Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Junichi Kanai; Jeff P. Morris; Mark Anderson

, and information search, in their projects. Ourgoal was to introduce skills and the extended features of these tools in various courses to makestudents more productive. These skills were originally introduced in capstone design courses.Some skills are now introduced in a sophomore level engineering design course and a freshmancourse. This paper introduces the issues and our approaches.1. IntroductionThe current generation of college students, who were born in 1990’s, grew up with personalcomputers, the Internet, and other digital “gadgets”. They use text messages, IM (instantmessage), e-mail, and cell phones to communicate with their peers every day. They also sharetheir lives by posting messages and uploading digital photos to social

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps II

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Ramers

systemsmanufactured by real processes with real materials.This paper describes some approaches undertaken to help students develop the competencieslisted above within a traditional Mechanical Engineering program at Gonzaga University. Theapproaches involve adding hands-on projects to existing manufacturing related courses,enhancing non-manufacturing courses with manufacturing issues and projects, and usingmanufacturing problems as senior capstone design projects.Enhancing Manufacturing Related CoursesIn many traditional Mechanical Engineering programs, the only exposure students have to Page 7.695.1manufacturing is to one manufacturing processes course. This

Conference Session

Themes in Renewable Energy and ET

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Florian Misoc P.E., Southern Polytechnic State University; Tommy D Ball; Austin B. Asgill, Southern Polytechnic State University; Cyril B Okhio P.E., Southern Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

project design and implementation on atopic of alternative energy application, consisting of: appropriate literature review,investigation of alternative designs, simulations, construction of prototypes or scaledfunctional models, experimental data collection and analysis of results. Each project waspresented, in a power-point format, to an audience comprised of faculty, students, and staff.Each presentation was evaluated, based on content and format, and was used to compute thefinal grade for each student. Since Alternate Energy course is one of the elective courses inthe capstone-courses pool, formal project reports were required from each student andformed part of their final grade.Ten projects were assigned in this course, with two or one

Collection

2021 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Jennifer Kadlowec, Baldwin Wallace University; Melanie Amadoro, Rowan University; Anu Osta, Rowan University

Capstone Design [5,6]. The use of entrepreneurial mindset can bemapped to ABET student outcomes and enhance learning with what are known as the 3C’s –Curiosity, (making) Connections, and Creating Value [1,7].In an effort to enhance Mechanical Engineering (ME) curriculum, faculty at a mid-AtlanticUniversity developed a project for use in undergraduate engineering courses. The purpose ofthis paper is to 1) describe the development and implementation of a project for use inundergraduate Statics and Dynamics courses, 2) describe the engineering skillset andentrepreneurial mindset outcomes for the students, 3) provide student and faculty feedback, and4) offer recommendations for improvement and adaptation.MethodsFaculty developed a project based with

Conference Session

Design for Community and Environment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Somerton, Michigan State University; Brian Thompson, Michigan State University; Alan Haddow, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

publicity and visibility aspects ofhumanitarian projects.Project LogisticsThese humanitarian projects are undertaken by teams of senior-level mechanical engineeringstudents registered in the capstone design course ME 481, Mechanical Engineering DesignProjects, for a team of senior-level mechanical engineering students. Most of the projects areindustrially-based in this course with the student team working on a funded project. However,each semester, at least one project is humanitarian-based where the student team is challenged to Page 11.705.2make a difference in the lives of people that are less fortunate than themselves. Such projectsrequire

Conference Session

Curriculum and New Course Development in ET

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ali Ahmad, Northwestern State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

 IET 3150 Fluid Power  IET 3510 Motion/Time FUNDAMENTALS  IET 3550 Material Major Courses  IET 1020 Engr Tools Handling MACHINING  CAPSTONE PROJECT  IET 1400 CAD IET 3570 Engineering  IET 2020 Machining  EET 4940 Project Design I  IET 2400 Adv CAD

Conference Session

Design in BME Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vladimir Genis, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

. Page 12.1268.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Senior Design Project in Biomedical Engineering EducationAbstractThe Senior Design Project for the 2005-2006 academic year’s biomedical engineeringstudents was a capstone experience, in which students participated in a real-worldengineering project in consultation with their advisor. The topic of the project was “APositive Reinforcement System for Children with Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy”. The maingoal of this project was to develop an auditory and visual therapy device for infants andchildren with hemiplegic cerebral palsy (CP) through a non-invasive approach with theincorporation of positive reinforcement. The proposed device incorporates proximitysensors and auditory

Conference Session

Innovative Lab and Hands-on Projects

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Obenchain; Keith Bearden; Dan Diaz; Brian Self

analysis of aircraft panels,biomechanics of football kicking, and the stress characteristics of friction stir welds. Theseprojects can be applied as a continuation of one of the other course projects noted above.ME 492z – Capstone Design for Intercollegiate Competition. Cadets from the departmentcompete in four different intercollegiate competitions, including SAE Mini- Baja West, FormulaSAE, SAE Aero Design West, and the ASME Human Powered Vehicle Challenge. The studentsmust design, analyze, and use their final product to compete against other universities. Morethan any other capstone project, these team competitions require the cadets to utilize their skillsfrom nearly all of their engineering courses. The team numbers are limited, however, and

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Tools for Planning and Evaluation of Design Projects

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Hammond, University of Indianapolis; Kenneth Reid, University of Indianapolis; Joseph B. Herzog, University of Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.2168-9830.2004.tb00820.x[6] N. Choi, “Self-efficacy and self-concept as predictors of college students’ academic performance,” Psychology in the Schools, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 197–205, Feb. 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pits.20048[7] J.C. Dunlap, “Problem-based learning and self-efficacy: How a capstone course prepares students for a profession,” Educational Technology Research and Development, Vol. 53, pp. 65–83, Mar. 2005. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02504858[8] S. Palmer & W. Hall, “An evaluation of a project-based learning initiative in engineering education,” European Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 357-365, Jul. 2011. https://doi.org/10.1080

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

James R. Rowland

continuous improvement for ABET Student Outcome(d). The two-semester senior capstone course that follows this course provides other teamingexperiences; the controls project described in this paper serves to precondition students forteaming principles one year earlier in their curriculum. An up-to-date survey of dynamic teamingresults is presented, followed by a description of team improvements in these term projects overthe past decade. Lessons learned since two earlier IEEE/ASEE Frontiers in Education (FIE)conference papers by the author in 2001 and 2002 are described with a focus on continuousimprovement. Important aspects of the teaming experience are initial formations of the teams,interactions between team members on their selection of

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan; Madara Ogot

. Then, it goes on to discuss how the use of the PMWsin conjunction with a weekly coordination meeting can readily address some of theproblems often encountered in team projects: student laggards, project scallop, and lackof communication.The approach has been implemented in three courses (freshman design, junior reverseengineering, and senior capstone). In this paper, we report our experience with theapproach in a freshman design course and present an assessment of its effectiveness inrelation to students’ perception on: (1) the importance of project management in designprojects, (2) the effectiveness and timing of project management concepts introduced,and (3) the impact of project management techniques used on their design performance.2

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks Session II - Courses II

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2017 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Randal T Abler, Georgia Institute of Technology; Edward J. Coyle, Georgia Institute of Technology; Talis Juhna, Riga Technical University; Hale Kim, Inha University; Stephen Marshall P.E., University of Strathclyde; Mauricio Pardo, Universidad del Norte; Julie Sonnenberg-Klein, Georgia Institute of Technology; Winston Spencer Percybrooks, Universidad del Norte

Tagged Topics

Main Forum (Podium Presentation)

departments.Background & Implementation: In order to contribute to the development of new industries bycultivating talent equipped with integrative capability suitable for quickly changing societaltrends, Inha established the VIP program. The VIP program can be considered a capstone designcourse having the features of 1) project-based learning, 2) team-based learning, 3) multi-disciplinary learning, and 4) multi-semester learning. In each VIP project, students make teamsconsisting of multi-disciplinary and multi-year students, and carry out a specific research projectguided by a professor. During the class, the professor’s lectures are minimized; instead, theinteractions of students with the professor, graduate mentors, and industrial experts are

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Valentin Razmov, University of Washington; Richard Anderson, University of Washington

development methodology5, characterized by shortfeedback cycles, frequent involvement of customers in making decisions, and flexibility toquickly adapt in response to changes in customer needs. (In the education scenario, customersare our metaphor for students.)Agile teaching is what teaching assistants often do in seminars and office hours, where theenvironment makes it easier to have closer interaction with individual students. It is aimed ateliciting and addressing specific questions that students have, thus complementing the more rigiddelivery of material in a conventional classroom environment. However, not all courses arecharacterized by inflexibility of structure in the larger classroom. In many project-based courses,including capstone courses

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Hensel; Paul Stiebitz

Session 2242 A Design Project Management Course at RIT E. C. Hensel, P. H. Stiebitz Mechanical Engineering / Industrial and Systems Engineering Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY 14623-5604Abstract Rochester Institute of Technology is currently implementing a college-wide initiative toincorporate multi-disciplinary design as a central theme for all students in the capstone designsequence. For several years, the Kate Gleason College of Engineering has supported a number ofmulti-disciplinary design teams

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Anderson; Paul Duesing; Marty Zoerner; Kevin Schmaltz

educational criteria setforth by the Senior Project Faculty Board (SPFB). In the setting suggested here, failure isnot an option, and the student team must deliver1.The authors of this paper have either coordinated and directed student teams, or haveacted as industrial contacts for one or more teams. The guiding philosophy behind ourindustry-based capstone senior design course sequence includes industry origination, abusiness setting and the teaching of non-technical (soft) skills. Industry projects demandreal solutions, as well as provide actual budgets and definite time constraints. To set abusiness tone, we provide all of the teams with a shared office space (cubicles,computers, phones, etc.), fostering a common work environment and sense

Collection

2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

Authors

Scott Matthew Boskovich, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Chris Burns, Boys Republic

Tagged Topics

Diversity

degree of complexity in design, the use of simulation enablesengineering students the ability to develop solutions for the system requirements. However, thiscan become problematic to adequately provide a realistic environment for teaching the design ofrobotics systems. In recent years, with the coordination between Cal Poly Pomona and BoysRepublic, we have developed Project Ponderosa. Project Ponderosa provides Cal Poly Pomonaengineering students the opportunity to design various robotics, and automation systems that willbe operated and maintained by Boys Republic students for Christmas Wreath Production at theirfacility. This project constitutes the college student’s senior capstone project providing themwith real-world experiences to prepare

Conference Session

Assessment

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindsey Anne Nelson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Engineering Capstone Coure. FIE Conference Proceedings. 2010.25. Estell JK, Reid K, Marquart J. Addressing third world poverty in first-year engineering capstone projects: Initial findings. ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings. 2010:AC 2010-2197.26. Chambers R. Rural Development: Putting the Last First. London: Longman; 1983.27. Chambers R. Whose Reality Counts? Putting the First Last. Warwickshire, England: ITDG; 1997.28. Brock K, McGee R, eds. Knowing Poverty: Critical Reflections on Participatory Research and Policy. London: Earthscan; 2002.29. McGregor JA. Researching wellbeing: from concepts to methodology. In: Gough I, McGregor JA, eds. Wellbeing in developing countries: From theory to research. Cambridge: Cambridge

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

F. Andrew Wolfe

thegroups worked extra hours to complete the project on time.Project 1 was a site plan for the Schenectady YWCA (See Figures 1 & 2). The YWCA isplanning to build a playground in the back of its property and needed a site plan for theengineers. The students were required to survey an area of approximately one acre. The surveyincluded topography and property lines. The site consists of two terraces separated by a 12 footslope. There is a small stone foundation, a 30 foot long retaining wall, basketball court and Page 5.373.3many trees on the site as well. The design work will become a Senior Capstone Design Projectfor several students.Project 2 was

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Gonzalez

Session 2209 BME Undergraduate Design Projects using Various Engineering Majors Roger V. Gonzalez LeTourneau UniversityAbstractFor the past four years, undergraduate students in Mechanical, Electrical, and ComputerEngineering at LeTourneau University have collaborated via year-long senior design sequencesto design, develop, and build an ambitious biomechanical model of an Intelligent Prosthetic Armas a stepping stone for the next generation of prosthetic limbs. While each of these engineeringdisciplines has their own senior design

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Genalo

from a co-op and was used not only in this statistics course, but as a follow-upproject in senior, capstone design. Figure 3 shows the rate of failure for the boards. Thetesting involved hundreds of chips and 30 different boards.Figure 3 : Failure Rates, Rockwell Project Page 4.34.4 Another experience with the software package takes place as part of a take-homefinal. The students are asked to find the maximum strength glue for a polymeric mixtureof three compounds. Figure 4 shows one of the graphs that a student printed to show thestrength as a function of two of the polymeric compounds. Figure 5 shows the optimalvalues found for mixing.Figure 4

Conference Session

Design in the Engineering Core

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sanford Meek; Mark Minor

by integrating the electronics, microcontroller,programming, and finishing touches to create an autonomous robot. Teams meet with coursestaff at these milestones to gain feedback and evaluate their progress. Throughout this processthey witness directly the impact of their design and instrumentation decisions on the performanceof their robot in a fun and competitive environment. The students are then better prepared fortheir fourth year capstone design project.1. Introduction Design is a skill often said to be best learned by experience. At the University of Utah,Mechanical Engineering students learn design by experience in this manner throughout the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacy Wilson; Dennis George; john bruni

of course or I,J program requirementsIV.17 7E Foreign language coursework HIV.18 7F Study abroad HIV.19 7G Independent study or self-designed major IIV.20 7H Culminating senior experience (capstone course, senior project or thesis, J,K comprehensive exam, etc)In Table 8, students responded to the following question: “To what extent has you experience at this institution contributed to your knowledge, skills, and personal development in the following areas?”With the

Conference Session

SE Curriculum and Course Management

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Clifton, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

Page 13.105.10platform. The author is considering redoing the project in fall 2008 and treating the currentproduct as an extensive prototype. The question would again arise of whether or not it should bebuilt upon an existing framework such as Software Process Dashboard.AcknowledgementThe author would like to acknowledge the students in the software engineering capstone projectcourses that worked on the tool: Tim Bauman, Bryan Boyer, Aaron Carlson, Nate Edwards, WillFritz, Kyle Heins, Chris Herrick, Dennis Kalinowski, Gavin Kinsley, Nick Klauer, ScottMessner, Simon Polkowske, Bill Pyne, Dallas Ramsden, Eric Rice, Andy Schaumberg, KyleStangel, Chris Treml, Nate Weiss, and Aaron Westerdale.References[1] Clifton, J (2006), “Software Engineering

Conference Session

Design Methodology

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Kurtz, University of Notre Dame; Jay Brockman, University of Notre Dame; Ramzi Bualuan, University of Notre Dame

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

MOSIS demonstrates the feasibility of the first design process. Better yet,the robot is currently operated via an FPGA board running Verilog code written by Page 14.989.10undergraduate students at Notre Dame. Throughout the process of reworking the controlstructure for Godzilla, undergraduate students have been exposed to numerous differentCAD tools, design strategies, and circuit properties. Based on all of our experiences, wehave learned that while both approaches offer different benefits, the FPGA approach ismore conducive to a capstone project for a VLSI Design class.AcknowledgmentsSpecial thanks goes to visiting professor Dr. Michael Ciletti for

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Teams

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelly Crittenden, Louisiana Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

responsible for the same material and arestill required to participate in team meetings.Attracting and Retaining Other MajorsIt is relatively easy to attract senior engineering students to IMPaCT. These students have beenworking in teams throughout most of their college classes and are required to complete some sortof year-long capstone project. However, other students are not as accustomed to working onteams and are not required to complete a course like IMPaCT. Business students do have anatural connection to IMPaCT through the entrepreneurial aspect of IMPaCT, though it stillremains difficult to retain business students for the entire year. These problems are beingaddressed through increased publication across campus though flyers, webpages

Conference Session

Design Communications

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Riddell, Rowan University; Maria Simone, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Peter Mark Jansson, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

design.IntroductionThe significant changes that accompanied the ABET 2000 document1 reflected theobservation by academia and industry that engineering education needed to change tobetter prepare engineering graduates for the current work environment2,3. One result ofthese changes is that both design and communication have been given increasinglyimportant treatment in undergraduate engineering curriculum. Project-based courseshave been gaining acceptance as a means to introduce design experiences into thecurriculum prior to the senior capstone design course4-6. In some cases, communicationcontent has been integrated into engineering content as well7.Undergraduate students in the College of Engineering at Rowan University take asequence of eight project based

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Redfield; Michael Guarraia; Suzanne Keilson

. The senior design capstone course at Loyola College is intended to be a culmination ofall undergraduate coursework. The design project should consider realistic engineeringconstraints such as cost, time, manufacturability (such as the ability to solder parts together), andpower consumption. From the students' perspective, some of the project goals included gaininga more thorough understanding of a material and its properties (based on theoretical knowledgeand current manufacturing practice), to design a socially beneficial project, and to be able toconstruct a working model under realistic budget and time constraints. The real classroomconstraints were $400 for the total budget for the design team of two students and all work,beginning in

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dick Blandford, University of Evansville; Christina Howe, University of Evansville; Anthony Richardson, University of Evansville; David Mitchell, University of Evansville

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

systems, and less often digital controls or networks.More elaborate projects are done as a capstone experience. This paper is limited to non-capstoneprojects that include both hardware and software and are most frequently done in the sophomoreand junior year of a computer engineering program.Since such projects involve multiple areas within different disciplines, instructor's expectations,and work done over more than one year, it becomes difficult to assess how much of each topic agiven student has covered. This paper suggests a way to classify such projects using the topicsoutlined in the Computer Engineering Body of Knowledge (BOK) document produced in 2004by a joint task force of IEEE Computer Society and the ACM. A sample project is given

Collection

2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jeffrey Ashworth; Samer Shaghoury

Practical Lecture, Research, and Projects Based Engineering Education Jeffrey Ashworth, Ph.D., and Samer Shaghoury Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott CampusAbstractA lecture, research, and projects based course has stimulated student interest in aircraftaerodynamics, performance, and static stability and overwhelmingly enhanced preparation forthe practical aircraft conceptual/preliminary capstone design course. This unique elective coursetitled “Aircraft Flight Mechanics and Performance” uses learning methods reinforced byapplication techniques to analyze actual aircraft performance. Semester lectures cover threetopics in nearly equal segments

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer C Mallette, Boise State University; Harold Ackler P.E., Boise State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

writing component in a year-long senior capstone materialsscience and engineering (MSE) course sequence. This course requires students to completeprojects for clients and produce a written report, among other deliverables. To focus more onwriting education, the engineering professors brought in an English professor, who researchesengineering communication and is coordinating this project, to consult on assignments, commenton student work, and present on writing topics, including managing the writing aspect ofcollaborative work. Here, we assess the impacts of interventions on student writing andcollaboration, focusing on women’s experiences through a series of interviews. These interviewsfocused on learning more about women’s past experiences