othersupporting scientific articles. Students defined design requirements, generated evolutionarysolutions through multiple iterations, and demonstrated the utility of scientific literature byapplying knowledge to enhance their designs. This approach facilitated a deeper exploration ofbiomedical technology, involving critical analysis and improvement of materials, methods, andmanufacturing techniques.Seventeen students participated in the project, divided into six groups, each assigned specifictopics related to wearable and implanted technologies. Over 14 weeks, students followed astructured process, making presentations associated with three design iterations, showcasing theirprogress, and receiving feedback from a teaching team consisting of the
Technical State University. Dr. Ofori-Boadu has over twenty years of rele- vant occupational experience in construction technology/management (industry), teaching, research and service. Dr. Ofori-Boadu has served in various capacities on research and service projects, including Principal Investigator for two most recent grants from the Engineering Information Foundation (EIF) and the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). In 2017, Dr. Ofori-Boadu received both the College of Science and Technology (CoST) Rookie Research Excellence Award and the North Carolina A & T State University (NCAT) Rookie Research Excellence Award. She also received the Teaching Excellence Award for the Department of Built Environment
studentsreceive is that the majority of people who will be responsible for fabrication of the design on siteare not members of the class. Thus, the level of documentation and planning required issignificant, even when compared to a capstone design course, since the design team will not bepresent for the construction phase. Figure 5 shows that all students agreed that the class helpedtheir engineering and workplace skills. The overwhelming majority also said they wouldrecommend this class to their peers.Figure 5: Student responses to end-of-semester IDEA [24] survey supplemental questions: “(60)The critical reflection papers helped me to consider and understand the principles of CST. (61)The service-learning experience in this course (the design project
Paper ID #23915Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Interdisciplinary Senior Inter-disciplinary Project Educational ModelDr. Jinsung Cho, California State Polytechnic University Pomona My name is Jinsung Cho, an assistant professor of Civil Engineering Department in California State Poly- technic University Pomona. I have had more than 18 years in both academia and Civil and Construction Industry. My specialty is the behavior of underground infrastructure, Trenchless and Tunneling Technol- ogy, as well as 3D Virtual Construction Design & Management. I am a reviewer or member of several professional
Paper ID #26537gruepr: An Open Source Program for Creating Student Project TeamsDr. Joshua L. Hertz, Northeastern University Dr. Hertz earned a B.S. in Ceramic Engineering from Alfred University in 1999 and then a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006. Following this, he worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology as a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow. He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware as an Assistant Professor in September 2008, leading a lab that researched the effects of composition
solutions to real-life/simulatedproblems using a project-based approach.1.1 IntroductionAs our courses geared towards incorporating new technological trends in supply chain management andsustainability, the capstone senior design project topics in this area also increased. The main aspectspresented are related to the integrative approach in green energy harvesting, manufacturing, andsustainability, serving as models of energy efficiency and sustainable supply chain management, with aclear assessment of student-led projects developed during past academic years and how they contributeddirectly to the development of leadership skills along with untamed creativity. These capstone projects,along with clear connections between projects and curriculum
promoteinnovation through real world projects that connect student to faculty research.1 The goal of theVIP program at NYU Tandon School of Engineering is to add project-based curriculumthroughout the four year undergraduate degree. Increasingly, engineering educators areidentifying this project-based curriculum sequence as the cornerstone to capstone courses – first-year intro to engineering and capstone design curriculum. Vertically Integrated Projects allowstudents to continue developing skills from the first-year engineering design projects:entrepreneurship, innovation, design, teamwork, and leadership. In addition to these professionalskills, these Vertically Integrated Project teams will develop hardware, software, data analysis,planning and
electronics, mechanics, computer programming, and robotics.The progression of classes provides students with the skills to develop autonomous roboticsystems as part of the senior design capstone. Senior Design students in the program haveparticipated in the Autonomous Vehicle Challenge (AVC) as part of the National RoboticsChallenge [1] each of the last two years. The Program has sent two teams to participate in theAVC each of the last two years (2022 and 2023). In the first year that AVC was available aftercovid (2022) the team placed 1st and 3rd in the competition.The Program applied for accreditation as an Engineering Physics program during the 2022/2023review cycle. The Engineering Physics designation best matches the interdisciplinary nature
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
. Page 26.628.12References:1. Goldberg, M.R. and Pearlman, J.L. Best Practices for Team-Based Assistive Technology Design Courses. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2013. 41(9): p. 1880-1888.2. Catalano, J. D., P. Wray, and S. Cornelio. Compassion practicum: a capstone design experience at the United States Military Academy. Journal of Engineering Education, 2000. 89(4): p. 471–4743. Enderle, J. D. An overview of the National Science Foundation program on senior design projects to aid persons with disabilities. International Journal of Engineering Education, 2000. 15(4): p. 288–2974. Green, M. G., J. S. Linsey, C. Seepersad , K. Schmidt, and K. L. Wood. Design for Frontier Environments: A Novel Methodology and Results of
Bridge and Internship ProgramsAbstractUndergraduate students need exposure, initiation, motivation, and guidance to develop anorientation toward research that will benefit them not only in their capstone projects but also intheir future careers. Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) made such an opportunity availableto the rising junior and senior students of the Engineering Technology program.Fifteen rising junior students were selected to participate in the summer bridge program, and fourrising junior and senior students were selected to participate in a summer internship program atthe Coast Guard's aircraft facility. The project's scope was to engage students in designing,prototyping, and fabricating Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles (UAVs) and
. Similarly, there have been other universitycentered efforts in teaching design and manufacturing principles using electric vehicles. The most significant of these is the Purdue University EV 10Grand Prix , which also began in 2010 as a class offering, but has since expanded into a postsecondary schoolfocused league where any school may register a team and vehicle pursuant to their technical regulations. The projects are of much larger scale: fullsize racing gokart frames and larger teams of student working on vehicles as part of an extracurricular activity or seniorlevel capstone class. Purdue’s evGrandPrix Reference Guide suggests that
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
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
, 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
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
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
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
one class meeting orafternoon lab session) or as long as a semester or academic year (as in capstone design). Several of the goldstandard PBL elements (challenging open-ended problem, sustained inquiry, student choice, reflection,revision) require time to play out. How should faculty balance the benefits of an open-ended experiencewith the time-limited nature of constrained academic schedules?2.2 Student Backgrounds and Project Learning Objectives Students have varying prior experiences, capabilities, and needs, and some students will need moreguidance and structure than others. Faculty should consider the level and background of their students togauge the appropriate level of structure for PBL experiences. Faculty also must consider the
education.12 In literature, themost popular way of integrating real-world problem solving, especially in multidisciplinaryteams, seems to be through capstone design courses. As of 2005, roughly 35% of undergraduatecapstone design projects were conducted in multidisciplinary teams of students (an increase from21% in 1994).6 Evidence has shown, both qualitatively and quantitatively, that students benefitgreatly from working in multidisciplinary settings. Survey results show that engineeringprofessionals associate interdisciplinary thinking with creativity in their peers and ratemultidisciplinary work as very important in preparation for industry.7 Similarly, students whoparticipated in a multidisciplinary capstone course identified functioning in a
takeproject courses associated with that concentration. In the fourth year, students come backtogether to take an industry-sponsored multidisciplinary capstone course.The embedded systems project course described in this paper is taught in the third year,and is an important course for the students who choose the electrical or the roboticsconcentration. Its significance stems from a number of reasons. One, it is the first projectcourse sequence in the students’ area of specialization (concentration). Thus, they applyknowledge of basic circuits and programming to design, manufacture and test a solution.Another reason for the course’s significance is that it is a precursor to the capstone orfinal year project, and is intentionally modelled along the
, vertically integrated, project-based engineering program. QScience Proceedings, page 73, 2015. ISSN 2226-9649. [3] Stuart Palmer and Wayne Hall. An evaluation of a project-based learning initiative in engineering education. European Journal of Engineering Education, 36(5):357–365, 2011. doi: 10.1080/03043797.2011.593095. [4] Robert H Todd, Carl D Sorensen, and Spencer P Magleby. Designing a senior capstone course to satisfy industrial customers. Journal of Engineering Education, 82(2):92–100, 1993. ISSN 2168-9830. [5] Nathan Hotaling, Barbara Burks Fasse, Lewis F Bost, Christopher D Hermann, and Craig R Forest. A quantitative analysis of the effects of a multidisciplinary engineering capstone design course. Journal of Engineering
]. UREs come in many modalities, such as traditional faculty-student collaborations, project-basedinitiatives, community-based projects, capstone projects, internships, co-ops, course-based undergraduateresearch experiences, international research opportunities, and programs like Vertically IntegratedProjects (VIP). These initiatives provide students with versatile chances to participate in hands-onexperiences, acquire methodological expertise, and make meaningful contributions to advancingknowledge in their respective disciplines. [1], [4], [5]. Moreover, the scholarly literature reveals thatparticipation in UREs yields substantial benefits for students pursuing STEM careers. Research findingsshow that UREs can lead to a better understanding of
assistanceof MSU’s Education Abroad Office (EAO) staff, organized U.S. and in-country travel, lodging,extracurricular activities, meals, and program budget. In addition, the faculty collaborated with on-site industry professionals to identify project requirements and scope of work. Faculty-ledprograms were designed with instructional period throughout the semester and travel occurringduring spring or summer breaks. Students were permitted to substitute these programs either as asenior capstone or technical elective course. In the spring semester of 2013, engineeringtechnology students, for their senior capstone course, were tasked with developing a design for anecological and sustainable resort located in San Jose de David, Chiriqui Province, Republic
offerings were as follows: Figure 1: Project Based Learning Core of CoursesBy starting in the Junior year and culminating with a year-long senior capstone, participants wereable to progressively build their professional skills over several semesters. Detail PBL coursedescriptions may be found after the following titles: ENGR 350 - Engineering Practices and Principles III - Engineering project-based learning (open-ended) with emphasis on project control and engineering design processes. Special emphasis will be placed on professional, ethical, global, environmental, and contemporary issues. Contact Hours: 2 Lecture, 2 Lab. ENGR 400 - Engineering Capstone I - Senior engineering project
literature on conflict in engineering student project teams which found conflictin capstone design teams around design decisions, workload imbalances, and personalityconflicts [14]. The students described both process and relationship conflicts within their projectteam. From our limited research, it does not appear that there is a clear relationship betweenconflict (a)symmetry and conflict type. Future research should be conducted to explore thisfurther. It should be noted that all of these conflicts were generally low intensity and no majorissues (such as a complete lack of participation from one or more team members) were present.The students felt that they were able to manage these conflicts within the team and did notattempt to utilize the
Confidence Question Difference Use Computer Tools +0.4 Use Technical Concepts -0.1 Use Fabrication tools +0.1Table 7. Questions about Solving ProblemsIn general, the students in the project-based curriculum indicate more confidence in designingbut less confidence in identifying a design need than students in the traditional curriculum. Thiscould be a result of the students in the project-based curriculum being faced with the open-ended,multidisciplinary, design problems associated with the competition projects. Students in thetraditional curriculum typically will not have that experience until the capstone design course.Students in the
selected core subjects is provided in Figure 1. Here the ‘clinic’nomenclature invokes the notion of a medical school clinical rotation, in which future doctorspractice applying concepts learned in class through hands-on interactions with patients. Theinclusion of CDC within the specialization has a similar aim, with the intention of givingstudents the opportunity to integrate and apply prerequisite knowledge, strengthen their designskills, and develop professional competencies required for project work. In this way, the subjectcan be viewed as a ‘mini-capstone’ for the specialization, although there is a separate year-longcapstone requirement all students in the degree must complete. The clinic subject is seen as acrucial opportunity to give
high impactpractices: undergraduate research and collaborative assignments/projects. In some majors, students canfulfill their capstone or culminating design requirements through VIP, thus incorporating another highimpact practice (capstone projects).In a nationwide study of undergraduate research experiences, Russell, Hancock and McCullough foundthe overall duration of research experiences to be correlated with positive outcomes [4]. The benefit oflonger research experiences complements the structure of VIP, as returning students take on increasinglevels of responsibility and serve as student leaders. To facilitate longer-term student participation, VIPcourses are offered in 1-credit and 2-credit increments, with two semesters of
engineering.Teaching in the programs are mainly carried out as lectures, lessons, and laboratory sessions. In atypical engineering course, 30−40% of the education is carried out as lectures, 30−40% aslessons and 20−40% as laboratory experiments. In addition, case studies and project works areused in about half of the courses. Some projects are small (down to 15% of the course workload)and some may make up the whole course.In the present study, two courses are of interest. One is a course in Engineering thermodynamicswhich both the ME, DPD and IEM students take; the ME students as the very first course of theprogram, and the PDP and IEM students at the middle of the second year. The other is a bachelor(capstone) project course that the IEM students take as