Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Tara Kulkarni

. These opportunities range from those provided to first year I. INTRODUCTION undergraduate students in engineering (for example atF Northeastern University9), to designing senior year capstone 1 URCO (1996) explored various definitions and forms of Service-Learning (S-L) by distinguishing S-L programs design projects to be S-L based, (for example at South Dakotafrom volunteerism, internships, community service, and field State University10), to entire program curricula based on S-Leducation. However, Berman (1996)2 cites the first principles

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Andriani Parastiwi; Taufik Taufik

314 Microhydro for Rural Electrification as a Learn-By-Doing and Multidisciplinary Project: Lessons Learned Andriani Parastiwi and Taufik Taufik Polytechnic State of Malang-Indonesia and California Polytechnic State UniversityAbstractAs a polytechnic institution, State Polytechnic of Malang Indonesia (Polinema) strives to fulfillits mission to provide learn-by-doing education to its students through multidisciplinaryexperiences. Many efforts by the administrators and faculty have been implemented toaccomplish this. One

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BOK2 - Influencing Changes to the ABET Civil Engineering Program Criteria and Civil Engineering Curricula

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John V. Tocco JD, Lawrence Technological University

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Civil Engineering

undergraduate students, and the program employs seven full-timefaculty members, with approximately ten adjuncts. The curriculum covers six civil engineeringsubdisciplines: transportation, water resources, environmental, structural, geotechnical, andconstruction engineering.To graduate, students are required to pass at least one course in each of the recognized civilengineering subdisciplines. Students may then specialize in one or more of the subdisciplines by Page 24.325.2enrolling in several available electives. To complete their education, undergraduates participatein a two-course capstone design and project management sequence during their senior

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Advances in CAD with Emphasis on Dimensioning

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leonardo A. Bueno, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

the drawing sets as measured by the higher scoresin their capstone assignment.BackgroundThis research attempts to investigate the difficulty in the adaptation of open-ended design Page 24.906.2problems in the Graphical Communication Curriculum. This is done with the use of a personaldesign project in which all design decisions are left to the student. This encourages a higherlevel of involvement and brings to the forefront the need to be accurate in the use of properdimensioning. This is a reasonable assumption given that the student is now aware that they aretrying to communicate their own idea and not attempting to replicate a problem

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Pedagogy and Learning 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Hirshfield, Oregon State University; Jaynie L. Whinnery, Oregon State University; Debra M. Gilbuena, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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Educational Research and Methods

student studying Public Policy at Oregon State University. She also holds an M.S. in Environmental Engineering and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Oregon State Univer- sity. Her research in engineering education is focused on student teams engaged in the Virtual Bioreactor (VBioR) Laboratory project. She is specifically interested in understanding the student-instructor interac- tions and feedback that occur during this project and how these factors influence student learning.Dr. Debra M. Gilbuena, Oregon State University Debra Gilbuena is a postdoctoral scholar in the School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engi- neering at Oregon State University. Debra has an M.BA, an M.S, and four years of industrial

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The Nature of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Session 4

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emil H. Salib, James Madison University; Eric Vincent Walisko, James Madison University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

also fromtechnology, engineering and social context perspectives. During their junior and senior years, theprogram provides undergraduates with a number of unique hands-on research, design, andprototyping experiences including Senior Capstone Projects and specially designed semesterprojects for numerous courses. In addition, in the Networking and Security sector, we designed acourse to mirror this type of rapid development by taking a group of under-skilled sophomore,junior, and senior students, assigning them to groups, and demanding a final product over justone semester. In that class (to be referred to as all-class project-based) just 11 to 14 studentswere challenged to work together to identify a single idea for a network-based end-to

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Problem- Project- and Case-Based Learning in Environmental Engineering

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Jason Hill, University of Southern Indiana; Zane W. Mitchell Jr., University of Southern Indiana

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Environmental Engineering

using a single complex designproblem as with capstone projects, a collection of simpler problems were used. Each lecturetopic was organized around a “class problem set” packet consisting of problem statements andblank space for students to record the solutions and relevant background information (equationdevelopment, definitions, etc.). Problems were selected or designed to include not only relevanttechnical data, but also a real world context. All problems were solved in class with the studentscompleting all calculations and providing input on the general solution strategy. To illustrate the technique, consider the following problem from one of the class problemsets on “Equilibrium”, which included a total of seven problems. It is a

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Critical Thinking, Leadership, and Creativity

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael L. Jones, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

practice. Table 1: Traditional vs. Project-Based Learning in Engineering Education [21] PBL in engineering education tends to gravitate to creative projects engaged bylarger teams with longer and more complex lifecycles[5]. Engineering education hasbegun developing student-centered learning projects, particularly “capstone” projectsdone at the conclusion of a student’s degree program[11]. Project based learning Page 24.871.3opportunities have emerged in a number of applied science fields, including computer   2  programming [17] environmental science [26

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Pritpal Singh; Maria Virginia Moncada

two course sequence for bothUNI and Villanova engineering students. The first course in the sequence was to be focused onproviding the contextual background for students, especially at Villanova University, and orientthem towards how to identify technology-based, entrepreneurial projects suitable for ruralNicaraguans. The second course was to be focused on the development of sustainable businessmodels for the base of the pyramid customer. In addition, students would prepare a proposal fortheir capstone design project in the first semester course and then execute their design work inparallel with the second course on sustainable business model development. The projects were to beworked on jointly by teams comprising Villanova students and UNI

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Erick Jacob Nefcy, Oregon State University; Debra M. Gilbuena, Oregon State University; Jaynie L. Whinnery, Oregon State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

solving. His research interests particularly focus on what prevents students from being able to integrate and extend the knowledge developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU.Erick Jacob Nefcy, Oregon State UniversityDr. Debra M. Gilbuena, Oregon State University Debra Gilbuena is a postdoctoral scholar in the School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engi- neering at Oregon State University. Debra has an M.BA, an M.S, and four years of industrial experience including a position in sensor development. Sensor development is

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cary David Troy, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Rebecca R Essig, Purdue University; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Josh Boyd, Purdue University; Natascha Trellinger Buswell, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

together and leveraging the research team’s expertise in civil engineering, engineeringeducation, and communication. We are focusing on the immediate need for improved, readily-transferrable techniques for the incorporation of technical writing in engineering courses, mosttypically at the sophomore and junior levels. The premise with selecting the sophomore andjunior levels is that most programs “bookend” technical writing in some fashion, with freshman-level design courses and senior-level capstone courses often being more project-based andalready involving substantial writing. In contrast, the sophomore and junior levels tend not toinclude much writing beyond formatted laboratory reports, although with resource limitationseven these reports have

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Innovations in Computer Engineering Courses

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward W. Chandler P.E., Milwaukee School of Engineering; William Barnekow, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Senior Member of the IEEE, and teaches courses in circuits, signals, communication systems, and networking.Prof. William Barnekow, Milwaukee School of Engineering Prof. William Barnekow is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Milwaukee School of Engineering. He earned the M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of California – Berkeley. His primary areas of interest are in embedded microcomputer-based systems, digital circuits and systems, advanced digital design using VHDL, senior capstone design projects in software and computer engineering, and computer networks. Page 24.76.1

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K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Steckel, St. Vrain Valley School District; Patty Ann Quinones, St. Vrain Valley School District; Malinda S. Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

experience in a variety of STEM fields including robotics, biotechnology, and renewableenergy. Qualified graduates of the Academy are guaranteed admission into the engineeringcollege at the University of Colorado Boulder. Currently, there are 400 students enrolled. TheSTEM Academy is connected to the IC through the Academy’s Capstone Design Projects. Theseinvolve projects in engineering and computer programming which are accomplished with ICsupport. This allows for strong alignment of the Academy’s curriculum with IC resources. Page 24.755.3The Innovation CenterThe St Vrain Valley School District’s Innovation Center (IC) seeks to invent a pipeline

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2014 EDI

Authors

Yannis C Yortsos

› Uniqueness: Two-Semester Capstone Design Course Jointly between CS, Fine Arts and Cinematic Arts » 80 to 100 CS students, 30 SCA gameplay design students and 140 artists› Demo Day Twice Each SemesterUSC GAMES Joint Capstone Project Cinematic Arts Final Games Project Fine Arts Engineering (CS)4 4Advanced Games Course - The Maestros Placement, Demo Day Attendance• EA • Zynga• LucasArts • Blizzard• Microsoft & MGS • Seven Studios• Activision • Applied Minds• Google • Qualcomm• Akamai • Pricegrabber• Sony Computer

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Manufacturing and Machine Component Design

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow; Edwin M. Odom, University of Idaho, Moscow; Jay Patrick McCormack, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Dan Cordon, University of Idaho, Moscow

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

multitude of design artifacts and associatedlearning objects into interactive, museum-like exhibits that can mediate situated learning in thedesign suite, in the machine shop, and amidst a gallery of capstone project posters. This paperreports on initial efforts to implement such a system in support of just-in-time project learning.The system is uniquely designed to operate within our design environment. It has evolved overthe last two decades to reflect shared beliefs about design pedagogy and product realization. Page 24.1060.2Educational SettingOur inter-disciplinary capstone design program has been a catalyst for local design

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Research Experience in Stormwater Management

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aimee S. Navickis-Brasch, Gonzaga University; Noel E. Bormann P.E., Gonzaga University; Sue L. Niezgoda P.E., Gonzaga University; Matt Zarecor, Spokane County Stormwater Utility

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

stormwater engineering skills within the current university curriculum. Theproject starts as a capstone design courses where students design a BMP and a BMP monitoringsystem as well as prepare technical documentation consistent with the EPA requirements forstormwater management projects across the country. Future efforts will construct the BMPequipped with a monitoring system, establish a monitoring program, and integrate monitoringactivities into existing related civil engineering courses.This paper presents a case study focused on the first year of the cooperative stormwater project,which provides the basis for assessing the potential benefits of the project to the university, themunicipality, and the students. Assessment of the case study focuses

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Manufacturing and Machine Component Design

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott F. Kiefer, York College of Pennsylvania

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

of Pennsylvania. It begins with the historical reasoning behind the implementation.This is followed by the implementation strategy and some preliminary assessment of theeffectiveness of machining and drawing documentation activities.2. Historical Background From its inception, the York College Engineering Program has always prided itself onbeing a “hands-on” engineering program. Lab experiences are used heavily throughout theacademic curriculum to reinforce lecture material. In addition, there is a freshman level projectoriented course sequence, and a two-semester senior capstone course that includes a large project Page 24.879.2build1

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A Focus on Non-Traditional Students and Non-Traditional Course Delivery Methods

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Armineh Noravian, San Francisco State University; Patricia Irvine, San Francisco State University

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Two Year College Division

and ill-structured problems at a community college. Thetechnology program at North-West Community College (NWCC) is a two-year program. In the first year, students learn fundamentals and basic low-tech skills. The learning takes place in courses that incorporate projects withwell-structured problems, often with both a theoretical classroom and a labcomponent. In the second year, students engage in ill-structured problemsolving in their technically sophisticated capstone projects that integrate theprinciples that students have learned during the first year and continue tolearn and practice in the second year. The findings suggest that scaffolding experiences, that is, movingfrom very well-structured problems to ill-structured problems

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Mechanical Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vladimir Gurau P.E., Kent State University, Tuscarawas

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

new capstone design projectclass - Engineering Technology Project was introduced in the Engineering TechnologyDepartment at Kent State University at Tuscarawas in the spring semester of 2011. Studentswork in groups under direct faculty supervision on creative, challenging, open-ending projectsproposed by the professor in the area of renewable energy. Practical, hands-on experience isemphasized and analytical and design skills acquired in companion courses are integrated. Theseprojects align with Ohio’s Third Frontier Fuel Cell Program commitment to accelerate thegrowth of fuel cell industry in the state, to investigate manufacturing processes and technologies,to adapt or modify existing components and systems that can reduce the cost of fuel

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Embedded Systems and Mobile Computing

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Javad Shakib, DeVry University, Pomona; Mohammad Rafiq Muqri, DeVry University, Pomona

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

lessons learned will be explained in this paperin full detail.1. IntroductionIn most undergraduate engineering programs, students are required to complete a capstone designproject by building and testing a prototype1. Depending on the nature and complexity of the designspecifications, the final product may be a composite of analog and digital, hardware and software,discrete components and off-the-shelf parts.For a majority of the projects in disciplines such as electrical engineering and mechanicalengineering, the primary processing component of these projects is a microcontroller unit (MCU).It used to be that the number of different MCUs and development tools (DT) available to peoplewas pretty limited, but times have changed. Digikey2 lists over

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K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah Besser P.E., University of St. Thomas; Debra Monson, University of St. Thomas

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

engineering or STEM project before this point. Third, the three teacherswere interested in creating an engineering project that would span the kindergarten, third gradeand sixth grade classes. And fourth, the unit studied was created based on a need these teachersidentified in their own school. This was of special interest for the researchers since a key focus ofthe capstone course was to understand that engineers solve real problems. These teachers agreedto serve as a case study and the following findings focus on these in-service educators.Teacher reflections, student interviews, classroom observations, and teacher interviewscorroborated the findings. The case study allowed for the following data collection: studentinterviews, classroom

Conference Session

Computers in Education General Technical Session 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shuju Wu, Central Connecticut State University; Shane Michael Carroll; Keith Boyd-Carter; James Krostoski

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

with bus schedules, real-time bus location and delayinformation so they can plan trips accordingly, and to provide useful information to thetransportation center for management purpose. The developed system has been tested anddemonstrated successfully.IntroductionThe presented work is the outcome of an undergraduate capstone project. Students in theComputer Engineering Technology (CET) major at Central Connecticut State University arerequired to finish a capstone project in their senior year study. The capstone project isaccomplished by successful taking two consecutive courses, Capstone Project I and CapstoneProject II. The Capstone Project I course is 1-credit in which students research, propose andfinalize project ideas. The Capstone

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Carlye Lauff; Joanna Weilder-Lewis; Kevin O'Connor; Daria Kotys-Schwartz; Mark Rentschler

in a large publicuniversity in the United States, a general engineering freshman cornerstone design course and asenior Mechanical Engineering design capstone course. These were analyzed throughobservations and other ethnographic methods. The third design setting is professionalengineering companies. This setting was analyzed through the research team’s experiencesworking on design teams for multiple companies. Data suggests that engineering education andindustry organizational contexts constitute processes of design differently. These findingschallenge the typical rhetoric that undergraduate education project courses are intended toprovide students with real-world design experiences.IntroductionEngineering design has been defined as a

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Angolia, East Carolina University; John Pickard, East Carolina University; Leslie Pagliari, East Carolina University; Charles J Lesko Jr., East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

experience through internships, co-ops, and capstone projects with industry partners. Page 24.246.2The remainder of this paper will discuss each of these four strategic directions.2. Faculty engaged as consultants to industryPart of the University mission includes regional economic development, which requires buildingeffective industry partnerships through the involvement of the faculty. To encourage faculty-industry collaboration, the College created the Center for Innovation in Technology andEngineering (CITE). CITE’s primary mission is to provide access to college resources forbusinesses and the industrial community. Encouraging faculty to leave

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ME Curriculum and Assessment

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michele Miller, Michigan Technological University; Jeffrey Allen, Michigan Technological University; Jason Blough, Michigan Technological University; James P. De Clerck, Michigan Technological University; William J. Endres, Michigan Technological University; Scott A. Miers, Michigan Technological University; Ibrahim Miskioglu, Michigan Technological University; Gregory M. Odegard, Michigan Technological University; Charles D. Van Karsen, Michigan Technological University; Paul J. Van Susante, Michigan Technological University

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Mechanical Engineering

problems.New engineering programs, such as those at Olin College5 and James Madison University6, aretaking a different approach to engineering education by challenging lower division students withcomplex open-ended problems and by infusing project work throughout the four-year curriculum.The large number of mechanical engineering students at Michigan Tech presents challenges toimplementing more project-based courses, but size has advantages too: well equippedlaboratories, a mature industry sponsored capstone design program, and diverse faculty expertise.This paper will describe the process we followed to develop a new curriculum in addition toproviding details about the new curriculum itself.Curriculum Design ProcessIn Fall 2010 an ad-hoc Curriculum

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

John Murray; Erin Elder; Ryan Bingham; Glen Longhurst; Desmond Penny

268 The Design and Construction of a Tiny House: Small Is Beautiful John Murray, Erin Elder, Ryan Bingham, Glen Longhurst, and Desmond Penny Southern Utah UniversityAbstractThe Danish scientist and poet, Piet Hein said, “Art is solving problems that cannot be formulatedbefore they have been solved. The shaping of the solution is part of the answer.” Hein’sstatement sets the stage for a senior capstone project involving two Southern Utah University(SUU) students majoring in Integrated Engineering, and justifies their undaunted roving

Conference Session

Construction Safety and Risk Management

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jing Du, University of Texas at San Antonio; Yilmaz Hatipkarasulu, University of Texas at San Antonio; Rui Liu, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Tagged Divisions

Construction

on the Monte Carlo simulation. Because of the difficulty of teaching andimplementing the Monte Carlo simulation, probabilistic risk analysis has not been widely used inthe industry, although it is more desirable. This paper developed an interactive probabilistic riskanalysis tool called RISK (Real-time Interactive Simulation Kit) that makes the Monte Carlosimulation of project risks unprecedentedly easy. RISK was tested in a capstone class at theUniversity of Texas at San Antonio Result showed that RISK is an effective tool in teaching riskanalysis for construction engineering and management. It is also expected to improve theutilization of the probabilistic risk analysis in the industry by providing graduates with

Conference Session

Teaching and Assessment Methodologies

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bimal P. Nepal, Texas A&M University; Barry Lawrence, Texas A&M University; Esther Rodriguez-Silva PhD, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

prepared (upon graduation) to take on challenges of the real world.Unlike in traditional learning method, in experiential learning students are involved in hands onreal world problem solving environment. Thus, in experiential learning student learning takesplace based on the experience of the project they work on. Capstone or senior design projects aregreat examples of experiential learning environment. By realizing the need of project-basedlearning, the US government has been encouraging the academic institutions to create suchlearning environment in the STEM disciplines through its funding agencies like National ScienceFoundation (NSF) [1]. This has generated huge interest among the engineering educators onhands-on freshmen engineering programs

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Gorrell, Brigham Young University; C. Greg Jensen, Brigham Young University; Brett Stone, Brigham Young University; Edward Red, Brigham Young University; Michael Richey, The Boeing Company; Fabian Zender, The Boeing Company; Michael Wright; David E. French, The Boeing Company; Shigeo Hayashibara, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott; Carl Johnson, Georgia Institute of Technology; John P. Sullivan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Aerospace

research is also one of the objectives of AerosPACE. With the popularityand interest in massive open online courses (MOOCs) and flipped classes, some evidencesuggests such methods may not be as effective as presumed [2] [3]. The AerosPACE course hasbeen developed to enable research on engineering teaching and learning in a unique multi-disciplinary, multi-university environment.In this paper the academic year 2013-2014 AerosPACE senior capstone project, where threemulti-university teams of students collaborated with Industry to design, build, and fly a UAVcapable of monitoring farmland to improve crop yield, is presented. The scope of the studentproject is defined by one semester completed at the time of submission of draft paper. Someresults

Conference Session

Teaching and Pedagogy Issues in Graduate Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Shaurette, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Randy R. Rapp, Purdue Building Construction Management Dept.

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

capstone writing project course inplace of the directed project requirement. This gives students both the time and the structure tocomplete the research and writing component of their degree. The Capstone Writing Courserequires students to submit their writing to a construction management related journal.As a part of this change, the Graduate Committee also eliminated the use of the three persondirected project advisory committee. To support the new journal paper requirement, each studentworks with a single faculty advisor who has an appropriate background to guide the research.This change simplifies the meeting coordination that is complicated by the geographic distancebetween the students and faculty. No change in program status was required