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Mohammed Alani; Alaa Ayoob; Jino Raj Xavier; Sameeullah Sharief; Mohammad Amin; Marcos Turquetti; Pradip Peter Dey

Easy Tracking System: a Valuable Outcome of a Student Capstone Project Mohammed Alani, Alaa Ayoob, Jino Raj Xavier, Sameeullah Sharief, Mohammad Amin, Marcos Turquetti and Pradip Peter Dey National University, San Diego, CaliforniaAbstractEasy Tracking is a unique and an innovative tracking system that uses Bluetooth, ShortMessage Service (SMS), Global Position System (GPS), and Google Map technologies todevelop a new mobile application. This system helps to keep monitoring of someone’spersonal belongings or loved ones (children or pet). The application utilizes the Javaprogramming language and Android platform. It can be installed on

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Jeffrey Ashworth; Samer Shaghoury

Practical Lecture, Research, and Projects Based Engineering Education Jeffrey Ashworth, Ph.D., and Samer Shaghoury Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott CampusAbstractA lecture, research, and projects based course has stimulated student interest in aircraftaerodynamics, performance, and static stability and overwhelmingly enhanced preparation forthe practical aircraft conceptual/preliminary capstone design course. This unique elective coursetitled “Aircraft Flight Mechanics and Performance” uses learning methods reinforced byapplication techniques to analyze actual aircraft performance. Semester lectures cover threetopics in nearly equal segments

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Matthew T. Siniawski; Adam R. Carberry; Rafiqul I. Noorani

engages students in the design and manufacturing process of a simpleconsumer product. Similar efforts have been conducted in the past in order to improve studentlearning and engagement. For example, practice-based curricula and physical facilities have beendeveloped specifically to focus on student engagement with the product realization process1.Undergraduate courses for mechanical engineering students that provide students with hands-onexperiences in design and manufacturing have proven beneficial, especially in regards totechnical communication abilities and preparation for completion of their capstone projects2.Integrative approaches to design and manufacturing are typically dealt with in senior electives,capstone projects, or graduate

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Danyang Li; Qiao Zhen; Albert Gordon; Bhaskar Raj Sinha; Marcos Turquetti; Mohammad N. Amin

away from their physicians, are at risk when it comes totheir health. This system will enable them and their physicians a daily look at their vital signswithout having to leave their home or office. A prototype of this system was designed,developed, and tested by students under the guidance of faculty members. This project wasanalyzed on how it fulfilled the program objectives. Students made a formal presentation to theFaculty Judging Panel for official approval of this capstone project and the project was approvedfor the degree requirement. The final report and the presentation were graded and it was ensuredthat they covered and reinforced the academic objectives and met the Program LearningOutcomes (PLOs).IntroductionThe Master of Science in

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Gene Fisher

owndepartment.The third objective for our capstone course, that of teamwork, is also nearly universal in a cap-stone experience. A somewhat unusual variant of our team structure has been to mix studentsfrom our introductory courses and capstone course in the same teams. This provides the upper-level capstone students the opportunity to manage the work of the lower-level students. Thisteam structure was a feature of the initial offering of our capstone course6. It has not beenrepeated in many subsequent offerings, due primarily to class logistical difficulties.The fourth objective of project management is again very common in a capstone class. In thecases where we have combined upper- and lower-division students, the capstone students man-aged their lower

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Paul M. Jones; J. Richard Phillips

Professional Practice and the Engineering Curriculum Paul M. Jones, J. Richard Phillips Corporate & University Relations Group/ Harvey Mudd CollegeAbstractThere are elements of professional practice common to the engineering profession in allengineering fields. However, many, if not most, engineering academic curricula allowlittle or no room for professional practice other than minimal capstone projects. In thosethat do, the approach is widely scattered. The purpose of this paper is three-fold: (1) Tobriefly describe a professional practice program (featuring sponsored senior designprojects) as adopted by California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA); (2) Todiscuss difficulties

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M. Cardenas

perform repairs or maintenance, to install aftermarket parts, or simply to gainmore understanding of the mechanics of the vehicle. In undergraduate engineering education,students with a car-enthusiast background are very valuable, especially in the context of hands-on, design-build-test projects. These car enthusiasts generally have experience with tools andtheir use; don’t panic if they strip the threads off a screw, or torque the head off a bolt—and evenbetter, often have the knowledge to avoid just those situations!—are familiar with fabricationtechniques, and have intuition involving mechanisms that elevated designs and analyses overthose of less-experienced students. Especially for capstone design projects, having a ‘car guy’ or‘car gal’ on

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Jesus Acosta-Iriqui; Eniko T. Enikov

studyabroad experiences with a capstone research project. This capstone resulted in a 90 page researchreport written by four of the exchange participants summarizing their research on an automatedfish tracking system using MATLAB.It is important to mention that two of the five students of the three-year cohort expressed that,their decision for participating in the exchange program was done once they consulted with theiradvisors and/or professors in their programs if their participation would have an impact on thetime for obtaining their current undergraduate studies. This was the case of one student on year-four. One of the two students, who decided not to participate in the exchange program on year-three, expressed that her decision was made

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Tammy Yut-Ling Chan; Gustavo Borel Menezes

, theirperformances on the senior design capstone oral presentation were compared to those of studentswho had not taken ME 419. The senior design oral presentation is given by each senior designteam (4-6 students per team) in a celebratory event, Senior Design Exposition, at the end of theacademic year. Students, faculty, staff, industrial representatives, and other guests attend thisevent to view and support students’ design projects. These participants give feedback on each Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education

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Cheng Chen; John DeAndreis; Peter Moala; Agustin Robles; Jose Valdovinos; Qiming Zeng; Amelito G. Enriquez; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shanasser; Hao Jiang; Hamid Mahmoodi

-longengineering design experience early in their academic career by participating in capstone designcourses for graduating seniors; (4) to strengthen existing faculty relationship with NASA Ames,and establish new collaborative relationships among two-year and four-year engineering faculty,and NASA Ames Research Center; (5) to increase the number of academically preparedcommunity college students transferring to four-year institutions as engineering majors; (6) toimprove academic success of engineering students from underrepresented groups by providingacademic support and mentoring; and (7) to increase the number of minority students pursuingadvanced degrees in STEM fields.Summer Intern Project DescriptionFor the second year of the project in summer 2012

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Anne Beug; Phillip L. Nico

on Computing education research, 2010, pp. 69–76.9. P. Bender and K. Kussmann, “Arduino based projects in the computer science capstone course,” J. Comput. Sci. Coll., vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 152–157, May 2012.10. P. Jamieson, “Arduino for Teaching Embedded Systems. Are Computer Scientists and Engineering Educators Missing the Boat?,” in International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering, 2011.11. R. Balogh, “Educational robotic platform based on arduino,” in Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Robotics in Education, RiE2010. FEI STU, Slovakia, 2010, pp. 119–122.12. “Build Your Own Blocks Homepage.” [Online]. Available: http:// http://byob.berkeley.edu/. [Accessed: 05

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Nasser Alromaih; Mark Rajai; S. Jimmy Gandhi

to identify customerneeds, generate business value, and recognize viable business opportunities in theengineering and related industries that they could explore. Entrepreneurship calls for innovation in products, services, or processes involvedin business operations. Indeed, innovation is among the key factors that enhance the 4success of entrepreneurial ventures . For engineering businesses and practitioners tosucceed in their industry, they need to create innovative engineering projects. In addition,through entrepreneurship, they learn how to create technology-based opportunities, andways of identifying, obtaining, producing, and transferring technology to generate viable

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Seema C. Shah-Fairbank; William Kitch; Kenneth Lamb P.E.

enrollment. Advisors assigned to workwith KHC students cover both lower and upper division student advising.Results Starting in the 2009-2010 academic year, students were asked to fill out a survey abouttheir experience as a student at Cal Poly Pomona’s civil engineering program at the end of thesenior capstone course. In this survey students were asked to respond to the followingstatements: 1) The quality of advising I received related to academic planning was: 2) The quality of advising I received related to professional career planning was: 3) The quality of advising I received related to graduate school planning was:Students responded based on the following scale: 1) Very poor; 2) Poor; 3) Satisfactory