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
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
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
-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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
juniors), team activities typicallyinvolve only the six or seven students enrolled in the capstone project. All the HPVC studentsexpressed frustration that they were “not allowed to do anything” until they were in charge. Thenon-capstone students, and especially new members, have no input on the design or building oftheir vehicle. Often the capstone students do not even include these other team members incommunications to arrange meetings or work times. Thus, students have very little opportunityto learn anything about the vehicle design, component manufacturing, or administrative tasksbefore they are responsible for the entire project. Because of the tight affiliation with thecapstone graduation requirement, this team maintains formidable
wereencouraged to continue to work together in the College of Engineering Senior Design I andSenior Design II courses with the intent of them being able to commercialize the design.Part of the faculty effort was to build and promote a culture of innovation among engineeringstudents; therefore as a follow up from the course offering in the spring 2013 the facultysupported two projects during their capstone senior design courses for the fall 2013-spring 2014semesters with a strong plan for commercialization of the product. These students weremotivated, self-driven and excited about their projects and the possibility of launching a businesssuccessfully by using our program, and taking advantage of the resources available to them fromour University’s Office
Carolina University providea series of five PBL courses from the freshman to the senior year. The last two of these coursesform the fourth year capstone sequence where students do projects for external sponsors,typically companies. Leading up to this point the students learn and apply the skills required forsuccessfully executing major technical projects.This paper will outline the shared PBL course sequence at Western Carolina University in theSchool of Engineering+Technology. The School houses disciplines ranging from Electrical toMechanical Engineering. More uniquely, the Engineering Technology and Engineering programsare not separated into separate schools. As a result the PBL project teams contain amultidisciplinary mix of students with a
. His research focuses on diverse areas such as: D ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Smart System Projects in Computer Engineering ProgramAbstractThe purpose of capstone design project courses is to provide graduating senior students with theopportunity to demonstrate understanding of the concepts they have learned during their studiesand to apply their professional skills and knowledge in a single experience and prepare them forwork in industry. As with many computer science and engineering programs, students of thecomputer engineering program at Utah Valley University (UVU) conclude their degree programswith a semester capstone design experience. The intent is for students to utilize
corporations and operated her own communications consulting firm.Dr. Robert Hart P.E., University of Texas at Dallas Robert Hart is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Uni- versity of Texas at Dallas (UTD). He teaches the capstone design course sequence and serves as a Director for the UTDesign program, which facilitates corporate sponsorship of capstone projects and promotes re- source sharing and cross-disciplinary collaboration among engineering departments. His professional interests are in the areas of engineering education, fluid mechanics, and thermal science. He is an active member of ASME and ASEE and has been a member of the Capstone Design Conference organizing com
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
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
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
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
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
Classroom,” LEGO Engineering, 2014. [Online]. Available: http://www.legoengineering.com/learning-stem-in-the-classroom/.[6] “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, 2020 – 2021,” abet.org, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/criteria-for-accrediting-engineering-progr ams-2020-2021/. [Accessed: 21-Jan-2020].[7] B. I. Hyman, “From Capstone to Cornerstone: A New Paradigm for Design Education,” Int. J. Eng. Educ., vol. 17, no. 4–5, pp. 416–420, 2001.[8] R. N. Savage, K. C. Chen, and L. Vanasupa, “Integrating Project-based Learning throughout the Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum,” vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 15–27, 2007.[9] C. M. Kellett, “A project-based learning
Paper ID #26931Board 38: Experiential Learning Opportunities through Collaborative ProjectsDr. Rustin G Vogt, California State University Sacramento Rustin Vogt is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at California State University, Sacramento. Pro- fessor Vogt holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Materials Science Engineering. His teaching focus is on Materials Selection in Design and Sustainability, Manufacturing, Machine Design, and the capstone senior project course. Professor Vogt was the lead faculty on for the CSU Sacramento State entry into the 2016 SMUD Tiny House Competition and played a supporting
impact.Constructivist theories of learning also recognize that learning is a social activity6. This meansthat the laboratory instruction and project-based design courses can be identified as opportunitiesto improve students’ ability to work in teams, as well as their communication skills. As a result,many civil engineering programs now incorporate many of these dimensions in their designclasses, ranging from cornerstone to capstone design courses7.IllustrationsThe civil and environmental engineering department has implemented project (cooperativelearning) based exercises in the CE 3801 Environmental Engineering Laboratory course (juniorlevel civil engineering course). In this course, student groups (three to four) were formed tofacilitate team-based
control system. Dr. Ansari is a professor of Computer Engineering at Virginia State University.Dr. Pamela Leigh-Mack, Virginia State UniversityDr. James Irvin Cooke Jr., Virginia State University Director of Assessment and Senior Capstone Experiences Program Coordinator of Information Logistics program Department of Technology Virginia State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Extended Summer Research to Senior Design Project Jinmyun Jo1, Xiaoyu Zhang2, Pamela Leigh-Mack1, Ali Ansari1, James I. Cooke Jr1 Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA 238061 Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 235292IntroductionThere
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engineering faculty advisor, principal investigator and project manager over thepast eight years on WERCware has also been a valuable learning experience and significantprofessional development opportunity for this author, much more than advising the former once-and-done senior capstone projects typical of our previous undergraduate curriculum. Theongoing multiyear project curriculum encourages continuity of focus, with opportunities todevelop long-term relationships while working toward meeting and satisfying real communityneeds. Learning to address the social need of those with high functional autism and othercognitive and behavioral disabilities brings the technology in a unique direction (e.g., exploringBiometric sensors to select the best
Paper ID #31251Interdisciplinary Design Project Teams: Structuring an ImpactfulExperienceProf. Jeanne M Homer, Oklahoma State University Professor Homer received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her Master of Architecture from Arizona State University in Tempe. She has been a practicing ar- chitect in Chicago, Phoenix, and Oklahoma. While she was practicing, she taught at the Art Institute of Chicago and at Arizona State University before teaching in Stillwater full time for 17 years. Profes- sor Homer received the 2013 International Education Faculty Excellence Award, the
can lead to mismatches in expectations as wellas missed opportunities for fruitful collaboration.This paper explores the perceived value of participating as an industry-sponsor tomultidisciplinary engineering design capstone courses. Four industry partners wereinterviewed in the beginning, middle and end of two project-based courses (and one industrypartner once) to track what value they expected from the course and what value theyperceived to be delivered. The thirteen in-depth interviews averaged 50 minutes, were audio-recorded and transcribed for analysis.Based on the qualitative analysis, the motivation to take part as a sponsor in these project-based courses initially centered around new innovative products. However, there was acontinuum