Conference Session

Programs That Serve Industry and Academia

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eugene Rutz, University of Cincinnati; Timothy Keener, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

from the discipline of interest ≠ Elective courses that provide depth or interdisciplinary focus depending on student educational objectives ≠ Capstone project demonstrates applications of skills and synthesis of knowledgeCore CurriculumThe core curriculum is required of all MEng students, regardless of which track they pursue.The core provides skills in the effective practice of engineering recognizing that for experiencedpractitioners, effectiveness includes technical skills, project and task management skills, andinterpersonal skills. Students are required to take 2 courses from the Project / Task Management Page 14.863.5set

Conference Session

First Year and Cross-Disciplinary

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Patrick J Martin, Virginia Commonwealth University; Joseph Adams Shelton, Virginia State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Professional Engineering Education Papers

allows cross-institution and interdisciplinarycollaboration on novel design projects and 2) to build students’ technical and collaboration skillsthat will be useful for careers at the intersection of cybersecurity and autonomous systems.Students learned core cybersecurity concepts using closed-ended assignments and expanded theirresearch and design skills with an open-ended design project. Throughout this process, theylearned how to collaborate with other teammates through modern collaboration tools, such asGithub, Google Drive, and Discord. Our student survey indicates that this pilot program achievedits goals and indicates that future iterations should refine the program’s structure and processes.Keywordsexperiential learning, capstone

Conference Session

Innovations in Systems Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacqueline Mozrall; Edward Hensel; Paul Stiebitz

communication are keyexperiential components of the program. Supplemental topics in innovation, entrepreneurship,and contemporary issues in product development, are fostered through lectures and workshops.The capstone program is coordinated by a team of faculty representatives from each participatingdepartment. A standard set of assessment tools is employed by the coordinators, faculty teammentors, project sponsors and external reviewers.The design of a state-of-the-art 8,500 sq.ft., multi-disciplinary design workshop is underway. Itwill provide team work spaces as they develop and analyze concepts, and support for assemblyand testing. This facility is made possible by recent gifts from local foundations and industries.At steady state, approximately

Conference Session

Thermal Systems

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Schmaltz; Robert Choate

, student teams are required to design, build and test (DBT) an experimentaldesign project of their own choice.This project requires experimental problem solving skills, builds upon the analytical andnumerical techniques they have acquired in their engineering science courses, and will then beexpanded upon in a multi-disciplinary capstone laboratory design course in the spring semesterof their senior year. The project is coordinated through the ME program Design of ExperimentsPlan and further supports the ME program's Professional Component Plan by requiring the use ofengineering design with open-ended problems, integration of professional tools, anddemonstration of professional communications. This experience takes place from a point ofview that

Conference Session

Strategies to enhance student learning

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marybeth Lima P.E., Louisiana State University; Ann D. Christy P.E., Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

references, and other materials used by localenvironmental consultants. The results were a series of design reports which were delivered tothe township (Christy et al., 2000).Senior capstone design course: International humanitarian engineering design projects. Atthe Ohio State University (OSU), the Department of Food, Agricultural and BiologicalEngineering expanded the senior capstone design experience to begin at the junior year and toinclude the option of international design projects. For three weeks during the summer betweentheir junior and senior years, teams of students would travel to South Africa to meet withcommunity groups and define design needs. The student teams then returned to the US andworked on year-long capstone design projects

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

William Shelnutt; Monica Lumsdaine; Edward Lumsdaine

“how to” guidelines, planning and economic analysis tool templates (attached on a CD-ROM), and a library of design documentation samples to enable instructors and students to focus on optimizing their design projects and solutions and prevent dysfunctional teams.A teaching manual accompanies the textbook and will be available from a web site. It includessample syllabi for a variety of courses from pre-college programs and freshman engineering orien-tation to senior capstone design and workshops to enhance creativity and innovation in the work-place. This broad range is possible by shifting the emphasis from learning the process of creativeproblem solving to achieving a quality design product. Also, the textbook is built on the

Conference Session

Integrating Curriculum and Labs in Engineering Technology Programs

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

control valve simulatesthe press motions. A total of twelve problem solving projects are utilized in thiscourse.The PLC modules and I/O devices used in this junior level course were specified at thesame voltage and have been designed for patch-cord assembly. This allows thestudents to focus on the job of learning the software and interfacing the I/O deviceswithout the danger of injuring themselves or the components. In the capstone course,this safety net is not present and more time is spent on these concepts.Senior levelArmed with the knowledge and abilities in the prerequisite courses discussed above,students embark on a truly challenging project based problem solving adventure. Thesenior level capstone course is entitled Applied Automation

Conference Session

Design in BME

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University; Annmarie Mullen, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

’s, and use a case study from aspecific biomedical engineering capstone sequence to illustrate how the availability of rapidprototyping has impacted capstone projects and biomedical engineering education at theundergraduate level.The Early History of Rapid PrototypingRapid prototyping (RP) is the process by which a computer-aided design (CAD) file is used tocontrol an automated technology in order to produce a physical model.1 Its origin is often cited tobe with the release of the first technology by 3D Systems in 1987 and it was primarily used tocreate a first generation prototype to quickly verify a design.1 The first commercializedtechnologies in the 1990’s were based upon addition or removal of liquids, powders or solids(Table 1). Liquid

Conference Session

Design Teamwork

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Junichi Kanai, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Mark Anderson, Rensselaer

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

issue tool to manage their projects. On the otherhand, various user statistics obtained from the system allowed the faculty advisors to monitor thefrequency of each student's contributions and to quickly review the content and quality. Thesystem made a significant impact on the outcome of the project results. This paper will presentissues in deploying the tools, the best practices for using these tools, and assessing students’performance in capstone design courses.1. IntroductionTo become successful engineers, students must learn technical knowledge, good communication,skills, and teamwork skills. Traditional lecture-based coursework focuses on providing a solidtheoretical foundation and analytical skills for each of the various disciplines. On

Conference Session

Program Support Initiatives

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Alyson Grace Eggleston, The Citadel; Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Leader Development Model (LDM) through Self and Peer Assessment across the CurriculumAbstractLeadership development and assessment impact the engineering program curriculum at TheCitadel, resulting in embedded indicators and teamed learning activities mapped across all fouryears of the undergraduate curriculum. The institution-specific leadership model developed atThe Citadel prepares students for leadership through teamed challenges and projects, positioningthe engineering program to provide robust learning experiences for students.Reinforced in multiple senior-level capstone design courses and a sophomore-level, engineering-specific communications course

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bret Van Poppel; Blace Albert; Daisie Boettner

programs or by integrating engineering program design sequences (thislatter option is discussed below, Integrated, Multidisciplinary Design Sequence). Theseopportunities would allow students to improve their abilities to work together on multidisciplinaryprojects. This is a very important skill in engineering practice and in the Army. The currentprogram attempts to groom this skill during cadets’ senior year capstone design project.However, students often have limited opportunity to work with others outside of their discipline.Too often students try to divide project tasks into very distinct parts as opposed to bringing theirdiverse skills together to synergistically design the best product. The reason this happens is thattheir compartmentalized

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 7

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Moore, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Liesl Folks, The University of Arizona; Erin Rowley, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

infiltrates many areas of engineering andscience. Yet within engineering programs, students often have few opportunities to developexpertise in data science or even to explore how data science is relevant to their degreespecializations. This paper reports on an NSF-funded study of a program that prepares STEMstudents to engage with data science in coursework and then mentors them as they secureinternships and complete a capstone that demonstrates their application of data science expertise.Drawing on a mixed-methods study, including student reflections, capstone project assessment,and survey reporting, this paper suggests not only that students make deep connections betweentheir existing majors and data science but also that students trained in our

Conference Session

Integrating HSS into the Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dave Hergert; Ron Earley; Suguna Bommaraju

designcourse is embedded with these attributes so that the student graduates with a well-roundededucation.This paper describes how the engineering technology capstone course (senior design project) atMiami University has been structured to facilitate Liberal education council’s guidelines. The fourcomponents of liberal education are explained in this paper and a discussion of how each of theseattributes is enhanced in the course is presented. For example, the capstone course offers a uniqueopportunity to learn about ethics (understanding contexts attribute). Because the department doesnot have a separate ethics course, a guest speaker lecture on ethics is arranged in the senior designcourse. Students apply this concept to a hypothetical scenario

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Clifford R. Mirman

project where the engineer must usenumerical work and experimental methods. In the Mechanical Engineering program at Wilkes University,students of senior standing must take a capstone design laboratory course which integrates the stems ofthe program into a semester long design project incorporating a laboratory and numerical component.The ability to set-up and apply both experimental and numerical analysis to a design problem, andinterpret the results, is very important to the mechanical engineering student. The results of this projectsare presented both in written and oral form to fellow students, faculty, and industry. The combination ofanalysis techniques in the different areas of mechanical engineering give the students a completeintroduction

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division: Design Methodology

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elise Barrella P.E., Wake Forest University ; Charles McDonald Cowan II, Wake Forest University; Justyn Daniel Girdner, James Madison University; Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Robin Anderson, James Madison University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

systems, like Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) orEnvisionTM, are essentially rubrics for professional projects and have been used to introduce civilengineering students about sustainable design and evaluate capstone projects [4, 9]. Althoughthey are valuable learning tools, professional rating systems are often limited to a subset ofproject topics (i.e., infrastructure) and may be difficult for students to apply to their morenarrowly scoped projects.In order to address the assessment tool gap, we sought to develop a sustainable design rubric thatcould be applied to student projects across engineering disciplines and to employ a rigorousconstruct validation process for the rubric’s development. Benson opens her article on

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard R. Schultz

involved in introducing undergraduate students to thejoys and frustrations of signal and image processing research. Experiences are described from worksupported in part by National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grantnumber MIP-9624849, entitled “A Career Plan for the Integration of Image Processing Education andResearch.” Research-based projects were included in several required and elective courses taught by theprincipal investigator, including Computer Aided Measurement and Controls; CommunicationsEngineering; Digital Image Processing; Discrete Real-Time Filtering; Capstone Senior Design; andIndependent Study. Some of the projects attempted by the students included a hybrid DiscreteCosine/Wavelet Transform for

Conference Session

Integrating Design into the BME Curriculum

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Larry Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Chris Yoder, University of Pittsburgh; Phil Weilerstein, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance; Angela Shartrand, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

might be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the overalldesign artifact in meeting its design specifications and purpose.1.0 IntroductionIn this paper we provide an initial descriptive study of how different teams of bioengineering“inventors” navigate the design process from idea conception to prototype. Nine bioengineeringcapstone teams from the Swanson School of Engineering Department of Bioengineering and 27teams from throughout the U.S. who entered the BME-Idea national competition each reflectedupon and diagramed their experiences via process maps that captured their engineering designand product development activities. Although many of the BME-Idea projects also resulted frombioengineering capstone projects, several others were either

Collection

2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Nannan He; Gale Allen; Cameron Johnson

of automation components including programmable logic controllers (PLC’s),actuators and robots, sensors, motors, drivers, and operator control displays. Students design,simulate, build, test and document automation systems for capstone projects to demonstrate theirunderstanding of the subjects. The initial version of the courses and lab was described in a paperin late fall 2006 1.Since then, several different types of laboratory equipment have been added the course syllabusand material has been continuously improved. Active learning and hands-on learning are thebasis for instruction in the courses. Several short projects have been added to the course. Teamsof two-to-three students develop and complete capstone projects. More details about

Conference Session

Design Methodolgy

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rudolph Eggert, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

1994. The largest group of respondents came from mechanical engineering,however, civil, industrial and electrical programs were fairly represented. The survey includedinformation on faculty involvement, industrial involvement, duration of projects, instructionhours per week, and most pertinent to this paper, the most frequently taught subjects as shown inTable 3. The rightmost column labeled “%” represents the proportion of responding schools thattaught the subject in their capstone course. The table is one of the earliest quantitative reports ofdesign topics and or subjects actually taught across North America. It provides an importantglimpse of specific engineering design topics that can be included in a design curriculum.In 1995, ASME6

Conference Session

Design Through the Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Keat; Michael Larson

designexperience, (2) the nature of the senior capstone experience, (3) the level of integration ofcomputer-aided design software in courses and (4) the degree to which hands-on projects areemployed.IntroductionThe current state of mechanical engineering design education is the product of a number offactors. ABET requirements, arising in part from perceptions of the needs of industry, havecertainly played a role. Widespread changes in higher education (e.g. economic forces,demographics, new computing tools) have also affected how design education is delivered. Tohelp quantify discussions concerning adequacy of contemporary design education in light ofindustry’s needs and academia’s constraints, we have undertaken this national survey.A baseline

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Keat; Michael Larson

designexperience, (2) the nature of the senior capstone experience, (3) the level of integration ofcomputer-aided design software in courses and (4) the degree to which hands-on projects areemployed.IntroductionThe current state of mechanical engineering design education is the product of a number offactors. ABET requirements, arising in part from perceptions of the needs of industry, havecertainly played a role. Widespread changes in higher education (e.g. economic forces,demographics, new computing tools) have also affected how design education is delivered. Tohelp quantify discussions concerning adequacy of contemporary design education in light ofindustry’s needs and academia’s constraints, we have undertaken this national survey.A baseline

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olga Imas, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Jeffrey A. Lamack, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Larry Fennigkoh P.E., Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering

same time as the second capstone designcourse in which the students continue assessing the feasibility of their design projects, developtheir functional design specifications and work toward system-level designs. Thus, the deviceevaluation course complements the design process topics with those of regulation and deviceevaluation and allows for course assignments specific to the students’ design projects. Thecourse is offered two quarters after the Professional Topics in Biomedical Engineering courseand builds upon other professional BME topics such as intellectual property, engineeringstandards, design for manufacturing, healthcare economics, globalization of medical devices,ethics in medical device development, documentation, and user

Conference Session

Improving the Pedagogy of Laboratory Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine; William Marshall, Alief Independent School District

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

industries. The discussion will also identify how the “need” for thistype of project based curriculum became obvious. Four prerequisite courses are brieflydescribed before focusing on the project based capstone course. These four coursesprovide the students with the technical skill sets needed to succeed in the senior levelcapstone course. Accomplishments and outcomes from the student perspective, theUniversity perspective, and the industry perspective will also be shared.Our advancing world of computer integration, process control, industrial automation, andtelecommunications requires technical problem solvers and knowledgeable decisionmakers. “The activities of problem solving and decision making are closelyintertwined”,1 and both skills can

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Willie E. (Skip) Rochefort; William F. Reiter; Milo D. Koretsky

in PCB design and manufacturing. Each of these three courses will focus on engineering principles associated with PCB design and manufacture and the use of software tools and laboratory equipment available to reinforce Page 2.75.2 these principles.Objective 4: Develop and integrate into the curriculum a capstone laboratory project course that will provide interdisciplinary student teams with the experience of design and manufacture of a functional printed circuit board.Objective 5: Develop curricular materials (e.g.., multimedia computer models; lecture

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Billy Gray, Tarleton State University; Daren Davis, Tarleton State University; Erick C Jones P.E., University of Texas, Arlington

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

and unconscious assumptions throughout his career. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Integrating Costing into an Engineering Economics CourseIntroductionThe Engineering Technology department at Tarleton State University has been working with itsindustrial partners for over 20 years to allow students the opportunity to engage in real worldprojects during their senior capstone projects. Over the past few years, the projects haveincreased in complexity and have shifted from facility layout and safety based projects to nowinclude tool and process design, with the added benefit that many of the companies are taking theprojects and implementing them at some point after students have

Conference Session

Lessons learned

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibrahim F. Zeid, Northeastern University; Ramiro g Gonzalez, Boston Arts Academy High School; Cassandra Wallace, Boston Arts Academy High School

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

teacher at Boston Arts Academy High School. He has been teaching chemistry courses for the past 35 years. He attended the CAPSULE professional development for teachers in sum- mer 2010. He implemented capstone projects in his chemistry class by getting his students to design solar-powered filter and lava lamp wall.Ms. Cassandra Wallace, Boston Arts Academy High School Cassandra Wallace is teacher at Boston Arts Academy High School. She teaches mathematics courses. She attended the CAPSULE professional development for teachers in summer 2011. She implemented capstone projects in her mathematics class by getting her students to design a rocket launcher

Conference Session

A Serving Profession: Service Learning in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leslie Inniss, Florida A&M University; Enos Inniss, University of Texas-San Antonio

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

-Service Learning Opportunity: A University and Community Partnership in CreekRestoration.” Camilla M. Savitz, 2004. 34TH ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference. Savannah, GA.10 “Service-Learning in Capstone Design Projects: Emphasizing Reflection.” 2004. Patricia Brackin and J. DarrellGibson. Proceedings of the 2004 Annual Conference for Engineering Education.11 “Service-Learning in CHE Senior Design. 2004. Lisa G. Bullard, Patti H. Clayton, and Steven W. Peretti.Proceedings of the 2004 Annual Conference for Engineering Education. Page 11.294.9APPENDIX A: RESULTS OF STUDENT SURVEYEVALUATIONStudent SurveyPlease complete the survey with responses to certain questions and ranking of

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jingyu Wang, University of Oklahoma; Noah C. Golly, University of Oklahoma; Blake Herren, University of Oklahoma; James Ian Macdonald, University of Oklahoma; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma; Yingtao Liu, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

mechanics concepts, such as stress, strain, and fracture. Inaddition, the relationship of 3D printing parameters and the characterized mechanical propertiescan be established, so that the students will have opportunities to obtain hands-on experience insolid mechanics and advanced manufacturing.Design, 3D printing, and product developmentSenior mechanical engineering students are heavily involved in mechanical and product design,particularly in their capstone projects. Well-trained senior mechanical engineering studentsshould be able to sufficiently conduct complex engineering design and meet all the requireddesign criteria. In our study, we created a design project focusing on the artificial prosthetichand. The participating students were required

Collection

2015 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Katie Knowles; Nick Bovee; Duc Le; Keith Martin; Mollie Pressman; Jonathan Zimmermann; Rick Lux; Raymond Ptucha

carsare a hot research area for car manufacturers. By the mid-2020’s, most agencies predict this newphenomenon will transform the automobile market. These cars will make our roadways safer,our environment cleaner, our roads less congested, and our lifestyles more efficient. Because ofsafety, manufacturing costs, and limitations of current technology, autonomous off-road vehicles,such as people movers in large industrial or academic institutions, will probably emerge beforeautonomous high-speed highway driving. A three year multidisciplinary capstone project isunderway which will transform a golf cart into an autonomous people mover. In year one, thecart will be converted to remote control. In years two and three independent

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division (ETD) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu, Drexel University; Yalcin Ertekin, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

"Engineering for One Planet," expanding thecurriculum with relevant examples, incorporating practical mini-projects, and embeddingsustainability frameworks in capstone design projects. The approach also suggests the inclusionof biomimicry principles, the adoption of advanced Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tools, theintegration of energy process assessments, and the utilization of the business model canvas witha sustainability perspective in the curriculum. This holistic educational model aims to not onlyenrich the learning experience of students in engineering technology programs but also to armthem with the essential competencies and insights needed to tackle complex sustainability issuesin their engineering careers. By reimagining the engineering