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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

Conference Session

Pedagogical Approaches for Software Engineering

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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

ENT-1: Innovative Approaches to Student Engagement and Belonging in Engineering

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lauren H. Logan, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

far been completed twice in the same class, CE 3311 (piloted in fall 2023and enhanced in fall 2024) but the ideas behind the activity can be applied in a variety ofdisciplines and courses. The newly updated rubric provides other educators with an adaptableassessment tool, should they wish to do a similar activity. The student-centered, creative aspectof the EME allows for freedom from an instructional perspective as well. For example, amuseum exhibit capstone-style project could require cross-disciplinary efforts with students indisparate fields. For a lower-level major course (or high school courses), intentional scaffolding(e.g., check-ins) for students and more guidelines on exhibit requirements might be necessary.The project was

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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

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

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

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Approaches for Enhancing Non-technical Skills

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Wuerffel, Valparaiso University; Jeffrey Dale Will, Valparaiso University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

vice-versa) unless theindividual student seeks it out. Anecdotal evidence suggests it is extremely difficult forinterested art students to enroll in engineering courses. Programmatic strictures in both art andengineering can often work against such enrollment special cases.Utilizing projects like senior design or other engineering capstones, the departments within thehumanities can be served by the technical fields, thus increasing the capabilities of thatdepartment. There are benefits to such projects for all participants, from exposing students todifferent ways of thinking, seeing, and communicating, to specific outcomes such as broadeningunderstanding of principles of engineering and design. In engineering practice, the ability towork with

Conference Session

ELOS Technical Session 4 - Design, Participation, and Projects

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Heshmati, Mississippi State University; Bill B. Elmore, Mississippi State University

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

Engineering ini ated the implementa on of PBL concepts across courses in general engineering, 98 mathema cs, science and English [17]. They presented a model for a PBL-focused first-year curriculum, 99 while poin ng at the fact that most universi es (at that me) were not suitably structured to implement100 PBL prac ces straigh orwardly; and noted that it will take some effort to add PBL prac ces to their101 course material and curriculum ac vi es. They also pointed out that students can handle about 2102 projects per semester efficiently and a er that they might lose the ability to connect project objec ves103 with course material [17]. Courses such as capstone design for senior Engineering students should104 inherently follow a PBL format

Conference Session

Design and the Community

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Jamieson; Carla Zoltowski; William Oakes

Equipping Multi-disciplinary Student Teams to Manage Multi-Semester Design Projects Carla Zoltowski, William Oakes, Leah Jamieson Purdue UniversityIntroductionA challenge facing many institutions is how to bring “real” design experiences into thecurriculum. Introducing “real” design experiences, where the purpose is to expose students toopen ended problems and multiple solution paths and to encourage creativity, into the classroom,brings many concerns for the faculty. These include guiding the students through the designprocess over multiple semesters with multidisciplinary and vertically integrated teams thatchange from semester to semester

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2023 Fall Mid Atlantic Conference: Meeting our students where they are and getting them where they need to be

Authors

PS Dhanasekaran, State University of New York, Canton

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Diversity

has diverse industrial experience of 27 years, in the design, research, and manufacturing of electro-mechanical sys- tems, such as the design of various types of gear and gearboxes, antennas, and light and heavy fabricated structures, for communication, TV telecasts, natural disasters management, and Telemedicine applica- tion. Dr PS, designed and manufactured various types of antenna weighing from 200 pounds to 100,000 pounds. He was also actively involved in configuring the antenna controls and selection of motor and motor controllers. Dr. PS has advised senior/capstone projects over 5 years. Has reviewed papers for ASEE, SAMPE, ASME, and SME. ©American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division (EMD) Tech Session 2: Course-level strategies to positively impact student learning and experiences

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alina Alexeenko, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); William C. Oakes, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Dilip Chhajed; Ryan Paul Case

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Engineering Management Division (EMD)

Paper ID #39854A Project-Based Approach to Integrated Business and EngineeringCurriculumProf. Alina Alexeenko, Campbell UniversityDr. William ”Bill” C. Oakes, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) William (Bill) Oakes is a 150th Anniversary Professor, the Director of the EPICS Program and one of the founding faculty members of the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has held courtesy appointments in Mechanical, Environmental aDr. Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Carla B. Zoltowski is an assistant professor of engineering practice in the Elmore Family School of Elec

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jay H. Arehart, University of Colorado Boulder; Kathryn Langenfeld, University of Michigan; Brenton Kreiger

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Community Engagement Division

Paper ID #33788Engagement in Practice: Pedestrian Bridges as EngineeringService-learning ProjectsJay H. Arehart, University of Colorado Boulder Jay Arehart is an Instructor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder and has volunteered as the Education Manager for the Engineers in Action Bridge Program since 2017. Jay’s teaching focuses on project-based courses for architectural engineering students including architectural studios and capstone projects.Kathryn Langenfeld, University of MichiganMr. Brenton Kreiger American

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2020 ASEE North Central Section conference

Authors

Robert Michael P.E., Gannon University; Davide Piovesan, Gannon University; David Gee, Gannon University

access to all the information through the PDMsystem. The PDM system offers a great solution to keep large projects organized and onschedule. Martinez et al., describes using a Collaborative Web environment to manage acomplex engineering project carried out by the assimilation of various work teams 5. Finally,Oden et al, describes Rice University’s efforts to implement and evaluate outcomes fromcollaboratively teaching capstone design and assigning interdisciplinary teams to solve real-world design challenges6. Rice University Brown School of Engineering opened a facility, theOshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK) which is dedicated to undergraduate engineeringdesign efforts. The facility has space for all 8 engineering department with the goal

Conference Session

Technical Session 1d

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2017 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Micah Lande, Arizona State University; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Steven Weiner, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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Pacific Southwest Section

2017 Pacific Southwest SectionMeeting: Tempe, Arizona Apr 20 Paper ID #20716Making People and Projects: Implications for Designing Making-Based Learn-ing ExperiencesDr. Micah Lande, Arizona State University Micah Lande, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering pro- grams and Tooker Professor at the Polytechnic School in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches human-centered engineering design thinking, making and design innovation project courses. Dr. Lande researches how technical and non-technical

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gloria Guohua Ma, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Xiaobin Le P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

instead of just seeing them onpaper.”, “got experience of turning a learning concept to a physical working model”.Some students (20%) complained that the project added burdens to their already heavy loaded semester:capstone design research and other courses with multiple lengthy reports, as well as part-time jobs. InSpring semester, time was critical since most students put high priority on their capstone design research.The project was typically assigned 4~5 weeks before the final exam. It could be assigned earlier so thatthe students would have more time to think and be more prepared.Overall, survey results show the project was implemented successfully. The objective of the project wasmet. Students gained lots of hands-on experience about

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Silvia G. Middleton; Monika Lumsdaine; Kimberly A. Buch; J. William Shelnutt

comfortableuse of the thinking styles available to them, preferably through curriculum integration of these skills. Second year results recently obtained have confirmed the original findings. Data was also gathered forseniors in the metallurgy capstone design class at Michigan Technological University in 1994-95. The instructorswere most impressed with the results of teams who had the strongest right-brain thinking preferences. The UNCCharlotte project is designed to provide additional, more detailed quantitative and qualitative assessment andcomparison to this earlier, more limited study. Curriculum Development Objectives. Studies throughout the literature certify the need for early studentinvolvement in design to encourage retention. The

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Somerton, Michigan State University

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2009-287: INTRODUCING BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING TO MECHANICALENGINEERS THROUGH THERMAL DESIGN PROJECTSCraig Somerton, Michigan State University Craig W. Somerton is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Undergraduate Program for Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University. He teaches in the area of thermal engineering including thermodynamics, heat transfer, and thermal design. He also teaches the capstone design course for the department. Dr. Somerton has research interests in computer design of thermal systems, transport phenomena in porous media, and application of continuous quality improvement principles to engineering education. He received his B.S. in 1976, his M.S

Conference Session

Technology Integration in the Classroom

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susana Lai-Yuen, University of South Florida; Maria Herrera, University of South Florida

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

multidisciplinary, project-based learning in biomedical engineering,” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2007. 17. Way, T.P., “A Virtual Laboratory Model for Encouraging Undergraduate Research,” SIGCSE’06, Houston, Texas, 2006. 18. Koretsky, M., and Gummer, E., “The Role of Virtual Laboratories in Capstone Engineering Courses,” Research in Engineering Education Symposium, 2008.      Page 14.767.10

Conference Session

Teaching Design

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Bannerot, University of Houston

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Design in Engineering Education

2006-832: HOW WOMEN PERFORM ON INDIVIDUAL DESIGN PROJECTSCOMPARED TO MENRichard Bannerot, University of Houston Richard Bannerot is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston. His research interests are in the thermal sciences and in engineering design education. For the past fifteen years he has taught the required "Introduction to Design" course at the sophomore level and has been involved in the teaching of the department's capstone design course. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Texas. Page 11.704.1© American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Experinces in Manufacturing Engineering Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Perihan Fidan, Tennessee Technological University ; George Chitiyo, Tennessee Technological University; Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

practiced educational methodology used in many highereducational institutions [1]. Instructors usually assign their project components as part of theirclass assessment component before the semester ends. Students usually work in a group andcomplete the deliverables of the assigned projects. Senior Design Projects or Capstones (as part ofan ABET [2] or ATMAE accreditation [3]) are advanced versions of this practice and their tasksand expectations are usually larger than the project based learning expectations.Summer long research projects are usually referred to as Research for Undergraduates (REU) andthey last between eight and ten weeks. Research students work on their assigned projects inintensive research meetings, trainings, laboratory

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua Gargac, University of Mount Union; Daniel John Hampu, University of Mount Union

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #26753The Toy Box Project: Connecting First-Year Engineering Students with En-trepreneurshipDr. Joshua Gargac, University of Mount Union Joshua Gargac is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Mount Union in Alliance, OH, where he advises the mechanical engineering senior capstone projects and SAE Baja team. In addition, Dr. Gargac teaches first-year engineering courses, computer-aided design, kinematics and dynamics of machinery, and manufacturing science. He received his BSME from Ohio Northern University and a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Notre Dame. Current

Conference Session

Course Transformation in ECE

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Karl Brakora, Grand Valley State University; Lihong (Heidi) Jiao, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

for the class, students areinformed at the start of class that they will be purchasing the custom PCBs and components fortheir project.While the tools and facilities necessary to support PCB assembly and testing are inexpensive,most serve a multipurpose role and support graduate research, capstone projects, and otherelectronics exercises as well. These include: • Professional ECAD Software: This course uses Altium Design Workbench as the PCB design software. This software was chosen because it is a powerful professional tool commonly used in local industry and, after 2018, Altium reestablished very reasonable rates for university licenses. • Assembly tools: Good stencil printers, either accepting standard framed