1], service learning is one of the four emerging trends in engineering capstone courses,along with technology, multidisciplinary projects

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ajay Agrawal; Zahed Siddique

Session 2425 FROM GOALS TO PRODUCTS IN A SENIOR DESIGN PRACTICUM COURSE Ajay K. Agrawal and Zahed Siddique School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019AbstractSenior Design Capstone is a required component of many undergraduate engineering programs.The program offers numerous challenges for both faculty and students because of the widevariety of projects in a given year as well as from year to year. This paper discusses key phasesfor successful implementation of a Senior Design Capstone Program to achieve

Conference Session

Capstone Design Practices

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Zhinan Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Houzhi Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Lu Chen, Shanghai JiaoTong University; Yaxin Huang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Jiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

. Thispaper introduces the former capstone design course and presents the function, structure anda three years operation of the redesigned capstone design course at Shanghai Jiao TongUniversity.Keywords: capstone design, engineering design, engineering education; project-basedlearning1. Introduction The higher engineering education in China is reforming (e.g., New EngineeringEducation) for producing high-quality engineering talents with multidimensionalcapabilities, i.e., both professional skills and technical skills. The Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) in the USA also emphasizes the importance of seniorstudents to attend at least one design-oriented (project-based) course [1]. It is widelyacknowledged that capstone design

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George A. Hunt, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

nature of the teams were such that each student neededto provide specific skills in order to complete the project. After completion of the course,the authors noted that a key concern was that the civil engineering students did notparticipate as much as the students from the other disciplines.Another potential issue with multidisciplinary capstone design involving civil andenvironmental engineers is the scale of the infrastructure design projects that arecommon in these disciplines. Frank et al.5 described a multidisciplinary capstone seniordesign project program at Florida State University. Their multidisciplinary programincludes mechanical, electrical and computer, and industrial and manufacturingengineering. The authors report that the program

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Kauser Jahan; Douglas Cleary

developed following a review of other capstone courses describedin literature. Open-ended design projects are developed with assistance from industry advisorsand presented to the students at the start of the course. The students then spend two semesterspreparing solutions to the problems. The first year the course was offered went much asexpected based on the instructors’ previous experiences. Students complained of vagueinstructions, too much work, and lack of experience. However, additional student concerns withfairness and inequitable workloads were expressed. Refinements to the project selection processand course administration were made to address these concerns.1. IntroductionThe relative newness of the Civil and Environmental Engineering

Conference Session

Design Across Disciplines

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith G. Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology; John Nastasi, Stevens Institute of Technology; Eirik Hole, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

engineering from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 1995. Page 25.88.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 A Pilot for Multidisciplinary Capstone Design incorporating a Systems Engineering FrameworkSynopsisIn this paper we discuss a pilot project to develop an approach to multidisciplinary capstonedesign that incorporates a systems engineering (SE) framework which can be a model for broadimplementation. It is a reflection of the growing demand for engineers educated to recognize theoverarching significance of systems engineering approaches for the

Conference Session

How Are We Preparing Our Students for the 21st Century Workforce?

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald H. Brown, Marquette University; Thomas F. Quinn, Marquette University; George Corliss, Marquette University; Jay R. Goldberg, Marquette University; Mark Nagurka, Marquette University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

license fees. The results of this research are disseminated as licensed software and research reports for customers and as more traditional academic journal articles and conference presentations.Educational Laboratory – The GasDay Project regularly hosts course-related student projects, providing students with the opportunity to work directly with some of the largest energy companies in the U.S. Many of the projects are incorporated in the College of Engineering’s multidisciplinary senior capstone design course, where student teams work for a full academic year on a project of direct interest to a GasDay industrial sponsor. Other courses with students undertaking GasDay projects come from the College’s Engineering Management

Conference Session

Careers and Professional Development in BME

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Allen, University of Virginia; Shayn Peirce-Cottler, University of Virginia

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Biomedical

,including biomedical and biotech industries, academic research, intellectual property, FDAregulation, consulting, finance, and other professional tracks. To address the need forundergraduates to possess adequate non-technical skills prior to graduation, BME curriculatypically use capstone courses as vehicles for teaching professionalism. In the BME Capstonecourse at the University of Virginia, we have instituted several mechanisms for instilling a widearray of non-technical professional skills in BME majors. An emphasis on career developmentbegins at the outset of the course with a formal project selection process that features a BMECapstone “Project Fair,” which is similar to a job fair where the students submit resumes andinterview with potential

Collection

2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

LeRoy Alaways

Factors that Inhibit or Enable Success of Capstone Design Teams LeRoy Alaways Department of Mechanical Engineering Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19087Engineering capstone is considered the final and crowning design course in the engineeringcurriculum. A typical design team is made up with three to five students and is multidisciplinaryin nature. These teams are assembled either by project choice where a member is assigned to aproject, or by group choice where a project is chosen by an existing self-forming group. A self-forming group is characteristically a group of friends that clumped together during theireducational career. No

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Evolution of a Senior Capstone Course Through the Assessment ProcessAbstractThe civil engineering senior capstone design course at the United States Coast GuardAcademy has evolved over the past fifteen years. Historically teams of cadets worked inparallel on one design problem with a single faculty advisor. The senior design projectsnow actively involve students in a variety of real world consulting projects to help theCoast Guard and local communities meet technical challenges. Each student team workson a unique project with a faculty advisor. The departmental assessment processconfirmed the educational benefits of student exposure to real world projects with clients,budgets, and deliverables

Collection

2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Evolution of a Senior Capstone Course Through the Assessment ProcessAbstractThe civil engineering senior capstone design course at the United States Coast GuardAcademy has evolved over the past fifteen years. Historically teams of cadets worked inparallel on one design problem with a single faculty advisor. The senior design projectsnow actively involve students in a variety of real world consulting projects to help theCoast Guard and local communities meet technical challenges. Each student team workson a unique project with a faculty advisor. The departmental assessment processconfirmed the educational benefits of student exposure to real world projects with clients,budgets, and deliverables

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Evolution of a Senior Capstone Course Through the Assessment ProcessAbstractThe civil engineering senior capstone design course at the United States Coast GuardAcademy has evolved over the past fifteen years. Historically teams of cadets worked inparallel on one design problem with a single faculty advisor. The senior design projectsnow actively involve students in a variety of real world consulting projects to help theCoast Guard and local communities meet technical challenges. Each student team workson a unique project with a faculty advisor. The departmental assessment processconfirmed the educational benefits of student exposure to real world projects with clients,budgets, and deliverables

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Melissa S. Tooley; Kevin Hall

engineering capstone design course (Senior Design) at theUniversity of Arkansas has been structured to facilitate ABET 2000 Outcomes. Criterion 3Attributes “a” through “k” are listed and a discussion of how each of these attributes areenhanced in the course is provided. For example, capstone design courses offer a uniqueopportunity to learn about professionalism and ethics (attribute “f”) in a realistic, appliedcontext. Because the department does not have a separate ethics course, an ethics unit is taughtin Senior Design. The concepts learned are applied by the project teams to hypotheticalscenarios specific to their projects. The key is to make the ethical dilemma relevant to theirproject work.The University of Arkansas was one of the first two

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division (ETD) Technical Session 7

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maher Shehadi, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI)

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

condition surveys for various mechanical and electrical and systems. He has conducted several projects to reduce carbon dioxide and other building emission impacts by evaluating and improving the energy practices through the integration of sustainable systems with existing systems. His current research focuses on engaging and educating students in sustainable and green buildings’ design and energy conservation. He is currently investigating various ways to reduce energy consumption in office buildings. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Using Capstone PBL to Demonstrate Achievement of ABET OutcomesAbstractInteractive learning has been proven to increase students’ retention

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arnold Stanley Berger PhD, University of Washington, Bothell

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

design lifecycle  Engage in community-based educational activitiesWith these goals in mind the Capstone Experience was designed so a team of three or fourstudents would form small “consulting engineering” companies and then, over the course of twoquarters (six months), work on projects submitted by companies in the area.The student teams are mentored by an engineer or manager at the company and “managed” atour university by part-time faculty from the local industrial talent pool. The Capstone facultybrings the necessary real-world experience and soft skills, such as creating and trackingschedules that students need to execute their projects within the allotted time.In Capstone I the student team creates their development contract. It is then

Conference Session

BIM and Other New Construction Practices

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Althea Arnold, University of North Texas

Tagged Divisions

Construction

to cutting edge technology currently beingused by progressive industries, give students experience working in teams and making bothwritten and oral presentations. These objectives are in line with the ABET requirements forcapstone courses: (1) “draw together diverse elements of the curriculum,” and (2) “developstudent competence in focusing both technical and non-technical skills in solving problems.” TheSenior Design capstone course is a two semester course pair required of all graduating seniors inthe degree program. Students in these courses closely follow actual construction projects over thenine month course duration. Students choose from projects in commercial construction,residential subdivision construction, heavy highway or

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Eduaction - Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacy Wilson, Western Kentucky University; Mark Cambron, Western Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

AC 2007-266: USING INDUSTRIAL ADVISORY BOARDS TO ASSESS CAPSTONEDESIGN COURSESStacy Wilson, Western Kentucky UniversityMark Cambron, Western Kentucky University Page 12.1551.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Using Industrial Advisory Boards to Assess Capstone Design CoursesAbstractThe electrical engineering program at Western Kentucky University (WKU) was created in 2001with a focus on project-based education. Faculty have developed a series of experiencesthroughout the curriculum to support this mission which culminates in a year long designsequence. In this sequence, students must plan, design, and