Engineering Success & Successful Engineering: A West Point Cadet Project with NASA Illustrates the Value of Diversity Lou Harrington, United States Military Academy Austin Bartlett, United States Military Academy Quentin Willard, United States Military Academy Jason McKay, United States Military Academy Bruce Brown, United States Military Academy Ernest Wong, United States Military AcademyAbstract: As part of their senior year capstone experience at the United States Military Academy, fiveSystems Engineering and Engineering Management cadets are working with NASA on enhancing
Paper ID #11784Infusing a Concurrent Engineering Model into AcademiaProf. John Wadach, Monroe Community College John Wadach is a professor and department chair of the Engineering Science and Physics Department at Monroe Community College in Rochester, NY. He has taught a variety of physics and engineering courses in his 30 year career. Wadach is most inspired by the use of design-build projects in his engineering courses. Infusing a Concurrent Engineering Model into Academia is the title of the NSF TUES grant that he and co-PIs George Fazekas and Paul Brennan were awarded $200,000. Wadach has been the co-organizer of
a great learning experience for me. The subject of ground source heat pump system was a new concept to me at the time. After all the research and testing, I have a solid foundation of understanding this subject matter. I am happy to share my knowledge and experience with fellow peers and personnel. Thank you.Mr. Terry Kriss, Eastern Washington University Undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering at EWU. Aside from the typical experience at Eastern I’ve been active in promoting as much extracurricular as possible, mostly in clean energy and green technology. I founded the Alternative Energy Engineering club at EWU which organized students for the ground source heat pump capstone project. Additionally the club has
and WSN projects that ourundergraduate computer engineering students have done in their senior capstone course.IntroductionA smart home uses internet-connected devices to enable the remote monitoring and managementof appliances and systems. An efficient and smart home is a ubiquitous computing system thatcontrols any device in the house from anyplace. The field of smart home automation andsecurity is growing rapidly as many new ideas and possibilities are emerging from new advancesin technology. For example, through the voice recognition service, it is possible to control thedevices in the house by voice and remotely control the devices in the home using the individualsmartphone through the remote-control system. As the usage of smart home
, California Polytechnic State University Lynne A. Slivovsky, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Ph.D., Purdue Uni- versity, 2001), has led service-learning initiatives both within the College of Engineering and across the university at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. In 2003 she received the Frontiers In Education New Faculty Fellow Award. Her work in service-learning led to her selection in 2007 as a California Campus Compact-Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Faculty Fellow for Service-Learning for Political Engagement. She currently oversees two multidisciplinary service-learning programs: the Access by Design project that has capstone students
-endedproblem-solving is because of the limited guidance or literature on how to effectively integratewicked, real-world problems into engineering courses at the level of technical core.1.1 Current Approaches: Capstone Design and Co-op/InternshipIt is known that capstone experiences instituted in various formats do provide an effectiveculminating opportunity to engineering students for gaining a real-world experience with theengineering design process. However, since capstone projects come at the very last semester(s)and since each project cannot cover the whole range of technical areas that students are expectedto learn in their degree program, this approach cannot be the only solution for creating learningexperiences that support the growth of
event with engineering and computerscience undergraduate students can identify and develop potential innovations and seniorcapstone project opportunities during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was found that the hackathoncan be a robust opportunity for interprofessional education and collaboration among healthcareworkers and students. Although no teams pursued their project in the biomedical engineeringsenior capstone course, several teams pursued their projects in the information and computerscience capstone course. This is likely due to the outside industry sponsored projects that are alsooffered by the biomedical engineering capstone course. Furthermore, one limitation of the studyis that it does not describe the long-term effects of the hackathon
Page 23.1387.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Work in Progress: Using clinical advisory boards and an online system to provide feedback for client-based senior design projectsAbstractIn our capstone design class, biomedical engineering (BME) students develop custom assistivetechnology for people with disabilities in the local community. Project ideas come fromtherapists and clinicians in Durham and Chapel Hill. Students spend the entire semester workingon the design and development of a device that meets the client’s need. This work involves asignificant clinical understanding to ensure that the final device will be appropriate for the client.To provide this clinical perspective
Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationAbstractThe complete design process includes identifying a need or problem, recognizing constraints,identifying and developing courses of action, testing potential courses of action, selectingoptimum courses of action, preparing the documents required for the design, managing the overallprocess, communicating the design, construction and testing. By linking design projects in ourintroductory physicochemical treatment processes course (taken by second semester juniors) andour senior capstone design course (taken by second semester
these challenges. The program integrates a robust “design spine” that spansthe entirety of the undergraduate experience. This spine includes project-based courses thatprogressively develop students’ skills in design thinking, empathy, and technical analysis. Earlycourses, such as introductory design and manufacturing, provide foundational exposure to HCDprinciples, while senior capstone projects emphasize tackling comprehensive, real-world designchallenges. These capstone projects not only demand technical proficiency but also requirestudents to engage deeply with user needs, environmental considerations, and societal impacts.Extracurricular and informal learning environments are another hallmark of the program.Engineering competition teams
, robust control, time delay, compensator design for continuous-time and discrete-time systems, analog or digital filter design, and hybrid power system design. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Hybrid Fuel-cell and Battery Power Plant DesignAbstractThe push for more sustainable energy sources increases as energy demand increases. This paperpresents the configuration of a hydrogen fuel cell and a battery to increase the efficiency of apractical power source for a sustained Direct Current (DC) load for the milestones of a seniorElectrical Engineering capstone project. The goal is to design a switching schedule between abattery and the hydrogen fuel cell to run the load. The
Continually Challenged with Integrated Design ProjectsAbstractIntroduction: The undergraduate biomedical engineering (BME) curriculum should preparestudents to confidently approach complex problems, as graduates will enter the workforce in anenvironment of rising healthcare costs, decreasing average life expectancy, and significantsocioeconomic disparities in health outcomes. With this landscape, solutions to contemporaryproblems will require innovative thinking and groundbreaking medical technologies, suggestingthat the future of BME will be increasingly design-oriented. BME curricula generally includelaboratory and project components aimed at preparing students for senior capstone; however,students may begin capstone
graduate research program. At Trine University, a small private school in An- gola, Indiana, he focused on undergraduate education while teaching ten different courses ranging from introductory freshman courses to senior capstone. Scott also served as an advisor to many different un- dergraduate research projects. He then moved on to Michigan State University and took a position as a teaching specialist concentrating on undergraduate classroom instruction. Scott finally settled at York College of Pennsylvania. He has been at York College for over ten years and feels as if he has found a place where the focus on teaching and students aligns well with his background and interests.Dr. Stephen Andrew Wilkerson, P.E., York
project. With an incremental increase in requirements and grade percentage, a seriesof five writing intensive design assignments were facilitated within the course’s weekly two-houractivity time. While examples abound for a positive impact on student outcomes through hands-on projects[1], [2], [3], there is also evidence of a positive correlation between student success inengineering design and their writing skills. Engineering students completing their two semestersenior Capstone Project experience have substantial writing and technical documentationrequirements in addition to designing and fabricating a complex engineering solution.Interestingly, in one study teams demonstrating good writing skills throughout their capstoneprogram ultimately
Society for Engineering Education, 2020Work in Progress: Formation of an engineering identity in first-year studentsthrough an intervention centered on senior design projectsAbstractThis “work in progress” paper describes a multiyear project to study the development ofengineering identity in a chemical and biological engineering program at Montana StateUniversity. The project focuses on how engineering identity may be impacted by a series ofinterventions utilizing subject material in a senior-level capstone design course and has thesenior capstone design students serve as peer-mentors to first- and second-year students. A morerapid development of an engineering identity by first- and second-year students is suspected toincrease retention and
assistant professor of surgery assistant professor of biomedical engineering c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 A team leader model for scalable clinical observation in the biomedical engineering capstone design course Work In ProgressOverviewA critical step in undergraduate biomedical engineering capstone design projects is problemidentification and validation. This process is enriched with training in clinical observation androot-cause analysis. For projects developed around a clinical need, active training in observationfor large groups (>50 students) is challenging—many clinical procedures limit observationgroups to three students or fewer
by faculty in STEM and non-STEM disciplines. Team projects result in proposed solutions for a self-chosen, context-specific instance of a global problem. Humanities & Arts Capstone (requirement): 18 credit hours including 3 credit capstone project in depth area chosen by student. Capstone may be original creative work or performance, or original research on a self-proposed question or topic. Interdisciplinary Project (requirement): 9-12 credit hours, not a course. Student teams from multiple majors address an interdisciplinary, open-ended problem at the interface of technology, society, and human need. Projects are typically for a real client at an off-campus location. Major Project (requirement): 9 credit hour
different specifications, featuresand material. Despite the initial teasing endured by the senior group about the type of productbeing designed, at the end, the sponsor and the students considered the experience worthwhile ofan interdisciplinary capstone design project.IntroductionThe engineering design process has different meanings to different people, which sometimesmakes it difficult to have adequate design projects for Senior Design capstone activities. Butwhen a project has the potential to involve more than the standard technical activities thatengineering students usually understand as being what “design” is all about, the project lendsitself to be a great opportunity to illustrate the actual meaning of the complete engineering design
of R&D in machine tool controls and gauging at GTE-Valenite Corp., started and managed the clinical engineering department at William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, and was a research associate in radiology, nuclear medicine, and bio-mechanics at Wayne State University. Ken has taught at Lawrence Tech evening programs as an adjunct instructor since 1965. His senior projects class, where students generate project ideas, research, design, manufacture, and assess the market for inventive products is the capstone course. Cook also has enjoyed a long side career in magic finding his hobby very useful in teaching. A highlight for his students each year is the two-hour magic performance he offers
programming and control techniques, the Robotics major willalso prepare students with the knowledge in mechanical modeling of robots, sensing andactuation, and embedded system design. Therefore, we developed the engineering and roboticscurricula with several cross-listed courses including Mechatronics, Embedded Systems,Computer Aided Engineering Design, and Engineering Economics, in addition to the commonfreshmen-year intro to programming and intro to engineering lab as well as some common mathand physics courses. Both majors require students to complete a two-semester-long teamwork-based capstone design project. We anticipate that engineering students and robotics students willcollaborate on some capstone design projects although the capstone
engineering students because it requires an understanding of plant biology andchemistry laboratory techniques. In 2006, the mechanical engineering department at SeattleUniversity was approached by a local startup company and asked to design a photobioreactor togrow oleaginous algae. This project was established as a year-long capstone design project. Itwas manned by four mechanical engineering students and supervised by industry liaisons fromthe company, and faculty advisors from both mechanical engineering and biology. Although theadvisors were initially concerned about the interdisciplinary component of the project, thestudents were enthusiastic and successfully completed the project. The successes of that projectlead to three more algae related
effectively 3) Design and conduct experiments 4) Analyze and interpret data 5) Design a system that is within realistic constraintsEngineering educators across the U.S. have recognized the power of this approach. For example,the number of team-based and multidisciplinary team-based capstone classes across the U.S. hasincreased15 since 1995, likely due to the influence of ABET on U.S. engineering programs.16Similarly, the number of “Cornerstone” freshmen engineering design project classes hasincreased, although by no means are they universal in U.S. engineering curricula4. Cornerstonedesign experiences require significant faculty involvement, and from the student’s point of view,projects should be motivating and challenging but not
project that helped to prepare them for a capstone senior design project. This projectwill be improved, repeated, and expanded with future groups of students.Introduction Since long before the first airplanes were built, the wind tunnel has been used to describeaerodynamic principles. The first known wind tunnel was built by Francis Wenham in 1871. Inthe subsequent years the number of wind tunnels and the facilities that housed them slowly andsteadily increased until the Wright brothers’ historic flight in 1903. The number of wind tunnelsin use took off, as it were, as their value in aerodynamic research became apparent according toAnderson [1]. Simply put, the wind tunnel is a tool used by engineers to study air flow. The original designof
. Additionally, CPPs offer several student benefits includingacquiring and applying new knowledge, improving skills in problem-solving, building aconnection with the community partner, etc. CPPs are found in many engineering capstone coursestaught at senior year; however, little research lies in CPPs when implemented within first-yearengineering courses. In this research study, we are interested in assessing students’ perceptions ofworking on a community-partnered project in their first year of engineering. At a large publicuniversity in the United States, we have designed a first-year engineering course that providesopportunities for students to work with CPP. In this course, students are tasked with solving aproblem that arises somewhere in the local
their abilities have higher academic performance and will consider a larger array ofcareer options. Improving self-efficacy is therefore very important to the academic and futuresuccess of students.Understanding the design process and the application of technical skills is important for students.Outside of some labs and capstone courses, these concepts are not often put into practice inacademic settings. Since students do not have many opportunities to work on real-world problemsthroughout their college career, the UTDesign EPICS team wanted to measure the impact ofworking on real-world projects on learning the design process and motivation to complete work.We surveyed the students after the semester on these topics. We also wanted to measure
Paper ID #12790Work in Progress: Mini Projects - Using News Articles to Promote LifelongLearning and Expose Students to Engineering BreadthDr. Chris Geiger, Florida Gulf Coast University Chris Geiger is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Bioengineering in the U.A.Whitaker College of Engineering at Florida Gulf Coast University. He received his M.S and Ph.D.degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University in 1999 and 2003, respectively,and his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University in 1996.Prof. James D. Sweeney, Oregon State University JAMES D. SWEENEY is Professor and Head
and implemented in conjunction withengineering PhD students and have been discussed in an earlier paper [14]. As shown in figure 2,students practice the embedded skills in the five core themes multiple times per course. The finalcourse of the sequence allows students to select a capstone project. The five core engineeringthemes are the underlying structure to all major projects, quick builds and capstone projects. Figure 2. Design challenges covered within the 3 coursesThe engineering design and project management themes (Figure 1) are generally new to moststudents and therefore do not require significant differentiation. The remaining themes ofengineering analysis, technical communication, fabrication and prototyping are
institution. In addition to providing much-appreciated expertise inthe topic and valuable troubleshooting skills, the iGEM students added useful insights to theinstructor. For example, the students recommended going over the weekly quiz as a class toenhance student understanding of the protocols. Going over the quizzes as a class was beneficial,as many students in their end-of-course evaluations stated that the quizzes really helped themunderstand the material and helped them write better lab reports.Importantly, we designed the course with the goal of teaching what these senior iGEM studentswished they had learned before taking on their iGEM capstone project, including practical skillssuch as using proper sterile technique to make bacterial growth
. Page 22.1341.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Student teams, a simulation or a real team experience?AbstractThe tradition in engineering education places students in teams during their senior year; likely aspart of a capstone laboratory or design course. In most cases teams were done on a “pick yourown partners” basis. Furthermore, no time was spent discussing teamwork, the importance ofteams, how teams should be structured or the skill set one needs to be an effective team member.To some extent, changes made by ABET to their accreditation criteria in 2000 have forced theengineering community to at least assess student teamwork. This, in turn, has motivated many totake a
paper, industry suppliedcurriculum is defined as instructional material that was created and distributed by specificcompanies (e.g. Dassault Systèmes) from a particular field (e.g. computer-aided engineering).Initial motivation for the course design and investigation formulated from complaints expressedby past senior engineering technology students at Purdue Polytechnic New Albany during andafter their senior capstones. This caused a faculty concern that the students were not fullyprepared for senior capstones and ultimately were lacking skills, knowledge, and/or practice inthe following areas. Engineering Design o Computer-Aided Design (CAD) o Engineering Drawing o Standards/Specifications Project