Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education (DEED) Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cyrus Habibi P.E., Minnesota State University, Mankato; Ronald R Ulseth, Iron Range Engineering ; Michael Richard Carlson

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Design in Engineering Education

projects5,6. Engineering projects may be defined by faculty,industry or even students which also might be real-life engineering problems. Iron RangeEngineering (IRE), as a 100% Project-based Learning (PjBL) program, motivates learning byproviding industry-defined /-mentored projects7,8,9. The IRE students complete the first two yearsof their program at the local community colleges and then join the program for their junior andsenior years. The students must enroll and complete four design courses, each three credits,called Design I, Design II, Capstone Design I and Capstone Design II.At IRE junior and senior students (different upperclassman levels) work closely together as ateam on the same design project. In addition, students with different

Conference Session

K-12 and STEM Programs in Engineering Technology

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University; Joseph A. Morgan, Texas A&M University; Matt Leonard, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

projectmanagement standards. Texas A&M University partnered with three high schools during thisproject. Undergraduate students at Texas A&M University who were enrolled in a projectmanagement course using project management techniques to complete their capstone designprojects mentored the high school students. The interactions between the undergraduate and highschool students proved beneficial to both parties. Pre- and post- tests in project managementwere designed and conducted in each high school. The data are used to analyze the effectivenessof student learning. Page 23.992.2IntroductionEducation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics

Conference Session

Global and Cultural Issues in Construction

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suat Gunhan, University of Texas, San Antonio; Gulsen Senol, Gediz University İzmır Institute of Technology; Sevgi Zeynep Dogan, Gediz University İzmır Institute of Technology

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Construction

people’s business. In this business you are hired for your technical skills, fired for your lack of people skills and promoted for your management skills”.Close interaction with industry professionals is required in order to integrate social intelligenceskills to construction courses. The professionals need to bring their experience into classroomeither by being part of the seminar and capstone classes or supporting research by providingfunding. An example of industry professionals’ contribution is given below:Currently, in the Construction Science and Management Program Curriculum at the Universityof Texas at San Antonio, a Construction Capstone course is offered in the senior year. SeniorCapstone Project emphasizes and helps students

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE III

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Cambron, Western Kentucky University; Stacy Wilson, Western Kentucky University

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Electrical and Computer

Competing at the IEEE Robotics Competitionsequence is composed of four one semester design courses. In addition, the design experienceculminates with a senior capstone design experience. Many of these projects are done with thesupport of local industry. Students prepare for outstanding professional leadership byparticipating in real-world projects undertaken by multidisciplinary teams using state-of-the-arttools and facilities. EE faculty are rewarded and required to engage students in activities tosupport the development of a clear understanding of engineering practice. 8 Figure 2: EE Design I Robot ProjectRole of Design CoursesAn important part of the EE Program’s project based curriculum is the design sequence

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Cook, Lawrence Tech University; Jerry Cuper, Lawrence Tech University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

tool controls and gauging at GTE-Valenite Corp., started and managed the clinical engineering department at William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, and was a research associate in radiology, nuclear medicine, and bio-mechanics at Wayne State University. Ken has taught at Lawrence Tech evening programs as an adjunct instructor since 1965. His senior projects class, where students generate project ideas, research, design, manufacture, and assess the market for inventive products is the capstone course. Cook also has enjoyed a long side career in magic finding his hobby very useful in teaching. A highlight for his students each year is the two-hour magic performance he offers as a congratulatory send

Conference Session

Incorporating Projects into the Curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Choate, Western Kentucky University; Kevin Schmaltz, Western Kentucky University

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Mechanical Engineering

2006-1533: INDUSTRY-BASED DESIGN PROJECTS IN THE JUNIOR YEAR:MAKING THE TRANSITION TO SENIOR PROJECTSRobert Choate, Western Kentucky University Robert Choate teaches thermo-fluid and professional component courses in Mechanical Engineering, including the Sophomore Design, Junior Design, the Senior ME Lab I and the ME Senior Project Design course sequence. Prior to teaching at WKU, he was a principal engineer for CMAC Design Corporation, designing and verifying thermal management solutions for telecommunication, data communication and information technology equipment.Kevin Schmaltz, Western Kentucky University Kevin Schmaltz teaches thermo-fluid and professional component courses in Mechanical

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

K Muraleetharan; Gerald Miller; Dee Fink; Robert Knox; Randall Kolar; David Sabatini; Baxter Vieux; Michael Mooney; Carolyn Ahern; Kurt Gramoll

Session 2630 The Sooner City Project: A 5-Year Update C. C. Ahern, L. D. Fink, K. K. Muraleetharan, R. L. Kolar University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019AbstractThe Sooner City project at the University of Oklahoma (OU) seeks to reform the traditional civilengineering curriculum by including design projects at every level of the curriculum, not simply asa senior capstone project. The project can be implemented without changing the traditional coursesequencing, which enhances faculty buy-in. It is part of a larger movement to reform engineeringeducation by teaching students to

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2019 Fall Mid Atlantic States Conference

Authors

Dimitrios Stroumbakis P.E., City University of New York, City College

requirement for industry hiring and future success.Unfortunately, many courses are commonly taught in a purely academic setting, bereft of anyauthentic industry design experience, including capstone and PBL courses. Preparing studentsto become industry-ready is highly valued and demanded by hiring companies. Students with aworking knowledge of project management skills are particularly attractive to employersseeking a STEM based workforce, especially in high technology product design andmanufacturing [1]In this paper, we present a model of implementing industry-accepted critical path (CPM)project management (PM) techniques to enhance student authentic industrial skills in anundergraduate Honors R&D program. These methods were applied to a

Conference Session

Strategies for Effective Education in Manufacturing

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Faisal Aqlan, Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College; Omar Ashour, Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College; Keegan O'Bannon, Urick Ductile Solutions

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Manufacturing

students should providethem with the necessary skills to fill the gap. This can be achieved by incorporating real industryprojects and having students exposed to real life problems and then apply their skills to solvesuch problems. Industry-based credentials embedded in manufacturing programs of study canserve as a powerful hook to attract students, win support from employers and promotearticulation and linkages across educational institutions2.The incorporation of industry projects into academic courses has been discussed by some authorsin current literature. For example, incorporating industry sponsored projects into online capstonecourses was implemented and tested in two capstone courses3. Studies also discussed the benefitsof industry

Conference Session

IE Technical Session I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lizabeth T. Schlemer, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Industrial Engineering

teaches a wide range of subjects from Engineering Economy to Facilities Planning and Design. She has developed good relation- ships with local industry and provides her students with opportunities to participate in real projects for real clients. Page 22.438.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Design projects with out-of town companiesAbstractThe capstone design class in the industrial engineering department at California PolytechnicState University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) includes projects with companies. The projects arelarge ambiguous facilities

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

James Menart; Elizabeth Johnson; Gary Kinzel

-personal skills, and working in teams. The approachwe are using broadens the scope of a typical senior capstone design project making it into afull-year project and converts it into a product development and product realization course.While using this approach to the capstone design project usually results in a bettereducational experience for the students than if students from only one school are involved, itcannot be accomplished without an increase in resources. Compared to dealing with teamsat a single university, it is harder to coordinate teams from multiple universities, andcommunication and travel costs are obviously higher. In this paper, we discuss both thebenefits and problems associated with multi-university projects and the approaches

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education-HDL

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Hayne, The Citadel

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Computers in Education

other models of that hardware. A program of instruction has been developed which augmentsthe classroom instruction with VHDL homework exercises and a capstone design project. Thefocus is kept on demonstration of architectural concepts, rather than turning into a VHDL“programming” course.Course ContentThe existing course and text cover a wide range of computer architecture constructs which canbe supplemented with homework exercises. A fundamental concept is the discussion of variousaddressing modes used to specify the location of operands in an assembly language program.These addressing modes are first discussed generically and then specifically for several moderncomputer architectures. Visualization of the addresses and operands is often

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aschalew Kassu, Alabama A&M University; Anup Sharma, Alabama A&M University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

question, no response is recorded under neutral,disagree and strongly disagree. Unlike group-project activities incorporated under some of theengineering curriculum, which is composed of students with the same major discipline andclassification and typically lasts a couple months or the formal senior capstone design projectswhich extend throughout a semester or two of the students’ senior year, the MAKERS prototypedevelopment team are composed of students from diverse background and classification workingtowards a specific goal. All students are required to actively participate and contribute to theproject, attend periodic meetings, and present the prototype development project at the jointannual STEM conference of all the participating

Conference Session

Developing ABET Outcomes F--J

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Di Bella

that most closely represents how the ethical dilemma would be presentedin the real world of engineering.Some Ethical Challenges and Examples of InstructionThe author finds some comfort in presenting an ethical dilemma to the student when thestudent is in the mist of a mind absorbing exercise offered in the Machine Design course.This is particularly effective when the machine design course is combined with thetraditional Capstone Design Project Course (typically taken by the senior engineeringstudent). During this course instruction a full range of diverse design topics are discussed.Examples of mechanical design techniques must be given via a variety of design projectswhether they are ‘real-life’ engineering examples or purely conceptualized

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division Technical Session - Interdisciplinary Capstone Projects, Pandemic Adapted Mechatronics Lab, Call for Change

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Quintero, San Francisco State University; Silverio Lopez; Nicolas Perticari Pesci

Texas at Dallas. He joined San Francisco State University in Fall 2018 as an assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering for the School of Engineering. His research focuses on 1) designing lightweight, low-cost wearable robotic systems for people of disability and 2) developing novel control schemes that provide individuals with human-like motion using wearable robotics as part of their active daily living. Mechatronics and robotics education is another primary research focus he has been involved in to enhance project-based curriculum with evidence-based strategies to train the next generation of diverse engineers in this field. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division Technical Session - Interdisciplinary Capstone Projects, Pandemic Adapted Mechatronics Lab, Call for Change

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brett Rocha, United States Military Academy; Aaron Hill, United States Military Academy; Nathan Hedgecock; Skylar Franz, United States Military Academy; Mark Sallot, United States Military Academy; Morgan Ernst, United States Military Academy

, analysis of the bridge’s criteria for meeting stakeholder requirements, andimproved efficiency of the team through design, fabrication of their bridge for the AISC SteelBridge competition.INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUNDThe United States Military Academy has participated in the American Institute of SteelConstruction (AISC) and American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) annual Steel BridgeCompetition (SSBC) for more than 30 years. A 30-year legacy carries with it an abundance oflessons learned and allows for incremental improvements to be made from one year to the next.The West Point Steel Bridge Team is comprised of students that are taking part in thecompetition as a capstone project and has historically only included civil engineering students.One

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division Technical Session - Interdisciplinary Capstone Projects, Pandemic Adapted Mechatronics Lab, Call for Change

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bart Johnson, Itasca Community College; Ronald Ulseth; Michael Raich, Itasca Community College

BELL program, and he continues to be an active participant in engineering education research; specifically, project-based learning and professional competency development. Prior to joining the engineering faculty at Itasca, Bart worked as an engineer with John Deere and the Whirlpool Corporation. Bart and his wife, Jessica, have four children—Emma, Andy, Mathew, and Gavin. Together, they enjoy a variety of outdoor activities, time at the cabin, youth sports, and the family-farming operation.Ronald Ulseth (Director)Michael Raich (President) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com A Multi-Decade Response to

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Assessment of Design Projects and Approaches to Capstone Courses

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Behzad Beigpourian, University of Tehran; Hannah Budinoff, The University of Arizona; Philipp Gutruf, The University of Arizona; K. Larry Head, The University of Arizona

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

. IntroductionEngineering curricula have traditionally been developed around fundamental engineering coursesand this has resulted in programs prioritizing simple problem-solving activities over open-endedproblem-solving and integrative design learning experiences [1], [2], [3]. Although manyengineering schools have cornerstone and capstone projects that contain significant designopportunities for students in the first year and senior year, respectively [4], there is a need toscaffold student’s design skills throughout an entire curriculum [5].A critical need in curriculum development is the ability to assess student design knowledge. In theengineering education literature, there have been numerous studies that reformulated engineeringprograms or developed design

Conference Session

Project-Based Service Learning

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University; Chris Swan, Tufts University

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Environmental Engineering

-2006 SL was incorporated intoa total of 38 undergraduate engineering courses taught by 32 professors and 5 teaching staffserving 721 undergraduate students. In 2006-2007 there were 39 undergraduate engineeringcourses that included SL taught by 31 faculty with a combined enrollment of more than 1250students. The main approach of the SLICE program to integrate SL into existing courses is theopposite of the EPICS program which created a series of separate courses with SL projects.SLICE does include some specifically interdisciplinary PBSL courses in the Junior and Senioryear, including Community-based Engineering Design Project II and III and the IntercollegiateEngineering Capstone Design Project. 8,9 Global Perspective ProgramAnother

Conference Session

Innovative Practices in NRE Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Monty Smith; Jerome Davis; Charles Bittle; Mitty Plummer

Session 0000 Building a Reactor Simulator as a Senior Project By Mitty C. Plummer, Monty Smith, Jerome J Davis, Charles C. Bittle University of North TexasI. Introduction.The Senior Design Project is intended to provide an “integrated educational experience”or capstone, for the engineering technology curriculum. As administered at the Universityof North Texas, the capstone “Senior Projects “ is a two credit hour, one semester course.The course concludes with a presentation of the students’ projects in which faculty,family members, business leaders, and other

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Lucian P. Fabiano

}. 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ,,.y,...:’~ . The New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) Engineering I - ..-. Technology department has responded to the need for graduates who have basic program management skills through its senior capstone -project courses. These courses requires that its students develop a prolect following industrial development methodologies. Student projects serve as the vehicles to learn the basic concepts of a project’s life cycle and its phases, concurrent engineering

Conference Session

Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace & Successful Graduates for a Flat World: What Does It Take?

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meagan Vaughan, University of Texas, Austin; Janet Ellzey, University of Texas, Austin

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International

presentation skills were also developed through each of threepresentations given by the teams during the semester. The primary purpose of thesepresentations was to facilitate communication of goals and progress to the other teamsand to the instructors. In the first presentation students shared their initial goals for thesemester. These were modified during the class discussion that followed to ensure that allaspects of the project were covered. A second presentation in mid-semester allowed forassessment of student progress. The Final Presentation was given at the end of semesterto report on the work completed and the remaining tasks necessary for the assessmenttrip. Although the course was originally tailored after the capstone design course

Conference Session

Installation, Integration, and Development

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Herbert L. Hess, University of Idaho, Moscow; Saied Hemati, University of Idaho, Moscow

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Diversity

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Paper ID #20143Integrated Solar and Piezoelectric Renewable Energy ProjectDr. Herbert L. Hess, University of Idaho, Moscow Herb Hess is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Idaho, where he teaches subjects in He received the PhD Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1993. His research and teaching interests are in power electronics, electric machines and drives, electrical power systems, and analog/mixed signal electronics. He has taught senior capstone design since 1985 at several universities.Dr. Saied Hemati, University of Idaho, Moscow Saied Hemati received the bachelor’s and master’s

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann D. Christy; Marybeth Lima

of the literature on linking industry with engineering design education focuses on capstonedesign courses.4 Although the projects described in this paper were done as part of specificcontent related engineering courses and not as part of a capstone design experience, the literatureon capstone courses can inform the practice of bringing real clients to engineering education atany level. Sources of student design projects include the instructor, the students themselves,other departments within the university, engineering societies, and industry.4 A survey of 360departments at 173 engineering schools reported that 64% involved some form of industrysponsorship in their capstone design courses.10 Of these 33% had weekly contact between

Conference Session

Edifying Engineering Education through Multidisciplinary Efforts

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Behnaam Aazhang, Rice University; Randal T. Abler, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jan P. Allebach, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); L. Franklin Bost, Virginia Commonwealth University; Joseph R. Cavallaro, Rice University; Edwin K. P. Chong Ph.D., Colorado State University; Edward J. Coyle, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jocelyn B. S. Cullers, Boise State University; Sonya M. Dennis, Morehouse College; Yingfei Dong, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa; Prasad N. Enjeti, Texas A&M University; Afroditi V. Filippas, Virginia Commonwealth University; Jeffrey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University; David Garmire, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa; Jay George; Brian E. Gilchrist, University of Michigan; Gail S. Hohner, University of Michigan; William L. Hughes, Boise State University; Amos Johnson, Morehouse College; Charles Kim, Howard University; Hale Kim, INHA University; Robert H. Klenke, Virginia Commonwealth University; Magdalini Z. Lagoudas, Texas A&M University; Donna C. Llewellyn, Boise State University; Yung-Hsiang Lu, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Kevin James Lybarger, University of Washington; Stephen Marshall P.E., University of Strathclyde; Subra Muralidharan, University of California, Davis; Aaron T. Ohta, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa; Francisco Raul Ortega, Florida International University; Eve A. Riskin, University of Washington; David M. Rizzo; Candace Renee Ryder, Colorado State Univerisity; Wayne A. Shiroma, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa; Thomas J. Siller, Colorado State University; J. Sonnenberg-Klein, Georgia Institute of Technology; Seyed Masoud Sadjadi, Florida International University; Scott Munro Strachan, University of Strathclyde; Mohsen Taheri, Florida International University; Gary L. Woods, Rice University Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Brian C. Fabien, University of Washington; Phiilp Johnson, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Robert Collins, Univesrity of Strathclyde at Georgia Tech; Paul Murray

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Biotechnology Park. In addition, he is currently CEO of SpherIngenics Inc. an early stage company focused on enhancing stem cell therapies for therapeutic and reconstructive procedures. Previously in academia, Bost was at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he developed the Master of Biomedi- cal Innovation and Development (BioID) Program. For six years, he was also director of the biomedical engineering capstone design courses and sophomore introductory course for medical engineering design. During this time, over 200 BME capstone teams worked on projects with clinicians, surgeons, non-profit medical organizations, and medical industry companies to create unique solutions for improved patient care. Prior to

Conference Session

Integrating Hands-On Technology and Project-Based Learning in Engineering Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shuxiang Yu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Tyler Milburn, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

with real-world problems.Project-based learning focuses on creating projects that allow students to practice their technicaland professional skills on problems that embody those that they will work on and solve aftercompleting their degrees [5]. These types of experiences have been shown to help students byimproving their learning of the technical content, giving them freedom to explore their owndesigns and solutions while remaining relevant to their future career [6]. Many project-basedlearning experiences exist either in Capstone courses for students during their finalundergraduate year, or occasionally in Cornerstone courses, sometimes seen in first-yearengineering courses [7]. The ‘middle years’ of engineering programs often focus on

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Laboratories

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad N. Amin, National University; Ronald P. Uhlig, National University; Pradip Peter Dey, National University; Bhaskar Raj Sinha, National University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

to Protect Life and Property from WildfireAbstractIn 2007, some students in the Master of Science in Wireless Communication (MSWC) program atNational University observed and experienced a devastating wildfire that occurred in SouthernCalifornia. This article describes how these students learned and applied their knowledge to acritical need and expressed their willingness to serve the community. The article also brieflyinvestigates the structural relationships among the program’s mission, program requirements,learning outcomes, assessment measures, and qualitative elements of the program bydemonstrating students’ work on a capstone project entitled “Wildfire Detection and MonitoringSystem.” In this capstone project, students integrated

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Schmaltz, Western Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

less Page 13.1107.2expensive than conventional heating was desired. The Agriculture Department hopes toincrease revenue to the school by using a non-conventional source of heat to lengthen thegrowing season, and also to provide a model for local farmers to replicate this heatingsystem.In 2006 – 2007 a team of four ME seniors began the project investigation andaccomplished design, selection and acquisition of major project components during theiryear-long capstone design course sequence. The team performed preliminary tests todetermine leaf pile temperatures and the duration of heating that would be expected.Concurrently, the team gathered historical

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ASEE 2021 Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Anthony Donndelinger, Baylor University; Adam Weaver, Baylor University; James Carlton Bates, Baylor University; Timothy Russell, Baylor University

Paper ID #35101Automating Project Team Formation with Heterogeneous Project Preferencesand Skill Mix ConstraintsMr. Joseph Anthony Donndelinger, Baylor University Mr. Donndelinger joined Baylor University’s School of Engineering and Computer Science as a Clinical Associate Professor after 23 years of experience in the automotive and cutting tool industries. During his 16 years as a Senior Researcher at General Motors’ Global Research and Development Center, Mr. Donndelinger served as Principal Investigator on 18 industry-university collaborative projects focusing primarily on conducting interdisciplinary design feasibility

Conference Session

Alternative-energy Laboratory Experiences

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Genik, Michigan State University; Craig Somerton, Michigan State University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

. Page 14.357.2Literature ReviewIt is not uncommon to include a design project in a thermal fluids laboratory experience forMechanical Engineering undergraduate students. Choate and Schmaltz1 discussed a design andbuild senior capstone experience in the thermal fluid sciences emphasizing professional ethicsand communication as well as the use of open ended design problems in undergraduateeducation. Kim2 explored the use of innovative design projects in a thermal fluids laboratorycourse to improve the undergraduates understanding of experimental data and design ofexperiments. Knight and McDonald3 looked at balancing the laboratory experience and designprojects in the distinct stems of Mechanical Engineering. Hoke and Somerton4 explored