Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Johnson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

. Page 15.1334.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Using Process FMEA in an Aeronautical Engineering Technology Capstone CourseAbstractIn the Aeronautical Engineering Technology program at Purdue University, undergraduatestudents gain experience in performance improvement in the capstone project courses. Theperformance improvement proposed and implemented by the students must also consider theimpact on safety. Process Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (PFMEA) is one tool used in theaerospace industry to identify risks in products or processes, and to take action to mitigate oreliminate the risks. Using the SAE standard for PFMEA, students use a structured method toanalyze the process steps and

Conference Session

Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Randall Brouwer, Calvin College; Aubrey Sykes, Calvin College; Steven H. VanderLeest, Calvin College

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

CourseAbstractCapstone courses for senior engineering students may be organized in numerous ways. Usually,the goal is to give students a significant development and design experience that will preparethem well for their work following graduation. Sometimes the focus of a capstone course is onsolving technical problems of an advanced project. Sometimes the focus is on getting thestudents to produce a design based on the scope provided by an industry partner. Sometimes thefocus is on giving the students a rich experience in how a team works together. Sometimes thefocus is on the business side of projects and engineering. Sometimes the focus is on coveringmaterial that doesn’t fit in any of the other regular courses. Most capstone courses try to formsome balance

Collection

2004 GSW

Authors

Richard Bannerot; Ross Kastor; Paul Ruchhoeft

4334 capstone design course, required of all students in the Departmentsand Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. This paper describes thechallenges and the specific problems encountered and the changes, i.e., solutions, thathave been implemented. The capstone design course that existed in 1998 had beenessentially unchanged since 1981. The Pre-Existing CourseThe pre-existing course was a one-semester, 3-hour credit course that was offered everyfall and every spring on an alternating day-night schedule by a single instructor. Teamsof four students were assigned (through a bidding process) a project. About 80% of theprojects were provided and sponsored by local industry and a majority of them

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Innovations in ECE

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hanqi Zhuang, Florida Atlantic University; Oren Masory, Florida Atlantic University; Zvi S Roth

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL 33431 Zhuang@fau.eduAbstractWe report on a multi-year project to use engineering capstone designs to aid elderly and personswith disabilities; and to enhance undergraduate engineering education through multidisciplinarycollaboration and hands-on experience. In their capstone project, students utilize and adaptavailable technologies to create devices to assist persons with disabilities from the users’perspective. To this end, at the first course of the Engineering Design sequence, students are firstreferred to healthcare facilities and local schools that host students with learning disabilities inorder to gather information

Conference Session

Engineering Design in Pedagogy

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibrahim F. Zeid, Northeastern University; Sagar V. Kamarthi, Northeastern University; Claire Duggan, Northeastern University; Jessica Chin, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

capstone design project course that is typically required in the ABET-accredited college engineering curriculum. Students are motivated by the capstone experiencebecause it shows the elegance of the EDP and relates to how engineering is used in practice todesign and manufacture products.In order to teach the EDP and capstone experience effectively, high school teachers mustexperience, learn and use the EDP themselves. Our methodology begins by educating theteachers about the capstone experience and how to incorporate it in their classroom instructionswhen they return to their schools. We continue to work with and monitor the teachers duringtheir teaching activities over one academic year.We have implemented the capstone experience in the first

Conference Session

Design Throughout the ChE Curriculum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shannon White; Patricia Niehues; Steven Peretti; Lisa Bullard

© 2004, American Society for Engineering"but associated tutorials and solution information that provide an introduction to the material, bothfor the students and for the mentoring faculty. The formulation of design projects for a capstone design class is in and of itself a constraineddesign problem since the semester is only 15 weeks in duration. This presents three majorchallenges; the project expectations must be challenging yet attainable, the scope mustencompass the essence of industrial practice and represent a realistic situation, and possibly mostchallenging to the instructor, the technical focus of the topic must be such that the project advisor(usually the faculty member responsible for the course) is able to provide adequate

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg Kremer, Ohio University-Athens; David Burnette, Ohio University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1998, and has five years of experience as a Mechanical Design Engineer at General Electric Aircraft Engines.David Burnette, Ohio University David Burnette was both an undergraduate student who participated in the OU ME Sr. capstone design project, and an OU ME graduate student who helped compile the student comments and complete the literature search for this study. He is currently an employee of the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory. Page 13.1349.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 USING PERFORMANCE REVIEWS IN CAPSTONE

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education (DEED) Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

. Page 23.941.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 On Teaching Capstone Design: The Role of Practitioners in the ClassroomAbstract: Teaching civil engineering design through senior projects or capstone design courses,with industry involvement and support, has increased in recent years. The general trend towardincreasing the design component in engineering curricula is part of an effort to better preparegraduates for engineering practice. While some design projects are still of the “made up” typecarried out by individual students, the vast majority of projects today deal with “real-worldproblems” and are usually conducted by student teams. The paper begins first

Conference Session

Teaching Design in Manufacturing Curriculum II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bahram Asiabanpour, Texas State University; Chandrashekar Subbareddy, Texas State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

wereexperienced [6]. The course first offered in the fall semester of 2003 and since then it has beencontinuously updated, adjusted, and modified based on feedback and surveys’ results, industries’needs, and new tools and techniques. The projects that were undertaken by the most recent class(2006) were fully sponsored by industry.In this paper major activities and milestones in the senior capstone design course taught in Fall2006 are explained. The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, lectures andprojects activities and milestones are presented. Section 3 gives a detailed description of courseassessment. In Section 4, sample projects are explained. Finally, conclusions are given in Section5

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas H. DeAgostino, Trine University, Innovation One; Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; M. Brian Thomas, Trine University

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

responsibilities as Di- rector, he also teaches machine design, and advises senior design capstone projects. His research interests include integration of industry and academia, and utilization of project based (experiential) learning to enhance the applicability of learning.Dr. Vukica Jovanovic, Old Dominion University Dr. Jovanovic is currently serving as Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology De- partment, Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA. Prior to joining ODU’s Engineering Technology Department Dr. Jovanovic was teaching at Trine Uni- versity, Angola, Indiana at Design Engineering Technology Department. Before Trine, she was working as an

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Schar, Stanford University; Micah Lande, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

other factors. Two additional criteria,Passion for Technology and Clearly Communicates, also rated as relevant and important. Fourcriteria, Inspires Collaboration and Leadership Project Management Skills and Experience, werelower rated.4. ME310 Student Profile ME310 is a capstone course that has been taught at Stanford University since 1967. Theyear-long course is a mechanical engineering master’s-level sequence in which student teamswork on complex engineering projects sponsored by industry partners. Student teams completethe design process from defining design requirements to constructing functional prototypes thatare ready for consumer testing and technical evaluation.8 Students come to the course having earned undergraduate

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel J. Magda, Weber State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Paper ID #15403Innovative Teaching and Learning Strategies withDr. Daniel J. Magda, Weber State University Professor, Mechanical Engineer, Ph.D. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Innovative Teaching and Learning Strategies with Laboratory Courses via Capstone DesignAbstractThe objective of this paper is to improve student retention of their engineering mechanicseducation with a teaching/learning strategy implemented in their capstone design project class.There are many quotes from great historians and current educators about the process of teachingand the benefits of

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Abbott, University of Missouri; Katie Grantham Lough, University of Missouri

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

instructors in theireffort to effectively teach this concept.The goal of the educational tool, component functional templates, is to not only aid classroominstructors in presenting the concept of functional modeling to students in a timely manner, butwill also aid the students through modern visual and interactive learning techniques that promoteproper form and assisted development. Ultimately, the templates will only be a first step, muchlike training wheels, in the process of learning how to functional model and will be an invaluabletool for the novice user with more in-depth engineering design problems to tackle.2.0 BackgroundThe educational foundation on which this project is based is the active learning process, whilethe primary method of

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James J. Pembridge, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

. Page 22.173.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 An Examination of Mentoring Functions in the Capstone CourseAbstractThroughout the literature detailing projects in engineering capstone courses, researchersfrequently refer to the faculty role as that of a mentor. As such studies make clear, the role ofmentoring in capstone projects is critical to support students in the progression of the course. Yetthe concept itself remains relatively ill-defined in the engineering education literature, making itmore challenging for researchers and educators alike to identify patterns and best practicesacross contexts. Using a framework developed by Kram to characterize a variety of mentoringfunctions

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susannah Howe, Smith College; Mary A. Moriarty, Smith College; Apurva Errabelli

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

version ofthe activities with capstone alumnae to identify what alumni actually transfer in to theiremployment after graduation, and investigating whether and how to use these activities as anassessment tool for capstone courses and overall programs.1. IntroductionUndergraduate engineering programs commonly culminate in a capstone design course. Theseone- or two-semester courses meet the ABET requirement of a major design experience1 and areintended as an opportunity for students to synthesize their previous learning and apply theirknowledge/skills to a complex design problem. Typically these capstone projects involve teamsof three to six students who work collaboratively, thus emulating the current engineeringworkplace environment.2 A majority

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation in Engineering Education I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelley Racicot, Washington State University; Charles Pezeshki, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

systems approach. ABET, for example, suggests that it is important to use a Page 12.168.2“multi-method/multi source approach to maximize the validity and reduce the bias of any oneapproach” [6, p. 2]. While systems thinking is not new to program evaluation or engineeringdesign, it is seldom employed in course-level research, where the focus tends to be on evaluatingthe local impact of specific teaching methods on individual student achievement [7]. Unliketraditional courses, project-based courses, such as capstone design, are not bounded by the wallsof the classroom, the term of the course, or the enrollment list. Project sponsors, faculty, andeven

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacqueline Ann Stagner P.Eng., University of Windsor; Jennifer L Johrendt, University of Windsor

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

two-semester Capstone Design course for students in their senior year of anundergraduate engineering degree program affords the opportunity to assess many attributes asstudents ready themselves for graduation because of the comprehensive nature of the project-based course. This paper explores how graduate attributes (GrAtts), as defined by the CanadianEngineering Accreditation Board (CEAB), are assessed within a Mechanical EngineeringCapstone Design course. Assessment of GrAtts is necessary for CEAB accreditation, not onlyfor demonstrating that students have been exposed to and assessed on these attributes, but it alsoprovides valuable information necessary for continuous improvement activities within programs.The Mechanical Engineering

Conference Session

Aircraft Design Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David B. Kanipe, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

, due to his 38 years of experience in the Space Program covering many projects and programs, the Head of the Aerospace Engineering Department at Texas A&M University asked him to come to A&M and teach a senior capstone design course in spacecraft design. As he puts it, he spent 38 years at NASA preparing to teach this course. Page 25.780.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Injecting the Real World into the Capstone Design ExperienceThe engineering community, in many ways, has remained unchanged from previous decades

Conference Session

The Teacher as Manager: Best Practices for Culminating Design Experiences

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James B Guthrie P.E., California Polytechnic State University; Allen C. Estes, California Polytechnic State University; Jill Nelson P.E., California Polytechnic State University; Brent Nuttall P.E., California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

AC 2012-3497: INTERDISCIPLINARY CAPSTONE DESIGN: ARCHITECTS,STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS, AND CONSTRUCTION MANAGERSMr. James B Guthrie P.E., California Polytechnic State University Jim Guthrie is an Assistant Professor for the Architectural Engineering Department at California Poly- technic State University at San Luis Obispo. Professor Guthrie came to Cal Poly with over 30 years of structural engineering experience and is a registered Professional and Structural Engineer in the state of California. Jim Guthrie received a B.S. degree in Structural Engineering from the University of Califor- nia at Davis in 1972 and an M.S. degree in Structural Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1973.Dr. Allen

Conference Session

Innovations in the IE Curriculum

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denise H. Bauer, University of Idaho, Moscow; Jessica L. Heier Stamm, Kansas State University; Lesley Strawderman, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

in which capstone design courses differ between engineering programsis the type of design project students complete. There has been a recent trend for engineeringprograms to partner with industry to provide capstone design projects direct from the “realworld.” In 1994, industry projects accounted for approximately 59% of capstone design projectsin surveyed engineering programs, compared to 71% in 2005.4,8 Not only do these projectsenrich students’ appreciation of educational relevance, but they are also beneficial in establishingindustry ties to programs and encouraging faculty professional development.3 Industrysponsored projects present a number of drawbacks, however, including difficulty in findingprojects, determining an appropriate

Conference Session

DEED Postcard Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Rogers, The Ohio State University; Denny C. Davis, The Ohio State University; Sarah Winfree, The Ohio State University ; Kaycee Ash, The Ohio State University; Lin Ding, The Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

motivation in academia.Dr. Lin Ding, The Ohio State University Lin Ding, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Teaching and Learning The Ohio State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Work in Progress: Assessing Motivation in Capstone Design CoursesAbstractEffective assessment of student learning outcomes desired by industry is required to truly impactcurriculum change. As part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) project, several workshopsand advisor meetings have guided the selection of outcomes and creation of the first draft ofassessment instruments to measure selected outcomes. Over 1000 respondents to a variety ofindustry surveys, including those identified by industry

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division (IND) Technical Session 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janice Mejía, Northwestern University; Katherine Scharfenberg, Northwestern University; Jill Hardin Wilson, Northwestern University

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering Division (IND)

technologies, processes, and policies in organizations.Katherine Scharfenberg, Northwestern UniversityDr. Jill Hardin Wilson, Northwestern University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Work in Progress (WIP): Rewriting capstone - The unexpected solution to our assessment problemAbstractIndustrial engineering capstone courses provide students the opportunity to apply the technicaltools they learn in their major classes to a real-world project. To effectively demonstrateunderstanding of learning objectives, students must communicate clearly to a wide range ofaudiences, including instructors, other team members, and the project client. Full assessment oflearning objectives may

Collection

2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Charles McIntyre

, and civil engineering). During theSpring Semester of 1998, a single overall departmental capstone course was created. The intent wasto provide a true “capstone” experience, where students in each degree program could combine theirskills to achieve the successful completion of a project. The primary objective of the capstoneexperience is to combine all aspects of the planning, design, and construction phases of a project intomeaningful education experience which mimics “real-world” design and construction practices.Students are required to use all of the knowledge and skills that they have acquired throughout theireducational experience to develop the documentation required for actual project construction (designdrawings, cost estimates

Collection

2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Leonard Anderson; Michael Davidson

External Collaborator/ Mentor Requirement for Senior Capstone Engineering Design Courses Leonard Anderson, Ph.D., C.P.C., Michael Davidson, P.E.AbstractTo meet the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (EAC of ABET) curriculum requirement of a “major design experience” Civil EngineeringStudents at Wentworth Institute of Technology are required to successfully complete a Civil EngineeringCapstone Design Course during the final semester (summer) of their senior year. In groups of four to sixstudents, students develop, implement, and present a comprehensive, intra-discipline civil engineerdesign project. In the summer of 2014, the Faculty of the Civil

Collection

2023 IL-IN Section Conference

Authors

Brandon Fulk; Kyubyung Kang

them150 to support the continuous improvement of academia and learner experience.151152 PROPOSED PURDUE CEM CAPSTONE153154 Determination of the Project Life Cycle and Topics of the Capstone Course155 From the literature reviews and reviews of peer institutions' CEM Capstone curriculum,156 the study sees many benefits for students if the capstone course replicates the157 construction life cycle over two semesters (approximately 32 weeks of academic calendar158 at Purdue). To replicate concepts of construction project life cycle in CEM Capstone159 courses, this study classifies a construction life cycle into six phases which are (1)160 administrative business development and feasibility phase, (2) conceptual design phase,161 (3

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Smyer; L. R. Johnson

Session 2525 IE Capstone Design Course with IE and ME Team Collaboration W. N. Smyer, E. W. Jones, and L. R. Johnson Mississippi State UniversityAbstractThis paper presents an overview of the capstone design course in Industrial Engineering atMississippi State University, a required course for the Bachelor of Science degree in IndustrialEngineering. In the course, students are formed into project teams, each of which selects onemanufactured product to analyze as part of a comprehensive venture analysis.The unusual aspect of this course, and the focus of this paper, is the

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Paul Blowers; Kim Ogden

possible to integrate the material into the senior capstone course byrethinking the topics in that course and shifting focus slightly. The prior formulation of the capstone course had focused on technology and economic assessment.Students did two team-based projects, one a smaller scope project involving mostly economics of a small sizedchemical facility with few pieces of equipment. A second, more complex, and much more open ended designproject was then completed during the second half of the semester. Students were also involved with learningminimum energy analyses, heat exchanger thermal analysis, and pollution prevention strategies that are traditionallyend-of-pipe treatments. In the combined course that includes sustainability

Conference Session

Robotics Curriculum

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Michalson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Fred Looft, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

laboratory facilities development for the program. Dr. Looft’s research interests have evolved from the analysis and modeling of tactile neural responses to now being focused on student capstone projects, systems engineering programs, and global education. Outside of the academic world, Dr. Looft is an avid sailplane enthusiast, pilot and flight instructor, and is a lifelong fitness enthusiast. Page 15.370.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Designing Robotic Systems: Preparation for an Interdisciplinary Capstone ExperienceAbstractThe Robotics Engineering (RBE

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Behnam Kamali

Session 3432 A Novel Structure for Electrical Engineering Senior Capstone Laboratory Behnam Kamali Mercer University School of EngineeringAbstractThe electrical engineering senior capstone laboratory course is meant “to provide the electricalengineering senior student with additional and varied experiences in creating and designingworking electrical/ electronic/ electromechanical systems, from specifications to prototypeproduct”. At Mercer University we have structured this course such that in addition to designstipulations, it addresses a number of other EC 2000 requirements, specially, those

Conference Session

Impact of COVID-19 on Design Education 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mohamed E. El-Sayed, Eastern Michigan University; Jacqueline A. El-Sayed, American Society for Engineering Education

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

product development, vehicle integra- tion, design optimization, lean design, integrated design and manufacturing, and theoretical and applied mechanics, Dr. El-Sayed has over thirty years of industrial, teaching, and research experience, several patents granted, and over a hundred publications in his fields of expertise. He is an award-winning edu- cator, especially in the areas of engineering capstone project courses and online education. Through his teaching and advising he has contributed to the education of hundreds of engineers now engaged in the field of automotive engineering and product development. He is an ABET Commissioner, Team Chair (TC), Program Evaluator (PEV), and IDEAL Scholar. Dr. El-Sayed has also