Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andy S. Peng, University of Wisconsin - Stout; Brian Eickhoff, Sentera, LLC; Kenan Baltaci, University of Wisconsin - Stout; Liang Zhan, University of Wisconsin - Stout; Robert M. Nelson, University of Wisconsin - Stout

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

. Q4: Course objectives were clearly defined and reflected in the 0 3 4 2 0 course evaluation Q5: The instructor’s feedback was valuable 1 4 3 1 0 Q6: Industry sponsor mentorship was valuable 2 5 2 0 0 SA = Strongly Agree, A = Agree, N = Neither Agree nor Disagree, D = Disagree, SD = Strongly DisagreeConclusionThe capstone course provides important experiences in the early days of engineering students’careers for them to interact with professional engineers from the industry. The intent of

Conference Session

Research on Design Learning

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cassandra Telenko, Georgia Institute of Technology; Amit Shashikant Jariwala, Georgia Institute of Technology; Christopher Saldana, Georgia Institute of Technology; Todd Sulchek, Georgia Institute of Technology; Shannon K. Yee, Georgia Institute of Technology; Wendy C. Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology; Thomas Kurfess, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

activitiesmust be structured to meet the appropriate knowledge levels and learning goals. Students mustbe clearly informed in their role as researchers or contributors to research. As part of this role,they should be given some level of autonomy, such as the ability to tweak the experiment orgiven access to equipment or tools for their creative projects. Despite the level of autonomy thatstudents thrive on, it is important that faculty realize students may be slow to question ahypothesis when engaging in experiments. They thus require mentoring and reflection withregards to research methods. Faculty must also invest in these activities by purchasing orproviding access to equipment, or consulting with students regularly. Additionally, many ofthese

Conference Session

Best of DEED

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Menold, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Kathryn W. Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University; Timothy W. Simpson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Emily A. Waterman, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Conference Session

Idea Generation and Creativity in Design

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Charles Helm, The Pennsylvania State University; Kathryn W. Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Eli M. Silk, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Seda Yilmaz, Iowa State University; Rafael Suero, The Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

would be impacted. As might be expected,each intervention has a complex relationship with quality, and more work is needed to determinethe significance and impact of these changes. A clearer understanding of these interventions andtheir trade-offs may allow educators and engineers to better use these interventions and broadentheir ideation flexibility.4.1 Limitations and CaveatsSeveral aspects of this research limit our conclusions. One issue with the teaming intervention isthat randomized pairings were used. It is possible that the randomized pairs used in these studiesdo not reflect ideal groupings. Another issue with this work is that participants undergo twosessions of ideation. After the first session, participants may be mentally fatigued

Conference Session

Maker Spaces within the University

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ricardo Jose Morocz; Bryan Levy, Georgia Institute of Technology; Craig Forest, Georgia Institute of Technology; Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University; Wendy C Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kimberly Grau Talley P.E., Texas State University; Julie S Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

which questions or set of questions will have a stronger effect on engineering designself-efficacy and other metrics. Furthermore, future studies will analyze the relationship betweeninvolvement and participation, and the impact they have on GPA, innovation self-efficacy, ideageneration ability, and retention.AcknowledgementsWe would like to acknowledge that the support for this work was provided by the NationalScience Foundation Award No. DUE-1432107/1431721/1431923. Any opinions, findings, andconclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References1. The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century. Washington, DC

Conference Session

Professional Skills development in Design

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Mark Dawidow, Harding University; James L. Huff, Harding University; Keelin Siomha Leahy, University of Limerick

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

-thinking across theparticipant sample. The study was approved by Harding University’s IRB.Data CollectionWe gathered design records from three separate teams of four students each (n = 12). Throughoutthis paper, we refer to the teams as Hardware Team, Mattress Team, and Lighting Team. Eachteam was assigned the task of creating displays in the store for the corresponding product. Wecollected two sources of data: design notebooks and team design documents.Design Notebooks: In order to record the students’ design concepts, each student wrote in adesignated notebook. The students were asked in these notebooks to record their reflections,ideas, and thought processes. In the notebooks, individual students documented their earlyconcepts in response to

Conference Session

Research on Design Learning

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony F. Luscher, Ohio State University; Roger Forsgren, NASA Headquarters

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

focused on and explicit about the desired learningoutcome. For instance, such a case may present the scenario of a satellite antenna that did notdeploy properly due to a single technical flaw. The focus of this case narrowed and case may notlook beyond the lone conclusion related to the technical flaw. In contrast, an analysis of a casestudy about the Deepwater Horizon accident yields more insight into engineering design than asingle answer to why the failure occurred.The case study approach provides course participants with the opportunity to apply their criticalthinking skills to each scenario and exercise non-analytical insight as part of the design process.Ultimately, the methodology reinforces the practice of reflection upon past successes

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Carpenter Ed.D., CCD - Custom Curriculum Design; Logan Edward Micher, Florida Polytechnic University; Chris Yakymyshyn; Jorge Vargas, Florida Polytechnic University; Christina Drake, Florida Polytechnic University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

tracking device, water transport and filtration device, educational toy or exhibit) had anegative impact on student interest in the engineering program. Another important considerationis the need to keep the attention of students from different engineering concentrations, as well as(in our case) a significant population of students enrolled in the College of Information &Technology. The latter group of students may have minimal interest or curiosity regardingengineering, and represent a challenge to win over their engagement in the class.There needs to be a balance between narrowing the scope of the assigned problem sufficiently toavoid students being unable to find a way forward, but having a sufficiently open-ended naturethat it reflects a

Conference Session

Idea Generation and Creativity in Design

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew D. Lovell P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Patricia Brackin P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Richard A House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Steve Chenoweth, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Kay C Dee, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

industrysuccess. By having participants make individual connections with social, cultural, market, andtechnological trends, the tool, IdeaKegTM, has the primary goal of getting participants to simplyask better questions. It naturally follows that better solutions to a given problem can be found ifstarting from better questions. The IdeaKeg tool was implemented for both teams of faculty andteams of students in several different applications including faculty course development,department retreats, senior design projects, student composition projects, and more. This papersummarizes the IdeaKeg process, the different implementations of IdeaKeg at RHIT, feedbackfrom both faculty and student participants, and reflections from IdeaKeg facilitators.Additionally

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary S Carpenter Ed.D., CCD - Custom Curriculum Design; Chris Yakymyshyn; Logan Edward Micher; Ashly Locke, Florida Polytechnic University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

content was reflected in not only the types of components studentsrequested from a list of recommended vendors to allow grouping of orders for efficiency (forexample, DigiKey offers over 20,000 unique LEDs), but also by the variety of components fromother vendors selected by students, including numerous Amazon and Ebay vendors. The BOMalso included any 3D printing requests for the on-site printing facility. It was clear based oncomments made by the 3D printing facility supervisor that a rich variety of objects wereFigure 8- Layouts of two of six panelized printed circuit boards representing approximately 40unique prototypes.submitted for printing. Some students chose to use 3D printing services from outside, in the fewcases where an unusual

Conference Session

Idea Generation and Creativity in Design

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eli M. Silk, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Kathryn W. Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University; Seda Yilmaz, Iowa State University; Amy Rechkemmer; Jennifer Marguerite Wenger, University of Michigan College of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

one design situation togenerating more innovative or radical ideas in another design situation is an indication of theircapability for being flexible in their design approaches.In idea generation, a measure of flexibility can be thought of as the ability to apply a range ofapproaches, choosing the approach that best aligns with particular situational characteristics (asopposed to applying the same approach regardless of alignment with particular situationalcharacteristics). In our prior work, we utilized individual’s reflections on their ideation process toqualitatively characterize their approach and how that approach changed from on situation to thenext.7 We build on that work by focusing this study on developing a quantitative measure

Conference Session

Best of DEED

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susannah Howe, Smith College; Sophia L. Poulos, Smith College; Laura Mae Rosenbauer, Smith College

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

regular progress/status reports; schedules Plan/Manual 29 user manual or training manual; business plan; manufacturing plan General 17 varies; client determined deliverables; many deliverables; the usual Student peer evaluations; ethics assignments; individual reflections; classAccountability 16 attendance and participation Final report Interim reports Final recommendation Patent disclosure Conference or journal paper 0 50 100 150 200 250

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

April M. Bryan, Western Washington University; John Andrew Lund, Western Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Finalization Phase, were completed overone summer period by four students. Two of the four students were students who participated inthe Conceptual Design Phase, and two of the students were new. Table 4 Team RolesThe teams of students were diverse and reflective of the demographics in the department. Thefirst student to join the project was female. This student was joined by one male and one femalestudent for the Conceptual Design Phase. The team that completed the Detailed Design andDesign Finalization Phases consisted of one female and three male students. Two of the students’were enrolled in the Plastics Engineering Program and the remaining students two students wereenrolled in the Manufacturing Engineering

Conference Session

Maker Spaces within the University

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vincent Wilczynski, Yale University; Joseph Zinter III, Yale University; Larry Wilen, Yale University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

to the learning and teaching styles in engineering education by Felder and Silverman.9Active learning encourages not only high levels of physical engagement with course content(such as physically experimenting with concepts) but also reflection on the results of thatactivity. Teaching styles that are correlated with prevailing learning styles lead to higher successand greater fulfillment. Engineers are more likely to be active learners and engaging learningenvironments have a significant impact on this segment of learners. The role of active learningthrough the use of cooperative learning environments and project-based exercises has also beenendorsed by other researchers as means to improve design education.10 It is our thesis that