AC 2011-1170: PROJECT-DIRECTED WRITING ASSISTANCE IN CON-STRUCTION MANAGEMENT PROGRAMElena Poltavtchenko, Northern Arizona University Elena Poltavtchenko is a Ph.D. candidate in the Applied Linguistics program at Northern Arizona Univer- sity. She is a graduate teaching assistant at NAU’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Elena obtained her B.A. in Russian Linguistics and Literature in Novosibirsk State University, Russia, and M.A. in English Applied Linguistics at the University of Houston, TX. Her current research interests lie in the area of writing in the disciplines, with a specific focus on writing in engineering.John Tingerthal, Northern Arizona University John joined the Construction
Young UniversityGregg M. Warnick, Brigham Young University Gregg M. Warnick is the External Relations and Intern Coordinator for the Mechanical Engineering de- partment in the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology at BYU. He works directly with industry each year to recruit more than 30 funded Capstone projects and provides project management, team development, and coaching support to each of these project teams and faculty coaches. In ad- dition, he continues to focus on increasing international project opportunities for students and faculty. His research and teaching interests include globalization, project management, leadership, ethics, and manufacturing processes. Prior to joining BYU, Gregg worked
piloted with a capstone project involving two teams withmembers from BYU and the National University of Singapore (NUS). The course was taughtsynchronously with BYU students meeting at 7:00 AM and NUS students meeting at 9:00 PM.Several key insights were gained during the first semester of this course.First, students at both universities need to be awarded course credit. This commits the studentsto full participation in the course. It also commits both universities to finding a time where thecourse may be taught. In this particular example, the time zone difference in the second semestercould have been over come with BYU moving to an afternoon time and NUS to an earlymorning (next day) schedule. Unfortunately, the NUS capstone course structure
teaching and engineering mechanics. Before coming to academia, he was a design engineer, maintenance supervisor, and plant engineer. He is a registered professional engineer. Page 22.481.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Development of a Small UAV with Real-time Video SurveillanceAbstractThis paper describes a capstone project whose objective was to design, build and successfullytest an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with real-time video surveillance capabilities. Thestudent team was composed of seven students within an aeronautical concentration of theirMechanical Engineering
course – Freshman year introduction to design and graphical communications, common to all engineering disciplines (3 credits)Capstone course – An industry project clinic taken in the senior year, course topics include: structured design process, team skills, project management, prototyping, industrial design, professional communications, ethics, and project economics (4 credits),In the time between their Freshman and Senior years, students undertake intense theoreticalstudy, where every problem is well-posed and has only one correct answer. Then in the senioryear we task them to complete an industry sponsored, open-ended problem that they could notlook up in their textbooks. We were “shocked” to find that many of them
AC 2011-957: NOVEL AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING STUDENT PROJECT:DEVELOPING ULTRA-LIGHT-WEIGHT AERIAL VEHICLE DESIGN ANDPROOF OF CONCEPTHoracio Andrs Trucco Mr. Trucco was a Vice President and Principal Scientist at GASL, Inc., where he has been a full-time staff member since 1968 until 1994. He headed both the design and fabrication departments. His activities have involved projects related to analytical and experimental research in advanced propulsion systems and components, low and high speed combustion, air pollution and energy conservation. Mr. Trucco was responsible for design and fabrication of wind tunnel components such as air heaters, water-cooled nozzles, vacuum-producing air ejectors and scramjet engine
Engineering, and College ofNursing will also utilize the developed laboratory for senior design projects (capstone sequence),which will measure the impact on the students from all disciplines. This is part of a new andinnovative transdisciplinary approach to the education of health care professionals, which linksdesign and development of medical devices (biomedical engineering) with maintenance of thosedevices in a clinical environment (biomedical engineering technology) and clinical applicationand use of the devices in actual patient care (nursing). We believe that cross-training ofindividuals from these programs will facilitate the design and development of medical devices,which are easier and more cost-effective to maintain as well as more useable
for supersonic hydrogen airliners from basic aerodynamics knowledge.The process identified numerous gaps in the comprehension of the students from their courses. Page 22.146.2The integration challenge of this project enabled iterative refinement of their understanding. Theconcepts and analysis approaches taught at each level are seen to have become useful only whensubjected to integrated use through several iterations. The paper also demonstrated a process toshow how some certainty can be achieved in developing an ambitious advanced concept throughthe notion of a “figure of merit”.A multi-level process was laid out, to explore a high-risk
Pedagogical research in computer science curriculum for undergraduate students.Mr. Nabil A Yousif, Fort Valley State University Mr. Yousif is an assistant professor in the Mathematic and Computer Science Depadtment, at Fort Valley State University. His interest includes System Business Application Software design and database design. Page 22.570.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Engaging Computer Science Students in Electro-Mechanical Engineering ProjectsAbstractThis paper describes two engineering projects that were implemented in a capstone
by the State of Florida. Dr. Choi has genuine dedication in teaching and has earned a sustained record of excellence in it. His student evaluations have been among the best in his department and his college consistently. He has taught a wide spectrum of courses. His favorite ones include microprocessor applications, linear control systems, electromagnetic field applications, and capstone design projects. He has published his work in engineering education conferences regularly. He has received several teaching awards and was listed in the 2003-2004 Who’s Who Among American Teachers. Dr. Choi’s research interests include embedded control systems and computational algorithms. He has published over thirty papers
education. He is co-author of several recently released books, including: Measuring the Impacts of Project-Based Service Learning on Engineering Education, Engineering in Developing Communities: Water, Sanitation, and Indoor Air, and Environmental Engineering: Fundamentals, Sus- tainability, and Design.Dr. Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt, PhD, PE, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU). She began involvement with service learning (SL) in 2001, when she began integrating SL into the senior capstone Environmental Engineering Design course. Her research interests include ceramic
practically manageable approach.In this paper, we describe the peer-evaluation approach that we have developed at NorthernArizona University over more than a decade of teaching courses in a team-project-basedcurriculum. Driven by resource limitations and expediency, our approach has been shaped by aminimalistic philosophy: how can we achieve maximum efficacy with minimal overhead forstudents and instructors? We begin with a brief description of our Capstone course and theevolution of the efficient peer evaluation schema we have developed. We then present ourongoing efforts to increase the efficacy of our peer-evaluation system while managing overhead,by integrating the key elements into a flexible automated system for supporting team-based
, fromreporting a perceived lack of hands-on-experience in recently graduated engineers to providingmentorship and projects for capstone course.4 A recent trend in laboratory instruction includesthe introduction of alternative modes for the laboratory, including virtual and remotelaboratories.5 These alternative modes have been shown to provide an opportunity for a widerarray of learning objectives to be addressed.6 A survey of capstone courses in 360 engineeringdepartments across the country identified teamwork and project managements as the top lecturetopics.7Feisel and Rosa1 state that “while much attention has been paid to curriculum and teachingmethods, relatively little has been written about laboratory instruction.” To make matters worse,they
. Further, PBL culminates in ateam approach during the senior capstone where industry sponsored projects are carried out. Thesponsored projects are coordinated through the University’s Rapid Center for ProductRealization, and all senior project classes fall under the responsibility of the Rapid Center’sdirector. The goals, logical progression and integration of PBL at WCU are shown in Table 2.The incorporation of PBL as described in this paper focuses on the integration of mechanical andelectrical engineering applications through a joint partnership between the university and aregional community college. Elements of entrepreneurship are included such that design andfabrication are developed for a Do-it-Yourself-Kit (DYK) with customer input playing
forces and stresses be determined for the structure, but it does not specify how thoseresults are to be presented. Students then ask for specific instructions: “Do you want a table?Graphs? How many? They are not comfortable when the instructor replies asking them toconsider why those results are important in the context of the entire project and to use that todetermine how to best present the information.CVEN 400 – CapstoneThis study was conducted in a senior capstone design class for civil engineering students. Selfselected groups of four or five students work in a largely self directed environment to design aproject. The project for the semester reported herein was to create a design for a neo-traditionalneighborhood on a 46 acre tract of land
methodologies that willbenefit them as they encounter open-ended problems that can be conveniently answered using afew equations. A course developed at the University of Michigan exposed upperclassmenundergraduates in a wide range of engineering majors to a vast array of ideas to develop theircreativity, to enhance their problem solving abilities and to make them aware of issues they willmost likely confront in the workplace. The use of real-world examples, guest lectures fromindustry and a course project allowed students to directly apply the problem solving heuristicdiscussed in lecture and recognize that these concepts are not solely academic and can be used intheir daily lives. Initial feedback from the students has indicated that the students have
United States and Canada. The reportconsists of two parts: the statistical and demographic characterization of the course and itscontent; and the remainder seeks to bring out the most innovative and effective approaches toteaching the course in use by instructors. Additionally, a historical comparison is made betweenthe current survey results and surveys on the same course conducted in 1974, 1984, and 1991.IntroductionIn 1957 the AIChE Education Projects committee began a series of surveys of the undergraduatecurriculum as offered by chemical engineering departments in North America. These surveyscontinued under the auspices of the AIChE Special Projects committee until the late 1990’s. In2008, AIChE formed an Education Division which recognized
stakeholder expectations.Systems Engineering Practice when applied within a capstone design project has a greaterpotential to develop program outcomes within students compared to traditional capstone projects.The process provides an engineering framework for the design process, as well as alerting thestudents using the process to other issues, such as the social and environmental impacts ofpossible designs. It allows the development of their communication and teamwork skills far moredue to the nature of the process.The most rewarding aspect of renewable energy design projects in a university setting is thecollaborative effort with students from multi-disciplinary engineering and science programs.Constraint-based design requirements drives the
materials self-study after the need has been identified through a project’s context. It hasbeen used in many senior capstone and freshman design courses to enhance students’ competence indesign and other outcomes required by ABET. In most engineering programs, engineering analysis isstill taught mainly through sequences of traditional lecture-based courses. PBL, if adopted, usually isembedded in various courses that focus on specific technical areas to facilitate the learning process.Compared with independent project courses, such embedded PBL approach usually faces morerestrictions on its open-ended nature, project selection and technical topics covered. This paper presentsthe results of a study on the effectiveness of teaching engineering
programming of a simple control system in LabVIEW with the goal of achievingthe highest swing height for a given initial pressure. This is the capstone lab of the course andcomes after 4 dedicated LabVIEW programing labs and two previous, directed labs usingLabVIEW to interface with data acquisition (DAQ) hardware. Some previous familiarity with thepractical aspects of DAQ implementation is critical to the success of this experiment.Description of the Lab ExerciseThe goal of this is lab is two-fold.1) Determine the thrust characteristicsof a simple, pendulum attached,pressurized air rocket and 2) constructa simple control system that attains thehighest possible swing height for a giveninitial rocket pressure. This experimentintroduces the students to
secondary approach was to create andimplement surveys that indirectly assess the industry’s participation. Both of these methodsprovided meaningful feedback for the students’ performance and ultimately for programmaticstudent outcomes.IntroductionThe benefit of involving industry members in engineering education has been well documentedover the past several decades. Specifically, contemporary academic literature supports the use ofindustry sponsorship of senior design projects, also known as “capstone” projects (Smith, 2009).Industry sponsorship can take many forms, but most of the time this primarily entails industrymembers working with and/or reviewing the work of the students (O’Brien et.al., 2003). Thisprovides an outstanding mechanism for
. , Waldron, W., and Pung, C.,“Vertical integration project with freshman and junior engineering students,” Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference, 2008.10. Gannodyz G.C. and John J. Doherty, J. J., “Using a Product Line Approach to Develop Course Projects,” Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference, 2003.11. Hardin, J. and Sullivan, G., “Vertical-Integration Framework For Capstone Design Projects,” Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference, 2006.12. Howell, S.K., Collier, K.W., Larson, D.S., Hatfield, J. M., Hoyle, G.W. and Thomas, G.A., “An Integrated Engineering Design Experience: Freshman to Senior Level”, 1995 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Anaheim, CA, June 25-28, 1995, 53-55.13. Huang, M., Lord, S. and Malicky, D., “Problem
Mobile Apps need to bedeveloped. This paper analyzes the growth of wireless communication in society, business andeducation, and describes how National University is meeting the need for increased applicationdevelopment skills in its engineering curricula. In 2004, National University initiated a uniqueMaster of Science in Wireless Communications (MSWC) program, in order to better preparewireless communications professionals. To date, many cohorts of students have graduated fromthe MSWC program and are now actively contributing to the field. In order to meet the degreerequirements, students of MSWC are required to complete a relevant research project that is thedeliverable product of the Capstone course. This paper i) investigates the outcomes
projectseries. Mechanical Engineering students at Cal Poly participate in a year-long design project of Proceedings of the 2011 PSW American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education 33 their choice that serves as a capstone to their education. The students have the option of participating in a variety of projects that may be sponsored by industry professionals or tailored specifically by the students themselves. During this nine month project
2010 7 ME680 (RIT, 3rd - 5th) Team Presentation Sub-total 90 Team PresentationAs indicated in Table 1, the technical book review project has been assigned to varying audiencesizes and year groups. Students who have completed this project range in year level from secondthrough fifth year standing. The author has found that notable successes on both projects aredemonstrated by students of all year levels. There have been many examples of the book reviewproject sparking an interest in a second or third year student which has lead that individualtowards a certain co-op position, capstone design project, or research. The team presentationproject has
Entrepreneurial Leadership: A Project – Based Approach. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Conference, Savannah, GA.[2] Krishna, S. A., Kalkhoff, M., McGrath, G., Bragg, A., Joines, A., Rover, D., Mickelson, S. K. (2008). Work in Progress – Engineering Leadership Program: Tracking Leadership Development of Student using Personalized Portfolio. Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Conference, Saratoga-Springs, NY.[3] Chamillard, A. T., Braun, K. A., (2002). The Software Capstone: Structure and Tradeoffs. SIGCSE’02, Covington, KY, 2002.[4] Steiner, M. W., Kanani, J., Alben, R., Hsu, C., Gerhardt, L. (2010). A Holistic Approach for Student Assessment in Project – Based
challenges forengineering technology students and faculty. A project based model can be used as an effectiveinstructional strategy to enhance learning about complex RF concepts and technologies. Thisproject method can lead to improved understanding and create interest by actively engagingstudents with hands-on experiences coupled with problem solving and critical thinking activities.This project is based on teaching and learning experiences with a previously developed low costPIC microcontroller training system4. The PIC training system was coupled with a readilyavailable RF communication module7 that could be used in a variety of real world, hands-onapplications in designing senior capstone projects for engineering and technology majors. In
capstonelaboratory course. The four teams studied were self-selected, maintained for the entire course,and comprised of three students each. The teams studied consisted of a total of eight femalestudents and four male students. Two teams each were selected from consecutive years.Approximately 80 students were enrolled in the capstone course each year.The process for choosing teams to participate in think aloud protocol study addressed severalfactors, the most fundamental of which was simply schedule; teams were only chosen if aresearcher was available during the team’s laboratory section and projected worktimes. Furthermore, gender distribution also contributed. During the selection of the cohortspresented in this paper, a preference was given to mixed
,Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).1 Providing students with real-life projects and challengesrelated to their majors can therefore be instrumental in fostering and maintaining their interest inSTEM. Being exposed to real projects and brainstorming society’s current challenges providestudents with a broader perspective related to the social-environment aspect of the application ofthe basic concepts they learn.1Currently, most institutions use a pedagogical philosophy of creating a bookend curriculum thatimplements project-based courses at the beginning and end of the undergraduate engineeringcurriculum. First-year engineering courses introduce students to the basic design process and itsrole in an engineering career. Senior capstone courses aim to
Prototyping andwind tunnel for aerodynamic applications. The method showed success and some of the studentswere able to work with the author and publish research paper after the course, Mokhtar4,5,6. Denget al. 7 introduced CFD as a design and analysis tool in a senior capstone project. The studentsused a CFD code (WIND) to perform a thermal analysis for the electromagnetic control ofhypersonic shockwaves for re-entry bodies. The authors indicated that no CFD course was taughtin the program and they spent some of the lab time to introduce the students to the fundamental Page 22.1188.2concepts of CFD. Topics such as finite difference methods, grid