Conference Session

Design with External Clients

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Cross, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

Dakota School of Mines and Technology revamped the designcurriculum. The design curriculum consisted of MET 351—Engineering Design I and 352—Engineering Design II for juniors and MET 464—Engineering Design III and MET 465—Engineering Design IV for seniors2. The purpose and objectives of these classes can be Page 15.904.2summarized by the following Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) self-study description3. This is a two-course sequence in Interdisciplinary Senior Capstone Design Project (ISCDP) that involves both lecture and design practice sessions. The course integrates vertically and horizontally

Conference Session

DEED Potpourri

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oscar Nespoli, University of Waterloo; Steve Lambert, University of Waterloo

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Design in Engineering Education

Page 15.480.3The case study development method is depicted in Figure 1, while the source identification anddevelopment methods are depicted in Figures 2 to 6 below. The case study development methodis described first, and the source material development methods described thereafter.Case sources used by WCDE are: i. Co-op student experiences and work-term reports ii. Capstone design project experiences and reports iii. Master of Engineering (MEng) design project experiences and design case study reports iv. Industry partner direct experiences and interaction with facultyCase Study Development ProcessThe case study development process begins with the intent to develop decision by the casedeveloper, student, faculty member and

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Salah Badjou

written form. Emphasis is placed on research, innovation, project management, decision- making, prototyping, design for manufacturing, design for testability, environmental and ethical issues in design, depth and breadth of analysis, quality of hardware, documentation, and communications. Prerequisites: Junior Status; ELMC160 Electromechanical Design I; MECH302 Mechanics of Materials; ELEC244 Digital Systems; ELEC443 Analog Circuit Design. Students are subsequently required to take 2 semesters of capstone design course (8 credithours), ELMC 831 and ELMC 881, in their 5th year. Therefore, the design projects provide afocus and integrator of other, more traditional, courses. This approach has been very

Conference Session

Sustainability, Service Learning, and Entreprenuership

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Randall Brouwer, Calvin College; Steven VanderLeest, Calvin College; Paulo Ribeiro, Calvin College; Robert Medema, Calvin College

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

weaved the topics of thecourse into the development of the business plan. Since most of the students concurrently aretaking their capstone design course, the business plans are required to tie into their senior designprojects. Such a linking of the business and senior design courses drives home the importance ofthe business side of engineering. Students are required to view their design projects from anenterprise perspective. The necessity of producing, pricing and marketing products and serviceswith a profit objective for sustainability is emphasized. Students are also instructed in the basicsof organization financing, capital budgeting and interpretation of financial statements.Management principles are taught from the perspective of servant

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jorge Rodriguez, Western Michigan University; Alamgir Choudhury, Western Michigan University

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Mechanical Engineering

, every factor in the life cycle of the product should be taken into account. Aspart of a Capstone Design Project, and with the goal of illustrating complete engineering designprocesses where factors besides the technical ones need to be taken into account, industry-sponsored projects are undertaken by teams of students. The project presented here deals with anautomotive subassembly that needed to be redesigned and evaluated. The system is a powerslider assembly which is installed in the rear of current-model trucks and powers the rearwindow. The current design is bulky, expensive, and takes too much time to install. Theobjective of the project was to introduce a new design for the power slider which would be moreefficient in terms of operation

Conference Session

Learning by Doing

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorge Tito-Izquierdo, University of Houston, Downtown; Alberto Gomez-Rivas, University of Houston, Downtown

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

indicates that the project leads to an excellent compliance of thecourse outcomes.IntroductionSenior Steel Design is one of the capstone courses of the Structural Analysis and Designprogram at the University of Houston Downtown. Students taking this course are in their Senioryear and they were previously introduced to classes of Structural Analysis and Steel Design. Thecourse is taught every other semester, and typically there are between 25 and 30 studentsenrolled.One of the outcomes defined for this capstone course is the evaluation of existing structures, forwhich this project is selected. It consists in the structural evaluation of an existing pedestrianbridge in order to determine if it is able to withstand the loads indicated in current

Conference Session

Sustainable Energy Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Shepard, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Camille George, University of St. Thomas

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Page 15.1073.3The project was open-ended and the performance of the design was minimally weightedin the grading to allow students to be as creative as they liked. The instructor wasavailable for questions and to help recognize potential issues but refrained from offeringsuggestions during the design phase. As the students had yet to take a heat transfercourse the project was not intended to be a capstone, but did provide a qualitativeintroduction to the different forms of heat transfer and how they occur. The finalproducts can be seen in Figure 1; note the use of shaded glasses for protection from thebrightness of the collected and focused light. Figure 1. Solar cookers in actionUpon completion, the solar cookers

Conference Session

Engineering in the Middle Grades

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roy McGrann, State University of New York, Binghamton; Wayne Jones, State University of New York, Binghamton; Susannah Gal, State University of New York, Binghamton; Andy Cavagnetto, State University of New York, Binghamton; Dan Brennan, Broome Community College - SUNY; Thomas O'Brien, State University of New York, Binghamton

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

fieldtrips and guest speakers related to the contentarea instruction. Examples of fieldtrips from the pilot program include: a solar installationcompany, Broome County landfill, BU Nature Preserve and Recycling Centers, BAE Systems,and a New York State Energy Research and Development Authority “Energy Bike.” Sessions on days 2-9 and on the morning of day 10 are devoted to student team projectwork. The team projects serve as the capstone research experience of the Go Green Institute.Working in groups of four, students explore student-selected projects focused around the issue ofenvironmental sustainability. Each group has a Go Green Institute staff mentor. Projects selected by students during the summer 2008 pilot program included: How

Conference Session

Innovative Instructional Strategies and Curricula

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jayathi Raghavan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Hong Liu, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

effectively analyze a complex problem arising from a variety of application fields. e. The student will learn how to work collaboratively and productively on complex projects that arise in current research. These projects will provide a capstone experience for Page 15.160.3 students in this degree. f. The student, upon completion of this program, will be able to find employment in a large number of industries including aviation and aerospace industries, or the student, upon completion of this program, will be able to pursue graduate work in either an applied mathematics program or a computational science program

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sinead MacNamara; Clare Olsen; Laura Steinberg, Syracuse University; Samuel Clemence, Syracuse University

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Civil Engineering

presentations to provide students with the creative andtechnical skills to address a wide range of design problems. In engineering education atSyracuse University (and in many Civil Engineering programs throughout the country),the design studio is viewed as a capstone course for seniors in the Civil Engineeringprogram and for many students, it is the first exposure to an individual design project.While both the architecture and civil engineering courses emphasize design, they differ inseveral ways: the architecture studio spends more time on conceptual designs andinnovative solutions that do not necessarily bring the projects to a level of technicalresolution beyond the schematic; whereas the engineering design course is necessarilyfocused on the full

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanical Systems: What's New

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raghu Echempati, Kettering University; Richard Dippery, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

the power and speed limits ofthe system are specified, leaving everything else open-ended. Students are expected to start withan application in mind that uses a similar subsystem, and justify all the subsequent assumed data,including the safety factors. This produced several alternative designs, which can be used by theinstructor for future classes. Each design report can serve as a case study that includes the mathand CAE tools that the students used for the project. Conventionally, many capstone designclasses use this approach. However, to a smaller scale, this idea serves the same purpose as acapstone course. Several other alternative inputs may be specified rather than input power and

Conference Session

Assessment & Continuous Improvement in ECET: Part II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Youakim Al Kalaani, Georgia Southern University; Shonda Bernadin, GSU

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

faculty-wide review is triggered. Table 4 – Capstone Project Assessment SummaryAs can be seen in Table 4, the rubric average dealing with continuous improvement fell belowthe 2.5 benchmark. The course instructor completed a CIE report which documented a strategyfor instructional improvement and submitted it to the program coordinator. A copy of the actualCIE report is shown in Table 5 below. Continuous Improvement Efforts (CIE) Report Course/Activity Measured: TEET 4620- Senior Project Semester: Spring 2008 Prepared by: Dr. K What issue was triggered that prompted change? Course Outcome

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Flikkema, Northern Arizona University; Jeff Frolik, University of Vermont; Carol Haden, Magnolia Consulting; Tom Weller, University of South Florida

systems that not only sense, but perform autonomous or semi-autonomousinference, decision-making, and control or actuation. They directly incorporate almost everysubdiscipline in electrical engineering, computer engineering, and computer science, fromtransducer technology to human interface design.The first year of this project was devoted primarily to developing a capstone course that couldserve as a model for constructing portable course content [7]. We have successfullyimplemented an inverted classroom paradigm [8,9] where students watch video lecture moduleson the web, and class time is devoted to discussion and open-ended exploration of relevant,related topics. As we will describe later, all course content is available on the project web

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Wangping Sun

a senior capstone project or service learning in the community abroad (such as finding water and sanitation solutions for a community that is having a high incidence of waterborne diseases; health surveys and health education for the local people). 8. Research abroad: the student travels to a laboratory abroad and conducts research under the guidance of a faculty member or research associate. 9. Faculty exchange: the faculty member from the home university teaches, or co-teaches a class of the students in the university abroad. 10. Distance learning: internet technology (web-conferencing, list-serv, emails, etc.) is used to create a virtual community for learning across cultural and national boundaries

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Andrew C. Foley; Eben H. Phillips

Science etc) the nature of the courses becomes more‘demonstrative’. Culmination of the sequences is the two semester Capstone coursewhere students undertake their own unique projects, creating specifications, generatingalternatives and developing chosen solutions. Foley (2007) discusses the design processused at the Academy in more detail. This paper however discusses a particular methodology of ‘rapid fire’ theory tohardware realization in a unique sophomore design course. The outcomes were ambitiousand initially a little open ended, but once correctly indentified were seen to have beenachieved. DESIGN PROGRESSION Sophomore Junior Introduction to Mechanical

Conference Session

Sustainability, Service Learning, and Entreprenuership

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shekar Viswanathan, National University, San Diego; Howard Evans, National University, San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

of this course, the students define the problem/hypothesis, and gather data from literature searches and/or client organization, if applicableSEM 610 B Capstone This continuation course may focus on methodology, dataCourse analysis, results, modeling/simulation, conclusions and recommendations related to the project selected. Students are required to present their research in both written and oral form to students and faculty and if applicable to client organization. Table 1: Description of Courses in the ProgramProgram Assessment:The assessment of this program at the course and program levels is established at

Conference Session

Instructional Innovations in Architectural Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammed Haque, Texas A&M University

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Architectural

-spacerelationship visualization in 4D (3D+Schedule), time-space-cost relationship visualization in 5D(3D+Schedule+Cost), and Time-Space-Activity Conflict Detection using 4D Visualization inMulti-Storied Construction Project. In this paper, the author compiled his recent researchactivities in virtual construction visualization and animations that can be valuable coursecontents for graduate construction education and research. The author also believes that thesematerials can be valuable topics for senior capstone design courses for undergraduates inconstruction engineering and management.VR, 3-D animation and walkthrough: Haque7 has developed 3D models of steel, concrete andwood framed structures, and placed them in a virtual world using AutoCAD, 3ds MAX

Conference Session

Construction Classroom Development

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Whitney Lutey, Montana State University; Penny Knoll, Montana State University

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Construction

Industrial and Management Engineering from Montana State University.Penny Knoll, Montana State University Professor Knoll was in the commercial design-build sector of construction in Phoenix, Arizona, from 1987 to 1999 and owned her own design-build construction firm for eight years before retiring the firm to take the full time position at Montana State University in 2000. She is the program coordinator for the Construction Engineering Technology (CET) program as well as the graduate program, Master of Construction Engineering Managment. These programs are housed in the Department of Civil Engineering. Professor Knoll teaches the CET capstone course, CET 408, Construction Project Management

Conference Session

Faculty Set the Preliminary Standards for Co-ops

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daryl Caswell, University of Calgary; Sarah Lockwood, University of Calgary; Jane Leung, University of Calgary

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

designprojects each year. The course capstone project is an eight week design challenge thatrequires students to collaborate with a social agency on developing solutions to currentsocial issues in Calgary and around the world.The topic of this paper centers on the potential for simultaneous and multiple levellearning events by placing design and communication skill development in the social andcultural arena. At the Schulich School of Engineering, the first year design andcommunication course partners with local and international agencies that welcome theopportunity to benefit from the creative abilities of over 700 students collaborating in 200teams and to participate in the creation of engineers who are able to see the broad societaland cultural

Conference Session

Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nadia Kellam, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Tracie Costantino, University of Georgia; Bonnie Cramond, University of Georgia

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

of artistic cognition and the transformative potential of aesthetic experience as an educative event. She is exploring this topic in an interdisciplinary curriculum project funded by the National Science Foundation with colleagues from engineering and creativity studies. In addition to numerous published articles and book chapters, Costantino has served as the editor of the Arts & Learning Research Journal and associate editor for the International Journal for Education & the Arts.Bonnie Cramond, University of Georgia Bonnie Cramond, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology at the University of Georgia. An international and

Conference Session

Methods, Techniques and New Programs in Graduate Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Dyrenfurth, Purdue University; Mike Murphy, Dublin Institute of Technology; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University; Robert Herrick, Purdue University; Gareth O'Donnell, Dublin Institute of Technology; Kathryne Newton, Purdue University; Nuria Castell, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya; Miquel Barcelo, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya; Didac Balas, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya; Maria Ribera Sancho, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya; Donal McHale, Dublin Institute of Technology; Jordi Garcia, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya

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Graduate Studies

existing MS degrees.Students will be able to enter, pursuant to a collaborative application and admissions process, viaany of the three partner universities and after completing the program successfully, they willgraduate with a Masters of Science (Technology) from Purdue University and an existingMasters degree from the European partner via which they entered the program. One jointresearch &development-based capstone Directed Project/Thesis is required of all students.Beyond the course requirements designated by each institution, students’ study will be tailored totheir specific goals by a faculty committee consisting of two Purdue and two European faculty.In addition to the two degrees awarded upon completion, each student will receive a

Conference Session

Innovations in Civil Engineering Education I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Burian, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

engineering practice of sustainability in general. Furthermore, the coverage ofsustainability is not reinforced in a systematic way through readings, homework, projects, etc.such that it could be assessed as a learning objective.Of the upper level courses incorporating lessons or modules, the capstone senior design coursehas the most encompassing coverage of sustainability. A dedicated lesson on EngineeringSustainability is delivered near the beginning of the semester. The lesson includes coverage ongeneral sustainability concepts including the three spheres of sustainability, the U.S. GreenBuilding Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) professionalaccreditation and project certification programs, and ASCE initiatives and

Conference Session

New Research & Trends for Minorities in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Imbertson, University of Minnesota-ECE; Anders Sonnenburg, Xcel Energy; Munira Masoud, Xcel Energy; Meron Demissie, Mortenson Construction

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Minorities in Engineering

director of the service learning program at Purdue University, EPICS(Engineering Projects In Community Service). In the past when Dr. Oakes would reviewstandard student capstone engineering projects, that is non-service learning, he would oftenencounter projects that didn’t work. The students could show that they worked hard on theirprojects but many aspects of their projects, and much of their understanding of the technologies,were incomplete. Dr. Oakes would contrast these experiences to his experiences reviewingservice learning projects. The service learning projects were almost always complete andworking, and the students had full and deep understanding of the technologies. The reasons forthis difference are likely twofold. First, the students

Conference Session

Design Education I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Priya Manohar, Robert Morris University

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Manufacturing

program1. Majority of theinstitutions have a sequence of courses that emphasize different aspects of designeducation2. The sequence finally ends with the completion of a year-long capstone designproject as graduation requirement3,4. One of the stumbling blocks that students experiencein this process is their limited ability to work with real materials and processes to buildreal products and prototypes that are needed to demonstrate their designs. These issueshave been reported by several institutions. For example, “Learning by Doing” philosophywas implemented at CalPoly5 by incorporating machining, foundry and weldinglaboratory exercises in their curriculum. An experimental session in an otherwise theory-based class helped improve learning quality

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Solarek, University of Toledo; Hong Wang, The University of Toledo; Allen Rioux, The University of Toledo; William Evans, The University of Toledo; weiqing sun, The University of Toledo

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

AssessmentThe CSET program utilizes an assessment process that relies on multiple measures andmultiple evaluators. Data used to demonstrate achievement include but are not limited to: • course grades (each term) • representative samples of student work (periodically) • co-op surveys of students and employers (each semester, an increasing number of students) • placement data (employment and graduate school) (annually) • class surveys (each semester) • senior capstone projects and reports • graduate exit survey (each semester) • feedback from alumni (annually)The assessment process follows the basic procedures as follows: • Course Assessment Data • Responsible Personnel: Program

Conference Session

Communication in Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Mellodge, University of Hartford; Fouad El Khoury, University of Hartford

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Design in Engineering Education

technology in a professional setting.Within engineering education, wikis have been used in several ways at several different levels.One example is the creation of ePortfolios in a freshman engineering design course8. Thestudents were given writing assignments in which they reflected on the human implications ofdesign. Another example can be found in a team-based capstone design project in which thewiki was used to document social knowledge and assess group performance9. A third example isa student-written online textbook5. In a senior level chemical engineering process controlscourse, an open-source text was written, edited, and reviewed by the students to allow them tolearn the course content though teaching it.This paper describes the use of a

Conference Session

Educational Research & Methods Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Ryan; Nhut Ho; Shelley Bartenstein

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Excel environment, but also included a briefintroduction to Finite Element Analysis (FEA) using CosmosWorks. A detailed description ofthese courses and some preliminary assessment results from the 2005 time frame were given byRyan and Ho in 20061.After this new course sequence was offered for several years, and feedback was collected via theDepartment’s assessment process, it was felt that a more comprehensive approach towardrevision of the design sequence was required. In particular, it was noted that our students’readiness for senior design was still very non-uniform, which left some students unable tocontribute effectively to their capstone projects. A faculty committee was formed which included

Conference Session

Design in BME Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nur Ozaltin, University of Pittsburgh; Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Larry Shuman, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

’ design; and to date, very little work has focused on the process variables and factorsthat potentially influence innovation. This work attempts to investigate such influencers.Data CollectionWe collected data from both senior bioengineering students in their capstone courses, as well asdata about their final prototypes from the faculty instructors. Further, we collected informationfrom experts and practitioners in bioengineering design as input to this study.1. Data Collection From StudentsWe collected data from bioengineering students’ senior capstone projects during the 2007-08 and2008-09 academic years. For this research, we had 26 teams from two institutions thatparticipated in our study. The teams varied from three to five students. For

Conference Session

Enhancing CE Learning Through Use of Technology

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Alhassan, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne; James Welch, Indiana-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW)

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

packages available to professionals.Allowing students to learn the software step by step (modeling, analysis, and design) in asequential approach through successive interrelated core and elective courses (StructuralAnalysis, Reinforced Concrete Design, and Steel Design), supplies the students with thefundamentals needed to tackle large projects on their own. This paper illuminates the variouslearning projects that were given to the students in the courses mentioned above. The papercontinues with a demonstration to a practical application as civil engineering students usedSAP2000 to design a pedestrian bridge for the required capstone senior design course. Theproject allowed the students to further explore the various design capabilities of SAP2000

Conference Session

Innovations in Civil Engineering Education III

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah McCubbin-Cain, University of Kentucky; Bruce Tschantz, University of Tennessee - Knoxville

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

and levee safety, and theshortage will likely increase as “boomer-era” experts retire. Accordingly, ASDSO is providingincentives to attract students to the field through a Speakers Bureau, a Student EmploymentOpportunities Clearinghouse, a Student Paper Competition, scholarship awards, and free studentadmission to the group’s national and regional conferences.Additionally, ASDSO seeks to increase collaboration between its members and universities inthe areas of specialized training, research, and development of capstone courses.This paper will: Look at current hiring needs within government and private sector communities; Outline how ASDSO’s projects are helping to attract students to professions in dam and levee safety; and