process simulators and othercomputational tools.Today expectations for the capstone design project are much higher than they were 20 years ago.Such expectations include multiple case studies, sophisticated optimizations including processeconomics, and life-cycle and safety analyses. However, very few chemical engineeringgraduates work for design and construction companies and those employed in the processindustry will more likely work in an operating facility. The senior capstone design projectprovides students an opportunity to bring different concepts taught throughout the curriculuminto the design of a chemical process. The question is: how well does a rigorous chemicalengineering undergraduate curriculum and the associated capstone design
engineering and engineering technology, problem-based andproject-based learning are different. According to Lee [4], the focus of problem-based learning isthe problem solving and learning process, while the project outcome is the focus of project-basedlearning. Since project-based learning is commonly seen in senior students’ capstone designcourses, problem-based learning can be used as a prelude to project-based learning in priorcourses. In this way, students can develop the skills necessary to apply to project-based learningactivities.Gijbels et al. [5] state that assessments for problem-based learning can include collaborativeteamwork assessment, exams, reports, and self and peer assessment. Several factors play a role inthe impacts of PBL that
empathy. A design project is given to students enrolled in a Design Methodologies course –which serves as a Capstone Design Precursor – at a small private, engineering focused university.Student empathy was collected through a survey that combined two existing empathy instruments.Student empathy was calculated before and after the product design assignment. Further, studentsperformed stimulated reflection to discuss the challenges observed with their design.The results of the study suggest that while students recognize the importance of empathy, theassignment itself did not improve their empathy scores. Students did not see a statisticallysignificant change in their empathy scores before and after the assigned based on the surveyinstrument
Collaboration between a Civil Engineering and an Environmental Engineering Program: Better Together Kenneth R. Leitch and Erick B. Butler College of Engineering West Texas A&M University AbstractThe civil engineering and environmental engineering programs at West Texas A&M University(WTAMU) (a mid-sized regional institution in the Texas A&M University System and located inthe Amarillo, TX region) are collaborating on curriculum and senior design capstone projects inorder to strengthen one another and boost student enrollments in shared courses and in themajors
systems companies in the Midwest. In addition to one U.S. patent, Schilling has numerous publications in refereed international conferences and other journals. He received the Ohio Space Grant Consortium Doctoral Fellowship and has received awards from the IEEE Southeastern Michigan and IEEE Toledo Sections. He is a member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society and ASEE. At MSOE, he coordinates courses in software verification, real time systems, operating systems, and cybersecurity topics. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 WIP: Integrating the Entrepreneurial Mindset into a Software Requirements Course through Project Based
project management method SCRUM [14]. This wasdesigned to provide the students with the experience of using a popular agile projectmanagement method for developing an embedded system. The project activities involvedworking together in developing and testing the system, presenting their progress in a regularinterval to the class, presenting the final system to the class and submitting a written projectreport.Observed Impact: The instructor feels that the course revision was justified and was timely.The changes and modifications catered to the technological training needs of the students. Thecourse also contributed for the students to get jobs related to embedded systems. This coursewas also helpful for the students who undertook senior capstone
. Otherplans included graduate study in STEM fields, professional school (e.g. medicine or law), orother jobs not in engineering fields.Respondents were classified as feeling like they belong or feel like an engineer (Q13 of thesurvey) if they selected “Somewhat Agree”, “Agree”, or “Strongly Agree”. Most respondentsreported that they feel like they belong in the school (86%) and their major (84%), and theyfeel like an engineer (80%). Interestingly, 67% of respondents who agreed that they feel likean engineer indicated that the experience that made them feel that way occurred at their ownuniversity (i.e., UVA).Research-Experienced RespondentsExcluding capstones and course-structured laboratory projects, 39% of respondents (n = 303)have participated in
design) and designintegration and presentation. The students learn how architects and engineers work together inmulti-disciplinary teams to complete a building design project. The course is assessed each yearthrough course assessment plans, course assessment reports, student course critiques andprogram graduation surveys. Quantitative and qualitative assessment data are presented. Itsupports multiple ABET student outcomes and criteria. Students rate it among their favoriteundergraduate courses. More importantly, it prepares them for their future roles in designing andmanaging real building projects.Keywords: ABET, architecture, civil engineering, engineering design, interdisciplinary, BIMIntroductionUndergraduate civil engineering programs
engineering. He has written texts in design, general engineering and digital electronics, including the text used by Project Lead the Way. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020A Qualitative Study of Empathy in the Experiences of Students in a First-Year Engineering Service-Learning CourseEmpathy is an important ability for engineers, it allows us to connect with the people we impactas we seek to solve problems, engage in design and innovate technologies. This ability iscommonly and casually defined as the ability to put oneself in another person’s shoes. Severalresearchers within and outside of the engineering education community have sought to defineand suggest practical
), 2) solving the problem in ways potential customers will value(Value Proposition), and 3) using technically creative, efficient, and effective (and cost-effective)technology (Technical Merit) [16, 17].Typically, an engineering capstone course requires students to complete a comprehensiveinnovative project, which prepares students with professional knowledge and skills for workingin “a competitive global economy” [14, p. 143]. In a competitive, global economy, lively teamdynamics are valued to the extent that they result in effective, commericializable, outcomes.Theodore Levitt (cited by Andrew and Sirkin, 2003) said, “The fact that you can put a dozeninexperienced people in a room and conduct a brainstorming session that produces exciting
Science at Wichita State University for three semesters. Her research interests are Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) controllers, robust control, time delay, compensator design, and filter design applications, for continuous-time and discrete-time systems. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Hybrid Green Vessel DesignAbstract This paper presents the milestones of a Hybrid Green Vessel Design capstone project. Themotivation of this project is to develop knowledge and skills in green energy applications, hybridvessels, and power management systems. To accomplish this, undergraduate students areresearching and designing a hybrid power plant for a green
25 new courses. He has supervised over 35 Industrial Design Projects. He is a returned Peace Corps Volunteer. He is dedicated in helping his students to succeed.Dr. Otsebele E Nare, Hampton University Otsebele Nare is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Hampton University, VA. He received his electrical engineering doctorate from Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, in 2005. His research interests include System Level Synthesis Techniques, Multi-Objective Optimization, Device Modeling and K-16 Integrative STEM education. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work in Progress: Engineering Economy Taught Across
learning, where students work toward completion of a fully realizedproject. Typically, the project is something tangible and utilizes a hands-on approach [11] [12][13] and can be either ill- or well-defined. The first-year Cornerstone project in ENGR 111 tendsto be more well-defined in comparison to the more ill-defined Capstone project experiences duringrespective senior years. Finally, discovery-based learning in employed throughout ENGR 111course lesson plans. In discovery-based learning, students are given tasks, such as explainingobservations or answering a question, with the educational objective of discovering the underlyingengineering phenomenon [14] [15].ENGR 111 Course OverviewAs previously mentioned, the ENGR 111 course structure is
education and experiential learning. He is the coordinator of the industry sponsored capstone from at his school and is the advisor of OU’s FSAE team.Prof. Yingtao Liu, University of Oklahoma Dr. Yingtao Liu is an assistant professor in the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma (OU). Before joining OU, he was an assistant research scientist in the AIMS center at Arizona State University from 2012 to 2014. His research expertise include the development, ad- vanced manufacturing, and application of lightweight composites and nanocomposites, smart structures, non-destructive evaluation, structural health monitoring and prognostics. c American Society for
afocus on hands-on education. This content is a major component of the CSET program thatsatisfies ABET ETAC Criteria. The Computer Science content of the program was enhanced andredesigned after Fall 2006 to meet ABET CAC Criteria.The CSET program is a mid-station between Computer Science and Computer EngineeringTechnology. The program is geared primarily to students that enjoy hands-on or Project-BasedLearning (PBL). Experiential learning effectively engages students 1,2 , supports technology andcollaboration 3,4,5,6 , reduces failure rates 7 , and exposes students to Science, Technology,Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) careers 8 .// The rest of this paper is structured as follows.ABET Student Outcome CriteriaBoth ETAC and CAC require
guide the program’s overallwriting integration. Initial assessments of the EGR 4900 papers indicate that the students stillhave room for growth in their writing. However, we will not have assessments from the fullwriting integration program until 2023 when the first cohort that experienced the total integrationgraduates. Until then, we will only use the scores based on the general education writingassessment to compare the engineering students with others across campus.This is the first offering of our senior capstone design course. Therefore, we did not have anyfindings or observations except the writing requirements for the course at the time of this paper.In the senior capstone design course, each team will be completing a formal project
members of Marwa Village. The conclusion was that thecommunity had the desire and organizational capacity to be a strong partner for aninternational water development project. A multi-disciplinary team was assembled, traveled toMarwa in May 2016, and established the foundation that would evolve into a multi-year, multi-phase community development project: Maji Marwa. The Maji Marwa project was introduced to students as a capstone project option in theundergraduate civil engineering program and has expanded to collaboration amongst twouniversities, five colleges and participation from over 175 students. The rainwater harvestinginitiatives goal was to collaborate with in-country partners to construct three rainwaterharvesting (RWH) systems
exclusion from high-profile team roles [5-9].Recent research indicates that first-year, team-based design courses represent a uniqueopportunity to address such disparities and providing early collaborative learning experiencessupports the success of students from underrepresented groups in engineering [10-13]. Whilelectures and readings may provide teams with basic tools for team and project management,these correlate team success with the creation of a high-quality final design [14]. Such tools mayinadvertently cue students to distribute work according to stereotypical social roles in the beliefthat by having team members “play to their strengths,” they are doing what is best for the team[15]. Such task distribution may limit new learning across
experts from every branch of engineering, andit was exciting tapping into that knowledge to make it all happen and modify it how we saw fit,”said a senior engineering student from the Playful Learning Lab. Figure 11: The Playful Learning Lab team and engineering consultants collaborating The majority of the lab’s undergraduate engineering team were not seniors, so they hadno experience with the University of St. Thomas Engineering Senior Design capstone prior toworking on the Art in Space project. This contest provided real-life effective preparation andpractice for future professional engineering work. It was difficult for many of the team membersto balance lab work, social life, and academic life, but it was possible. With the
, test, and refine gravity-powered cars. With a budget of $500 per team (thanks tofundraising efforts initiated by the 6th grader), each of the four teams had freedom to design andbuild a unique car. The program successfully culminated in a race on the New Mexico Tech campusgolf course in April. Building on last year’s success, this year’s program has extended to include 15middle school students, representing three area schools. The goals for the Soapbox Derby Programare to teach middle school students the engineering design process through a hands-on project. Theprogram provides the college student coaches with the opportunity to serve as mentors for the nextgeneration of engineers. IntroductionAs
-efficacy beliefs and outcome expectations [1].The belonging component includes a set of activities to develop professional identity and senseof belonging. Activities such as establishing learning communities through project-orientedengineering teams, aim at developing freshmen and sophomores’ interactions with seniorstudents via capstone and design-oriented courses. These interactions are structured around twoone-credit courses, Introduction to Engineering (INGE-3001) and Introduction to LearningCommunities (INGE-3002).In the formative component, interventions in the form of talks and soft-skill workshops are aimedat training students using well-known high-impact educational practices [21]. Trainings basedon the Affinity Research Group (ARG) model
-year project to the capstone, seniordesign class. Alongside these programs, new campus facilities and academic makerspaces havebeen developed to satisfy the need for rapid prototyping tools and support both extracurricularand curricular project-based learning [5, 6].Use of these makerspaces can be intimidating for first-year students as they enter the university.And, though there is a growing presence of these spaces at most schools, many students still donot know that they exist or, if they do, how to attend training and start utilizing the availableresources [7]. To address this, first-year engineering programs are embedding use of themakerspace within course activities [1, 8-11].For the first-year program at Northeastern, a new “Learning
instructor for several courses including Introduction to Engineering, Introduction to Materials and Manufacturing, and Structural and Chemical Characterization of Materials.Dr. Robin Fowler, University of Michigan Robin Fowler is a lecturer in the Program in Technical Communication at the University of Michigan. She enjoys serving as a ”communication coach” to students throughout the curriculum, and she’s especially excited to work with first year and senior students, as well as engineering project teams, as they navigate the more open-ended communication decisions involved in describing the products of open-ended design scenarios. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Gender
and health clinics. He is also the co-director of the university’s flagship Ver- tically Integrated Project for Sustainable Development program, which coordinates undergraduate and post-graduate research tackling the UN Sustainable Development Goals. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the Low Carbon Energy Development Network.Dr. Bennett C Ward, Virginia Commonwealth University College of Engineering Ben Ward is Associate Professor, Chemical and Life Science Engineering, and Director Project Outreach in the College of Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University. In his role as Director Project Out- reach he is director of the College’s Capstone Senior Design program. A key part of this
transition from capstone trainingto engineering practice. Engineering education is meant to prepare engineering students for thechallenges of the engineering workplace, but this is not the same as preparing women for the(presumably) gendered experiences of engineering work. This study aims to answer the question:What unique challenges do women face in their first year of engineering work?We ask this question to make way for the question: What should women be prepared for intransitioning to engineering work?We attempt to answer our main research question with a qualitative analysis of data from a largerstudy, the [Project] study. Data comes in the form of 98 interviews with 45 engineeringnewcomers, at 3, 6, and 12 months of engineering work. Of the
construction professionals deal with adiverse group of professionals in architecture, engineering and construction. In addition, there isan expectation within the construction industry of 18% growth in the use of Design-Builddelivery method over the years of 2018 to 2021 [2]. Design-Build can be considered a morecollaborative delivery method than Design-Bid-Build due to the engagement of contractor anddesigner during the initial development of a project. The rise in use of more collaborativedelivery methods, such as Design-Build, Construction Management at Risk, Integrated ProjectDelivery, as well as previous research [3], [4] indicates the need for improving collaborationfrom an industry perspective. Additionally, construction programs are aware of
report the results oflaboratory activities and projects in various formats that require strong communication skills.Much of the knowledge, skills, and abilities students gain in this class is used during the yearlongcapstone course the following year in the recommended curriculum.IntroductionThe stated purpose of the Thermal Fluid Science lecture and lab course is for students to learnskills and gain a level of knowledge that will allow them to be successful in laboratory and testsettings in industry and academia. The learning outcomes stated in the course syllabus are: - Students will: 1. Be able to design experiments to characterize a temperature, pressure, mass flow rate within a region of fluid, system or subsystem
: Project Work Skills and Meeting SkillsSimulation ProcedureThe simulation was performed in two sections of mechanical engineering capstone design duringthe second quarter of a three quarter senior design sequence. After a brief introduction to theFate™ game mechanics, the meeting is convened, each student introduces their PC, describestheir role, and explains their team’s status. Discussions ensue as to the best course of action andonce conflicts arise, the dice, PC skills, and reputation chips resolve the disputes. The outcomeis almost certainly an ethical compromise that has the potential to impact the customers’ safety,the value of the product, and the company’s reputation.After a brief discussion, the engineers are told that they most
involved in develop- ing and facilitating the first-year engineering program at ONU. He earned his PhD from the University of Colorado Boulder where his research focused on pre-engineering education and project-based learning.Mr. Bruce Wellman, Olathe Northwest High School Bruce Wellman is a National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT, Chemistry) who teaches Engineering Chemistry as part of Engineering Academy at Olathe Northwest High School in Olathe, KS and serves as a Co-Principal Investigator on an NSF funded (DR K-12) research project entitled ”Building Informed Designers”. Wellman is a member of ASEE’s Board of Directors’ Committee on P-12 Engineering Educa- tion. Wellman completed his B.S. degree in general science
Paper ID #29856Integrate Manufacturing related Materials and Quality Control Standardsinto Master Level Engineering EducationDr. Hua Li, Texas A&M University, Kingsville Dr. Hua Li, an Associate Professor in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Texas A&M University- Kingsville, is interested in sustainable manufacturing, renewable energy, sustainability assessment, and engineering education. Dr. Li has served as P.I. and Co-P.I. in different projects funded by NSF, DOEd, DHS, and HP, totaling more than 2.5 million dollars.Prof. Kai Jin, Texas A&M University - Kingsville Dr. Kai Jin is a Professor of