Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division (ETD) Technical Session 5

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenny Fotouhi, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Mahdi Joseph Fotouhi, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Joel Michael Tomlinson, University of Maryland Eastern Shore

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Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

. Assemble the parts and components,vii. Test and verify the completed project’s performances following the given percentage of regulation, andviii. Submit a written report according to the Journal of Computers in Education.This paper describes students’ projects, details of their experience and the successes, and effectsof COVID-19 on their projects and lesson learned, and shows a few pictures of the finishedproducts. Keywords: engineering technology, engineering design process, DC regulated powersupply, capstone course, Covid-19 2Introduction: According to George Dieter (2013), a Fellow and the Past President of the American

Conference Session

Energy Conversion and Conservation Division Technical Session 3: Education Track

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Radian G. Belu, Southern University; Alexandru Belu; Zhengmao Ye, Southern University

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Diversity

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

included in each project home, while the meetings page links allproject progress reports. On the deliverables and links pages are including project deliverablesand the status, as well as useful information and references related to the project.2.2 MRP Implementation in Power Electronics and Capstone Design CoursesPower electronics represents the application of electronic circuits to energy conversion, transferand processing. Study of the characteristics, capabilities and limitations of power semiconductorswitching devices is fully discussed, during the course, as well as the analysis, design andsimulation of common circuit topologies for power conditioning and processing, powerelectronic converters, or switch-mode power supplies. Power electronics

Conference Session

Technical Session II

Collection

2018 FYEE Conference

Authors

Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Swapnil Moon, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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FYEE Conference Sessions

4.16it within the CAD software. An ePortfolio development can key engineering projects I did for various courses across the curriculum.be started at this stage and more projects/assignments can beadded as the student progresses in their major. For example,a Mechanical Engineering student can showcase projects The creation of ePortfolio helped me to develop skillsdone in fluids mechanics, heat transfer, mechanical system such as website creation which adds to my professional 4.1 development.labs, and their final capstone project. This would also helpthem to make a connection

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Hyun Seop Lee; Y. D. Kim; Edwin Thomas

Integrated Educational Project of Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Analyses Hyun Seop Lee1,*, Y. D. Kim2, and Edwin Thomas3 1,3 Engineering Technology, Grambling State University 403 Main Street, Grambling, Louisiana, 71245, USA * E-mail: leehy@gram.edu 2 Engineering and Technology, Texas A&M University – Commerce P.O. Box 3011, Commerce, TX, 75429, USA Abstract ability to understand

Conference Session

Sustainable and Urban Development

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clara Fang, University of Hartford

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Civil Engineering

AC 2009-1643: COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICE PROJECT LEARNING IN CIVILENGINEERING COURSESClara Fang, University of Hartford Page 14.342.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Community-based Service Project Learning into Civil Engineering CoursesAbstractThis paper describes and analyzes the experience of implementing community-based serviceproject learning into civil engineering undergraduate courses at the University of Hartford, andconsiders the evidence of the impact of such learning on students and community organizations.The paper begins by discussing how such a learning module has been developed and analyzesthe

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: Sustainability

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mason Andrews, Hampton University; Mujde Erten-Unal, Old Dominion University; Carol L. Considine, Old Dominion University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

level rise to prepare for the inevitability of severestorms. Engineering students from Old Dominion University joined the effort, first as volunteersand then as capstone design students.The project began with significant community engagement which was orchestrated through thecivic league. Students were thus able to pin-point flooding, shoreline erosion, and the rates atwhich basements were taking on water and develop an urgent level of motivation to helpcommunity members with whom they became acquainted. Simultaneously, students met withacademics and area professionals with expertise in pieces of the puzzle (preservationists, marinebiologists, landscape architects, oceanographers, and hydrologists among them) and with cityplanners and storm

Conference Session

Best Practices and Lessons Learned in Design Projects

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University

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Diversity

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Manufacturing

Prototypin E E E E P E E g & Rev. Engr.In addition, student interest and attitude towards the course subject and the projects have alwaysbeen positive, other than the concern about the additional work-load required. That was thereason that the author went back to the toy design projects. The learning experience is similar toa capstone project where students need to start with a concept and follow through theengineering design and development process to reach the final prototyping stage.While most of the teams attempt to be creative and develop a new concept, some teams resort tomodifying or reengineering existing toy designs. The interdisciplinary make-up of

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Baldwin, Roger Williams University

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Environmental Engineering

treatment and water resources which would benefit greatly from thisfirst-hand experience. In addition, a design project for the senior capstone design course couldbe modeled on this project.Specifically, this project can be a learning tool to illustrate the determination of sustainability. InCriterion 3 Program Outcomes and Assessment, the ABET Engineering AccreditationCommission identifies skills that engineering graduates should possess. These include the abilityto design a system with realistic constraints including sustainability, economic, social, political,and manufacturability [3]. These constraints tend to be hard to incorporate into a design projectwhen the student is primarily focused on the technical aspects. My plan is to use this

Conference Session

Graphics Applications in ME

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond Yee

evaluated, a cost estimate will be developed,and design for assembly and manufacturability will all be taken into consideration. Designreviews will be performed at each stage of the design process and feedback will be used as in putsfor the next iterative process in design until the design of a product is satisfied.The design process described above was introduced in the capstone design course during lecture.In this senior project class the material was reviewed again by reading assignment so that thestudents can use it as a guide in their senior design projects.Significance of Design Laboratory Environment on ProjectsThe Mechanical Design Lab developed in 2001 consists of two bench top computer systems thatprovide CAD (computer-aided design) and

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian West

thatconstantly seek new, innovative, electronic consumer products for development.The students are to select a project and develop a timeline. They must submit weeklystatus reports detailing their accomplishments, trouble spots and their alignment withtheir timeline. They then must prototype their project and document it fully - includingan owners’ manual with a troubleshooting section. Finally, they must deliver aPowerpoint presentation to a "selection committee" for evaluation for mass production.The skills developed in this class are major milestones toward the student’s SeniorDesign Project (Capstone requirement), giving them the necessary experience, assophomores, to succeed with oral presentations, writing formal documentation, settingand meeting

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

George Edwards

Session 2793 Senior Design Project: Converting an Analog Transceiver into a Digital one George Edwards University of DenverAbstractThe Capstone Senior Design Project that is offered to graduating seniors in engineeringprograms in the United States is a critical part of the students’ development. A goal of this courseis to give students a feel for the work environment outside, in terms of a critical analysis of adesign problem, drawing on resources to arrive at alternative solutions; and, then deciding on aparticular

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Derossett; Steven Nesbit; Scott Hummel

7Summary and Recommendations The load cell project was developed as a solution to the problem of students’compartmentalizing course subject matter. The result is an activity, which not only integratessubject matter from different courses, but also the major engineering functions of design,analysis, and manufacturing. Basic analysis and design methods are supplemented with moderncomputer, software, and manufacturing tools to create and evaluate the load cell. Along withintegrating across courses and major engineering functions, the project also serves as a small-scale design and build capstone experience. Implementation of the project requires a coordinatedeffort from the instructors and students, monetary support from the Department, and

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Omar Barkat

providesan invaluable experience to the students who at the end of the assignment will be much betterprepared to assume engineering responsibilities. For the students who may pursue a graduatedegree it also gives them an opportunity to understand the research process.It is the hope of the author that this final year project be kept in place for as long as theseengineering institutions exist. After all, is not the capstone design course being enforced byABET and adopted by several institution a similar requirement?6. Bibliography1. Barkat O., and M. Cherifi, ”Engineering Education in Algeria, Part I: Facts and Consequences,” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education, pp1599-1603, 1995.OMAR BARKATOmar Barkat is a Professor of

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Henry G. Ansell

References1. National Science Foundation 1993 Engineering Senior Design Projects to Aid the Disabled, edited by John D. Enderle, NDSU Press, Fargo, North Dakota 581052. “NDSU Undergraduate Design Projects for the Disabled”, L. S. Baczkowski, J. D. Enderle, D. J. Krause, J. L. Rawson, Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation, vol. 26, pp. 95-9, 19903. “Collaborative Learning in Engineering Design”, Sigrin Newell, Journal of College Science Teaching, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 359-62, May 19904. “Bioengineering Practicum and Capstone Projects: A Cooperative of University, Industry, Hospital, and Government for the Physically Challenged”, James V. Masi, Proceedings ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Fall 1997 Regional Conference, Session 75

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division (SWED) Technical Session #3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce R Maxim, University of Michigan, Dearborn; Bency Thomas, University of Michigan, Dearborn; Belen A Garcia, University of Michigan, Dearborn

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Software Engineering Division (SWED)

artifact online.Students learning software engineering principles and practices may find it difficult to applythem in the development of complex software projects. Software engineering involves acquiringapplication domain knowledge to understand the client’s needs. It is therefore important to domore than simply use a game as the term project in a software engineering course as someauthors have suggested [1], [2], [3].The authors believe that the capstone design course should not be the only opportunity forstudents to manage complex software development projects. This suggests the use of othercourses in the curriculum such as a game design or artificial intelligence courses as a means ofproviding additional software engineering project experience

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jack Altenhof; Peter R. Frise

, the impact resistance of the specified dimensions.component, the aesthetics of the component, and an additional “subjective evaluation”term. Mass (Actual Dimension& Design Constraint) GOC ' % %E.O.A. %Impact %Aesthetics % S.E. grams mm(Equation 1)Evaluation of the last four terms in Equation 1 (ease of assembly, impact performance, aesthetics,and subjective evaluation) were based upon a maximum of ten (10) possible marks.V. Data GatheringOne of the key factors often neglected in capstone design projects assigned to students is the factthat most designs must integrate with an existing system

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Saeed Foroudastan

Engineering Education: Not Just about the Math" 2004 Proceeding of IMECEInternational Mechanical Engineering Congress, Anaheim, California, November 13-19.3. Akins, L., “Partners in Recruitment and Retention,” 2001 Proceeding of the ASEE Annual Conference andExposition, Albuquerque, NM, June 24-274. Foroudastan, S., “How to Bring Reality into the Classroom through Project Innovation,” Proceedings of the ASEESoutheast Section Conference, Macon, GA, April 6-85. Foroudastan, S., “Capstone Design Projects: More than a Matter of Meeting a Program Requirement,” 2004Proceeding of the ASEE Southeast Section Conference,BiographyDr. Saeed D. ForoudastanSaeed Foroudastan is a Professor in the Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies Department. He received

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jiancheng Liu; Ashland O. Brown

designconsiderations into account.ABET is making increasing demands to integrate projects into engineering curriculum. Studentdesign and analysis projects can improve student learning and cultivate the ability to solveengineering problems. Machine Design and Analysis is a capstone course for the studentsmajoring in mechanical engineering. Student projects and “hands-on” experiences can improvestudent satisfaction and learning. Therefore, it is worthwhile to try new teaching methodologyfor this course to allow students to employ what they have learned and what they are learning; todevelop the skill to tolerate ambiguity that shows up in viewing design and handle uncertainty; todevelop the skill that can simplify the real design problem into an analytic model

Conference Session

International Distance & Service Learning for Engineers- Discussion on Best Practices

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Swan, Tufts University; David Gute, Tufts University; Douglas Matson, Tufts University; John Durant, Tufts University

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International

). Both cohorts were determined by student interest in theproject’s proposed effort at that time. Although the course is offered in the Spring semester allparticipating students were required to commence work at the outset of the preceding fallsemester. This allowed for trip planning, fund raising (particularly in the first year), immersionin the relevant literatures, and the specification of tasks and responsibilities to be completed inthe field. It was also thought that this extra requirement would dissuade casual interest on thepart of students and ensure motivated participants.As a Capstone Project the primary emphasis in terms of deliverables were to require the studentsto engage in the solution of a design problem. Over the course of this

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2003 GSW

Authors

Terrence L. Chambers; William E. Simon

students get amore realistic design experience while local industry gets the engineering support that itneeds to be more competitive. During the Fall 2002 semester, MCHE students from ULLafayette began working on two assembly-line automation projects for MEPoL clients.This paper describes the progress made and the challenges encountered as this transitionfrom design competition to real-world projects has taken place, and focuses on thebenefits of using an extension service as a vehicle for industry-sponsored projects. IntroductionMany engineering departments require a major design project during the senior year.This “Senior Project” is often called a “Capstone Design” experience, because the projectis meant to

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Collaborations and Interactions

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wenlung Li, National Taipei University of Technology; Jhy-Cherng Tsai, National Chung-Hsing University, TAIWAN; Wei-Chung Wang, National Tsing-Hua University, TAIWAN; Cheng-Kuo Sung, National Tsing-Hua University, TAIWAN; Jennie Wu, Ministry of Education, TAIWAN

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International

Education (MOE) has initiated the ‘The Research and EducationAdvancement Project’ (REAP) to assure both quantity and quality of the manpower can meet theneeds. The major goal is to re-arrange the educational resources in such a way that they can bemore efficiently used while the quality of graduates can be further raised. Firstly, several so-called the “strategic industries” are identified depending on the country’s economy plans. In themean time, the programs that matching with those strategic industries are initiated one afteranother by MOE. Unlike the traditional educational programs, the REAP emphasizes the inter-university collaborations. Among these many capstone programs in REAP, the precisionmechatronics program, started in 1997, includes

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Study Abroad Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Aaron Richard Sakulich, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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International Forum

composed of five seniors, selected based on academicstanding, each working under the guidance of personnel from the Panama Canal Authority on aspecific technical project as part of their capstone design project. The second group, selectedbased on financial need, investigated the effects of the ongoing Panama Canal Expansion Projecton the Food-Energy-Water (FEW) nexus in the canal watershed to fulfill their junior year‘Interactive Qualifying Project’ requirement. The findings of each team, logistical considerationsfor advisors, the results of student evaluations of the experience, and unique difficulties faced bythe students are discussed, as well as lessons learned for the improvement of the program infuture years. These projects represent two

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David M. Feinauer P.E., Norwich University; Michael W. Prairie, Norwich University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

of the designproblem, summarize the project modifications that stemmed from the lessons learned in theprevious iteration, address the instructional coordination challenges and successes, and discussthe value of the multidisciplinary project to student achievement of course specific outcomesrelated to the freshman engineering sequence.IntroductionThis paper details the implementation and evolution of a multidisciplinary design project thatserves as a capstone activity for freshman engineering students among the MechanicalEngineering (ME) and Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) disciplines. All students froman engineering discipline at Norwich University complete a common, general introduction toengineering course that introduces them to

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Krogmeier; Mustafa Kamasak; Maribel Figuera; Luis Torres; Jan Allebach; George Chiu; Edward Delp; Charles Bouman; Catherine Rosenberg; Lynne Slivovsky

Corporate Roundtable of the American Society for Engineering Education. Available from the American Association of Engineering Education.5. Oakes, William C., Coyle, Edward J., Fortek, Richard, Gray, Jeffery, Jamieson, Leah H., Watia, Jennifer, and Wukasch, Ronald. EPICS: Experiencing Engineering Design Through Community Service Projects. Proceedings of 2000 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO, June 2000.6. Ruane, Michael, "SPECTRE - An Extended Interdisciplinary Senior Design Problem", Proceedings, ASEE Annual Conference, Session 2625, Charlotte, NC, June 1999.7. Joseph, J., "Coordinating Diverse Set of Capstone Design Experiments", Proceedings, Frontiers in Education

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Pedagogical Approaches for Software Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Colin J. Neill, Pennsylvania State University; Joanna F. DeFranco, Pennsylvania State University, Great Valley; Raghvinder S. Sangwan, Pennsylvania State University, Great Valley

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

AC 2012-3117: A STUDY OF INDIVIDUAL LEARNING IN SOFTWAREENGINEERING TEAM PROJECTSDr. Colin J. Neill, Pennsylvania State University Colin J. Neill is Associate Professor of software and systems engineering at Penn State University’s School of Graduate Professional Studies, where he is the Director Engineering Programs. Neill has devel- oped and taught more than a dozen courses in support of the graduate programs in software engineering, systems engineering, engineering management, and information science in topics including software sys- tems design, system architecture, project management, and systems thinking. He has published more than 70 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings, including Systems

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Shannon L. Servoss; Edgar C. Clausen

engineering4 classroom, theuse of virtual laboratories in place of traditional capstone design classes5 and the introduction ofrather ill-structured problem-based learning (PBL) projects throughout the curriculum.6, 7The purpose of this paper is to describe the inquiry-based approach as practiced in theintroductory laboratory course in chemical engineering at the University of Arkansas. Theselected inquiry-based projects are presented and discussed, as well as laboratory organizationand student feedback from the initial two offerings of the course. Proceedings of the 2012 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Lizabeth Thompson Schlemer; Faith Mimnaugh

Duration of activities Season (5 months) Course (10 weeks) Motivation Team achievement Team achievement Adversary Other team Client Domain Court Company/division Goals League champion Exceptional performance Level of competition High LowThe PBL Course and ProjectsFor more than ten years the students in a senior capstone IE course at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo onFacility Design has work on projects for local companies. The local company is the customer and isdealt with as a client in a consulting

Conference Session

Trends and Applications in Curricula and the Capstone Experience

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tonya Lynn Nilsson P.E., Santa Clara University; Kevin D. Hall, University of Arkansas; Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel

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Civil Engineering

. Size of Capstone TeamLogistics of the Course Figure 9: Student team size based on institution type.In respect to the basic logistics of theculminating design experience: team size, course length, course units and required weekly workhours per unit, there are some differences between the institution types as highlighted in Figures9 – 13. Undergraduate Only institutions are the most likely to have individual projects, whileUM and Ph.D. universities have a strong preference for team sizes of four to five students.Semester long courses are the most common lengths and definitely predominant for Ph.D.granting and public institutions. Departments at UO, UM, and private universities are morelikely to have yearlong programs.The

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

Authors

Steven Kent Dobbs, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Zhen Yu, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Joel Lee, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Justin Ilagan; Barys Khmel; Melody Loi, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Nicholas Papp; Eduardo Garcia Rogel; Connor McGarry; Chandler Duncan; Phillip Frem; Kevin Maldonado; Corey McGinnis; Hang Yong; Salma Bustos; Qiang Gong; Mumen Abbas; Sophoandara Ry; Kaiqi Luo; Peter Ayad; Martin O'Connell

Engineering California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA 91768, USAAbstractEGR 4810, 4820, and 4830, are a series of required Project Design Principles and Applications-“Capstone” Senior Project courses. This Senior Project is comprised of multidisciplinary majorswith multiple faculty advisors from Aerospace Engineering, Electrical and ComputerEngineering, Chemistry, and Mechanical Engineering. Students taking these courses are highlydependent on on-campus labs and off-campus test sites. However, the COVID-19 restrictionschallenge the academic environment and restrict the students’ ability to access the manufacturingfacilities and to work together. In this paper, we present the design, implementation, andoutcomes of the senior

Conference Session

Integrating Curriculum and Labs in ET Programs

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ciaran McGoldrick, Trinity College, Dublin; Smita Shivaram, Trinity College, Dublin; Meriel Huggard, Bucknell Univeristy and Trinity, College Dublin

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Engineering Technology

of an existing problem set for a design project involving anautonomous vehicle. A notable feature of this work is that is provides a functional description ofa “hypervisor” which can scaffold responsible student control of drones in flight.Autonomous Vehicles in Computer Engineering DesignIt is broadly accepted that engineering design needs to be incorporated across the curriculum 18 19 ,and in a more coherent and integrated fashion than as a single capstone module that meets thecore requirements of accrediting bodies 20 . Thus many institutions now more broadly incorporatedesign aspects across the undergraduate computer engineering curriculum. A primary intent ofmany of these design modules is that they foster and instill the lifelong