Conference Session

Engineering in High Schools

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas Oswald, Oklahoma State University; Charlie Huddleston, Oklahoma State University; Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

ENGINEERING FOR HIGHSCHOOL STUDENTS," American Society for Engineering Education, (2006).7. T. Waller, and D. B. A. Watford, "ASPIRE – The Academic Summer Program Introducing Resources forEngineers," in American Society for Engineering Education, (2004).8. R. Cano, S. B.-H. N. Koppel, S. Gibbons, and H. Kimmel, "EVALUATION OF SUMMERENRICHMENT PROGRAMS FOR WOMEN STUDENTS," American Society for Engineering Education, (2004).9. H. S. Barrows, and R. M. Tamblyn, Problem-Based Learning: An Approach to Medical Education(Springer, New York, 1980).10. A. J. Dutson, R. H. Todd, S. P. Magelby, and C. D. Sorenson, "A Review of Literature on TeachingEngineering Design Through Project-Oriented Capstone Courses," Journal of Engineering

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wookwon Lee, Gannon University; Fong Mak, Gannon University

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Electrical and Computer

Management for First-Year Graduate Students in Electrical and Computer EngineeringAbstractThe electrical and computer engineering (ECE) department at the University offers a graduatecurriculum that is designed to help students develop skills for system integration and acquireeffective business and technology practices, as well as, fundamental knowledge in the ECE field.As part of the curriculum, a new course on engineering project and management has beenrecently introduced to first-year graduate students. This new course guides students through acomplete design cycle from inception to completion with a pre-defined project of a complexsystem. This paper focuses on the experience and lessons learned from offering the Capstone

Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

M.G. Guvench

-around times do not allow the graduatingclass to have a chance to test and verify their design, and get the satisfaction and the real world experience oftesting. By using MOSIS fabricated designs of previous generations, this missing link was completed.1. Introduction and BackgroundThe paper describes how MOSIS fabricated CMOS Operational Amplifiers are used as a real worlddesign experience in a senior level Analog Integrated Circuit Course in Electrical Engineering at theUniversity of Southern Maine.Design is an ABET requirement that every engineering student should experience before graduation.Although this experience can be left to the capstone project most engineering programs require,considering the diversity of electrical engineering

Collection

2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

M.G. Guvench

-around times do not allow the graduatingclass to have a chance to test and verify their design, and get the satisfaction and the real world experience oftesting. By using MOSIS fabricated designs of previous generations, this missing link was completed.1. Introduction and BackgroundThe paper describes how MOSIS fabricated CMOS Operational Amplifiers are used as a real worlddesign experience in a senior level Analog Integrated Circuit Course in Electrical Engineering at theUniversity of Southern Maine.Design is an ABET requirement that every engineering student should experience before graduation.Although this experience can be left to the capstone project most engineering programs require,considering the diversity of electrical engineering

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

M.G. Guvench

-around times do not allow the graduatingclass to have a chance to test and verify their design, and get the satisfaction and the real world experience oftesting. By using MOSIS fabricated designs of previous generations, this missing link was completed.1. Introduction and BackgroundThe paper describes how MOSIS fabricated CMOS Operational Amplifiers are used as a real worlddesign experience in a senior level Analog Integrated Circuit Course in Electrical Engineering at theUniversity of Southern Maine.Design is an ABET requirement that every engineering student should experience before graduation.Although this experience can be left to the capstone project most engineering programs require,considering the diversity of electrical engineering

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teac

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Robert Culbertson, Arizona State University; Marilyn Carlson, Arizona State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

fundamental knowledge of students in introductory materials engineering classes. Most recently, he has been working on Project Pathways, an NSF supported Math Science Partnership, in developing modules for a courses on Connecting Mathematics with Physics and Chemistry and also a course on Engineering Capstone Design.Robert Culbertson, Arizona State University Robert J Culbertson Robert Culbertson is Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and Associate Director of the Center for Research in Education on Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology (CRESMET) at Arizona State University. He is a member of the Leadership Team in the Math-Science Partnership project, and he

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Cook, Montana State University; Robb Larson, Montana State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

projects assigned through the senior capstone course sequence (MET 456 andMET 457). Specifically, the course integration model will be outlined, the methodology utilizedto develop this model, as well as benefits of implementation will be presented, and modeleffectiveness will be assessed and reported. Finally, a plan for implementing this model intoother courses in the core MET curriculum, as well as for consideration for use by other programsin the college, will be presented.IntroductionThe Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) program at Montana State University (MSU) iscommitted to preparing graduates to immediately contribute to an increasingly diverse employerbase upon graduation, as well as prepare graduates for continued success in their

Conference Session

International Division Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bradley Rogers, Arizona State University; Mark Henderson, Arizona State University; Jerry Gintz, Arizona State University; Scott Danielson, Arizona State University

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International

generated by cooking fires in developing countries. Furthermore, theonce abundant resource is becoming scarce, so that in many cases women must travel largedistances on foot to gather the wood they need, an effort that occupies much of their day. Onesolution is to change fuels and cook with gelled ethanol created from locally available biomass.This is the purpose of the gelled ethanol production unit which was being built by 13 students inthe Capstone design sequence in the Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering TechnologyDepartment on the Polytechnic campus of Arizona State University, and which will be describedin this paper.For this project, ASU has partnered with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science andTechnology in Kumasi, Ghana and with

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Kevin Gary; Harry Koehnemann

The Software Enterprise at ASU’s Polytechnic Campus Kevin Gary, Harry Koehnemann Assistant, Associate Professors Division of Computing Studies, Arizona State University {kgary,harry}@asu.edu, (480)727-1373The Software Enterprise is a multi-year capstone project sequence designed to expose students to practical, “realworld” considerations in software development. By the conclusion of the Enterprise sequence, students have anappreciation for the role of software process, the challenges of software maintenance, the impact of open source, thepros and cons of off-the-shelf

Conference Session

Experiments and Laboratories in Mechanical Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank Liou, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Society for Engineering Education, 2008 DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERDISCIPLINERY LABORATORY CURRICULUM FOR EMERGING PRODUCT MANUFACTURINGAbstractThis paper summarizes an effort to develop an interdisciplinary capstone design projectcourse and laboratory in manufacturing. As manufacturing laboratories are veryexpensive to develop, this program is designed based on distributed and integratedmanufacturing processes on campus. As students can gain access to various facilities,they will be able to make various products, including some emerging products, such asEDM machines, fuel cells, etc. As this capstone design project provides opportunities forstudents to design, manufacture, it stimulates the students’ interest in real-world productrealization. Both

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Kurtanich, Youngstown State University; William Wood, Youngstown State University; Edward Garchar, Youngstown State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

concurrently by the Civil & Construction Engineering Technology (CCET) and ElectricalEngineering Technology (EET) baccalaureate students during their senior year. MechanicalEngineering Technology (MET) may elect to take one or both courses as well. These coursesserve as a capstone experience that incorporates both individual and team interdisciplinarydesign projects. CCET 4884 – Civil and Structural Facilities Design is an interdisciplinarycapstone course that provides an overview of the requirements and design procedures for civiland structural systems including site development, utilities, foundation, wall systems, framingsystems and floor system design as well as specifications & estimating. This course has a majorinterdisciplinary group

Conference Session

Improving Technical Understanding of All Americans

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Kasarda, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Brenda Brand, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Michael Collver, Montgomery County Public Schools; Gabriel Goldman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

successfully with the high-school population. Kasarda [3,4] described servicelearning and outreach aspects associated with the pilot year of the new capstone design course.Now in its second year, the authors have recognized, and have enhanced, aspects of the capstone Page 13.1282.2design project that facilitate the self-efficacy of both the undergraduates and the high-schoolstudents in technological and STEM literacy.Of all of the ITEA Standards of Technological Literacy [3] Standard 8: Students will develop anunderstanding of the attributes of design; Standard 9: Students will develop an understanding ofengineering design; and Standard 10: Students

Conference Session

Design in the BME Curriculum

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University; Donna Ebenstein, Bucknell University; James Baish, Bucknell University; William King, Bucknell University; Daniel Cavanagh, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

AC 2008-757: INTEGRATING EXTERNAL MENTORS INTO BME SENIORDESIGNJoe Tranquillo, Bucknell UniversityDonna Ebenstein, Bucknell UniversityJames Baish, Bucknell UniversityWilliam King, Bucknell UniversityDaniel Cavanagh, Bucknell University Page 13.764.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Integrating External Mentors into BME Senior DesignIntroductionTo build strong independent design skills, our department exposes students to more andmore open-ended projects through our curriculum. The culminating experience is a two-semester, team-based senior capstone project, mentored by external biomedical expertsand advised by faculty within the department. The single most

Conference Session

Fostering and Assessing Effective Teaming

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University; James Duvall, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

that low performers overestimate theirabilities across multiple contexts 14, 15. In evaluating peers in engineering courses anothervariable is where the teamwork experience falls on the spectrum of team projects. On oneextreme of this spectrum are fully cooperative experiences in which the team works togethertowards a common goal. This extreme is defined by a single shared experience. On the otherextreme are “divide-and-conquer” projects. Here a team assigns each individual separate taskswhich each contribute to a shared team goal. Such approaches—an example is the jigsawteaching technique—are defined by unique experiences for each individual. This approach iscommon to many capstone design courses.This report looks at peer evaluation in a

Conference Session

Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jay Porter, Texas A&M University; Joseph Morgan, Texas A&M University; Richard Scruggs, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

senior-level students with an opportunity tolearn more about innovation and entrepreneurship. In their final year of undergraduatestudy, groups of three to four students come together as new start up companies thatcomplete the two-semester capstone design requirements by transitioning from an Idea toa fully functional Prototype (I2P). Most of these projects are now externally sponsoredby companies that are trying to increase their design bandwidth, jumpstart a new productidea, or in some cases become more involved with students to develop a better pipelinefor new hires. Intellectual property developed by these student companies is transferredto the Texas A&M System Office of Technology Commercialization that manages thelicensing of the IP to

Conference Session

Design for Society and the Environment

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Callaway, CH2M HILL; Sean St. Clair, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

and light gauge steel design and construction. Page 13.1130.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Sustainable Research and Design in a Civil Engineering Senior Design CourseAbstractIn an effort to help students understand the broader impacts of land development, a significantsustainability component was added to a capstone senior design project course in a small civilengineering program. This year-long course traditionally involves students completingstraightforward designs in the areas of structural, transportation, geotechnical, and municipalenvironmental engineering. In a

Conference Session

Manufacturing Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Akbar Eslami, Elizabeth City State University

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Engineering Technology

while the other sensorprompts the robot to start palletizing.I. IntroductionThe Senior Design Capstone Project has been identified as a valuable instrument of theassessment process. This instrument is now becoming more popular in undergraduate programsfor the assessment of behavioral and cognitive achievement1. Consequently, technology studentsat Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) are required to complete a Capstone Design Project intheir final semester. Simulating real-world robot palletizing is the goal for this Capstone Project.The students, working together as a team, utilize their knowledge, problem solving skills,communication and team work skills, to apply many of the technical competencies they acquiredthroughout their course of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design in the Classroom

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Pines, University of Hartford; Hisham Alnajjar, University of Hartford

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Design in Engineering Education

engineering curriculum went through a major curriculum change in2001 that included adding an interdisciplinary sophomore and junior design course to theexisting freshman and senior design capstone courses. The new courses were added as part of aNSF grant entitled “Integrating Engineering Design with the Humanities, Social Sciences,Sciences and Mathematics.” The interdisciplinary sophomore design course has undergoneseveral iterations since its inception. Initially, the sophomore course paralleled our seniorcapstone design course with each project team of 3 to 6 students working on industrial sponsoredproject with a practicing engineer as the technical mentor. This approach has worked extremelywell for our senor design course because of the effort put

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Gregory S. Parnell; Michael Kwinn

thecourse, instructors would highlight the courses in the curriculum that would expand on the topics in theSEMP. In addition, the students were expected to use the SEMP as the problem solving methodology fortheir capstone senior research project, a year long engineering design course with a team of four or fivestudents. These research projects directly support the needs of a client and are supervised by a seniorfaculty member.Figure 1. Systems Engineering & Management Process [3] Figure 2. Systems Decision Process [4]The SEMP was a four phase process that begins with an understanding of the current situation and endswith the implementation of an engineering design to meet the desired end state. The phases are ProblemDefinition

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Gregory S. Parnell; Michael J. Kwinn

thecourse, instructors would highlight the courses in the curriculum that would expand on the topics in theSEMP. In addition, the students were expected to use the SEMP as the problem solving methodology fortheir capstone senior research project, a year long engineering design course with a team of four or fivestudents. These research projects directly support the needs of a client and are supervised by a seniorfaculty member.Figure 1. Systems Engineering & Management Process [3] Figure 2. Systems Decision Process [4]The SEMP was a four phase process that begins with an understanding of the current situation and endswith the implementation of an engineering design to meet the desired end state. The phases are ProblemDefinition

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Matt Armstrong; Richard L. Comitz; Andrew Biaglow; Russ Lachance; Joseph Sloop

. Table 2. Quiz Results In addition to this the students were asked the following questions regarding their individualexperiences with the capstone project. These questions were answered on a scale of 1 to 5, where 1represented the most positive feedback and 5 was the least positive. These questions are listed below inTable 3 accompanied by the average response. Finally, a comparison will be made of final examinationresults from AY06-02 to AY07-2 in the chemical reaction engineering course, to see the impact this had onperformance. Question Regarding Individual Experience Ave Response1. Was this capstone project useful in terms of helping the learning process

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Matt Armstrong; Richard L. Comitz; Andrew Biaglow; Russ Lachance; Joseph Sloop

. Table 2. Quiz Results In addition to this the students were asked the following questions regarding their individualexperiences with the capstone project. These questions were answered on a scale of 1 to 5, where 1represented the most positive feedback and 5 was the least positive. These questions are listed below inTable 3 accompanied by the average response. Finally, a comparison will be made of final examinationresults from AY06-02 to AY07-2 in the chemical reaction engineering course, to see the impact this had onperformance. Question Regarding Individual Experience Ave Response1. Was this capstone project useful in terms of helping the learning process

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Matt Armstrong; Richard L. Comitz; Andrew Biaglow; Russ Lachance; Joseph Sloop

. Table 2. Quiz Results In addition to this the students were asked the following questions regarding their individualexperiences with the capstone project. These questions were answered on a scale of 1 to 5, where 1represented the most positive feedback and 5 was the least positive. These questions are listed below inTable 3 accompanied by the average response. Finally, a comparison will be made of final examinationresults from AY06-02 to AY07-2 in the chemical reaction engineering course, to see the impact this had onperformance. Question Regarding Individual Experience Ave Response1. Was this capstone project useful in terms of helping the learning process

Conference Session

Faculty Attitudes and Perceptions

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cathy Burack, Brandeis University; John Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Alan Melchior, Brandeis University; Eric Morgan, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

exercise, it can potentially help someone.” They also sawservice-learning as a way of reinforcing the idea that engineering (and engineers) can contributeto the solution of social problems in the community. However, these benefits were generallyframed as coincidental outcomes rather than as an intentional, integrated part of the community-based learning experience for students. One faculty member noted that it is “difficult to focus onsocial implications. In the capstone, we do ask students to think about environmental and socialissues as part of review questions. But we don’t have significant discussions on socialconnections as part of projects.” Another faculty member in a different department said, “Wedon’t talk about social impacts much. We

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Plumley, US Coast Guard Academy; Vincent Wilczynski, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Design in Engineering Education

instance, students will draw on their knowledge of all courses fortheir capstone design project, including strengths of materials, thermodynamics, and machinedesign to name but a few. The presence of small design, build, and test projects in these coursesis intended to help students develop problem solving and design skills in the context of thosecourses. The portfolio provides a means for instructors of those courses to quickly see how theirclass contributes to the design goals of the program. More importantly, it allows instructors ofcore courses who may be from different departments to see the importance of their course to theMechanical Engineering program. At a small institution like the Coast Guard Academy, whereover 50% of students

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Teaching Part One

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Bronzini, George Mason University; Michael Casey, George Mason University

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Civil Engineering

Conference, Nashville, TN.11. Chowdhury, S., Jalloh, A., Rojas-Oviedo, R., Seif, M., and Mobasher, A. (2007), “Capstone Design Course as a Tool for Assessment and Improvement,” AC 2007-895, Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI.12. Welch, R., and Estes, A. (2003), “Client-Based Projects for Every Senior – A Mark of Excellence for any Program,” Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Annual Conference, Nashville, TN.13. Bielefeldt, A. (2005), “Challenges and Rewards on On-Campus Projects in Capstone Design”, Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Annual Conference, Portland, OR.14. Chou, K., Wilde, W., and Moaveni, S. (2007), “Subcontracting the Senior Design Project in Civil Engineering” Journal of Professional

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fanyu Zeng, Indiana Wesleyan University

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International

the softwareengineering curriculum. This analysis particularly includes examining: • Team projects • Senior student capstone project reports and Master’s degree thesis • Curriculum for software engineering • Student end of course surveyCurriculum Review, Interview, Observations, Evaluation, and Survey StudiesAlthough this study mainly relies on quantity data analysis from observation, evaluationand survey, it is still feasible to review existing curriculum, interview Chinese instructorsfor their valuable personal experience and observe a sample of student’s project workfirst. Personal experience is always easy to obtain and results could be directly used togather findings. Interviewing Chinese instructors to obtain their personal

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Meyer, Purdue University; Mark Johnson, Purdue University School of ECE; Cordelia Brown, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

, where networked computers arereadily available, nor does it occur when all team members are working in the same physicallocation. Our hypothesis is that equipping each project team with wireless Tablet PCs should notonly significantly improve the spontaneity (and regularity) with which the on-line lab notebooksare updated, but also facilitate collaboration among team members working on the design projectat different locations. An HP Technology for Teaching Grant has provided a critical mass ofTablet PCs to test this hypothesis. A description of how the equipment provided is beingutilized, along with a discussion of the preliminary results obtained, is presented in this paper.IntroductionIn most team-oriented capstone design courses, creation

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Waldron, Grand Valley State University; Pramod Chaphalkar, Grand Valley State University; Shabbir Choudhuri, Grand Valley State University; John Farris, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2008-2172: TEACHING DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE OF MECHANICALSYSTEMS - PART IIWilliam Waldron, Grand Valley State UniversityPramod Chaphalkar, Grand Valley State UniversityShabbir Choudhuri, Grand Valley State UniversityJohn Farris, Grand Valley State University Page 13.1156.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Teaching design and manufacture of mechanical systems using multidisciplinary teams-Part IIIntroductionA lot of progress has been made in recent years in improving engineering education, e.g.,emphasizing communication skills, working in teams, integration of computer-aided engineering(CAE), and capstone/senior design projects

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Trian Georgeou, Arizona State University; Scott Danielson, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

made by the students). Following thiscourse, students can also take either a high-performance-machining course and or a four- andfive-axis machining course.The paper briefly describes the CNC courses and the software and equipment used by thestudents. But, most importantly, the paper describes the benefits realized by the mechanical,aeronautical, and automotive engineering technology students from taking these courses. Thesophistication of the student’s design and build projects in their capstone class has seen adramatic increase since the students have begun to acquire the CNC machining experience.Thus, the paper builds a case for the value-added aspect of CNC machining within MechanicalEngineering Technology.IntroductionThe authors believe