Conference Session

Learning about Power Systems and Power Consumption

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carl Spezia, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

totheir future employment. Students benefit from the knowledge and experience of practicingengineers. Combining classroom instruction with a capstone design project reinforces keyprinciples and gives students a practical application for their knowledge. This paper reports howelectrical facilities of a university and personnel responsible for its design and maintenancebecame key partners in energy management and renewable power projects for a capstone seniordesign course. This paper documents grid operations, power plant efficiency, and energy costcontrol projects, focusing on a substation design for integrating a wind turbine into theuniversity’s grid. The project includes topics in power systems analysis using practical designmethods. Effective

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul A Bender, Ohio Dominican University

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Software Engineering Division

semester senior capstone course, which follows thedescription in the guidelines, which reads as follows: Provides students, working in groups, with a significant project experience in which they can integrate much of the material they have learned in their program, including matters relating to requirements, design, human factors, professionalism, and project management.The university has also made the determination that projects in this course will be studentselected, with guidance from the instructor.Several issues arise with the small student population when faced with the requirements of thedescription above. Two of these seem to be most important here.First, because of the small student population, we cannot justify

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claire Yu Yan P.Eng., University of British Columbia; Vladan Prodanovic P.Eng., University of British Columbia, Okanagan; Ray Taheri

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

common to all students and the following two years are specific to disciplines. Through the course of their education, students take part in several interdisciplinary design projects, including three major design projects offered in first and second years and capstone projects in fourth year. In the capstone course, students work on industry motivated real-life projects. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of these project-based learning activities, and to better understand how students evolve through the completion of these projects, a survey was conducted among first year, sophomore and senior students. The survey asked students for their views on the structure of these design courses

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ingrid Buckley, Florida Gulf Coast University; Peter J. Clarke, Florida International University

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Software Engineering Division

, 15]; pro-viding supplemental learning materials online that support the use of testing tools [16]; improvingtesting courses by identifying the difficulties and challenges students encountered when perform-ing testing [17]; and, testing real-world projects as a significant part of the software testing course[18].This paper presents the experiences of teaching an undergraduate software testing course over foursemesters using three different approaches for the project component of the course. A major com-ponent of the course is a semester-long group project with several deliverables. The nature of thegroup projects includes (a) testing different capstone projects that are sponsored by local compa-nies, (b) all student teams testing a single

Conference Session

Materials Selection & Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Mellodge, University of Hartford; Diane Folz, Virginia Tech

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Materials

Instructor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Virginia Tech. She also is the faculty advisor for the Material Advantage Student Professional Organization and of the Journal of Undergraduate Materials Research (JUMR). In addition to teaching the materials processing laboratories, she mentors at least one team each year in their senior capstone project. Her research is primarily in the area of microwave processing of materials. Page 15.99.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 A Summer Transitional Program for an Undergraduate Interdisciplinary

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Measurement: Innovative Courses

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

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Instrumentation

insight into the “laboratory based problem solvinglearning environment” that has been developed with financial and technical assistancefrom local industries. The discussion will also identify how the “need” for this type ofproject based curriculum became obvious. Four prerequisite courses are briefly describedbefore focusing on the project based capstone course. These four courses provide thestudents with the technical skill sets needed to succeed in the senior level capstonecourse. Accomplishments and outcomes from the student perspective, the Universityperspective, and the industry perspective will also be shared.Our advancing world of computer integration, process control, industrial automation, andtelecommunications requires technical problem

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jose Guevara, University of Puerto Rico; Ismael Pagan-Trinidad, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Didier Valdes-Diaz, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Eileen Pesantes, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Francisco Maldonado-Fortunet, University of Puerto Rico; Miguel Pando, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez

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Design in Engineering Education

2006-1605: INCORPORATION OF A COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN EXPERIENCEIN THE INTEGRATED ENGINEERING PROJECT DESIGN MODELJose Guevara, University of Puerto Rico Dr. Guevara is an associate professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico, he is leading the work to make improvements to the capstone course and helping also in the improvements to the curriculum. He has also work as a structural consultant for a wide variety of projects including commercial, residential, industrial, transportation, marine facilities as well as the tren urbano.Ismael Pagan-Trinidad, University of Puerto Rico-MayaguezDidier Valdes-Diaz, University of Puerto Rico-MayaguezEileen Pesantes, University of Puerto Rico

Conference Session

Design Methodology and Evaluation 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

April M. Bryan, University of the West Indies

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Design in Engineering Education

design courses into every year of their program,while others provide students with a single capstone design experience in the final year.While some institutions use problem based learning approaches, others use guidedexperiential learning to teach engineering design. Design courses also vary by the source ofthe projects. In some institutions, instructors design the courses while in other institutions;students propose their design projects. A recent trend has been the use of industry-led andservice-based projects for capstone design courses. Projects often vary by team size and mayconsist of teams of one to as many as five members.A review of the literature reveals that there has been considerable investigation into thetechniques used to teach

Collection

2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Lauren M. Ronsse; Lily M. Wang; Clarence E. Waters

Industry Participation in the Interdisciplinary Team Design Project Course of a Master of Architectural Engineering Program Lauren M. Ronsse, Lily M. Wang, Clarence E. Waters Architectural Engineering Program University of Nebraska – LincolnAbstractThis is a case study of extensive industry participation in the capstone design course of theMaster of Architectural Engineering program at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. Thiscourse, entitled Interdisciplinary Team Design Project, pairs teams of professional engineers andstudents to provide mentoring, assessment, and feedback, as the students work oninterdisciplinary teams to design the

Conference Session

Case Studies, Engineering Education and Outcome Assessment Around the Globe

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Frempong, State University of New York

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International

AC 2010-957: BRINGING OUT THE BEST FROM THE ENGINEERINGTECHNOLOGY STUDENTS THROUGH A SENIOR PROJECT COURSEStephen Frempong, State University of New York Page 15.242.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Bringing out the best from Engineering Technology students through a capstone (project) course at SUNY CantonAbstract:The capstone (project) course in the Electrical EngineeringTechnology program was developed four years ago at the StateUniversity of New York at Canton is making a big difference inour senior students. This paper will discuss a more hands-onsenior capstone course that gives the student an opportunity tothink, research, design, construct

Conference Session

Undergraduate Career Development

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Latorre, University of Florida; R. Keith Stanfill P.E., The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP)

University of Florida and 10 years with United Technologies Corporation. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Best Practices for Industry Liaisons in Engineering Design Projects: Insights from Students and LiaisonsAbstractMany engineering programs provide opportunities for students to work on design teams forprojects that are industry sponsored, such as in capstone courses. In these experiences, thecollaboration between student teams and industry liaisons can be crucial for the successfulproject completion. The end goal of this study is to contribute to a deeper understanding of howthe role of the liaison contributes towards a successful project delivery and a

Collection

2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Roy Myose

Junior-level Jet Engine Design Project Incorporating Aircraft Performance, Cost, and Environmental Issues Roy Myose Department of Aerospace Engineering, Wichita State UniversityAbstract Capstone design classes in aerospace engineering oftentimes employ a multi-disciplinary team-based approach to design projects. In discipline-specific non-capstone classes, the typical emphasisis to cover the necessary conceptual material, and the design project in such a class tends to consideroptimization issues related to the discipline-specific topic. This paper discusses the author’s attemptto incorporate aircraft performance, cost, and environmental issues in the

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary B. Vollaro, Western New England University; Michael Brennan

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Materials

the ‘perfect’ capstone project that captures the student’s interest and personal passion,and incorporates the fundamental engineering knowledge they have gained over the past 3 or soyears, is always challenging. As students master the fundamentals in their engineering education,the senior capstone project offers an opportunity to students to work on a problem that mighthave driven them to study engineering in the first place or, now armed with the new formalengineering knowledge, apply it to seeking solutions in areas of personal interest, experience andpassion. The challenge here as a faculty advisor, it to work with the student to develop a viableproject, which meets the educational outcomes, provides an exciting experience, and fits in

Conference Session

Impacts on Engineering Education Through Collaborative Learning, Project-based, and Service-learning

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phillip Albert Sanger, Western Carolina University; Julia Ziyatdinova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Vasiliy Grigoryevich Ivanov, Kazan National Research Technological University

Tagged Divisions

International

knowledge about structures, anticipating and mitigatingrisks through concurrent testing and development activities, maximizing team performancethrough organization and delegation of tasks, trading off technical performance within a definedand fixed budget and drawing quality of construction and aesthetics into design decision.It occurred to the authors that this exercise might expose interesting differences and sensitivitiesfor an American participant group compared to a Russian group of participants. The Americangroup is a fifty three member senior capstone project class of traditional and non-traditionalmultidisciplinary students. The Russian group was composed of faculty and graduate studentsparticipating in a workshop held during a conference

Conference Session

Horizontal and Vertical Integration

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin Z. Dymond, University of Minnesota Duluth; Matthew K Swenty P.E., Virginia Military Institute

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

classes or capstone style courses hasbeen well documented. Design projects introduced in a single course can help connect esotericconcepts, reinforce team-building principles, and bring practical considerations into theclassroom. However, many of the concepts taught and learned in these courses may be leftbehind when the student moves on to another design course or focus area within civilengineering. Capstone style courses are frequently used to instill the importance of the overalldesign process, but this may not be completed until the final semester or year of study. Theglobal objective of this research study was to horizontally integrate the same design project inmultiple structural design courses to incorporate the concepts of iterative

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 1 - Skill and Competency Development through the Co-op Experience

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lindsay Corneal, Grand Valley State University; Wendy S. Reffeor, Grand Valley State University; Christopher P. Pung P.E., Grand Valley State University

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

assignment was added to the co-op sequence, it was noticed that students wereproposing some projects that had a lot of merit but that they were too complex for one student tocomplete within a single co-op semester. To support the overall curriculum within the GVSUengineering programs, the employers were encouraged to submit these proposals forconsideration as a project for the industry sponsored capstone projects that all GVSUengineering students are required to complete. These multi-disciplinary projects are completedby teams of four to six students over the course of two semesters. Having a well-defined projectproposal and a student that is familiar with the company, which the employer can request be amember of the team, leads to very successful

Conference Session

Design Teams 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Akhil Krishna Mohan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Priyanka Dey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Sizhi Tan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Mariana Silva, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

sxover 80% of the theoretical satisfaction ( smax ), based on every student getting their firstpreference. On average, it took 350 generations to converge at a solution, which translates tounder 3 minutes on most systems.User study 1: a Mechanical Engineering capstone coursejunto was used by the instructor of a senior capstone course in the Mechanical EngineeringDepartment of a large public research university in Fall 2019 and Spring 2020 semesters. Whilethe front end was not yet complete, the backend code proved effective both semesters. Thissection summarizes background information about the course, and the method previously used toassign students to projects, the results from junto and the instructor feedback.Course descriptionThe capstone

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: Design

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nan Kong, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Lindsey B. Payne, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Eunhye Kim, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Carolina Vivas-Valencia, Purdue University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

professional development of a competent biomedical engineer workforce that can effectivelyaccomplish emphatic innovation, and one that can frame and re-frame problems through theinnovation process. Our research examined how engineering students empathize with users anddevelop empathic abilities that have implications on their design innovation skills. The projectteam developed empathic innovation workshops and embedded them into existing biomedicalengineering capstone courses. Data were collected using surveys, student project reports,ideation tasks, and observations. These workshops resulted in significant changes in students’emphatic tendencies. From our qualitative studies, we also conjectured that the overall empathicpotency of a student design

Conference Session

Impact of Community Engagement on Students

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew T. Siniawski, Loyola Marymount University; Victoria Louise Graf; Shawna Leigh Draxton, WISH Charter

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Community Engagement Division

Paper ID #8657Student Perceptions of Design Projects That Involve Developing Assistive De-vices for Elementary School Children with DisabilitiesDr. Matthew T. Siniawski, Loyola Marymount University Dr. Matthew T. Siniawski is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. He teaches the senior capstone design project courses and has recently begun mentoring students on the design of assistive devices for children with disabilities. One of his research interests lies in understanding how these Learning Through Service projects impact participating engineering students

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division - Changing How We Teach: Flipping, Project-Based Learning, and More!

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Retherford, University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Sarah Mobley, University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Brad McCoy, United States Military Academy; Aaron Hill, United States Military Academy

3). All students were in their Junior or Senior year. The survey was deployed prior to final grades inthe subject semester and then again within the first month of the subsequent semester. The request toparticipate was presented to the students no more than four times total. All students agreed to a standardconsent form prior to completing the survey, no signature was required. The subject group of students waspulled from a variety of classes all of which utilize a project-centered curriculum. Each courserepresented integrates the course project in a different style and the course grade, course lessons, andprofessor emphasis on the technical and professional skills vary.At USMA CE493/494 is a year-long capstone design course. The course is

Conference Session

Experienced-Based Instruction

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

Session 3515 Client-Based Projects for Every Senior – A Mark of Excellence for Any Program Ronald W. Welch, Allen C. Estes United States Military AcademyAbstractThis paper describes a unique senior project capstone course used successfully by the ABET-Accredited Civil Engineering Program at the United States Military Academy (USMA) to greatlyenhance the academic program. The three general project classifications available within thissenior project course are service-based (i.e., USMA, the Army, local community), competition-based (i.e., steel

Conference Session

ME Division Technical Session 2 - Harnessing AI and Machine Learning to Transform ME Education

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wenhai Li, State University of New York, College of Technology at Farmingdale; Yue Hung, Farmingdale State College; Gonca Altuger-Genc, State University of New York, College of Technology at Farmingdale; Sen Zhang, State University of New York, Oneonta; Akin Tatoglu, University of Hartford; Zhou Zhang, State University of New York, College of Technology at Farmingdale

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

, State University of New York, College of Technology at Farmingdale Dr. Gonca Altuger-Genc is an Associate Professor at State University of New York - Farmingdale State College in the Mechanical Engineering Technology Department.Sen Zhang, State University of New York, Oneonta Sen Zhang has been teaching Computer Science at SUNY Oneonta since 2004. The recent courses he has been teaching include Python, Artificial Intelligence, Intro to Machine Learning as special topics, Intro to Robotics, Internet Programming, Linux, and Software Design and Development (which typically contains a sizable team term-project as capstone experience). He publishes on data mining algorithms, conducts educational research and values

Collection

2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Bradley A. Hyatt

secondary approach was to create andimplement surveys that indirectly assess the industry’s participation. Both of these methodsprovided meaningful feedback for the students’ performance and ultimately for programmaticstudent outcomes.IntroductionThe benefit of involving industry members in engineering education has been well documentedover the past several decades. Specifically, contemporary academic literature supports the use ofindustry sponsorship of senior design projects, also known as “capstone” projects (Smith, 2009).Industry sponsorship can take many forms, but most of the time this primarily entails industrymembers working with and/or reviewing the work of the students (O’Brien et.al., 2003). Thisprovides an outstanding mechanism for

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony E. Felder, University of Illinois at Chicago; Michael Gordon Browne, University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Biomedical Engineering; Miiri Kotche, University of Illinois Chicago

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

. The first aim of this pipeline is to enhance senior design (SD) projectpreparedness by 1) introducing a new physical prototyping course to develop and practiceessential fabrications skills, and 2) revising CIP to better validate needs for the new pipeline’slongitudinal process. The second aim is to leverage interdisciplinary collaboration to enhancemedtech device design by 1) using CIP as a catalyst to identify and validate needs for use as SDprojects and 2) continuing longitudinal development beyond SD with medical student innovatorsfrom our four-year cocurricular Innovation Medicine (IMED) program for medical students.Transitioning projects from CIP to SD, by students with training in prototyping, and then tomedical capstone has substantial

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marcos Esterman, Rochester Institute of Technology; Dorin Patru, Rochester Institute of Technology; Vincent Amuso, Rochester Institute of Technology; Edward Hensel, Rochester Institute of Technology; Mark Smith, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

of the Aerospace Systems and Technology Track, with particularemphasis on the Microsystems Engineering and Technology for the Future Exploration of OuterSpace Regions (METEOR) family of projects will be used as a case example to illustrate theprocess.IntroductionProject-based “capstone” design has become an integral component of the undergraduateengineering experience. As noted by Dym, et al.1, this has been the standard academic responseto address the need to produce engineering graduates able to practice in industry. TheMultidisciplinary Senior Design (MSD) program at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)arose from departmental capstone design experiences within Mechanical, Industrial, andElectrical Engineering2. Since its inception

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yosef S. Allam, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Clifford A. Whitfield, Ohio State University; Jintana Nina Phanthanousy, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Design in Engineering Education

and graduating, respectively, undergraduate engineering students thusact as bookend design experiences. The Cornerstone curricula serve multifaceted purposesincluding providing students with what is likely their first open-ended design and long-termproblem-solving challenge as well as transitioning incoming traditional engineering studentsfrom secondary college preparatory coursework to engineering coursework at the post-secondarylevel, not to mention satisfying various curriculum content-related and pedagogical objectives.The Capstone activities provide students with an opportunity to apply their coursework fromtheir program of study and experiences through their college careers in a final project often in thefield and involving industry

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Carol S. Stwalley, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Robert Merton Stwalley III P.E., Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Virginia Lynn Booth-Womack, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Grace Lynn Baldwin; Sarah Larose, Purdue University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Biological and Agricultural Engineering

research program. Some of thestudents were introduced to Agricultural & Biological Engineering (ABE) projects through thispartnership opportunity. These students were paired with an ABE faculty member in theirresearch area to conduct their initial project in a university setting. RS students were thenallowed to direct a project of their choosing within the Multi-disciplinary Engineering ResearchFellowship (MERF). The MERF opportunity provided students with a self-directed project tohelp prepare them for their senior capstone project within their discipline. Students were requiredto document their projects and formally write-up their experimental results. The LSAMP andMERF projects provided valuable experiential components to the RS students

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research and Industry

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Yalcin Ertekin, Drexel University; Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University; Mike Stine Jr.; Douglas Brian Forbes, Lockheed Martin; Benjamin Cohen; Ryan Buckley

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Manufacturing

courses in ET Masters program. Also, she introduced the first experiential activity for Applied Mechanics courses. She is coordinator and advisor for capstone projects for Engineering Technology.Mr. Mike Stine JrMr. Douglas Brian Forbes, Lockheed MartinMr. Benjamin Cohen,Ryan Buckley c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020Interdisciplinary Senior Design Project to Develop a Personal Blind Spot Information SystemIntroductionIn recent years there has been a big push to get students into the STEM fields. However, what seems to belacking in this academic push is the hands-on side of it. Engineering simply just is not about equations, butactually design and developing as well as fabricating a physical

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

James Heidenreich; Dr. Eugene Silgalis; Nicholas Akinkuoye

conference presentation is tofocus on how engineering class projects and those required in a capstone course can beeffectively used in continuous quality program improvements, and also used to documentstudent learning, as well as used as outcome assessment tools. (Formative and SummativeAssessment)Assessing Program OutcomesAssessment starts from the standpoint of institutional goals, statement of purposes orcollege mission statements. These statements are generally stated in a broad sense toinclude such entities as: character and citizenship to be exhibited by graduates. Departmental, division goals are always a subset of the institutional missionstatements and goals. They however should be expressed in discrete quantifiable terms.Program

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Huggins; Winfred K Anakwa; Gary Dempsey

program at BradleyUniversity. Use of the mini-project to increase the design content in our curriculum has been in place forten years. The results have been used successfully to implement course, laboratory, and curriculummodifications. The paper will discuss the small products developed, curriculum modifications, projectdevelopment time and costs, and how the mini-project will be used in the new Engineering Criteria2000 accreditation process.I. IntroductionThe six-week senior mini-project is a small but vital component of our Electrical and ComputerEngineering (ECE) undergraduate laboratory sequence at Bradley University. The laboratory programconsists of a five semester sequence of independent lab courses culminating in a capstone designproject