AC 2007-1092: STUDENT DESIGN OF LEHIGH UNIVERSITY GOLF FACILITIESKristopher Lengieza, Weitz Golf International Kristopher M. Lengieza is a Project Engineer at Weitz Golf International. He earned a BS from Lehigh University. He is currently involved in constructing several buildings at Bella Collina, a Ginn Development in Montverde, FL. Kristopher has used his involvement in the 2003 Golf Practice Facility project to springboard his career into the Golf and Resort Construction Industry. Weitz Golf International is considered to be one of the top Golf Course and Hospitality Contracting companies in the world. He is also a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the
meters Frequency (HF) Ultra High 865.5-867 MHz 32.8 centimeters Smart cards, Frequency (Europe) logistics, and item (UHF) 915 MHz (USA) management 950-956 MHz (Japan) Industrial, 2.4 GHz 12.5 centimeters Item management Scientific, & Medical (ISM) Source: RFID, Applications, Security, and Privacy, Simpson Garfinkel and Beth Rosenberg, Addison-Wesly (2006), p. 21.II. DeVry University’s Senior Project Capstone Course Sequence DeVry University’s Electronics Engineering Technology/Computer EngineeringTechnology (EET/CET) program senior project is a two-semester course
, engineering education is builton a foundation of sciences and mathematics courses, with students taking engineering courses in their upper years, with fewstudents experiencing design outside of a focused course in their discipline. In the 1990's, in response to. accreditation criteria,most engineering schools added a “capstone” design project in the final year. These projects are meant to be complex, have a“real world” flavor, and are often multi-disciplinary. In some cases, there are industrial sponsors and students work closely withpracticing engineers. As engineering education has evolved in the last decade, the concept of a “cornerstone” or first-year engineering designproject has been added. The goal of these projects to give students early
) logistics, and item 915 MHz (USA) management 950-956 MHz (Japan)Industrial, 2.4 GHz 12.5 centimeters Item managementScientific, &Medical (ISM)Source: RFID, Applications, Security, and Privacy, Simpson Garfinkel and BethRosenberg, Addison-Wesly (2006), p. 21.II. DeVry University’s Senior Project Capstone Course Sequence DeVry University’s Electronics Engineering Technology/Computer EngineeringTechnology (EET/CET) program senior project is a two-semester course sequence in whichstudents synthesize knowledge and skills learned in the previous courses. In the first course(EET-400, Project management), students research, plan and develop a project
being worked on inother courses but focusing on different aspects and perspectives. For example, this project wasconducted in courses MANE 410 Production Planning and Inventory Control, and MANE 415Project Engineering and Management. In MANE 410 students focus on the production planningaspect of the project, and in MANE 415 a different group of students focus on the projectmanagement.In this paper we want to focus on the course MANE 450, Manufacturing Design Implementation.This is one of the courses that have been offered in the past two years in our program. MANE450 is a capstone course that manufacturing engineering students take in their senior year. Thecourse is team project-based, which focuses on design and implementation of a simple
AC 2007-965: GAUGING STUDENT INTEREST IN A DESIGN FOR DEVELOPINGCOMMUNITIES COURSES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORDDavid Pines, University of Hartford David Pines is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Hartford. He completed his Ph.D. studies in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2000. He is actively involved with student projects sponsored by environmental engineering firms, municipalities, and water utilities, and is involved in international service learning projects in conjunction with EWB
standards4,5,6 which detects defects during design. This developmentprocess has been used with success in the subsequent offerings of the design course based on amore complex project3. The resulting student designs are typically on time and of high quality.Furthermore, students report satisfaction with the experience, because of both the visible resultsat course end and the perceived relevance of the process that they used.All of these course offerings1,2,3 have made a visible impact on the computer engineeringprogram at Mississippi State University. Computer engineering student projects in the capstone Page 12.596.2design course have greater complexity
. Lessons learned from failures have substantiallyaffected civil engineering practice. For the student, study of these cases can help place designand analysis procedures into historical context and reinforce the necessity of life-long learning.Three approaches for bringing forensics and failure case studies into the civil engineeringcurriculum are possible. These are stand-alone forensic engineering or failure case studycourses, capstone design projects, and integration of case studies into the curriculum. The ASCETCFE Education Committee held four annual one-day workshops in Birmingham, Alabama andin Cleveland, Ohio for a total of approximately 75 engineering educators. The participantsestimated that over 135 courses and nearly 4,000 students
students compared to the student engineering population17. Our ownexperience with voluntary capstone courses also indicates a similar overrepresentation ofwomen (in one course 4 to 1 over 6 years) and older and more diverse students.Service-learning itself is certainly not new, and S-L in engineering is not new. Some ofthe authors have been integrating S-L into courses at UML for about ten years. Oakes(2004)14 has a list of 33 universities that have S-L in engineering and describes a numberof examples of S-L. In 2004-05 the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded tenprograms to introduce S-L into engineering, which would add about 8 more universitiesto the list. EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) started at Purdue andnow includes
, including the arts, work on a game. Other programs rangefrom minor incorporation of gaming into programming assignments and capstone projects to thekind of full scale degree programs offered by Full Sail, Digipen, and The Guildhall at SMU. Stillothers have programs that focus on the use of gaming as an aid or driver for learning conceptsusing 3D environments in novel ways like at the University of North Carolina Charlotte4 or theM.U.P.P.E.T.S project at RIT.A number of universities have research programs in gaming and related technologies. Examplesof these schools include: The University of Michigan, Michigan State University, University ofSouthern California and Carnegie Mellon. The last two schools have academic units for theirresearch programs
year MET students from each of thefocus areas are required to complete a team-based senior design project. Studentsprogress through a two semester sequence starting with Product Design and Developmentpresenting integrated methodologies that examine marketing, manufacturing, and cross-functional teams including concurrent engineering and projects utilizing CAD systems,and ending with a Senior Project course including evaluation and design optimizationmethods for efficient and cost-effective designs requiring an oral/written report andcomprehensive exam. In the capstone sequence the student teams first generate thedesign, optimize the design and document the design. Then, during the last semester theteams plan for production, manufacture and
design specifications and a basic prototype that will be further developed in thesubsequent capstone design course.BME 400 – First-semester seniors improve on the initial prototype and complete theimplementation of their design in this course.BME 402 – Final-semester seniors test, evaluate, improve and produce final documentation oftheir device. In addition, all students complete an outreach requirement, typically by giving a talkin a K-12 classroom. Also all students write their project reports as technical papers in a formatappropriate to a target journal or conference.Every semester, three of these courses are taught (i.e., BME 200, 300 and 400 in the Fall or BME201, 301, and 402 in the Spring). A minimum of two faculty are assigned to each
. The projects during the thirdor junior year will be specific to the electrical engineering systems concentration and willbe used by us to relay certain topics to the student. The year-long capstone project isintended to be multi-disciplinary on the other hand and will not be further considered inthis paper. The last semester of the column of electrical engineering systems courses isanother set of modules. We again use this both to match up topical coverage against thecapstone experience and additionally to provide some elective content to the students.Certain of these modules will be developed with an eye towards our two sisterconcentrations: mechanical engineering systems and civil engineering land development.Immediately to the right of the
iscampus- or curriculum-based assessment. This paper does not address program educationalobjectives, which describe career and professional accomplishments of program alumni. Theformer usually requires different evaluation and assessment tools than the latter; although, someoverlap does exist. In addition, we will also refer to course objectives, which are not to beconfused with program educational objectives. Therefore, given this context and the imminent importance of using direct assessmentmethods, this paper provides a review of direct assessment measures. These methods include,but are not limited to, instructor end-of-course assessments, use of targeted assignments(assigned problems, exam questions, projects), capstone examinations
education Figure 4. Student Rusty Welborn, Page 12.1310.7environment, and can be recognized in the faculty reward tested the mechanical properties ofsystem. die-cast aluminum.Figure 5. Students David Brown, David Kleinholter and Jimmy Sandusky provide a regionalaluminum sheet manufacturer with a design as their senior capstone design experience.Team projects serving as a capstone design experience, where students
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Engineering Education 3the classes along with a feel for creativity, curiosity, and camaraderie without confrontation. Itwas also deemed necessary that the essential features of teamwork -- cooperation andcoordination -- must be learned early in order to be successful team players on future real worldengineering teams. This finally led to the so called ‘Footstone Project’ concept2. The idea wasdistinct from the ‘capstone’ design projects in that it was simply a tool to be used at the veryoutset of a program of study to help set a stage for the teaching and learning process as it pertainsto the courses of
features to promoteactive learning, including (1) hands-on activities and demonstrations, (2) the integrated use ofwireless laptops through an in-house developed web-based learning tool to promotemetacognition and assessment of student learning, and (3) a capstone ethics project wherestudents complete a risk assessment of the impact of nanotechnology on society. Additionally,this course will focus on synthesizing fundamental concepts in science and engineering towardsapplications in nanotechnology. The other new sophomore course, Material and Energy Balancesin Nanotechnology (ChE 214), is a ChE specific laboratory-based course, emphasizing how thefundamental skills students have just learned couple to nanotechnology. For ChE students, theapproach
University exclusively dedicated to CAD/CAM-CNC. The courseprovides students with an in-depth hands-on experience in integrated product design andmanufacturing and exposure to available options for rapid prototyping. The course benefits otherareas of the IT program such as plastics processing and packaging laboratories by enablingstudents to fabricate molding tools for plastic processing equipment through the capstone use ofsenior projects or special projects.The learning outcome of the new CAD/CAM-CNC course includes: • Understanding the role of CAD/CAM in product development • Relating CAD/CAM to various industrial applications • Relating CAD/CAM to traditional rapid prototyping methods • Creating 3-dimensional CAD models • Creating
resources requested by the students. Theseresources must not be readily available in the laboratory. This type of project may also beassigned in the “Senior Thesis Projects” capstone course. A project such as the one described,may involve a multi-disciplinary team of engineering, computer science and physics majors.Knowing that the completion of a project will help them with their performance in industry andin graduate schools, the students are motivated to do what it takes to complete the projectsuccessfully3. The functional, finished products are put on display in the engineering laboratoriesto be used as demonstration tools for other students to encourage and motivate their interest inScience, Engineering and Mathematics. Middle School and High
typically communicate at varying technicaland managerial levels, conduct comprehensive evaluation of engineers’ work products, and setthe criteria for the education and skills desired in new hires in their respective organizations.One important attribute of Council members is anticipated stability in the local geographicalarea, thus ensuring at least three years of continuity as members. This continuity is required tohelp gauge the long-term progress of the communication initiatives in the COE.The Council convenes formally as a group on a semi-annual basis at the LSU COE. The initialmeeting emphasized the communication initiatives within the College and examples of thecommunication-intensive projects produced by sophomore and capstone design
first,” should always apply. Fig. 4 Team Leader John Winker with the 2005 MTSU Mini Baja.Elements of an Effective Safety and Health Program. OSHA Voluntary Safety and Health Program ManagementGuidelines, 1989. Foroudastan, S. & Anderton M., “Implementing a National Competition Design Project as a Capstone Course atMTSU" 2006 Proceeding of ASEE-SE conference.Foroudastan, S. & Anderton M., “Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity at Middle Tennessee StateUniversity” ASEE Conference, 2006.NIOSH Safety Checklist Program for Schools. Chapter 2: How to Establish an Effective Occupational Safety andHealth and Environmental Safety Program. October 2003. < http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2004-101/chap2.html>
RIT’s Women in Engineering Program (WE@RIT); ME Department Advocate for Engineering Honors Program; and Member of Multidisciplinary Capstone Design Leadership Team.Elizabeth DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology ELIZABETH A. DEBARTOLO is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She earned her BSE at Duke University in 1994 and her MSME and Ph.D. at Purdue University in 1996 and 2000, respectively. She works with several students on predicting and enhancing fatigue life in aircraft materials and structures. Dr. DeBartolo serves on her college's leadership teams for both multi-disciplinary capstone design and
AC 2007-1733: LEARNING ABSTRACT INFORMATION THEORY ON VISUALDATA: AN INTEGRATED COURSE ON WAVELET-BASED IMAGECOMPRESSIONThomas Richter, Technische Universitat BerlinSven Grottke, Technische Universitat Berlin Page 12.1007.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Learning Abstract Information Theory on Visual Data: An Integrated Course on Wavelet-Based Image CompressionAbstractWe describe the implementation of and our experiences with a capstone course on wavelet basedimage compression held at the University of Technology Berlin in the years 2002 to 2006. Thiscourse has been designed as an “integrated project”, which means that it combines
Page 12.404.10 and Information in Engineering Conference, September 9-12, 2001.[17] Muci-Kuchler, K. H. and Weaver, J. M., “Using industry-like product development projects in mechanical engineering capstone design courses,” Proc. of ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, pp. 15249-15264, 2005.[18] Dunn-Rankin, D., Bobrow, J. E., Mease, K. D., and McCarthy, J. M., “Engineering design in industry: Teaching students and faculty to apply engineering science in design,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 87, no. 3, pp. 219-222, July, 1998.[19] Pullman, M. E., Moore, W. L., and Wardell, D., “A comparison of quality function deployment and conjoint analysis in new product design,” Journal of Product Innovation Management
Tests, Specification Tree, Drawing Tree,Parts and Subassembly Lists, etc. ) mentioned in NASA’s System Engineering handbook, a veryrigorous Configuration Control structure is applied in this course, including a release processmanaged by faculty. Each semester a new project number is assigned for the development of theproduct structure tree and product bill of materials. The students have access to all previousconfiguration managed and released systems and subsystems. This gives the student an industry-like setting in the final capstone design sequence, which comply with ABET outcomes. 2The students make extensive use of the new Space Systems Lab and the new Machine Shop. Thenewly developed hardware is tested and conformity inspected in the
steelbuilding; complete with detailed design calculations for loads and design of the structural frame.The material also includes numerous photos of the construction process, detailed plans (inAutoCAD), animations of some design concepts that are difficult to explain (such as localbuckling), and a virtual three-dimensional model of the entire frame system, which can beviewed from any vantage point. The virtual 3D model also includes detailed connections. Thistool has been incorporated in the structural engineering course sequence for civil andarchitectural engineering students. The sequence includes: statics, mechanics of materials,structural analysis, structural steel design, and a capstone design course. This paper presents thedetails of how the
core requirement. Students in electrical,computer and interdisciplinary engineering, computer science, and audiology may also take thecourse in their senior year to fulfill their capstone requirements. This is a strong selling point inthe recruitment process.Technical SupportIn addition to the recruitment opportunities the advisors present, if a student knows that a facultymember from their discipline is a part of the program, they will be more likely to join becausethat faculty member will be able to provide support for the student. Many students do not feelthat they are capable of doing the work necessary for many of the projects undertaken, soknowing that there is a faculty member available who can help with the technical work is a
curricular innovation to produce ECE graduates that can work in anenvironment that may rely on outsourcing a portion of its operations, and also make theknowledge base of these graduates stronger in areas that are not likely to be outsourced,or perhaps should not be outsourced for security reasons or for physical and logisticalconstraints. IntroductionThis paper focuses on changing the electrical and computer engineering (ECE)curriculum in response to outsourcing. The assumption is that outsourcing of certain ECEfunctions will continue in the short term and may perhaps strengthen to include moredesign related ECE projects [10]. Outsourcing of several technical responsibilities to theFar East is not only an
), specifically supported five of the 14 outcomes: a, b, e, g, andk. The assessment tools comprised prelab homework, exams, an experimental design project,written reports, oral presentations and team/peer evaluation. The senior capstone design course,taken in addition to ME Lab, accounted for another seven outcomes. It was decided by thefaculty that one or two courses are not sufficient to demonstrate the necessary assessment of theprogram outcomes. There were several outcomes, though, which made more sense to beassessed by a laboratory course. For instance, all accredited engineering programs must have acomponent of experimental design in their curriculum. ABET Criterion 3b states “Engineering
Capstone Courses, Journal of Engineering Education, January 1997, p 17-28.8. Prince, Michael, Does Active Learning Work? A Review of the Research, Journal of Engineering Education, July 2004, p. 223-231. Page 12.1146.89. Dally, J. W. and Zhang, G. M., A Freshman Engineering Design Course, Journal of Engineering Education, v 82, n 2, April 1993, p 83-91.10 Farr, John V., Lee, Marc A., Metro, Richard A., and Sutton, James P., Using a Systematic Engineering Design Process to Conduct Undergraduate Engineering Management Capstone Project, Journal of Engineering Education, April 2001, p 193-197.11. CED date