21 years.ELIZABETH C. KISENWETHERElizabeth Kisenwether is an Assistant Professor in the College of Engineering and Project Director for Problem-Based Learning in Entrepreneurship Program, Penn State, University Park. Liz’s teaching emphasis is engineeringdesign (first year and senior capstone courses) and engineering entrepreneurship. Prior to joining Penn State in1999, Liz was the founder and president of a non-profit corporation, KidTech, which designed and developed K-12engineering education kits and outreach activities for K-12 students Liz has a. BSEE from Penn State, an MSEEFrom MIT, and an MSEE from Johns Hopkins University.OLIVER FINCKHOliver Finckh is a Graduate Student and NSF-fellow at the Pennsylvania State University. Currently
with specificprograming fundamentals. This would help inform future project decisions.References 1. Baibak, T, and Agrawal, R., “Programming Games To Learn Algorithms”, Proceedings of the 2007 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI, June 2007. 2. Maxim, B., “Serious Games as Software Engineering Capstone Projects,” Proceedings of the 2008 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 2008. 3. Estell, J.K., “Writing Card Games: An Early Excursion into Software Engineering Principles”, Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, June 2005. 4. Helber, E., Brockman, M., and Kajfez, R
, 2011.[6] R. N. Savage, J. Stolk, and L. Vanasupa, “Collaborative design of project-based learning courses: How to implement a mode of learning that effectively builds skills for the global engineer,” 2007.[7] B. D. Jones, C. M. Epler, P. Mokri, L. H. Bryant, and M. C. Paretti, “The effects of a collaborative problem-based learning experience on students’ motivation in engineering capstone courses,” Interdiscip. J. Probl.-Based Learn., vol. 7, no. 2, p. 2, 2013.[8] S. Palmer and W. Hall, “An evaluation of a project-based learning initiative in engineering education,” Eur. J. Eng. Educ., vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 357–365, 2011, doi: 10.1080/03043797.2011.593095.[9] S. McLoone, B. Lawlor, and A. Meehan, “The
Engineering Course Through a Critical Review over its Offerings Orner, K. , Prouty, C. , Naughton, C. , Manser, N. , Verbyla, M. , Trotz, M. and Mihelcic, J.R. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 University of South Florida Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 1AbstractThe Sustainable Development Engineering course has evolved over its seven offerings at aresearch university in which interdisciplinary groups of graduate students engage in criticalthinking, problem solving, and collaborate with community partners. Students provide on-siteskilled labor, multi-media presentations, and project proposals for the community; in
Process Control Technology Microprocessors 1 & 2 Microprocessors 1 & 2 Microprocessors 3 Electromagnetic fields 1 Electromagnetic fields 2 Energy Conversion Machine Programmable Logic Controllers Fiber Optics Variable Speed Drive Capstone CapstoneA quick review of the above table indicated that the major difference in course topics was thatelectromagnetic field theory was not in the EET curriculum. Since
AC 2010-31: WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY'S HYBRID BUS - AMULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO PROJECT BASED EDUCATIONSteven Fleishman, Western Washington University STEVEN FLEISHMAN is currently an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Technology Department at Western Washington University. He joined the Vehicle Research Institute at WWU in 2006 after spending twenty years in automotive drivetrain R&D. Steven.fleishman@wwu.edu Page 15.1362.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010Western Washington University’s Hybrid Bus – A Multidisciplinary Approach to Project-BasedEducationAbstract Western
, which I termedskeptical reverence: a balance between seeing mathematics as an indispensible tool andunderstanding its limitations. I argued that this disposition was functional and necessary forengineers to carry out design and analysis effectively; the wrong level of reliance onmathematics—too much reverence or too much skepticism—would incur safety and economicrisks. Unanswered by this prior research was how these engineers developed their perspective onthe relationship between mathematics and engineering and this disposition of skepticalreverence. This question is taken up by the study reported here.This study was part of a larger project to investigate how engineers develop as problem solverswho apply mathematics effectively. I conjecture
community college and technical college context. Communitycollege and technical college graduates typically start jobs with less training than bachelor’sdegree holders on average. The capstone experience can also be significantly different. BYOPrepresents the opportunity to add to the student’s portfolio of projects. Smaller class sizeshowever must be balanced against heavy teaching loads for faculty. Developing projectmentorship that enhances both the BYOP students and more advanced students experience maybe one approach. Another approach may be to partner with 4-year colleges and universities. Thevalue of the learning experience is considerable for the project mentors and the exposure toconnections with the 4-year program participants can be
of Mechanical Engineering, Florida A&M – Florida State University b Lockheed Martin CorporationIntroductionLike most other programs, the curriculum of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at theFAMU-FSU College of Engineering is capped with a one-year senior design project in which thestudents work in teams to design and implement products or systems under the sponsorship of anindustrial partner. It has been recognized that capstone design courses represent an excellentvehicle to round out a good engineering education and they provide the appropriate platform forstudents to apply design thinking and transition into a professional career1. Many universitieshave adopted this
Paper ID #28825The emergence of the project manager role in student design teams: Amixed-methods exploratory studyMeagan Flus, University of Waterloo Meagan Flus is a MASc student in the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo. Her current research area is engineering design education with specific interest in design cognition. Her future work will focus on the intersection of data and design.Dr. Ada Hurst, University of Waterloo Ada Hurst is a Continuing Lecturer in the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo. She has taught and coordinated the capstone design courses in the
improvestudent motivation to study engineering. ABET accreditation explicitly requires some level ofteamwork through Student Outcomes, in particular criterion 5, “an ability to function effectivelyon a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusiveenvironment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives” [page 42, 1]. Clearly, both ABETand engineering faculty expect students to engage in substantive projects that include teamworkand project management.Typically, the senior-level capstone design project is when students engage in more authenticprojects. However, there are engineering programs that have also developed so-calledcornerstone courses at lower divisions (e.g. [2], [3]). Projects may differ in
the One of the more familiar examples of service-learning isDisabled, Inc.) in collaboration with member agencies such as Engineers Without Borders, which specializes in sponsoringGoodwill Industries of Greater New York & Northern NewJersey (GIGNY) and universities such as SUNY (State University international projects on a broad basis [4]. A notable exampleof New York) Maritime College. Project CREATE sponsors of a smaller service-learning capstone design endeavor is thecapstone design projects where students develop assistive projects sponsored by the University of
Paper ID #42098An Uncharted Territory: Removing Dependency on Grading Rubric in SeniorDesign ProjectsDr. Saeedeh Ziaeefard, The Ohio State University Saeedeh Ziaeefard is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at the Ohio State University. She is the senior capstone program director at the ECE department. Her expertise is in autonomous vehicles, system control, and sensors. She promotes the collaboration between the industry and academia in her capstone projects and hopes to bridge the gap. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 An
we can improve our curriculum.It is common practice in undergraduate engineering programs for students to participate inmultiple projects during their studies. The ABET requirement for a “curriculum culminating in amajor design experience” [1] for accredited BS programs often means a senior capstone activitythat involves a substantial project-based component. While projects may differ in their scope,complexity, and size, a key factor for improving success is some form of project management.Frequently though, students use an ad hoc project management approach, as they lack experiencein formal techniques. Regardless if the project is simple or sophisticated, students need to reducethe given problem into logical tasks, divide responsibilities
typicaldesign process-to-semester mapping for capstone projects, (2) a design process rubric applicableto engineering design projects in the curriculum, and (3) a mapping between the design processand engineering design tools taught within the curriculum. The design process guide ispresented as a tool which can be used to guide students through directed exploration of thedesign process during a first design class as well as to scaffold students’ undirected designprocess exploration. Implementation of the guide during the engineering design sequence will bediscussed as well as the lessons learned after applying the guide to senior and junior projects as agrading rubric, feedback mechanism, and as an in-class guide for student reflection on a
offered access to this system which allowed for remote observation of theday-to-day construction administration of the two-year project. Student access to the project wastied to the department’s required senior project capstone class. A select group of students fromthat class were then able to connect with a project that they saw everyday on campus. The student team was responsible for an established set of project administration tasksthat were to be performed on a periodic basis throughout the semester. Team members wererequired to take on multiple roles throughout the project, acting as construction managers, sub-contractors, owners representatives and design consultants in order to address the situations thatarose randomly based on the
BME capstone design course. BMECore 1 will comprise biomechanics, instrumentation, and sensors; BME Core 2 will comprisebiophysics, biomaterials, and transport; and BME Core 3 will comprise modeling biologicalsystems and signals. BME Design course 0 will provide the fundamentals of the design processand engage students with small team-based design projects motivated by the clinical needs ofcolleagues in our adjacent medical school. Design courses 1 and 2 will cover regulatorystandards and validation testing, respectively. BME Design 3 will consist of small-scale, team-based collaborations to aid in the transition into Capstone Design, which is required during the4th year. An elective second capstone semester will focus on commercialization of
as aprerequisite course to the senior design capstone course. In addition, to better address the ABET2000 and new TAC ABET criteria, the professor for that course is leading an interdisciplinaryteam to develop an interdisciplinary, college-wide, project management course to serve as aprerequisite to an interdisciplinary, college-wide, senior design capstone course. Thedepartments involved are Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and IndustrialEngineering, and the Department of Technology (which offers degrees in manufacturing andelectrical engineering technology and industrial technology). The Undergraduate Project Management CourseAlthough the Department of Technology offers a project management course for
AC 2010-228: THE CHALLENGE OF TEACHING SUSTAINABLEDEVELOPMENT USING A MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROJECT WITHINTEGRATED PROCESS DESIGNAnouk Desjardins, École Polytechnique de Montréal Anouk Desjardins has worked on the evolution and the teaching of the course Sustainable Development Capstone Project. After graduating in civil engineering from Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal she obtained a Master’s of Applied Science in 1999. Then she worked in industry as a process engineer. Since 2008 she joined Ecole Polytechnique as a research assistant for sustainable development projects and as a lecturer.Louise Millette, École Polytechnique de Montréal Louise Millette is, since 2002, the first (and only) woman to
the involved faculty. The resulting radio telescope projectprovides university undergraduate students with the ability to learn the basics of radio astronomythrough the easily accessible small-scale radio telescope system.IntroductionThis project was developed as an extension of a collaborative project between studentengineering and astronomy clubs. The members of the capstone team took on the design of thecontrol system and coordination of the overall project. During the initial development of theproject, a system block diagram was established as shown in Figure 1. This block diagram givesan overview of the major components of a radio telescope system. It was divided into threemajor sections, which were then assigned to task teams. In this
emphasizes research and instruction.Three projects are included in the study, progressing in level of complexity. There was somecommonality in participants between the three. The first is a large open-ended advanced conceptdevelopment exercise in an upper-division course. The second is a Capstone Design course. Thethird is a professional society’s international level vehicle design team competition. The resultsshow where and how students acquired the knowledge, skills, confidence and experience to buildthrough the years and reach a level where they could innovate and perform with excellence at thelevel of the international competition. The case study is aimed to benefit instructors who areinterested in improving the depth of their courses as well as
with the framework and structure necessary to successfullycomplete an open ended project within the specified timeframe. The paper presents how theDMAIC methodology has been incorporated into the senior design project at USD.BackgroundThe Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE) department at University of San Diego includesbroad coursework across the spectrum of ISyE disciplines including engineering economics,statistics, manufacturing, human factors and operations research. The number of students in eachcourse varies, but usually ranges from 10 to 25 students. The Senior Capstone Course is onesemester course that culminates the students’ experience within the department. ISyE studentsare also required to complete a comprehensive set of
success in first-year engineering and engineering in K-12. Page 15.431.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Draw Bridge Design: An Interdisciplinary, Project-Based Capstone Course for Freshman Engineering StudentsAbstractEngineering schools have long dealt with issues in recruitment and retention in engineering programs.Retention past the first year of study in engineering is often less than 50%. Efforts to address lowretention often include a redesign of the first year of study, with the intent to of introducing engineeringdesign early in the curriculum.Toward this end, Ohio Northern
Paper ID #37273Design and Implementation of Automation Systems as Electro-MechanicalEngineering Technology Senior Design ProjectsDr. Rasoul M. Milasi, Pennsylvania State UniversityDr. Andrzej J. Gapinski, Pennsylvania State University, Fayette Campus ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Design and Implementation of Automation Systems as Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology Senior Design ProjectsAbstractThe senior design project is the capstone design course in Penn State - Fayette’s electro-mechanical engineering technology (EMET) curriculum. It is a two-semester project workcomposed of EMET403, design
, and support ofdesign competitions; provide tutoring for key 2nd year-level engineering mechanics corecourses.IV. Professional Preparation to Meet Regional Job Demand. Support robust, accreditedcurricular preparation with guest speakers and industry field trips conducted jointly with thelocal American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and American Society of MechanicalEngineers (ASME) chapters, Career and Internship Center hosted workshops, internshipcoordination and professional network connections, and conference participation andpresentation.V. High Impact Practices. Engage students in evidence-based, high-impact learning activities(both curricular and co-curricular) including capstone projects, internships, collaborativeprojects, and E
) changes over time.7 In fact, in another publication, Chua claims that the morea student participates in project-based learning, the better the student grows in critical thinkingand generates better project-related products.5 For similar reasons, Rasul et al. advocate early,deliberate preparation of a student before their senior year capstone project.8 The importance of capstone design courses in an engineering education is well-documented.9Ward writes that capstone projects “bring all aspects of an undergraduate student’s experiencetogether”.10 Ward further notes that the completion of capstone projects do not only benefit thestudent but also serve as validation by potential employers of the student’s ability to applyknowledge and generate
,graduates, and faculty are presented. This paper also provides direction to the faculty for whichtypes of projects should be pursued for optimal educational benefit and to pinpoint areas thatmight need improvement in project design and implementation.1. IntroductionEngineering design courses provide valuable design experience for engineering students. Thecapstone design courses has gained considerable attention ever since it was found that the studentoutcomes set forth by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) areachievable in this course1 . Although capstone design courses are commonly taught at mostengineering schools, how they are taught and what they include varies widely2. Manysuggestions have been made to improve the
finishedprototypes.KeywordsTower Bridge, Engineering Design, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical EngineeringIntroductionDesign, in its nature is a multidisciplinary pursuit, is difficult to teach and most collegeundergraduate engineering programs defer the offering of any full-blown design course until thesenior year, often as a capstone course [1]. These capstone courses provide students theopportunity to work on real-world engineering projects. Usually, these design projects are openended and tackled in student teams [2]. Many educators are starting to realize that emphasizingdesign early in the engineering program provides certain benefits for the professional formationof the undergraduate engineer. Nowadays, it is common to see a design project moduleintegrated in the
from across the U.S. Starting 2007 he is affiliated with Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) Department of Engineering. His research areas are: Rocket and Aircraft Propulsion; Aerothermodynamics; Chemical Kinetics; Combustion Analyses; Thermo-chemical Non-equilibrium Flows; Internal Combustion Engines; Thermal/Fluid Systems; Numerical Simulation of Combustion and Flow; Microgravity Fluid Flow and Phase Change Heat Transfer. He is teaching the following disciplines: Propulsion; Advanced Propulsion; Combustion; Aeronautics; Heat Transfer; Applied Fluid Mechanics; Instrumentation; Thermodynamics; Senior Capstone Design Projects. Dr. Naoumov initiated a Moonbuggy project at the CCSU
Paper ID #6224Talkin’ Teams – Strategies for Elevating Student and Team Skill Developmentover Project CompletionDr. Greg Kremer, Ohio University Robe Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering, and the director of the ”Designing to Make A Difference” ME senior capstone design experience. Page 23.1131.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Talkin' Teams – Strategies for Elevating Student and Team Skill Development over Project CompletionAbstractThe purpose of this