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

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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

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 2

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

François Michaud, Universite de Sherbrooke; Élise Richard-Bédard, Universite de Sherbrooke; Nicolas Quaegebeur, Universite de Sherbrooke; François Ferland, Université de Sherbrooke; Audrey Boucher-Genesse, Universite de Sherbrooke; Marc-André Cyr, Universite de Sherbrooke

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

is the co-director of the program since 2023.Audrey Boucher-Genesse, Universite de Sherbrooke Audrey Boucher-Genesse is an engineer and a professional at the Faculty of Engineering at the Universit´e de Sherbrooke. She studied in Electrical Engineering (2002-2006), worked in industrial robotics at AV&R, then worked actively at the creation of the Robotics Engineering Program until 2023. She is now involved in Major Capstone Design Projects, which involve 4 programs, including Robotics Engineering.Mr. Marc-Andr´e Cyr, Universite de Sherbrooke Marc-Andr´e Cyr, P. Eng., works as a lab coordinator and continuous improvement of the Robotics Engineering Program. ©American Society for

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tariq Khraishi, University of New Mexico; Kristine Denman, University of New Mexico

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

participate in SL/CE: paidinternships or through taking credit hours that counts towards their degree.Literature Review:Although there are not a lot of journal papers on the topics of SL/CE, there are many conferencepapers, especially published in ASEE conference, that address these topics. For example, Koh(2020) [1], developed a “Community Engaged Design” course as a senior design capstone in asmall liberal arts college. Students were able to address pedestrian safety in their community bycoming up with a prototype for a system which detected and warned drivers of the presence ofbicyclists. Jordan (2014) [2] took their service learning all the way to Haiti by working with thelocals there to establish a solar project that can offer sustainability for

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators: Tricks of the Trade I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

expanded into funded summer research projects, and several have produced publishable results.”—from a Computer Science faculty member at a regional state university “Absolutely; every such study is focused on my research program. It has been extremely worthwhile doing so. While some students flop, it happens, about a third of my papers are authored with students who are, or were, undergrads. And some of those papers are in top places.”—a faculty member in Informatics at a Research I institutionThe Civil Engineering department at the U.S. Military Academy offers every student anopportunity to undertake an independent-study project.4 These are similar to capstone projects,but they need not include the four subdisciplines that ABET

Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

Programming) course project (freshman level) and through multidisciplinary IEEE student chapter projects & a required for-credit capstone project. 5. Provide faculty mentors for each program participant; increase the efficacy of faculty mentoring provided to each student participant in the scholarship program by faculty- mentor training and accountability. 6. Establish mechanisms for acquiring ongoing sources of funds to sustain at least five annual full-tuition scholarships after the grant is over.”6The LEAP program addresses the three following areas6: 1) The financial and educational needs of students in computer science and engineering disciplines at an open enrollment university. 2) Increases leadership

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bradley Bishop, U.S. Naval Academy; Carl Wick, U.S. Naval Academy; George Piper, U.S. Naval Academy

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

previous experiences in the course, providing students with added experienceand insight into their craft as roboticists. This exercise is also extremely beneficial in otherways, especially for students who are about to undertake a capstone senior design project.Students are frequently asked to develop and carry out a novel design project as part of theircapstone experience without ever having an opportunity to do so on a smaller scale. This projectis intended to provide experiential support for these future capstone efforts.Experience has shown that this sort of student-driven, open-ended project requires a great deal ofinstructor flexibility, deep familiarity with available components, and ready suggestions forpotential projects. But, for

Conference Session

Assessment & TC2K Methods

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Khan, DeVry University-Addison; Robert Lawrence, DeVry University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

anintegrative senior project, where students work in teams to solve a real world problemrelated to their major. Students demonstrate a wide range of competencies during thecourse of the project, making the direct measurement of student academic achievementvia the senior project (EET-410L) and a companion general education capstone course,(HUMN-432) a major part of assessment effort, and overall continuous qualityimprovement (CQI) process at DeVry. Student outcomes assessment at DeVry serves asthe "check" function in the "Plan-Do-Check-Act" model for CQI (see Figure 1), whichemphasizes the iterative and ongoing nature of the process. A number of direct andindirect indicators are also established against which the student learning/performanceoutcomes are

Conference Session

Experience with Experiential Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Summers

management skills to manage their projects? Responses were very mixed for this question Yes (15), No (13), Should (13). Regardless of their answer most respondents went on to clarify that students should use the skills but usually don’t. The response that best summarizes responses to this question was: ‘We’d like to think so.’ Several respondents, though they listed projects throughout their curriculum, said that project management skills were expected to be used in only the capstone course or senior design course. Other respondents reported the project management skills were taught too late in their curriculum to be fully effective. When respondents discussed the types of project management

Conference Session

Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bopaya Bidanda; Kim Needy

the model being used at the University ofPittsburgh and its benefits. This approach or elements of it can be easily adapted into an existingsenior design capstone course.ModelStudents in the Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Pittsburgh work in a teamof three or four students and utilize analytical investigation techniques to solve a significantproblem at a client site utilizing industrial engineering capabilities acquired during their programstudy. The course provides a good learning experience for students whereby they gain project Page 7.1039.1team experience, write a formal technical report, and professionally

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

, along with proper reinforcement – onesuggestion is that several simple design problems precede the larger capstone design project [1].In addition, design and other engineering subjects are best learnt through hands on activelearning, e.g. project based learning [18, 19]. Therefore, the integration of impromptu designexercises into all aspects of the curriculum is motivated by the above research findings.2.1.2 Use of impromptu design contests in university classrooms: Aside from using impromptudesign contests in university courses as ice-breakers [6, 10, 20], little research has been carriedout on using impromptu design to achieve desired education outcomes. The current research inthis area has focused on the ability of impromptu design contests

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Manocher Djassemi

that: a) a hard automation project can be constructedusing low cost standard parts and built-in-house components which are more affordablealternatives to the ready-to-use devices bought from the market, and b) many ET and ITprograms are already equipped with laboratory equipment such as conventional machine toolsand fluid power, which facilitate fabrication of various customized components in-house. To thisend, the remainder of the paper describes the resources required to implement hard automationlaboratory projects using two student projects. The educational values as well as the costs of theprojects are also discussed. The first project was part of a CIM capstone course (ITD 592)offered to manufacturing/electromechanical ET and IT students

Collection

2023 ASEE GSW

Authors

Akila Ravichandran; Kiran Katira; Tariq Khraishi

. Literature ReviewAlthough there are not a lot of journal papers on the topics of Service Learning/CommunityEngagement (SL/CE), there are many conference papers, especially published in ASEEconferences, that address these topics. For example, Koh (2020), developed a “CommunityEngaged Design” course as a senior design capstone in a small liberal arts college. Students wereable to address pedestrian safety in their community by coming up with a prototype for a systemwhich detected and warned drivers of the presence of bicyclists. Jordan (2014) took their servicelearning all the way to Haiti by working with the locals there to establish a solar project that canoffer sustainability for them. Schneider (2017) presented a paper that discussed several

Conference Session

They're Not "Soft" Skills!

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eckehard Doerry, Northern Arizona University; James Dean Palmer, Northern Arizona University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

practically manageable approach.In this paper, we describe the peer-evaluation approach that we have developed at NorthernArizona University over more than a decade of teaching courses in a team-project-basedcurriculum. Driven by resource limitations and expediency, our approach has been shaped by aminimalistic philosophy: how can we achieve maximum efficacy with minimal overhead forstudents and instructors? We begin with a brief description of our Capstone course and theevolution of the efficient peer evaluation schema we have developed. We then present ourongoing efforts to increase the efficacy of our peer-evaluation system while managing overhead,by integrating the key elements into a flexible automated system for supporting team-based

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Design I

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie M. Gillespie, Arizona State University; Mark Vincent Huerta, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Jared Joseph Schoepf, Arizona State University; Joshua Loughman, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Newswander identified 5 themes of assessing multidisciplinary work: disciplinarygrounding, integration, teamwork, communication and translation across discipline boundaries,and critical awareness [6]. Multiple studies have explored the aspects of multidisciplinary teamoutcomes for capstone design teams [7,8]. Other studies have explored the possibility ofmultidisciplinary teams in a variety of other courses including having a multidisciplinary groupof faculty teach general engineering classes during the first-two years of study [4].Since service-learning projects often require both engineering and non-engineering knowledgefor successful deployment, having students from a variety of backgrounds, including non-engineering, can be valuable. While

Conference Session

Impact of Community Engagement on Communities

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carlos German Montoya Rodriguez, Ohio State University; Mariantonieta Gutierrez Soto, The Ohio State University; Roger Dzwonczyk, The Ohio State University; John A Merrill, Ohio State University; Howard L. Greene, Ohio State University; Miriam Cater, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

being fulfilled. Service learning allows engineering to be donewith a community that serves as a customer, while creative and original design solutions can be Page 24.188.4developed by students to meet the community’s needs. Projects can be chosen as a group effortor as a senior capstone design project.Since 2005, the College of Engineering (CoE), Engineering, Education Innovation Center (EEIC)at The Ohio State University has conducted an engineering service-learning program in Honduras.The program is designed to introduce and teach students the concepts of humanitarianengineering through a practical, real-world, hands-on, service-learning

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Crawley, MIT; Robert Niewoehner, United States Naval Academy; Jean Koster, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

knowledge and product skills most needed for America’s aerospace workforce [CDIO Standard 2] ≠ Developing laboratory and design-implement projects that help aerospace engineering programs integrate learning laboratory and project-based experiences throughout the undergraduate program, focusing on first-year and multidisciplinary capstone design- implement experiences. [CDIO Standards 4, 5, and 6]15,16 ≠ Developing a rigorous approach to assessing student learning and skills development, based on objective measures, and surveys of student self-confidence in learning. [CDIO Standard 11] System development as the context for aeronautical engineering education Context is the surroundings and environment that

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margaret Ellis; Ryan Gniadek, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Godmar Back, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Kirk Cameron, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Powered by www.slayte.com Integrating DevOps to Enhance Student Experience in an Undergraduate Research Project Ryan Gniadek, Godmar Back, Kirk Cameron, Margaret Ellis Virginia TechAbstractDevOps technologies that often accompany an agile workflow such as Continuous Integration andContinuous Delivery have become much more widespread in professional software development in thepast decade. In recent years, many undergraduate research projects or capstone experiences have begun toincorporate such agile workflows, helping with student self-regulation and teaching themindustry-standard practices before entering the workforce. Existing literature shows that

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jin-Hwan Lee, University of Cincinnati; Ali Asgar Bhagat, University of Cincinnati; Karen Davis, University of Cincinnati; Ian Papautsky, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Computer Engineering. It now includes students from mechanicalengineering, environmental engineering, biomedical engineering, and chemistry.Figure 1. MEMS and BioMEMS courses offered at the University of Cincinnati.Fifth-year undergraduate students (seniors) in the Electrical and Computer EngineeringDepartment take a sequence of 3 senior capstone courses for a total of 9 credit hours in theirsenior year.4 Typically, students self-organize into teams and select a project of interest. Theymay choose a variety of projects proposed by industry, community organizations, professors, co-op employers, or themselves. All teams meet with the course instructor and complete a series ofdeliverables to specify and document their projects. Each team has a

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Experiences

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ciprian Popoviciu, East Carolina University; Philip J. Lunsford II, East Carolina University; John Pickard, East Carolina University; Colby Lee Sawyer, East Carolina University; Dale Drummond, East Carolina University; Zachary Ryan Zynda, East Carolina University; Spencer Lee; Sean Wear

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

multiple admin domains without requiring significant local IT resources [11]The second project is providing the monitoring tools deployed on the platform developed by this project.3. Project SetupDuring their degree seeking studies students are mostly exposed to individual projects or projectsinvolving classmates studying the same subject matter. Capstone projects, when offered, are the mostcommon opportunities for more diverse and more creative learning opportunities. The challenge faced bythe video-conferencing service provided an opportunity to explore models for formalizing models ofengaging students from different departments to advance their own domain knowledge and to workacross domains by addressing real-life problems. In this section we