Conference Session

Studies in Engineering Design

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicky Wolmarans, University of Cape Town; Jennifer M. Case, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

the introduction of a particular design thinking tool orheuristic and suggest ways in which the tools might be simplified for introduction in earlydesign tasks, for example Kline, et al. [25] discussed the modification of a 'design canvas' formore and less complex use in capstone and first year courses respectively. In their discussionof CDIO, Edström and Kolmos [26] refer to progression in complexity of projects, wherecomplexity increases in multiple dimensions including group size, duration of project, andscope of knowledge required. They suggest that the most complex projects are open ended,ill-defined, and have contradictory objectives. However, they don't provide much detail onconstructing a sequence of tasks.At a more general level

Collection

2019 ASEE Zone I Conference & Workshop

Authors

Stephen Wilkerson; Joe Cerreta; Andrew D Gadsden

crop cycles currently dominatingMaryland and Pennsylvania farms. This program is formulated as a project-based learning(PBL) initiative. In particular, the program is a Capstone Design 2-semester course thatadditionally has design and build criteria as a requirement. Completion of this project is arequirement for graduation, and students usually take the capstone design course in their senioryear. Because this course is within the Engineering and Computer Science curriculum of thecollege, however, many of the topics that the students are required to learn are well outside oftheir typical course requirements. In this paper, we detail the approach to having undergraduatestudents research and master multiple technology areas and then apply them

Collection

Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

Authors

Daniel K. Jones P.E., State University of New York, Polytechnic Institute; Joanne M Joseph, SUNYPOLY

Tagged Topics

Diversity

dramatically differentdisciplines to work together and come up with new ideas that would otherwise not be possible.Semester-by-semester ProgressThe project commenced in the spring of 2017. CBH and MET students and faculty from SUNYPoly visited CABVI and listened to a series of staff presentations on potential projects. This ledto several different capstone projects, one of which was the braille block project. The firstcapstone group produced braille tiles and a scrabble board with square braille blocks [6]. Asshown in Figure 1, the initial designs were laid out using AutoCAD, and the final models weredesigned using SolidWorks. Figure 1. Braille tile and scrabble board prototypes [6]CBH and MET students met weekly to share design

Conference Session

Design in the BME Curriculum

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Judy Cezeaux, Western New England College; Thomas Keyser, Western New England College; Eric Haffner, Western New England College; Anne Kaboray, Goodwill Industries of the Springfield/Hartford Area, Inc.; Carol Hasenjager, Goodwill Industries of the Springfield/Hartford Area, Inc.

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Biomedical

the design process. Such design experiences commonlyoccur in first year introduction to design courses 1, 2 and capstone design courses. 3, 4, 5 Facultymembers in biomedical engineering and industrial engineering at Western New England Collegehave previously described a 5-week design experience,6 based on the NISH National ScholarAward for Workplace Innovation & Design,7 that provided an opportunity for students to designassistive technologies for workers with disabilities at Goodwill Industries of theSpringfield/Hartford Area, Inc., a local nonprofit agency performing light manufacturing work.These projects were completed in interdisciplinary teams as requirements in senior biomedicalengineering and industrial engineering laboratory

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Aaron R. Byerley; Edward M. O'Brien

efforts while still allowing the students to makeand learn from their mistakes.I. Introduction-- Understanding the Challenges The Mercer University School of Engineering has a two-quarter senior capstone design sequence.The purpose of this sequence is to have the students integrate their engineering science knowledge withdesign methodology, decision analysis, and project management. This can be very challenging for thestudents. The open-ended nature of a substantive design project presents special problems for students whohave spent most of their time and energy in engineering science courses which have emphasized analysis.Recent progress in spreading design across the curriculum has helped to remind students how analysis can beused to

Conference Session

Outreach and Freshman Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Smith; Wayne Walter

example, contained numerous papers on newprograms and important findings from existing programs [1-9]. Traditionally, these designcourses have taken the form of a capstone project or formal course for students in the final yearor two of a baccalaureate program, but many schools have instituted courses and fully integratedproduct development programs beginning with first year students [6,7,10]. ABET has alsorecognized the importance of a team-based design experience for necessary skill development inundergraduate engineering students [11].Many authors have suggested and documented a number of benefits associated with collaborativedesign projects [2,3,5-8,10,14-16]: innovative problem solving, improved handling of complexityand ambiguity, enhanced

Conference Session

Advances in Engineering Economy Pedagogy

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Kauffmann, East Carolina University; Stephanie Sullivan, East Carolina University; Gene Dixon, East Carolina University; B.J. Kim, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

skillsdeveloped in previous courses. Using this focus, concepts can be mapped from one course to thenext, can be reinforced, and can be developed in a richer and more applied context. The paperaddresses integration of a natural and related group of three topical areas found in manyengineering programs and identified as high priority skills by industry: statistics, engineeringeconomics and project management. Page 15.780.3Curriculum ContextThe basic course plan of the curricular integration implementation rests on the sequence ofcourses described in Figure 1. Although it is not always possible to predict the requirements ofthe capstone project, the

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nassif E. Rayess, University of Detroit Mercy; Brian A. Garner, Baylor University; Darrell K. Kleinke, University of Detroit Mercy; Rebecca P. Blust, University of Dayton; William M. Jordan, Baylor University; Edmond John Dougherty Jr., Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #10255Intercollegiate Student Design Projects: Lessons Learned by Four Universi-tiesProf. Nassif E Rayess, University of Detroit MercyDr. Brian A Garner, Baylor University Dr. Brian A.Garner is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Baylor University. He re- ceived his PhD in ME from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998, and joined the Baylor faculty in 2002. His research interests include computer modeling of the human musculoskeletal system, algorithms for human motion analysis, biomechanics of equine assisted therapies, and design of therapy assistance devices. His teaching includes capstone

Conference Session

Design for Community

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Grant; Ronald Welch

Session 2625 Implementing a Historically Constrained Student Design-Build Project in an Austere Environment LTC Ronald W. Welch 1LT Kevin Grant United States Military AcademyAbstractThis paper describes a one-semester design-build capstone project in which three senior civilengineering (CE) students designed and built two timber pedestrian bridges at an extremelychallenging, remote site. Design and construction was completed as part of a course within theABET-accredited CE program at the U.S. Military Academy

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Laboratories

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chiu Choi, University of North Florida

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

by the State of Florida. Dr. Choi has genuine dedication in teaching and has earned a sustained record of excellence in it. His student evaluations have been among the best in his department and his college consistently. He has taught a wide spectrum of courses. His favorite ones include microprocessor applications, linear control systems, electromagnetic field applications, and capstone design projects. He has published his work in engineering education conferences regularly. He has received several teaching awards and was listed in the 2003-2004 Who’s Who Among American Teachers. Dr. Choi’s research interests include embedded control systems and computational algorithms. He has published over thirty papers

Conference Session

ELOS Technical Session 3 - Diversity

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nebojsa I. Jaksic, Colorado State University, Pueblo

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

all engineering projects consisting of conceptual designs,computer models, simulations, and physical implementations essential elements of learning. Forundergraduate engineering education, capstone projects are exceptionally important. Howe andGoldberg [3] analyze current practices, trends, and strategies. Furthermore, since this workaddresses a multiyear design project, the pedagogical value of project-based learning (PBL) as apart of experiential learning, is also well documented [4]-[6]. In addition, since students work inteams, some of the peer learning (PL) practices are implemented. PL is extensively addressed ineducation and psychology literature [7]-[11].Teams undertaking multiyear projects can be either replacing some members each

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher W. Swan, Tufts University; John J. Duffy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

education. He is co-author of several recently released books, including: Measuring the Impacts of Project-Based Service Learning on Engineering Education, Engineering in Developing Communities: Water, Sanitation, and Indoor Air, and Environmental Engineering: Fundamentals, Sus- tainability, and Design.Dr. Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt, PhD, PE, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU). She began involvement with service learning (SL) in 2001, when she began integrating SL into the senior capstone Environmental Engineering Design course. Her research interests include ceramic

Collection

2004 GSW

Authors

Shunmugham R. Pandian

offeringpredominantly undergraduate engineering programs of limited size. Robotics and Mechatronics Projects at UM-FlintThe Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory was started at UMF in fall 2001. The labprovided the resources for a lab course to accompany an introductory senior-level courseon robotics and mechatronics. The resources additionally came to be used to supportsenior capstone engineering design projects, senior/junior Independent Study courses,junior/sophomore Supervised Study courses, as well as faculty research in the areas ofcontrol, robotics, and mechatronics. Most of the projects involved teams of three or morestudents. A summary of the projects and their outcomes is given in Table 1.Computer hardware and software issues are

Collection

2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

Authors

Yu Wang, New York City College of Technology; Benito Mendoza, New York City College of Technology; Farrukh Zia, New York City College of Technology

are described and students' competencies are discussed. Finally,the conclusions of our work are summarized, and a short discussion is presented.Online hands-on embedded system project lab designA. ChallengeEngineering Technology students benefit from hands-on laboratory education and take-homeproject. As part of the requirements of the AAS in the EMT capstone hands-on project lab, studentsmust connect the electronics components and devices correctly on the breadboard. Students mustknow how to use basic instrumentation to test and monitor the embedded system, such as to usean oscilloscope, function generator, power supply, and multimeter. The students also need to knowhow to write and debug programs to control electromechanical devices, such

Conference Session

Emerging Computing and Information Technologies I

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Smitesh Bakrania, Rowan University; Brad Joseph Johnson, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

. He is the president of the Rowan University Chapter of AIChE and a member of Tau Beta Pi. He was the recipient of AIChE Delaware Valley Section’s 2014 Outstanding Sophomore of the Year award and is a three-time Black Box Cooperation Yost Scholar of Excellence. In the future, he intends to pursue a PhD in Chemical Engineering and become a professor. Page 26.20.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 A Cloud-based Tool for Assigning Students to ProjectsAs a part of the overall engineering curriculum, senior capstone projects provide the necessaryopportunity for

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education (DEED) Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert A. Meyer, Clarkson University; John McLellan, Freescale Semiconductor; Jeffrey S Sumey, California University of Pennsylvania

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

models for effective collaboration between universities and industry in studentdesign projects in the area of embedded computing systems. The first of these at ClarksonUniversity is a senior capstone design project in computer engineering. The second at CaliforniaUniversity of Pennsylvania is a junior level course in embedded systems for students in computerengineering technology or electrical engineering technology. In each case the student work isbased on the Freescale Cup platform offered by the Freescale Corporation. The Freescale Cupplatform is used in the Freescale Cup competition sponsored by the Freescale Corporation thatchallenges students to design an autonomous model race car that must follow a black line trackas fast as possible

Conference Session

Edifying Engineering Education through Multidisciplinary Efforts

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nael Barakat P.E., Texas A&M University, Kingsville; David Ramirez, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Selahattin Ozcelik, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; John Austin McCoy, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Aws Al-Shalash; Jong-Won Choi, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

-enhanced JIL-enhanced Senior enhanced enhanced e capstone capstone capstone capstone capstone It is to be mentioned that although all student in each of the designated courses wererequired to participate in this project, the number of participating students used for this paper wastaken from the survey responses which was voluntary. Students in the course were asked to goonline and fill the surveys but were not obliged to that. This method carries with it an inherentnon-response bias. Participant who chose not to answer surveys are not included in the results. Inaddition, allowing voluntary survey-taking

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Experiential Learning

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harold R Underwood, Messiah College; Donald George Pratt, Messiah College

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

), communicating effectively (g) and engaging in life-long learning (i).Since 2007, the engineering department at Messiah College has been pioneering a multi-yearplan known as the Integrated Projects Curriculum (IPC) that involves a four-semester project-course sequence, with students working on multidisciplinary teams, typically beginning in theirjunior year. Details of the IPC as a curriculum modification have been previously published,including benefits over the traditional senior capstone project course, portfolio evaluation ofstudent project work, structure of the course sequence, and the place of Group Orientation (GO),a one-credit course normally taken by our engineering students in the Spring semester of theirsophomore year, preceding the project

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey L. Newcomer

assumed byfaculty or intended in the ET Department goals. The exact reasons for these shortcomings aresecondary to the issue of making changes to address the issue, although it in part stems from theuse of individual rather than team capstone design projects. This approach to capstone design isused throughout the ET Department as a last chance to guarantee that every student is capable ofcompleting a large, open-ended project. From the standpoint of certain skills, such as writtencommunication, creative problem solving ability, and project management this approach is veryeffective, however it addresses these other issues at the expense of teamwork. One solution de-veloped to address these shortcomings was to modify some of our technical electives

Conference Session

Integrating Sustainability Across the Curriculum

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noel E. Bormann P.E., Gonzaga University; Mara London, Gonzaga University; Andrew Douglas Matsumoto, Gonzaga University; Melanie Ruth Walter; Spencer Joseph Fry

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

one particular sustainability focusedproject to explore differences that students perceive for the effort required to complete a projectand the perceived educational outcomes for projects that deal with traditional civil andenvironmental senior capstone design projects relative to projects that are focused onsustainability.The sustainability focused project that the students completed is entered in the US EPA 9thAnnual P3 Awards: A National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing onPeople, Prosperity and the Planet. The project is sited in Kenya and integrates sustainabletechnology to improve sustainable development targeted towards women and children in thehome.The hypothesis submitted is that challenging sustainability

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Conrad, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

implemented solution because engineering programs already havecourses in place where they can (and often do) introduce PM concepts. For example, at theauthor’s university, each engineering student will take the following courses during their collegecareer: • Fall, Freshman year, Introduction to Engineering • Spring, Freshman year: Introduction to their discipline (i.e. Electrical Engineering) • Fall, Junior year: Professional Development • Fall, Senior year: Senior Design (capstone project): project development and definition • Spring, Senior year: Senior Design (capstone project): project implementationMany other universities have the same types of courses. However, while many programs do agood job introducing students to some

Conference Session

Instrumentation in the Classroom

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mueller

Session 1359 The Inverted Pendulum Problem as a Senior Design Project Robert Lynn Mueller The Pennsylvania State University New Kensington CampusAbstractThe 4-year baccalaureate degree in Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology at Penn StateNew Kensington requires a project design course in the senior year. It is a capstone course thatallows the students to apply the engineering principles encompassed in the courses that lead upto and include the senior year. A recent project was the so-called inverted pendulum problem. Itconsists of wheeled

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard L. LeBoeuf; Gregory Spaulding

finalized and fabrication and testing take place. This project required students todevelop a sound background in mechanical design, fluid thermal system design, as well as,electronic instrumentation and control. This senior project tied much of the material fromstudents’ previous course work together, including that of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics,instrumentation and control. In this respect, the project truly represents a ‘capstone’ designproject.IntroductionFunding for senior design project courses, which have become especially common in engineeringtechnology programs, can be difficult to obtain. Finding a project that has many elements ofmechanical engineering technology and can be permitted to span an entire academic year is oftendifficult

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Charles McIntyre; Hung Nguyen

Senior Design Project Delivery via Student Generated Web Sites - "Lessons Learned" Charles McIntyre and Hung Nguyen North Dakota State UniversityIntroductionIn traditional “project-based” courses (senior level design and capstone courses), the finalproducts are typically paper-based reports and plans (CAD drawings) which include informationrelated to the design and construction aspects of the project. On occasion, the final projects aresubmitted in some form of electronic format (CD, zip, etc.) [2,5]. Currently, many engineering andconstruction firms post project information on company or project specific web sites. In order toprovide students with the “real world” experience

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Thomas Goddard; Konstantin Litovskiy; Nathan Nichols-Roy; Matthew Reed; Igor Shvartser; Nicholas Smith; David Zeppa; Linda Werner; Julia E. Rice; Hans W. Horn; Amanda C. Engler

1 ASEE 2014 Zone I Conference, April 3-5, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, USA. Dynamics of a Cross-disciplinary Corporate-Sponsored Undergraduate Computer Science Project Thomas Goddard, Konstantin Litovskiy, Nathan Nichols-Roy, Matthew Reed, Julia E. Rice, Ph.D., Hans W. Horn, Ph.D., Igor Shvartser, Nicholas Smith, and David Zeppa, and Amanda C. Engler, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations in Computing -2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramakrishnan Sundaram, Gannon University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

students. Studentswork on a supervised project and in a team setting to learn workplace fundamentals, teamwork,and project management skills. Topics include teamwork assessment, management vs. leadership,critical thinking for design of experiments and project management techniques. The course isoffered in the first semester of the junior year and is followed by the project seminar course in thesecond semester of the junior year. These two courses set the stage for the capstone senior designcourse (two semesters, fall and spring) in the final year of the undergraduate engineering program.The course schedule is shown below in Table 1. There are fourteen sessions (one in each week)in the semester. Each session lasts three hours

Conference Session

Design Through the Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Beaman; Philip Schmidt

to tangible objects and systems; (2) tostrengthen our Department’s connections with its industrial stakeholders by actively involvingthem in the development and delivery of curriculum content; (3) to provide our students with abroad range of team-based experiences which will better prepare them for growth and leadershipin the corporate and professional world.PROCEED was formally initiated in the fall of 2000. Overall curriculum goals were outlined and13 pilot projects were initiated by the ME faculty. These projects cover the entire range of thecurriculum, from the freshman introduction-to-ME course through the senior capstone designcourse. They include a number of reforms, including, among others, development of new labswhich are closely

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Welch

Session 2615 Implementing a Student Design-Build Project in One Semester COL Ronald W. Welch 2LT Brian J. Meister United States Military AcademyAbstractThis paper describes a one-semester design-build capstone project in which three senior civilengineering (CE) students designed, completed an environmental assessment, gained approval,and built a 28-foot timber pedestrian bridge. The course was taken as part of the ABET-accredited CE program at the U.S. Military Academy. The team

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamad Ahmadian

Session 2150 Enhancing Students’ Problem-Solving Techniques Through a Special Project Course Mohamad H. Ahmadian Eastern New Mexico UniversityAbstractThe EET program at Eastern New Mexico University is a four-year program serving studentscoming from regional high schools, two-year community colleges, and two-year technicalschools. The course Special Project is a senior level capstone course. Students are required todo two projects. In each project a marketable prototype of the design must be produced.Students enhance their knowledge of

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard R. Johnston

sufficient experience doing simple tasks with the switch and lamp simulationpanel. Since we have only one of each simulator and 4 - 6 student groups in the lab, the studentstake turns with the temperature chamber, the mixing tank, and the elevator.. Since the studentstypically finish the introductory material at different rates, there is rarely a conflict over who isto use a process simulator at any given time. After the intermediate level process simulators,there follows several weeks of more advanced work with the switch and panel simulator beforethe four story elevator simulator is programmed as a final laboratory exercise.The capstone design experience (called the senior project at LTU) is a two course sequence, eachcourse receiving two semester