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Diversity in Community Engagement Implementation II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Queen Retherford, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Kelly Summerford Ellenburg, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Paper ID #16049Impacts of a University-wide Service Learning Program on a Senior Under-graduate Capstone CourseDr. Jennifer Queen Retherford, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Dr. Retherford is an alumna of the University of Nebraska, Omaha, and received her graduate degrees from Vanderbilt University. She currently teaches a variety of courses supporting the department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Tennessee. Among many structural engineer- ing courses, Dr. Retherford manages the Senior Design Project course for all undergraduate seniors.Kelly Summerford Ellenburg, The University of Tennessee

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Christine E King, University of California, Irvine

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Industry Engagement versus Faculty Mentorship in Engineering Senior Capstone Design CoursesAbstract:The senior design capstone course is an important experience for engineering undergraduatestudents. This course prepares students for industry by having students solve open-ended real-world problems. During the course, a student team defines a problem, plans an approach,develops a solution, and validates their solution, which culminates in oral and writtendissemination. Typically, undergraduate programs have provided students with facultymentors to develop a solution for a specific project. In order for projects and teams to besuccessful, the mentors must provide invaluable support, collaboration, and interest in

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 6

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Shoshanah Cohen, Stanford University; Jeff Wood, Stanford University

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Paper ID #34139Engagement in Practice: Creating an Enduring Partnership in a MechanicalEngineering Capstone CourseMs. Shoshanah Cohen, Stanford University Shoshanah Cohen is the Director of Community Engaged Learning for Engineering and Lecturer in Me- chanical Engineering at Stanford University. She has more than 20 years of industry experience managing complex supply chain projects; her teaching focuses on experiential project-based operations courses. Shoshanah is actively engaged in local community organizations focused on public education and services for underserved students. She is a passionate advocate for girls in

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Multidisciplinary Design II

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ryan L. Solonsky P.E., Pennsylvania State University, University Park; M K Parfitt

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Architectural Engineering. Here at Penn StateUniversity, architectural engineering (AE) encompasses: Mechanical HVAC Design, Lighting/electricalDesign, Structural Design and Construction Engineering and Management.The pinnacle of the program is the yearlong capstone with inherent multidisciplinary aspects to it. Withan industry interface, the capstone is critical to enrich the student experience in complex building designthrough simulating the project to be “more real world” than traditional capstones. This capstonedistinguishes itself by the level of relatively independent work done by the student teams (vs. teaching bythe faculty), heavy industry practitioner interactions, mentoring roles of the faculty and lastly, utilizingreal industry projects

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Design in Multidisciplinary Learning Environment

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Lina Zheng, Tsinghua University; Dexin Hu, Tianjin University; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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make current efforts and practices more visible and accessible,including by identifying accredited programs, different formats and approaches tried, and types of capstonedesign experiences. Three phases of review were conducted with emphasis on multidisciplinary programs,multidisciplinary approaches, and multidisciplinary capstone, separately. The results reveal an increasing trendin the development of multidisciplinary engineering programs, the significant role of capstone projects infacilitating multidisciplinary engineering education, including integrated and real-world trends inmultidisciplinary capstone experiences. In addition, there are gaps in the literature that required more insightsregarding non-accredited programs, student outcomes

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1st and 2nd Year Instruction in Design

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ruturaj Soman, Florida A&M University/Florida State University ; Nikhil Gupta, Florida State University; Chiang Shih, Florida A&M University/Florida State University

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the modern engineering world, traditional in-class teachingmethods may need to be modified to adequately prepare students to be competent in today’sindustry. Therefore, there is an increased emphasis in providing design experience throughintegrated project-based learning throughout the engineering curriculum. In this paper, we willpresent our recent efforts at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Florida Agriculturaland Mechanical University-Florida State University College of Engineering (FAMU-FSU COE)to develop a coordinated and integrated three-semester course sequence to the capstone experience.The broad aim is to introduce the overall design process through project planning, management,and product development with an emphasis

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Student Evaluation in Design Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amber N. Lyerly, East Carolina University; Gene Dixon, East Carolina University

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fellow of the American Society of Engineering Management and serves as the 2015 ASEM President. Dixon also serves on the Eugene L. Grant Award Committee for the Engineering Economy Division of ASEE. He is a board member of the ASEE Design in Engineering Education Division and Secretary for the ASEE Industrial Engineering Division. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Work In Progress: Grading the Capstone Written Design Reports: a comparison of external judges and faculty scoresAbstractCapstone projects often require senior engineering students to develop oral and writtencommunications skills. Both reports are sometimes graded by faculty advisors, coursecoordinators

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Professional Skills and Teaming in Design

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Todd W. Polk, University of Texas, Dallas; Margaret Garnett Smallwood, University of Texas, Dallas; Jeanne Sluder; Robert Hart P.E., University of Texas, Dallas; Joe Pacheco Jr., University of Texas, Dallas

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, he developed the capstone course sequence in the newly-formed Bio- engineering department and has been responsible for teaching it since. Todd also serves as a Director for the UTDesign program, which facilitates resource sharing and corporate sponsorship of projects for all engineering disciplines at the university. He attended the Capstone Design Conference in 2014 and 2016, and is an active member of IEEE and EMBS.Prof. Margaret Garnett Smallwood, University of Texas, Dallas I am a Senior Lecturer II in the Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. I teach three business communication courses to undergraduate students. I have an MBA in international management and marketing from UTD and

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Best of DEED

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ibrahim Mohedas, University of Michigan; Grace Louise Cravens, Sienko Research Group; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Kathleen H. Sienko, University of Michigan

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to address this gap in the literature by determining what students perceive therole of stakeholders should be during the design process and identifying the design project traitsthat facilitate learning the value of human-centered design processes.Research DesignStudy PurposeThe goal of this study was to determine how student perceptions of stakeholders differed beforeand after their capstone design experience, and to determine if and how the students’ interactionswith stakeholders during the semester changed their perceptions. We also explored how different Page 26.1695.2design project traits may have affected the level of stakeholder

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Teamwork and Student Learning in Design

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kimberly B. Demoret P.E., Florida Institute of Technology; Kyi Phyu Nyein, Florida Institute of Technology; Jessica L. Wildman, Florida Institute of Technology

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, Competencies, and Trust Measured in Student SurveysAbstractAerospace engineering students at the Florida Institute of Technology are required to complete a3-semester capstone design project. In their junior year students propose topics, form teams, andwrite a proposal for their senior project, then as seniors they complete preliminary and detaileddesign, then fabricate and test their system. Their efforts culminate in a Student DesignShowcase, where industry participants judge the final projects. Many students identify thecapstone design project as the most significant event in their academic career. In this paper wedescribe changes made in the aerospace engineering capstone curriculum during the 2016-2017season and

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Construction Engineering Division Technical Session 5

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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M. Scott Stanford P.E., United States Air Force Academy; Joel Sloan P.E., United States Air Force Academy; James B. Pocock, United States Air Force Academy; M. Mark Russell P.E., DFCE

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Education, 2020 A Construction Management Competition as the Basis of a Capstone Culminating EventCulminating design events serve as a hallmark of most undergraduate engineering programs.This paper presents a case study of a novel approach to conduct a compressed-timeframeculminating event just prior to graduation. The event is designed to leverage best practices inliterature related to team-building, competitions, student leadership, real-project case studies, andhigh-impact practices. The culminating event takes place at the conclusion of a two-semestercapstone sequence. In the middle of this two-semester sequence, 12 students from a class ofroughly 40-50 participate in the intercollegiate Associated Schools of

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bob Rhoads, The Ohio State University; John Schrock, The Ohio State University

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. Industrial and Systems Engineering (Ohio State 2003) - M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering (Ohio State 2008) - 7 years experience with consulting firm (civil engineering and project development) - 10th-year Senior Lecturer with EED at The Ohio State University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 WORK-IN-PROGRESS: Incorporating Learning Strategies and Theory into a Multidisciplinary Design Capstone CourseIntroductionThis work in progress paper explains modifications made to the senior-level multidisciplinarydesign capstone course based on student learning theories and strategies. In the summer of 2022,the Multidisciplinary Design

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Mary Kay Camarillo P.E., University of the Pacific; Eileen Kogl Camfield, University of California at Merced

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Paper ID #29388Revising Roles: Enhancing an Engineering Capstone Course to ImproveOutcomes for WomenMary Kay Camarillo P.E., University of the Pacific Mary Kay Camarillo is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of the Pacific in Stockton. She specializes in water treatment and in domestic and industrial waste treatment. Dr. Camar- illo’s research includes development of biomass energy projects for agricultural wastes and treatability assessments for oilfield produced water. She focuses on environmental problems in California. Dr. Ca- marillo earned her Ph.D. at UC Davis and spent many years in

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Best In DEED

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elisabeth Kames, Florida Institute of Technology ; Devanshi Shah, Florida Institute of Technology; McKenzie Carol Clark; Beshoy Morkos, Florida Institute of Technology

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Cornerstone Design, Senior Capstone Design,Engineering Education, Engineering Retention1. IntroductionEngineering curriculum at the university level typically culminates in a senior design capstonecourse. The goal of the senior capstone design course is to challenge the students with an exampleof a real-world project, preparing them for industry. University curriculum used to focus heavilyon design and design challenges, typical of industry level engineering. Due to increasing systemcomplexity, engineering curriculums were prompted to add more science and mathematics classesto help students understand needed tools and methods.1 However, over time this produced studentswith a decreasing understanding of the practical applications of engineering and

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Julie Dyke Ford, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Susannah Howe, Smith College; Daria A. Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder; Robin Ott, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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suppliers in Asia and Europe. Most recently Robin worked as Senior Director of Project Man-agement for a small bio-tech company, Intrexon, located in the VT Corporate Research Center and hadthe opportunity to introduce manufacturing principles into a highly specialized DNA production facility.Robin joined her alma mater’s faculty in 2015, coordinating and teaching the Capstone Senior Designprogram in Mechanical Engineering. She has also completed her graduate certificate in Engineering Ed-ucation, leading to the development of her research focus area in the student transition from capstone towork. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021It’s a Context Gap, Not a Competency Gap

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Idea Generation and Creativity in Design

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shraddha Sangelkar, Pennsylvania State University, Erie; Charlotte De Vries, Penn State Erie, the Behrend College; Omar Ashour, Pennsylvania State University, Erie; William C. Lasher, Pennsylvania State University, Erie

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Erie we are limited to three 50-minute class periods to teach concept generation.Given this limitation, a balance must be chosen between quantity of the methods taught, and thedetail in which students learn them.In spite of the wide array of ideation methods, undergraduate students often end upimplementing only the basic brainstorming method for their capstone projects. The senior designprojects in the Mechanical Engineering (ME) capstone program at Penn State Erie, the BehrendCollege vary widely from traditional mechanism design and construction projects where standardconcept generation techniques are appropriate, to design optimization problems with a strongfocus on mathematical modeling where concept generation relies heavily on the results

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The BEST InDEED

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chris Gewirtz, Virginia Tech; Daria A. Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Sidharth Arunkumar; Julie Dyke Ford, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Susannah Howe, Smith College; Laura Mae Rosenbauer, Smith College; Nicholas Emory Alvarez, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Jessica Deters, Virginia Tech ; Cristian Hernandez

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Jessica Deters is a PhD student at Virginia Tech in the Department of Engineering Education. She holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics & Statistics and a minor in the McBride Honors Program in Public Affairs from the Colorado School of Mines. Jessica is engaging in projects that emphasize the sociotechnical na- ture of engineering with a focus on social justice and diversity. She aims to educate the next generation of engineers to understand and value the social, political, economic, environmental, and human implications of their designs.Mr. Cristian Hernandez c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 New engineers’ first three months: A study of the transition from capstone

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2022 ASEE Gulf Southwest Annual Conference

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Vewiser J Turner Jr P.E., Prairie View A&M University; Sarhan M. Musa, Prairie View A&M University

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engineering practices inindustries. This paper gives a unique and effective way of teaching capstone senior design courses inelectrical and computer engineering at PVAMU for underrepresented students. This paper alsodocuments a process where ABET (the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology)outcomes can be implemented to enhance students learning. The influence instructors’ experiencesthrough the combinations of industry and academia play a major and important factor to map theABET student outcomes and how the projects are evaluated. Other underrepresented universitiesmay benefit from the lessons learned of this work. IntroductionIt’s understandable that for any undergraduate engineering student

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Assessment of Engineering Leadership Development

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rebecca Komarek, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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accreditationrequirements [7], engineering programs will be working to determine how to incorporateleadership concepts into their curriculum. Experiences that allow students to develop their skillsrelated to self-awareness, teamwork, project management, team development, and mentoring areessential to building leadership abilities and confidence [10]. These types of skills can also belinked to experiences students have through courses, such as capstone design [11].The theoretical framework used in this study to explore participant-reported leadership behaviorsin the context of working with a team is the Competing Values Framework (CVF). The CVFoutlines four different leadership orientations or behaviors: Collaborate, Create, Control, andCompete [12]. Figure 1 shows

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 13

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kala Meah, York College of Pennsylvania; James Moscola, York College of Pennsylvania

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Engineering Education, 2017 Design and Implementation of a Wireless GPS-Based Bicycle Tracking Device for Capstone DesignAbstractThe need to track the locations of bicycles in an Automatic Bicycle Rental System presentsseveral challenges for control, communication, power management, reliability, and security. Thispaper details an effective bicycle-tracking system designed as part of a capstone project thataddresses these challenges. Additionally, a number of student learning outcomes were assessed.1 IntroductionThe Automatic Bicycle Rental System (ABRS) is an engineering capstone design project at YorkCollege of Pennsyvania1. This project was a collaboration of mechanical, computer, andelectrical engineering

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Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christina L. Carmen, University of Alabama - Huntsville; Ben Groenewald, Cape Peninsula University of Technology; Rhyme Kagiso Setshedi, Cape Peninsula University of Technology ; Aysha Abrahams, Cape Peninsula University of Technology

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Education, Philosophy of Care &Health Promotion, Life Orientation, Religion and HIV/Aids. Departmental duties include: Teaching &Learning representative and first year coordinator. Projects: HEAIDS, Service learning in Education andSTEM. Awards received: UCT Student Conference award- 2002 and 2004. Publications: one journalarticle and a chapter in a book. Two articles pending acceptance from accredited journals. Completed andpassed Doctoral thesis awaiting graduation. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Promoting K-12 Aerospace Education via Wind Tunnels Developed through an International Capstone Design Partnership ABSTRACTIn many nations

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Best In DEED

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susannah Howe, Smith College; Robin Ott, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Cristian Hernandez; Jessica Deters, Virginia Tech; Chris Gewirtz, Virginia Tech; Francesca Giardine, Smith College; Anne Kary, Smith College

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-institutional study of students’ transitions fromtheir capstone (senior) design experiences into engineering work [21-24]. The sections belowdescribe the sites, participants, data collection, and data analysis.Site DescriptionsThe research study involves four different universities: two large public comprehensiveuniversities (one in the mountain west and one in the mid-Atlantic), one small public technicaluniversity in the southeast, and one small private college in the northeast. Three have a year-longcapstone design program and one has a four-semester design sequence that spans the junior andsenior years. All focus heavily on industry-sponsored projects; three also include faculty-sponsored and national-competition projects. All emphasize

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Teamwork and Student Learning in Design

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elisabeth Kames, Florida Institute of Technology ; Devanshi Shah, Florida Institute of Technology; Beshoy Morkos, Florida Institute of Technology

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students’ motivation toward design changes between their freshman and senior year,specifically in their cornerstone and capstone design courses.The goal of this study is to determine if motivation is correlated to student performance in designcourses. This study uses longitudinal methods to examine a single cohort of students at thebeginning and the end of their undergraduate tenure at Florida Institute of Technology. The initialobservation is completed at the beginning of the students’ freshman year, during their Introductionto Mechanical Engineering course. This is a design based course, introducing students to the designprocess and culminating with a group design project. The second observation is made in thestudents’ Mechanical Engineering

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Interdisciplinary Integration at the Course Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary K. Pilotte, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Rich Dionne, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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expect any leniency indeadlines for deliverables the way they might from an unrealized project or on a capstone projectfor whom the stakeholders are imaginary. Additionally, these productions have finite budgets aswell as finite material and personnel resources; design decisions must adhere to these constraints.Further, because these productions have large teams of stakeholders (i.e. producers, directors,choreographers, designers, painters, other technicians, etc.) in technical elements with conflictingneeds and competing design criteria, students must learn to collaborate and communicateeffectively with them. A unique skill when speaking with stakeholders who likely know littleabout their specific engineering background

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Interdisciplinary Integration at the Course Level

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Corey T Schimpf, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Jessica E S Swenson, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Courtney Burris

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research involves examining different types of homework problems in undergraduate engineering science courses, the intersection of affect and engineering identity, and improving the teaching of engineering courses.Courtney Burris ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Addressing Engineers and Stakeholders Social and Institutional Power in a Human-Centered Design Capstone CourseIntroductionAs trained professionals, engineers have well recognized areas of expertise. Such expertise oftentranslates into expert power in their professional practice. Expert power can be defined as theability to influence other people, decision-making, and project planning and/or project outcomesbased on the

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Inclusive Leadership: A Panel Discussion

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Lamb P.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Kyle G. Gipson, James Madison University; Seth Claberon Sullivan, Texas A&M University

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greaterthan 0.8. Based upon our anecdotal observations of working with problem teams, resolvingconflict, and motivating challenging students, we thought there would be a much lowerpercentage of respondents who reported levels of psychological safety above 0.80. That said, there is a large minority (41% of respondents) who we are classifying as having adifficult time (< 0.80). Part of the motivation for this study is to ensure students have positiveteamwork experiences, especially during the capstone project. The capstone project is the finaldress rehearsal for professional work, and we hope students enter professional life with the skillsand attitudes to work effectively in teams. The gender gap between male (0.82) and female (0.75

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Nontraditional Teaching Approaches

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ayano Ohsaki, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology; Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Guruji Education Foundation

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of the instructional strategy. Cheville and Bunting [8] and Smith [9]have showed that higher levels of competencies can be developed by active learning, often usingteams and projects. Simpson et al. [10] advocate interdisciplinary capstone projects since thatexperience is more representative of what students will find in the real world. Prince and Felder[11] have found out that inductive methods like project-based learning are more effective thantraditional deductive methods, for achieving a broad range of learning outcomes. Schaffer et al.[12] have concluded – based on their study of 256 students from 60 teams - that crossdisciplinary team learning increases self-efficacy. Apelian [13] believes that one of the importantskills for the 21st

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First-Year Programs: Monday Potpourri

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hector Enrique Rodriguez-Simmonds, Purdue University - Engineering Education; Nelson S. Pearson, University of Nevada, Reno; Jacqueline Ann Rohde, Clemson University; Kyle Patrick Vealey, West Chester University of Pennsylvania; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Paper ID #18887Forget Diversity, Our Project is DueMr. Hector Enrique Rodriguez-Simmonds, Purdue University - Engineering Education Raised in South Florida, born in Mexico. Half Colombian and half Mexican; proud MexiColombian. H´ector earned his MS in Computer Engineering and is currently pursuing a PhD in Engineering Education, both from Purdue University. His research interests are in investigating the experiences of LGBTQ+ students in engineering, tapping into critical methodologies and methods for conducting and analyzing research, and exploring embodied cognition.Mr. Nelson S. Pearson, University of Nevada, Reno

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Capstone Design Courses I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa M. Del Torto, Northwestern University; Bruce Ankenman, Northwestern University; Stacy Benjamin, Northwestern University; Trevor Harty, Northwestern University; Penny L. Hirsch, Northwestern University

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Institute and for the last seven years, he has also directed McCormick’s well-known freshman design course, Design Thinking and Communication, formerly En- gineering Design and Communication.Mrs. Stacy Benjamin, Northwestern University Stacy Benjamin has 20 years of experience specializing in innovation strategies, ideation, and user- centered engineering design. She worked for nine years at IDEO, in the Boston and Chicago offices, where she led projects and innovation workshops across a broad range of industries including medical, business, industrial, and consumer products. Stacy currently directs the Segal Design Certificate program at Northwestern University and she is a member of the Executive Committee for the

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Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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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