- facturing. Dr. Tseng published in many refereed journals such as IEEE Transactions, IIE Transaction, Journal of Manufacturing Systems and others. He has been serving as a principle investigator of many research projects, funded by NSF, NASA, DoEd, KSEF and LMC. He is currently serving as an editor of Journal of Computer Standards & Interfaces. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 The Future Laboratory: Leveraging Consumer Imaging Devices for Student Projects and Sustainable, Accessible STEM EducationIntroductionIndustry, healthcare and STEM education have often relegated chemical analysis, surfacecharacterization, bioassays, and measurements that require special types of
in a loss of business and, in some cases, even bankruptcy of a company.Communication is a mix of verbal and non-verbal interactions and etiquette. Therefore, theengineering students need to practice and to enhance their skills in communication, while workingwith projects in teams with students from other countries and cultures. In this paper, the authorsdescribe their international projects where students from Denmark and the USA work together.For the USA students, it is a part of their senior design capstone course and for the Danish studentsit is an innovation and an interdisciplinary project, so called the Innovation Pilot [1].The key learning objectives for training communication skills in order to work in global teams andmanage projects
that students need to have to succeed in senior capstone projects orin professional practice. APM is used to respond to students’ struggles with PBL’s projectmanagement. APM is an iterative approach with ability to respond to issues as they arisethroughout the course of the project. In this approach, students performed a series of agile ritualssuch as showcases, retrospectives, stand-up meetings and iteration reviews.2. IntroductionThe implementation of Project-Based Learning (PBL) in science, technology, engineering, andmathematics (STEM) education has gained much interest in recent years [1-3]. PBL is a dynamicclassroom approach in which students actively explore real-world problems and acquire deepcontent understanding by taking over the
Paper ID #27270An Analysis of Freshman Teamwork Experiences in Required Design and En-trepreneurial Thinking Project-Based Learning CoursesMrs. Sandra Furnbach Clavijo P.E., Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science) Sandra Clavijo is the Director of E-Core Education for the School of Engineering & Sciences at Stevens Institute of Technology. She coordinates the instructional delivery, student registration and scheduling lo- gistics and collection of assessment data for all core courses in the undergraduate engineering and science programs. Sandra also teaches Senior Innovation and Introduction
. Structuraldesign courses are typically taught in a longitudinal order. Students first take a structural analysiscourse followed by one or more design courses (e.g., reinforced concrete design or steel design).There is some repetition among the design course topics, but they primarily cover their ownunique material behavior. Students are often left to imagine or connect these topics on their own,in a capstone style course towards the end of their education or during their first years ofemployment. Unfortunately, some students graduate with a misunderstanding of the trueprocesses used in structural design. Time restrictions and civil engineering program limitationslead to this quandary. The goal of this project was to integrate the same design
education curriculum with a focus on laboratory courses for the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. His courses leverage project-based learning, experiential learning, and self-paced activities. David has over ten years of industry experience specializing in mixed-signal RF integrated circuit design, power systems, and power electronics.Prof. Kia Bazargan, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Prof. Kia Bazargan is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Has has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters related to FPGAs and VLSI computer-aided design. He received his Bachelors degree
an ISI sustainability professional for certification.Envision as a sustainability tool in the classroom shows promise: a University of Utah studydemonstrated using Envision in their civil engineering capstone course helped improve thestudent’s sustainability literacy [12]; and at the University of Colorado – Boulder, an Envisionactive learning assignment for first-year engineering students scored an average grade 86%,indicating that most students had reached the knowledge and comprehension cognitive levels ofsustainability [13].MethodsDevelopment of PartnershipThe course director worked in partnership with the university SCP director to establish thecourse and non-profit developer partnership. The project scope included the course director
Paper ID #28126Board 18: Multidisciplinary Engineering Division: Architecture, Engineer-ing, and Construction Interdisciplinary Senior Interdisciplinary Project Ed-ucational ModelDr. Ghada M. Gad, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Dr. Ghada Gad is an Assistant Professor in Construction Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona. She received her PhD in Civil Engineering (Construction emphasis), from Iowa State University. Her main areas of research is in construction management focusing on contracts, procurement, project delivery methods, estimating, and risk management, in addition to the cultural aspects of construction
works… for sustainable[3] Design a system… to meet desired needs within such performance realistic constraints as… sustainability.EnvE BOK Explain the need for and ethics of integrating sustainability Design a complex system, process,AAEE 2009 throughout all engineering disciplines and the role [of] or project to perform sustainably[5] environmental engineers…. Evaluate the sustainability of Quantify environmental releases or resources consumed complex systems…. for a given engineered processABET Criterion 3, c: design a system… within realistic2015 constraints such as … sustainability.[4] CE: Include principles
tests. It is important to note that our intent is not to redesign this course to replace capstone projects;those projects are much more comprehensive and involve other topics including, but not limitedto aircraft structures and propulsion. The current course framework is listed, along with proposedCDIO inspired changes, in Table 1, and the syllabus (current and proposed CDIO based revision)is in Appendices A and B respectively. Table 1: Current Course Framework and Proposed CDIO Based Additions Existing course outline and topics Current Proposed CDIO inspired additions assignments/projects (project based) 1. Derivation of the
concrete pillars.6. AssessmentThe course assessment was done by pre- and post-surveys at the beginning and the end of thecourse. A screenshot of the complete survey is presented in Appendix-A. The questions weredeveloped in collaboration with the University of as a part of the grant.The questions 1-8 are similar as this will allow us to compare the responses across variousuniversities collaborating on the project. We have added the questions 9-11 to check the interestof the students in various disciplines as well as the overall interest of students in the CivilEngineering discipline (Question 10). Since some of the questions posed in the survey aresubjective, we believe it is beyond the scope of the conference paper to present the details of
junior years is dominated by coretechnical subjects such mechanics of materials, aerodynamics, propulsion, and controls. Ideally,these engineering science courses give students the theoretical background that they can apply inengineering design courses, on student project teams, and as a practicing engineer. However, itcan be easy to teach engineering science courses with little connection to the practice ofengineering. One way to make the connection between engineering science content andengineering practice is to frame this technical content as mathematical models that describenatural phenomena under certain simplifying assumptions. With this framing, the purpose ofengineering science courses shifts from memorizing formulas and applying them
by faculty in STEM and non-STEM disciplines. Team projects result in proposed solutions for a self-chosen, context-specific instance of a global problem. Humanities & Arts Capstone (requirement): 18 credit hours including 3 credit capstone project in depth area chosen by student. Capstone may be original creative work or performance, or original research on a self-proposed question or topic. Interdisciplinary Project (requirement): 9-12 credit hours, not a course. Student teams from multiple majors address an interdisciplinary, open-ended problem at the interface of technology, society, and human need. Projects are typically for a real client at an off-campus location. Major Project (requirement): 9 credit hour
and implemented in conjunction withengineering PhD students and have been discussed in an earlier paper [14]. As shown in figure 2,students practice the embedded skills in the five core themes multiple times per course. The finalcourse of the sequence allows students to select a capstone project. The five core engineeringthemes are the underlying structure to all major projects, quick builds and capstone projects. Figure 2. Design challenges covered within the 3 coursesThe engineering design and project management themes (Figure 1) are generally new to moststudents and therefore do not require significant differentiation. The remaining themes ofengineering analysis, technical communication, fabrication and prototyping are
experiential learning in engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Assessing the Impact of Embedding Nursing Students in Bioengineering Senior Design Projects: Student Perceptions of Interprofessional Team Benefits and ChallengesAbstractProfessional experiences are a cornerstone of both bioengineering and nursing undergraduateprograms. Bioengineering students gain real-world experience by participating in their team-based senior-design capstone projects. Similarly, Nursing students typically completecoursework that exposes them to other professional fields as part of transitioning to professionalpractice. At the University of Pittsburgh, the
, optimizing sample preparation methods andimproving workflow in and around the new instrumentation. A principal objective in thesecond year of the project was to establish ongoing undergraduate research projects,obtain preliminary results and perform initial data interpretation. This was accomplishedfor multiple projects in years one through three and continues for several projects thatremain ongoing.Impact on Faculty Development and Collaboration and Undergraduate ResearchThe fifteen projects took several forms, adapting to the existing academic framework ofthe Institute. Some projects were embedded in undergraduate project-based coursework,some were part of “Capstone” projects and some were entirely extra-curricular studentprojects. The framework
, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors” and (6) “anability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and useengineering judgment to draw conclusions”. The senior design project can serve as an excellentculminating experience in the program of study when it focuses on research and design projectsthat have practical value to consumers or to industry. For the Engineering Technology Departmentat Drexel University, the senior design course is a year-long educational journey (three quarters)that takes an idea generated by a student or an industrial sponsor and culminates in a product orproject. This course is an excellent capstone experience, which requires both teamwork andindividual skills in
sessions, active discussions, and other active learning activities mayhappen in the classroom that would otherwise be replaced by content delivery. Students who areworking on a long-term design project can use this active classroom time in order to acquire theskills they have identified as necessary to accomplish their project.Engineering course projects, and especially the engineering capstone experience, are oftenexperiences that revolve around group work in the service of a large and complex project. Byblending the flipped classroom approach with a project-based learning approach, the goal is thatthe students will be better prepared for both the capstone experience and professional life post-graduation. The project-based learning component
age/education/experience of their various audiences. At the Innovation Showcase, participants interacted with graduating engineering seniors who demonstrated their capstone projects, many of which were industry sponsored. • An Evening with Undergraduate Engineering Students Participants and their parents networked with undergraduate students to learn about the college going experience first-hand from those who are in college and are closest to the participants. • Opportunities to Build an Engineering Identity Industry professionals from General Motors, Intel, and other major technology companies and university students who have held internships and conducted undergraduate research
paper, a small-scaleunderwater robot developed for underwater archaeological applications through an EngineeringTechnology Capstone project is presented. This underwater vehicle can measure temperature,pH, dissolved oxygen, pressure, and salinity levels. Moreover, it can collect water samples forfurther lab testing during the conservation process.I. IntroductionNautical archaeologists explore waters around the world to survey for wrecks and artifacts.When worthy sites are discovered, they dive in them and proceed to extract the artifacts. Divinginto unfamiliar conditions introduces potential risks especially if environmental factors gounchecked, and currently no method to conveniently track the chemical composition of the waterin dive sites
, 2019 Work In Progress: Best Practices in Teaching a Chemical Process Design Two-course Sequence at a Minority Serving UniversityIntroductionStudents complete their capstone design experience in the Chemical Process Design II and IIIsequence of courses in chemical engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK), aHispanic-serving institution (HSI). Three principle objectives of this process design coursesequence are to instruct students in the development of a complete chemical process usingprocess simulators as a primary tool, to complete this project in a team-oriented environment,and to communicate effectively with their peers and instructors. These three principle objectivesare directly related to the ABET student
firstprinciples, making assumptions, and self-assessing their problem-solving skills. For the affectivedomain, students demonstrated difficulty in spending time on task, sketching and taking notesduring their problem-solving process, and being comfortable with ambiguity [6].At Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (RHIT), we have witnessed our students strugglingthrough their capstone projects in terms of defining and approaching the problem, connectingvarious components into one cohesive system, and applying and synthesizing knowledge fromsub-discipline specific design courses to create a complete design. We were able to observethese weaknesses because of the nature of our year-long capstone design course. In the winterquarter, students from different
structure of an engineering curriculum and the learningthat occurs outside of the classroom in makerspaces. Ethnographic methodologies of participantobservation, unstructured and semi-structured interviews enable exploration of how students (1)interact within and construct the culture of makerspaces; (2) talk about makerspace culture asimportant to their commitment to engineering; (3) learn within makerspaces; and (4) choose thetype and direction of projects.This paper specifically describes the ethnographic methodologies used to track four differentundergraduate student teams participating in a two-year senior capstone project, as well as studentsparticipating in a sophomore design class in which they use makerspaces to build a human
engineering design studentsAbstractThis evidence-based practice paper describes the use of creativity practice exercises intended toenhance student creativity in a capstone design program. Engineering programs, in general, andcapstone design programs, in particular, that seek innovative conceptual solutions to complexproblems would benefit from techniques to develop and assess student creativity. Therefore, astudy was performed to evaluate two such techniques. Over the first two years of the study,capstone design students in the United States Air Force Academy’s Department of EngineeringMechanics were each assigned to one of 14 teams which received various learning experiences(treatments) intended to enhance individual creativity and design project
Session ETD 415 Implementation of Quality Enhancement Plant (QEP) through Experiential Learning at The Engineering Technology Department, Northwestern State University Jafar F. Al-Sharab Northwestern State UniversityAbstractThe capstone or senior design course is used by Engineering Technology at Northwestern StateUniversity (NSU) programs to provide students in their final year of training an opportunity tointegrate knowledge from coursework and other sources in order to provide a solution for a real-world-engineering problem
approved by the Board of Regents in February 2019 andsubsequently by the legislature in March, it will be installed beginning in July. Those who teachsenior capstone design know from experience how rare taking a project to production really is. Itdefinitely proves the most significant education outcome sought in this project: To bring severalelements of the students’ education and experience to bear on a complicated, open-endedproblem to achieve a useful solution. Results are presented in a wikipage and supporting links todocuments and reports.[4]This success, unprecedented in an undergraduate capstone design project at this university,obviously gave the students a great deal of confidence and credibility in their job interviews. Ofthe four
Miami Dr. Montero is an Assistant Professor in Professional Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engi- neering under the College of Engineering at the University of Miami. Dr. Montero has over a decade of experience in scaffold fabrication techniques for tissue engineering applications particularly with the electrospinning and bioprinting processes. He has worked in the private sector managing animal labora- tories as well as R&D projects for various private companies and start-ups. Currently, Dr. Montero is part of the faculty team managing all senior design capstone projects. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Work in Progress - Introduction to Design Thinking and
mechatronics capstone designproject in the context of a traditional electrical engineering program at Merrimack College, aprimarily undergraduate college in Massachusetts. The electrical engineering (EE) program wasintroduced about a decade ago and is ABET-accredited. The college offers no master’s EEprograms.. Senior students are required to take a capstone design course in the form of a one-credit “Design Project I” course in the fall semester and a continuation course “Design ProjectII” (3 credits) in the spring semester.!!————————————————————————————————————-1 - Department of Electrical Engineering, Merrimack College, Andover, Massachusetts !1!Prior to joining Merrimack College in fall 2018, the
Paper ID #25651Work in Progress: The Professional Development Track: A Cooperative Ex-periential Learning Approach to Academic Success for Underserved Engi-neering StudentsDr. Alejandro Gutierrez, University of California, Merced Dr Guti´errez is a teaching professor at UC Merced, where he runs the Capstone Design Program in the School of Engineering. This program is the culminating experience for all students in mechanical engineering, civil & environmental engineering, bioengineering, and materials science. All projects in the UC Merced Capstone Design Program are initiated by industry partners, and the main goal of the
Paper ID #26738An Analysis of Factors Impacting Design Self-Efficacy of Senior Design Stu-dentsDr. Joanna Tsenn, Texas A&M University Joanna Tsenn is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. She earned her B.S. from the University of Texas at Austin and her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. She coordinates the mechanical engineering senior capstone design projects and teaches senior design lectures and studios. Her research interests include engineering education and engineering design methodology.Mrs. Heather S. Lewis, Texas A