Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Teams

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelly Crittenden, Louisiana Tech University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

responsible for the same material and arestill required to participate in team meetings.Attracting and Retaining Other MajorsIt is relatively easy to attract senior engineering students to IMPaCT. These students have beenworking in teams throughout most of their college classes and are required to complete some sortof year-long capstone project. However, other students are not as accustomed to working onteams and are not required to complete a course like IMPaCT. Business students do have anatural connection to IMPaCT through the entrepreneurial aspect of IMPaCT, though it stillremains difficult to retain business students for the entire year. These problems are beingaddressed through increased publication across campus though flyers, webpages

Conference Session

Teaching Methods for the 21st Century: Part 2

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Savage, California Polytechnic State University

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Materials

method but often they arenot exposed to design methods until their capstone senior project. We have developed aseven-step method that guides students through projects and enables them to achieve theskills we have identified as essential to their success as global engineers. The stepsinclude 1) identifying user’s needs, 2) developing product concepts, 3) translatingperformance requirements from the language of the customer into technical functionalrequirements, 4) brainstorming several conceptual designs and choosing the optimumsolution, 5) developing a detailed design solution, 6) fabricating a prototype and testingto ensure that it meets the performance requirements and 7) determining the commercialfeasibility of the design solution. An example

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FPD11 -- Multidisciplinary Experiences

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kauser Jahan, Rowan University

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First-Year Programs

Product Dissection Sophomore 16-Week Multidisciplinary Design 16-Week Multidisciplinary Design Project—Composition & Rhetoric Project—Public Speaking Junior Product/Process Development or Product/Process Development or Research Research Senior Multidisciplinary Capstone Design/Research ProjectFreshman Clinics expose students to basic engineering skills including problem solving,teamwork fundamentals, engineering measurements and entrepreneurship. Students areintroduced to a variety of activities relevant to engineering measurements5. This is followed inthe second semester by intense study of engineering design

Conference Session

Retention of STEM Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ibibia Dabipi, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore; Joseph Arumala, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore

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Minorities in Engineering

and test PWM board with circuit and supplied servos.At the end of the project, the students made a presentation to a team of five NASAEngineers and Scientists and UMES Faculty. The oral presentation was judged based on aform titled Communication Skills Competencies Evaluation which covered Content(team), Organization (member), Delivery and Effectiveness (member) and Discussion(member). The students performances were judged as a team and as individual membersas indicated. Each segment carried 25 points to give a total of 100 points. The averagescore for this project was 90 which showed the high quality of work done by the students.In addition, a Capstone Design Project Evaluation was done based on the followingcriteria: Open-Ended Problem

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Eduaction - Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ramzi Bualuan, University of Notre Dame; David LeDonne, University of Notre Dame; Steven Kurtz, University of Notre Dame; Joseph Blakely, University of Notre Dame; Constance Slaboch, University of Notre Dame; Andrew Carter, University of Notre Dame; Elizabeth Barron, University of Notre Dame; Patrick Essien, University of Notre Dame; Megan Wysocki, University of Notre Dame; Elizabeth Ferro, University of Notre Dame

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Design in Engineering Education

itsengineering students to solve, without supervision, a very difficult problem that they (andwe) can be very proud of. We suggest in conclusion that though project G in its currentform would not yet be suitable for a senior design capstone project, it would be a verygood example for a multi-disciplinary engineering design project.BackgroundIn the summer of 2005, nine students served as camp counselors for the Introduction toEngineering Program1 (IEP) at the University of Notre Dame 2. IEP is a summerengineering camp for high school students who have just completed their junior year.There are two sessions of three weeks each. IEP’s purpose is to provide participants withan overview of all fields in engineering, while giving the students a taste of

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Min-Sung Koh, Eastern Washington University; Esteban Rodriguez-Marek, Eastern Washington University; Claudio Talarico, Eastern Washington University

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2007-515: CLASS PROJECTS WITH GRAPHIC USER INTERFACES INMATLABMin-Sung Koh, Eastern Washington UniversityEsteban Rodriguez-Marek, Eastern Washington UniversityClaudio Talarico, Eastern Washington University Page 12.362.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Class Projects with GUIs in Matlab Min-Sung Koh, Esteban Rodriguez-Marek, and Claudio Talarico School of Computing and Engineering Sciences Eastern Washington University Cheney, Washington 99004 USA Email: {mkoh

Conference Session

EMD Curriculum Design

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raymond Krizek, Northwestern University; Ahmad Hadavi, Northwestern University

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Engineering Management

AC 2007-2299: EDUCATING PROJECT MANAGERS FOR THE CONSTRUCTIONINDUSTRYRaymond Krizek, Northwestern University Stanley F. Pepper Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208Ahmad Hadavi, Northwestern University Adjunct Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208 Page 12.570.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Educating Project Managers for the Construction IndustryAbstractWith the increasing complexity of constructing and maintaining infrastructure facilities

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Fani Zlatarova

, October 2003, Vol. 19, Issue 1, pp. 83-89[8] Stein, M. Using Large vs. Small Group Projects in Capstone and Software Engineering Courses. The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, March 2002, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 1-6[9] Turban, E, D. Leidner, E. McLean, & J. Wetherbe. Information Technology for Management. Transforming Organizations in the Digital Economy, 5/e. John Wiley & Sons, 2006[10] Tuttle, S. M. Practical Lessons from Experience with the Database Design Course Project, The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, vol. 18, no. 2, December 2002, pp. 32-42 9[11] Zlatarova, F. Introducing Ethics in Computing

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Freshman Design and Other Novel Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rebecca Willits, Saint Louis University

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Biomedical

courses.Students in Biotransport (upper level course) have developed laboratories for introductorystudents and these laboratories have been used in the first, general transport phenomena course1.This project was a unique opportunity to address ABET Criterion 3b2 (“an ability to design andconduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data”) prior to capstone courses andoutside of a research opportunity. While this project has been successful, an integral part of theexperience at Saint Louis University is service to others. Therefore, the project was changedfrom development of a laboratory for introductory students to the development of ademonstration as outreach for pre-college students.In general, it is important that engineering programs

Conference Session

Ocean, Marine, and Coastal Engineering Topics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Timothy Mays, The Citadel; Kevin Bower, The Citadel; Robert Dullanty, ATM; Kelly Rutkowski, Applied Technology and Management

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Ocean and Marine

, design, and detailing. Where applicable, thestandard references other national standards such as ACI 3186 and AASHTO LRFD BridgeDesign Specifications7.Structural Capstone Class at The CitadelAll civil engineering students at The Citadel are required to take a capstone course in one of fourareas of their choice: • Structural Engineering • Environmental Engineering • Subdivisions • Transportation (Evening Students Only)All students that take the structural engineering capstone class are required to develop plans,specifications, and a concise set of calculations for a group building and an individual project oftheir choice. Given the lead author’s vast design experiences with buildings, bridges, and pierand wharf type structures

Conference Session

Mechanical Design and Projects

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jyhwen Wang, Texas A&M University; Richard Harris, Sandia National Laboratories

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Engineering Technology

Design Applications I. Principles of design of mechanical components; theories of failure; fatigue and fracture design criteria; Soderberg and Goodman diagrams; materials and their selections to engineering application; tolerance and fit, design for manufacturing and assembly. • ENTC 463 – Mechanical Design Applications II. Application of principles of design to mechanical power transmission elements such as shafts, gears, rolling chains, belts, bearings, clutches and brakes; design of power transmission systems. • ENTC 422 – Manufacturing [and Mechanical] Engineering Technology Projects. A capstone projects course utilizing a team approach to an analysis and solutions of manufacturing [and

Conference Session

Mechanical Design and Projects

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorge Rodriguez, Western Michigan University; Sam Ramrattan, Western Michigan University; Alamgir Choudhury, Western Michigan University; Pavel Ikonomov, Western Michigan University

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Engineering Technology

behavior at high temperatures. An apparatusand a specific methodology to measure thermal distortion have been proposed and developed bythe authors, and it is reported in this paper. The proposed apparatus, now in its secondgeneration, is simple to operate and the test specimen is a disc piece, which is already used fortransverse strength testing of chemically bonded sands. The proposed protocol allowsexamination of thermo-mechanical properties of the specific sand-binder combination. Thermaldistortion curves obtained for various sand-binder-catalyst combinations, when tested foraluminum castings, are presented.This project was carried out over several semesters, where students in the capstone designproject course sequence participated. This is a

Conference Session

Electrical Technology Projects and Applications

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chandra Sekhar, Purdue University-Calumet; Omer Farook, Purdue University-Calumet; Scott Reimer, Purdue University Calumet; Ilija KaramacoskiI, Purdue University Calumet

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Engineering Technology

steering wheel and pedals over duration of three seconds; one second before andtwo seconds after the stimuli is engaged. The program uses the values it stored tocalculate the reaction time of the test subject in milliseconds. This data is stored in a fileand could be used for further analysis. We used small buzzers and LEDs that could be replaced with speakers and lights that Page 12.301.7would enhance the sense of the stimuli. One big improvement for this project would bethe use of an interactive simulator that would allow more functionality to this project andprovide more precise measurements.PedagogyThis project is a two semester capstone senior

Conference Session

Design in BME Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen May-Newman, San Diego State University; Peter Newman, San Diego State University; Urban Miyares, Interwork Institute - Disabled Businessperson's Association

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Biomedical

capstone courses,which range from 1-2 semesters and generally take place during the senior year2. Students mustwork in teams of 3-6 in the majority (83%) of programs, and work on the completion of a projectsolicited from faculty, industry, a sponsored design competition, or a student’s own idea. Theteams are advised by a faculty member, with whom they have weekly meetings, which carries asignificant time requirement. The number of projects offered each semester varies, and does notalways match the numbers of students especially in large engineering programs. Most projectscan be completed on a modest budget, providing there is access to a machine shop and otherneeded fabrication facilities3. While the cost is not excessive, properly supporting

Conference Session

Design in BME Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Judy Cezeaux, Western New England College; Eric Haffner, Western New England College; Anne Kaboray, Goodwill Industries of the Springfield/Hartford Area, Inc.; Carol Hasenjager, Goodwill Industries of the Springfield/Hartford Area, Inc.

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Biomedical

cornerstone of engineering education is design education. Accredited programs are required toprovide a capstone design experience in which students integrate knowledge gained from theircoursework. For many engineering programs, design education begins in the freshman yearwhere students are introduced to the design process.1, 2, 3, 4 Following this freshman experience,many students are not required to implement the design process in a systematic fashion until theyperform their capstone project . Integration of design across the curriculum is challenging sincethe outcomes of most lecture courses rely predominately on mastery of subject matter.Both freshman and capstone design courses for biomedical engineering students often involvethe design of

Conference Session

Improving ME Education: Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Langerman, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; William Arbegast, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Daniel Dolan, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Mechanical Engineering

(AMP) employs student/faculty teams to in-vestigate material joining research/design issues. The latest in the state-of-the-art FrictionStir Welding (FSW) equipment is available in the AMP center. Currently, AMP projectsinvolve over 30 graduate and undergraduate students from across campus. AMP providesstudents with: 1. Sponsorship and mentorship of capstone senior design projects, 2. Laboratory employment, 3. Undergraduate research opportunities.Capstone Senior Design Projects – The AMP center routinely sponsors senior capstonesenior design projects ( fourteen over the last three years). These projects raise issues thestudents will encounter during their industrial careers – starting with the development ofan agreed to “statement of

Conference Session

Bioengineering laboratories: Bringing research into the classroom

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Barnett, Saint Louis University; Rebecca Willits, Saint Louis University

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Biomedical

was 56%. Thenumber of national awards presented to our undergraduates is also significant, ranging fromBMES and Society for Biomaterials Undergraduate Awards and Sigma Xi grants to variousposter and paper recognitions at the local, regional, and national levels. The ability to havecontinuous projects where students can easily pass on their work to underclassmen has also beenimproved thus leading to an increase in overall scholarly activity in the laboratory and a morepositive experience for the undergraduate. Page 12.313.2IntroductionWhile capstone design courses are at the core of all engineering disciplines, the depth ofexposure to

Conference Session

Undergraduate Spacecraft Design II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Miller, University of Oklahoma; Yunjun Xu, University of Oklahoma

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Aerospace

-fall the rest of the way. After impact, the capsule will deploy therovers. Additional details of the origin of the project are available in [5].Most existing senior capstone projects, for example Big Blue [4], which are fundedby industry or government agencies, try to address different problems each year.The SLS project is used every year with the same mission objectives, though theparticular aspects of the mission under study do change. This allows students tobuild on the previous year’s work while still exploring new problems and chal-lenges.The goal of the SLS mission is to explore a small section of the Moon; conducta materials analysis of the materials left there by an Apollo mission thirty yearsearlier; and to perform a selenographic

Conference Session

Topics Related to Assessments and Outcomes

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Frederick, Mechanical and Aeropace Engineering; Rebekah Frederick, Homewood Academy for Girls

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Aerospace

. Page 12.1560.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Using Regional Technical Conferences to Augment Aerospace Design ProjectsAbstractSuccessfully integrating academic and industry players into the aerospace engineering classroomrequires innovation and focus. The benefits, however, include the illustration of currentaerospace design practices and tools. This paper describes the co-location of a regional technicalsymposium alongside a capstone aerospace design project. With this approach, industry has afocused interaction with students and faculty that significantly augments the traditionalclassroom experience. A case study on a tactical missile project is discussed in detail to

Conference Session

Developing Programs for Adult Learners

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith Plemmons; Ray Jones, The Citadel

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Continuing Professional Development

adult learners. As a result ofconstituent involvement and input from industry professionals, the TPM program consists of fourgraduate courses that address the professional and career development challenges of experiencedproject and program managers. This interdisciplinary program provides a professional learningenvironment for adult students (with and without technical backgrounds) to acquire advancedproject management knowledge, skills, and abilities. Innovative learning strategies includestudent-selected capstone projects, course content supplemented by subject matter expert (SME)presentations, as well as advanced assignments and site visits to projects that provide material forcase studies. Collectively, the TPM program provides a unique

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators: Tricks of the Trade I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

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New Engineering Educators

expanded into funded summer research projects, and several have produced publishable results.”—from a Computer Science faculty member at a regional state university “Absolutely; every such study is focused on my research program. It has been extremely worthwhile doing so. While some students flop, it happens, about a third of my papers are authored with students who are, or were, undergrads. And some of those papers are in top places.”—a faculty member in Informatics at a Research I institutionThe Civil Engineering department at the U.S. Military Academy offers every student anopportunity to undertake an independent-study project.4 These are similar to capstone projects,but they need not include the four subdisciplines that ABET

Conference Session

Product Innovation And Entrepreneurship

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Johnson, Valparaiso University; Kathleen Sevener, Valparaiso University; Doug Tougaw, Valparaiso University; Jeffrey Will, Valparaiso University

create asuccessful project while obtaining a learning experience that is enhanced with the culturaldiversity and service of helping a community in need.9. References1. D. Tougaw and J. D. Will, “An Innovative Multidisciplinary Capstone Design Course Sequence,” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education National Conference (2003).2. W. L. Stone and J. D. Will, “Optimizing the Structure for a Multidisciplinary Senior Design Experience,” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education National Conference (2004).3. D. Tougaw and J. D. Will, “Integrating National Robotic Competitions into Multidisciplinary Senior Project Courses,” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Illinois

Conference Session

Educating Graduates in Engineering For A Flat World

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zenaida Otero Gephardt, Rowan University; Joshua R. Wyrick, Rowan University; Dustin M. Kuzan, Rowan University; Carolyn D. Braun, Rowan University; Jared S. Krause, Rowan University; David M. Santino, Rowan University; Mary E. Wellspeak, Rowan University

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International

service-learning projects offer students an opportunity to experience first handthe application of technology within the framework of cultural dynamics to benefit acommunity. International hands-on experiences play a key role in the development of futureglobal engineers who can navigate the complexities of global market forces. These engineershave a better understanding of the global community and the role of engineers in improvingthe quality of life for the world’s people. Integration of the local community in projectdesign, development and implementation results in a more sustainable solution with theneeds of the community at the forefront. Students benefit from this integration by gaining abetter understanding of the community and its culture

Conference Session

International Distance & Service Learning for Engineers- Discussion on Best Practices

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chris Swan, Tufts University; David Gute, Tufts University; Douglas Matson, Tufts University; John Durant, Tufts University

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International

). Both cohorts were determined by student interest in theproject’s proposed effort at that time. Although the course is offered in the Spring semester allparticipating students were required to commence work at the outset of the preceding fallsemester. This allowed for trip planning, fund raising (particularly in the first year), immersionin the relevant literatures, and the specification of tasks and responsibilities to be completed inthe field. It was also thought that this extra requirement would dissuade casual interest on thepart of students and ensure motivated participants.As a Capstone Project the primary emphasis in terms of deliverables were to require the studentsto engage in the solution of a design problem. Over the course of this

Conference Session

Pedagogical Issues in Manufacturing Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Rumpf, Ferris State University

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Manufacturing

Page 12.1373.5 • Automation & plant layout joint project – as the senior capstone experience, students work on this project by themselves. Main points we try to instill in this project are the importance of being a self-starter and being adaptable to any aspect of a typical manufacturing engineer’s workload. It also adds another facet of the student’s work to their portfolios to show to potential employers.Assessment MethodsInstructor review of submitted project materials can evaluate the technical merit of the effort aswell as written- and graphical communication skills, and evaluation criteria should be discussedat the time of the project assignment so that team members know what metrics they will begraded

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Butkus, U.S. Military Academy

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Environmental Engineering

AC 2007-1129: A SMALL-SCALE DESIGN AND BUILD PROJECT INBIOCHEMICAL TREATMENTMichael Butkus, U.S. Military Academy Page 12.114.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007A Small-Scale Design and Build Project in Biochemical TreatmentIntroductionEnvironmental engineers as well as engineers in other engineering disciplines, apply their skillsin a dynamic environment where single solutions are the exception rather than the rule.Additional “significant experiences” are required to help students develop a holistic appreciationfor professional practice issues and including open ended problem solving to prepare them forthe workplace.1 Such experiences should relate course material to

Conference Session

Project-Based Education in Energy Conversion

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Darris White, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; J. E. McKisson, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; William Barott, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

independence and environmentalconcerns are pervasive topics that can be directly related to the new programs. Throughseveral years of progressively complex design projects, the Mechanical Engineering,Electrical Engineering and Engineering Physics degree programs have developed andimplemented a capstone senior design project related to hybrid electric vehicles.The design goal of this project was to analyze, design and build a functioning parallelhybrid-electric race car. The car will compete against other similar cars at an eventsponsored by SAE International and IEEE, called the SAE Formula Hybrid Competitionon May 1st-3rd 2007. This project was selected as a multi-disciplinary project because ithas sufficient technical challenges in each of the three

Conference Session

FPD12 -- Novel Approaches to First Year Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cecelia Wigal, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga; Ignatius Fomunung, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga; Edwin Foster, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga; Ronald Goulet, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga

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First-Year Programs

design. At the sophomore level the students usedesign concepts to design, build, and test small structural and mechanical projects (such astrusses). The students also emphasize testing of the devices. At the junior and senior level thestudents use design concepts to solve real-life and open-ended interdisciplinary industry-basedproblems. The student project teams work with the sponsors and faculty advisors to develop, test,and prototype a solution. In addition, students apply design concepts in a three credit hourdiscipline-based capstone course during their senior year. The structure of the design curriculumis shown in Figure 1.0. Engineering Design Texts Interdiscipline cont’d

Conference Session

FPD10 -- Pre-Engineering and Bridge Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cecelia Wigal, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga; Molly Littleton, Signal Centers

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First-Year Programs

structural and mechanical projects. At the juniorand senior level the students use design concepts to solve real-life and open-endedinterdisciplinary industry-based problems. The student project teams work with the sponsors anda faculty advisors to develop, test, and prototype a solution. In addition, students apply designconcepts in a three credit hour discipline-based capstone course during their senior year. Thestructure of the design curriculum is shown in Figure 1.0. Engineering Design Texts Interdisciplinary cont’d Discipline Design (3 hrs) (3 hrs) Senior

Conference Session

Project-Based Education in Energy Conversion

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margaret Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

in Engineering Program (WE@RIT); ME Department Advocate for Engineering Honors Program; and Member of Multidisciplinary Capstone Design Leadership Team. Page 12.670.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Enhancing Life-Long Learning and Communication Abilities through a Unique Series of Projects in ThermodynamicsAbstractMechanical engineering courses in Thermodynamics typically provide a detailed treatment of thefirst and second laws of thermodynamics from a classical viewpoint in order to prepare studentsfor subsequent courses and ultimately, engineering practice. Therefore, thermodynamics