Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Anderson; Heather Cooper

this need, an applications-oriented heat transfer instructional module was developedfor use in design project or capstone courses. The module includes both a review of basic heattransfer concepts and an introduction to their applications in design-type situations. The moduledescribed in this paper specifically targets a senior design course in plastics manufacturing in amechanical engineering technology curriculum, but the basic structure is such that it can be easilyadapted for other capstone courses. The following discussion presents the development of themodule itself as well as results from its recent implementation in the classroom.Module DevelopmentDevelopment of the instructional module began with reviewing the material currently

Conference Session

ABET Issues and Capstone Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jiunn-Chi Wu

Session 3266 – ABET Issues and Capstone Design Design of Curriculum and Assessment of Student Learning for ME Courses Based on EC-2000 Jiunn-Chi Wu1, Pei-Fen Chang2, Yeong-Sh, Chen3, Shyi-Jeng Tsai1, Niann-I, A. Yu3 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering 2 Graduate Institute of Learning and Instruction, National Central University, Jhong-Li, Taiwan 3 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yuan-Ze University, Jhong-Li, Taiwan, ROCI. Introduction The ABET EC-2000 [1] has caused engineering

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Trivett, University of Prince Edward Island

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

forest. In this metaphor, an engineer“tree” can have an infinite variety of branches and leaves, while still retaining a core trunkof design and project management expertise which distinguishes them as an engineer.While the paradigm may sound fanciful, the author uses an example course plan from theCanadian experience to illustrate how this different paradigm can be more receptive tostudent interests, and to industry needs yet still support the foundations of the profession.The proposed paradigm shows that, in accordance with the role of engineers in industry,the ability of design, project management and teamwork are central, while the specifictechnical specialities are supporting “branches”.IntroductionIt is an ongoing enterprise to continue to

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Entrepreneurship

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Miller, North Carolina State University; Stephen Walsh, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

11.1284.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 The Engineering Entrepreneurs Program Portal: A New Tool for Improving Entrepreneurship PedagogyAbstract:The Engineering Entrepreneurs Program Portal (EEP Portal) is a web-based tool designed for useby students who are participating in the EEP to manage their E-Teams.For background, the EEP is an undergraduate program centered in the College of Engineering,but open to students from all academic disciplines. The program’s methodology providesstudents a more in-depth exposure to entrepreneurship and new product development. E-Teamsare lead by engineering seniors who are fulfilling their senior capstone design projectrequirements. They organize E-Teams

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. Reza Emami, University of Toronto; Michael G. Helander, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

AC 2010-1374: AN OUTLINE OF EDESIGNM. Reza Emami, University of Toronto M. Reza Emami, Ph.D. in robotics and mechatronics from the University of Toronto, worked in the industry as a project manager in 1997-2001. He is a professional engineer and has been a faculty member at U. Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies since 2001. He is currently the Director of Space Mechatronics group and Coordinator of the Aerospace and Design Laboratories at the University of Toronto.Michael G. Helander, University of Toronto Michael G. Helander received the B.A.Sc. in engineering science from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, in 2007. He is currently working towards the M.A.Sc. in

Conference Session

Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu

the undergraduate curriculum of the Electrical and ComputerDepartment, the Engineering Technology Department and the Computer Science Department.Our proposal, “Deep Space Exploration using Smart Robotic Rovers”, was selected for fundingand we established our first interdisciplinary team of students and faculty to develop a smartrobotic rover.During the last two years, students and faculty participating in this program have developed arobotic rover that has successfully accomplished the initial goals of the project. The rover iscapable of climbing 30o inclines, rotating about its center axis, strafing, and maneuveringdiagonally while maintaining stability. It was also designed to protect the vital internalcomponents from outside contaminants

Conference Session

ABET Issues and Capstone Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Lamancusa; Laura L. Pauley; Thomas Litzinger

steps in the design process are: • Identify Need, • Define Problem, • Generate Alternative Solutions, • Analysis and Feedback, • Winnow, • Detailed Design, • Test and Refine, and • Implement.Identify Need Previous experimental courses in the department have integrated active learning componentsinto lecture courses. Department-level initiatives include industry-sponsored capstone designprojects, the hands-on Integrated Design, Engineering, and Life Skills (IDEALS)1 courseincorporating team design and building projects, the Case Study Web Site2 that incorporatesexperimental data analysis into core lecture courses, and the Energy Systems Laboratory3 used inseveral required junior courses to demonstrate the integration of

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Myszka

CAD are usually the first phase inpreparing students for careers in mechanical design. After surveying on-line materialsfrom several institutions, the objectives for an introductory course are strikingly similar.The courses outlines all contain statements about introducing the student to establishedstandards of design documentation through technical drawings. Additionally, manycourses include a phrase about familiarizing the student with machine components.The topics presented in virtually every introductory technical drawing and CAD courseincludes: • Geometric constructions: ability to use graphical methods to solve analytical geometry problems. • Orthographic projection: ability to draw an object at 900 intervals to

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Youssef, San Diego State University; Vladimir Arutyunov, California State University Northridge

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Vladimir Arutyunov2 1 Mechanical Engineering Department, San Diego State University 2 Mechancial Engineering Department, California State University NorthridgeAbstractSenior design projects are essential capstone experiences to Mechanical Engineering studentsthat allow them to integrate and apply the knowledge they attained in all of their prerequisitecourses. Generally, senior students are required to engineer a system that can be purelymechanical or interdisciplinary such as a biomedical, automotive, or aerospace system.Traditionally, Mechanical Engineering curricula focus on the specifics of each component orsubsystem with no regard, or at best little regard, to the overall system

Conference Session

Capstone Experiences in OME Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Consi

also challenging to teach. In particular, itis difficult to introduce the field to beginning engineering students – they seem to have to know Page 7.751.1so much in order to begin to “get wet”. For the past four years we have tackled the problem of “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”engaging students in our exciting field through the use of a seminar class that introduces oceanengineering via a hands-on project experience.The course is entitled “Build a PVC ROV!” (MIT course 13

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hsiao-Wen Wang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

abilities must be emphasized, fostering flexibility and innovative as well as effectiveness, which are necessary for an uncertain and unpredictable future. This study applies project-based learning (PBL) to hydraulic engineering education. PBL were designed for an undergraduate course to emphasize real-world problems while enhancing learning motivation and performance, and fostering the problem-solving skills necessary for innovation and excellence in the learners’ future professional careers as hydraulic engineers. Not only divergent thinking activities, but also convergent thinking strategies (i.e., those which involve evaluating and selecting among generated innovative thoughts according to the guidelines and purposes of the activity) were

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Baladi; P. David Fisher

team’s stated goal and objectives. Each design project should involve the collaborative development and evaluation of a “product” that contains and embedded computer.As of 2001, more than 300 students had enrolled in this course. Extremely positive feedback wasreceived about this course from these students; from perspective employers of these students;from former students who had taken the course and graduated; and, finally from the 1998-99ABET site-visit team2, 3. Because of this feedback, the faculty in the Department of Electricaland Computer Engineering voted in 2001 to drop the department’s five separate capstone designcourses and replace these with a single course that would serve students majoring in bothelectrical engineering

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noe Vargas Hernandez, The University of Texas at El Paso; Jose Davila, University of Texas, El Paso

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

by exposing the students to open ended projects that can develop theirdesign skills. From this we can conclude that the three main pedagogical components of asuccessful educational design experience are: the design skills, the design methods andthe design projects. On one hand, the individual design skills must be properly developedin the student prior to the project experience, making it an overwhelming challenge. Onthe other hand the design methodologies can be difficult to implement pedagogically,therefore the student struggles to learn, and even more important, to embrace suchmethodologies.We present an approach to design engineering teaching through four main steps: First,define the desired knowledge and skills to be acquired by the

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Zemke, Gonzaga University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

these preconceptions. Consequently, student learningin design is hampered.The intent of this study was to identify preconceptions students bring to design and to framethem in terms of the cognitive literature. The preconceptions were explored using two sequentialfocus group discussions based on the questions, “What did you learn about design?” and “Whatdid you need to un-learn to do design?”The participants in this study had completed an intermediate level design class. The class usedmultiple design-build-test projects supported by lectures to teach design. The semester followingthis class, one design team was selected for the focus group discussions because they initiallydemonstrated low design ability but performed at a high level by the end

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jared David Berezin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Jane Kokernak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

productpresentations and discussions, participation, question asking, and question answering.A. Course ContextIn the MIT mechanical engineering capstone course, students work in product design teams topropose ideas for new products, select a few for development and testing, and ultimately chooseone, as a team, to build and test as an alpha prototype. At the end of the semester each teampresents their prototype at a large event, akin to a product launch. While the team project existsin many engineering capstone courses, one way that MIT’s course is unique is that individualstudent teams are atypically large, comprising 18-25 students. Enrollment in the course is 160-190 students every fall semester.The student teams are near autonomous and self directed

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Emin Yilmaz; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

thelaboratory part of the EDTE 341 course. Servicing of the engine-dynamometer system wascompleted as an ETME 499 project. Instrumentation for the fuel consumption measurementswere added and the measurements were carried out. The results indicate that, at constant load, asthe engine speed was increased the fuel consumption increased. The same trend was seen atconstant speed; the fuel consumption increased as the load was increased. Simulated fueleconomy (miles/gal) graph indicate that the engine economy was about flat at higher loads, but,was decreasing slightly at low loads when the engine speed was increased beyond about 1500rpm.IntroductionThe two engine-dynamometer systems, one with a gasoline engine (Fig.1) and the other one witha diesel engine

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rui (Celia) Pan, Purdue University; Shih-Ping Kuo, Purdue University; Johannes Strobel, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Practice basic design elements, (7 females; 39 (6 females; 22 principles, composition and males) males) typology to communicate visuallyCG01 by solving exercise problems and designing projects like identity logo, flyer, calendar, and postcard. Program: In Design 19 17 Design single and multiple- page (8 females; (6 females; 11 documents for business, advertising 11males) males) such as identities, flyers, brochures,CG02 forms

Conference Session

Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Hurteau; Cedric Demers-Roy

real-timeimplementation of a given control theory. Moreover, a survey done in 1999 by ITRON [1]shows that performance, proved track record, industry usage and reliability are the main criteriafor the selection of an operating system for a given control engineering project. In this paperMatlab and LabVIEW are explored as an integrated environment since they are commonly used Page 10.210.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationin industrial and academic context and they show good performance at

Conference Session

Capstone and International Experiences

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bobby G. Crawford, U.S. Military Academy; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Elizabeth Bristow P.E., U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

reinvigorate the country’s university system. Part of that effort has been theestablishment of the National Military Academy of Afghanistan (NMAA); a four-year, bachelor degreegranting institution modeled after the military academies of the United States. Two of the primarydegrees offered by NMAA are in Civil and General Engineering. In the summer of 2009, facultymembers from the United States Military Academy (USMA) traveled to NMAA to serve as mentors for thebudding Academy.This same principle applies beyond Afghanistan. There is a continuing need for engineering expertiseand education in Nicaragua, India and elsewhere. Engineering faculty and students today can expect towork on projects far beyond the borders of their home countries, in settings

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan E. Walden, University of Oklahoma; Cindy E. Foor, University of Oklahoma; Rui Pan, University of Oklahoma; Randa L. Shehab, University of Oklahoma; Deborah A. Trytten, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

juniors), team activities typicallyinvolve only the six or seven students enrolled in the capstone project. All the HPVC studentsexpressed frustration that they were “not allowed to do anything” until they were in charge. Thenon-capstone students, and especially new members, have no input on the design or building oftheir vehicle. Often the capstone students do not even include these other team members incommunications to arrange meetings or work times. Thus, students have very little opportunityto learn anything about the vehicle design, component manufacturing, or administrative tasksbefore they are responsible for the entire project. Because of the tight affiliation with thecapstone graduation requirement, this team maintains formidable

Conference Session

ABET Issues and Capstone Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Milton Bryant; Paul Biney

x 4093 Finite Element x x x x M10 x X x M M45 4123 Energy System x x x x X M20 M15 x M15 M40 x x 4473 Senior Project I x x x x X x M20 M45 X M70 M15 x X x x 4483 Senior Project II x x x x X x M20 M45 X x M15 x M50 x x 3031 Manuf. Processes Lab x x x x M10 M10 CVEG 2043 Engr Mechanics I x x M10 M5 CVEG 2053 Engr Mechanics II x x

Conference Session

Capstone Experiences in OME Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hang Choi

Design in the senior year, (4) to reduce NAOE courses so that students may take other courses in related engineering fields or other fields such as humanity, sociology, management, (5) to introduce a new course on Communication Skills.The last one was determined in order to meet the needs of the industry and also for accreditationprocess, for example see ABET EC20002-3. In the Communication Skills, students learn howto solve problems collectively with their classmates, to write technical reports, and learn how topresent their result with the help of audio-visual media. The students are required toparticipate in a teamwork project twice: First they are given the freedom to form a group of 5people, but for the second teamwork

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Howard Eisner, George Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

. Eisner, H., “Essentials of Project and Systems Engineering Management”, 3 rd Edition, John Wiley, 2008 5. U. S. Department of Defense (DoD), (2003), The Defense Acquisition System, Directive 5000.1, and Operation of the Defense Acquisition System, Instruction 5000.2, Washington, DC, May 12 6. Eisner, H. (2004), “New Systems Architecture Views”, paper presented at the 25th National Conference of the American Society of Engineering Management (ASEM), Alexandria, VA, October 20-23. 7. Eisner, H. “Managing Complex Systems – Thinking Outside the Box”, John Wiley, 2005 Page 15.738.9

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Maurice Bluestein; Pete Hylton

comprehensive examination, alsomultiple choice, in its senior capstone design course covering twelve core subjects, includingthermodynamics. While the results of this test have also shown limited retention (the averageoverall score is 47%), the students did much better on the four thermodynamics questionsrepeated from the test in Thermodynamics II (67% average). The marked improvement suggestsretention can be enhanced by retesting subject material through the student’s course of study forthe BS degree.I. IntroductionThe Mechanical Engineering Technology program at IUPUI has, since its initial eligibility, beenaccredited by the TAC/ABET accreditation agency. This body requires the MET program tomaintain outcome-based assessment processes for all of

Conference Session

Supporting the Capstone Experience

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kun Zhang P.E., California State University-Chico; Pablo K. Cornejo, California State University-Chico; Chris Fosen, California State University-Chico

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

depend on the kinds of questions instructors ask, the use of supportivefeedback, and their attention to issues of content versus formatting and editing concerns.The one-page letter report assignment provides a balanced time and length for students to write.However, this type of written assignment mainly emphasizes narrative writing with fewerfocuses on preparations of figures, tables, equations, and reference citation. Therefore,department-level efforts in the engineering major should be made to allow students to practice allaspects of technical writing in the curriculum from first-year courses to the senior capstonedesign project. Because the survey results from this study show that almost no one in thislaboratory course visited the university

Conference Session

Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yong Yang; Andrew Bennett; Steve Warren

opportunity for a student to reworkcategories of problems until they receive their desired score. From an assessment standpoint, theresulting database offers opportunities to correlate module scores with scores received on otheronline modules, projects, or exams, where scores can be aggregated or associated with specificproblems. Cross-semester comparisons can also be performed. Additional parameters such ascompletion date/time, the number of attempts per module, the location of the student’s machine,and the time required to complete an exercise provide a rich information set for understandingstudent work habits. The ultimate goal is to close the assessment loop and improve coursecontent based upon previous semester analyses. Early surveys and

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Davidson; Mark Johnson; Douglas Eschbach; Curtis Watson

(two or three days on a Sun enterprise 450) for 50 to 100 student submissions, thesearch window (range of possible relative file offsets) was constrained to as little as 100characters. Pre-filtering of the files, similar to the tokenization described above, was used toreduce the size of the files to be compared. However, restricting the search window reduced theinstances of plagiarism that could be detected.ResultsInitial testing was done using student source code samples from a simplified I2C bus interfacedesign project during spring 2003. I2C is an industry standard synchronous serial bus interfaceused in a wide range of consumer electronic products. Transformations were applied to thesource code samples in order to observe the behavior of

Collection

2025 Northeast Section Conference

Authors

HughHugh L. McManus; B. Kris Jaeger-Helton

2025 ASEE Northeast Section Conference, March 22, 2025, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, USA. Project Team Bonding: Approaches, Activities, Analysis, and Advice Hugh L. McManus & B. Kris Jaeger-Helton Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Northeastern University Boston, MA h.mcmanus@northeastern.edu Abstract—Capstone project teams of 4-5 students participated correlated student-designed

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Baumann, Central Connecticut State University; Nidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Management Methodologies Support a Senior Project Research Course and Its AssessmentAbstractMotivated by required program learning outcomes and recommendations from a continuousimprovement plan focus group, Central Connecticut State University has uniquely organized itsmechanical engineering senior project design research class to include significant review ofDesign of Experiments (DOE) and Project Management (PM) methodologies. Both studies havebeen linked to computational software tools for students to use in their capstone experience. Theultimate goal of the class is a project design proposal in which researched backgroundinformation forms the introduction to a managed project plan which can include designedexperimentation within the

Conference Session

Design Communications

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Lumsdaine, Michigan Technological University; Monika Lumsdaine, E&M Lumsdaine Solar Consultants, Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

corporate behavior and president of her own company. She won a national design award for a passive solar house plan from DOE/HUD. She has extensive technical writing experience in solar energy, product quality, and engineering design. She is certified in the administration and interpretation of the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI) and conducts team building workshops in industry, business, and educational institutions. She assisted in the 2007/2008 capstone design course as a technical writer as well as the HBDI practitioner/evaluator for project team formation and monitoring. Contact info: www.InnovationToday.biz