Paper ID #10569The Professional Guide: A Resource for Preparing Capstone Design Studentsto Function Effectively on Industry-sponsored Project TeamsDr. R. Keith Stanfill, University of Florida B.S., M.E., and Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering University of Florida Dr. R. Keith Stanfill is the Director of the Integrated Product and Process Design Program and an Engineer for the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. His interests include technology transfer, entrepreneurship, product development, design education and Design for X. Dr. Stanfill has over ten years’ industrial experience with United
University. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State University. He has led the development of the Engineering Entrepreneurship Minor, and the Center for Engineering Design and Entrepreneurship with external support from Boeing, General Electric (GE), and AT&T Foundation. He is a Boeing Welliver Faculty Fellow and the recipient of the Boeing Outstanding Educator Award, DOW Outstanding Faculty Award, Penn State Engineering Society Outstanding Teaching Award, and several Provost Awards for Curricular Innovation. Address: 213-D Hammond Building, University Park, PA 16802. Telephone: 814-865-7589, FAX: 814-863-7229, email: dhushy@psu.edu
AC 2009-639: FORMING AND MANAGING PROJECT TEAMS IN A LARGECAPSTONE DESIGN COURSEEdward Lumsdaine, Michigan Technological University Dr. Edward Lumsdaine is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan Technological University (MTU) and Special Professor of Business, Institute for Enterprise and Innovation, University of Nottingham (UK). For many years he was management consultant at Ford Motor Company in high-tech education and training. In 1994 he received the ASEE Chester F. Carlson Award for innovation in engineering education. He has co-authored books on creative problem solving, engineering design, entrepreneurship and innovation. He has work experience in industry, seven
Paper ID #21092Increasing Student Empathy Through Immersive User Empathy Experiencesin First-Year Design EducationLexie Mitchell, Colorado School of Mines Lexie Mitchell is the Assistant Director for both the Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation and the Cornerstone Design@Mines Program at the Colorado School of Mines. She also serves as the manager for media personality and professional golfer Paige Spiranac. Lexie graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in Communication (Media Studies), as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and a winner of the Stanford Award of Excellence. While at Stanford, she focused her
reinvent the program. Years ofconcerns about the structure and content of the class emerged and resulted in a drive forsignificant and substantial changes to the course. Over the last two years and three offerings ofthe two-semester course sequence, a number of changes have been implemented. Some havebeen successful, while some continue to be modified to better serve the course goals. While ourparticular course structure may not be the answer at other institutions, the process of embracingchange may offer insights and inspirations into how to implement desired changes within otherprograms. A comparison of our current course structure to the prior structure demonstrates themagnitude of the substantive and dramatic changes implemented within the
changed within individual students over thecourse of one semester using the makerspace. By surveying this broad pool of students andexploring the ways in which students’ attitudes change after completing a makerspace project,we can better understand how incorporating these assignments into a class impacts students’affect towards engineering and perception of their engineering efficacy.IntroductionA Review of MakerspacesCelebrated as cradles of innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship, makerspaces are among themost compelling engineering facilities, highly desired by both faculty and students. Thesespaces, driven by the maker movement and dedicated to the process of making, are becomingincreasingly popular as their potential is unveiled.While
, Developing Research Report, and Understanding School Culture. During these years, he has taught construction courses in several technical schools. Mr. Beigpourian currently works in the CATME project, which is NSF funding project, on optimizing team- work skills and assessing the quality of Peer Evaluations.Dr. Daniel M. Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette Daniel M. Ferguson is CATME Managing Director and the recipient of several NSF awards for research in engineering education and a research associate at Purdue University. Prior to coming to Purdue he was Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Ohio Northern University. Before assuming that position he was Associate Director of the Inter-Professional Studies
learning (PBL) courses and hands-on extracurriculars[6]. These engineering design courses and experiences also have the additional benefit of helpingstudents retain information and practice social entrepreneurship [7,8].As a note PBL courses, in this study, refers to project-based learning courses, not problem-basedlearning which is a different pedagogical approach that often uses the same acronym. PBL is astudent-centered pedagogy, as opposed to instructor-centered lecture and exam-based courses,that enables students to focus on design and authentic problem-solving. [9-11].Many courses at NYU Tandon School of Engineering focus on teaching content knowledge anddetermining student proficiency in that content through written exams, often using well
of engineering where aprofessional engineering consultant acted as a Mentor/Coach of students while they workedtogether on real projects. This new approach and environment are designed to prepare thestudents to:• Engage and contribute to the process of engineering or technological entrepreneurship sooner.• Accelerate the process of going from concepts to prototypes and to the final product with confidence.• Minimize the risks associated with product development phase, reducing time to market.• Team up with other students from different fields and backgrounds.• Interact with professionals and participate in meetings with business owners and clients.The Para didactic Lab also acted as a Local Innovation System, a convergence point
paper-based rubrics, it is also shown that small detailscan interfere with usability and thus user satisfaction and that compatibility with mobile devicesis a necessary, but still unaddressed, requirement.IntroductionThe logistical problems associated with distributing, collecting, grading, and returningassignments and the difficulties in ensuring fairness and consistency in grading tend to increasenon-linearly with the number of students enrolled in a class. This is especially true in project-based design courses where evaluation is subjective, deliverables are team-based, and thephilosophies and expectations of course faculty members may vary substantially.Online course management programs like Blackboard1 and Moodle2 can be very helpful in
year, the process of product design. The course specifically includedsignificant class time discussing the business and non-technical implications of the designdecisions they make. As initially developed, during the course students not only learned aboutthe business of engineering, they also applied these concepts to create a working productprototype. At the end of the course, students had to subject their designs to a design reviewwhere their engineering work and their business plans were evaluated. As of 2010, the course has been offered twenty times and has become a central part ofour ECE curriculum. In addition, the Department has had at least three internal Capstone Designassessments and two ABET reviews (in our last ABET review
Immersing Students in Reengineering to Make Industry Meaningful in College Dorene Perez, Jim Gibson, Rose Marie Lynch Illinois Valley Community CollegeAn innovative capstone project at Illinois Valley Community College immerses engineeringdesign and electronics students in the technology and methodology they will encounter in theworkplace.The four-semester project gives the students first-hand experience with continuous qualityimprovement methodology, reengineering, and entrepreneurship. Freshmen engineeringtransfer students, enrolled in an engineering graphics course, and freshmen design andelectronics students, enrolled in a beginning CAD
backgroundinformation about creativity using TED talk video of Sir Ken Robinson “Do Schools KillCreativity?” Develop and discuss ground rules that will assure a safe environment for free andopen exchange of ideas.Week 2: Active Listening in Research Innovation - Read Sawyer’s Zig-Zag[22], Introductionand Chapter 1, to provide background information on the need for active listening. Facilitate“What I heard you say…” activity to illustrate the process of active listening.Week 3: Understanding and Challenging Assumptions - Introduce and facilitate the “What if…”game to identify and challenge traditional assumptions in various case studies.Week 4: Convergent and Divergent Thinking in Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship -Utilize “What is the best way to
fromthe knowledge, skills, and attitudes of toy Makers to advance teaching in the engineeringclassroom? Findings are presented to inform possibilities for design in engineering contexts anda multi-disciplinary, holistic attitude towards engineering education that is rising fromdiscussions on the future of engineering education.IntroductionIn undergraduate engineering academic programs, engineering design often serves as acornerstone or capstone experience, supplying context and motivations for how to construct andredesign the world. There is usually an undue burden on the instructor to seed such classes withcompelling and technically sufficient projects and provide enough structure to make a goodlearning experience.1 With this concern, it is
those strategies to design tools and education. She teaches design and entrepreneurship courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, focusing on front-end design processes.Dr. James Paul Holloway, University of Michigan Professor Holloway earned Bachelors and Masters degrees in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Illinois, a CAS in Mathematics from Cambridge University, and doctorate in Engineering Physics at the University of Virginia, where he was subsequently Research Assistant Professor of Engineering Physics and Applied Mathematics. Professor Holloway joined the faculty of the University of Michigan (U-M) as an assistant professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences in January 1990
from a focus on products (Dym, etal., 2005) to processes (Diefes-Dux, et al., 2004) and to the integration of entrepreneurship into thecurriculum (Kuratko, 2011; London, et al., 2018). However, while the importance of centering the designeffort of students around customer discovery and value creation is increasingly being recognized (e.g.,Bekki, et al., 2018), challenges exist in effectively integrating content that students learn in theengineering curriculum, and advances in technology, with ways of values to a customer in an educationsetting. A primary challenge is the development of new content which builds on, supplements andexpands students’ grasp of engineering, economic and social concepts. Furthermore, the integration ofnew content
interdisciplinary product development course for entrepreneurship students who come from across OSU.Kelly DeVore, Columbus College of Art and Design Kelly DeVore is an Assistant Professor and Chair of Interior Design at The Columbus College of Art and Design. DeVore received her Bachelors of Architecture from Iowa State University and a MFA Design Research & Development from The Ohio State University with an emphasis on Higher Education. DeVore currently teaches interior design senior capstone studios, has developed a course on design for social change, and mentors graduate students in the new MDes program in Integrative Design. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017
Jariwala, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Jariwala is the Director of Design & Innovation for the School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. He graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Production Engineering from the University of Mumbai, India with honors in 2005 and received Masters of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2007 from IIT Bombay, India. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2013, with minors in Entrepreneurship. Dr. Jariwala has over nine years of research experience in modeling, simulation, engineering design, and manufacturing process development, with research focus on design of polymer based micro additive manufacturing process. During his Ph.D
tasks and human resources to accomplish established goals Project Management and objectives Teamwork Enables team effectiveness through individual contributions, collaboration, and (Multidisciplinary) team-building actions Critical Thinking Objectively analyzes and evaluates a situation and forms sound judgment Ethical Standards and Demonstrates responsible actions based on ethical principles, business norms, Responsibility and professional guidelines Arranges tasks or objectives by order of importance in the context of competing Prioritization interests Entrepreneurship
industry-partnerships in the course, (2) scaffold aspects ofthe problem definition phase of design in the first semester of the course, (3) increase support forstudent teams throughout the project, and (4) engage students in thinking more explicitly aboutthe implications of their work. The new version of the course is divided across two semesters,Senior Design 1 (SD1) and Senior Design 2 (SD2). The first semester is a lecture- andworkshop-based course that provides students with opportunities to engage in in-class activitiesas well as individual- and group-based assignments that are designed to strengthen their skillsand expose them to new concepts in engineering design (e.g., ethics, problem definition,stakeholder exploration, ideation). At the
Dame in 2010 and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 2005. He spent 7 years as a part of a lecturer team at Arizona State University that focused on the first-year engi- neering experience, including developing and teaching the Introduction to Engineering course. Currently, he is an assistant professor at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in the Mechanical Engineering de- partment. His teaching focus is in fluid mechanics and thermodynamics but has also taught classes such as numerical methods and introduction to engineering. His interests include student pathways and mo- tivations into engineering and developing lab-based curriculum. He has also developed an interest in
return to graduate school. She teaches design and entrepreneurship courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her work is often cross-disciplinary, collaborating with colleagues from engineering, education, psychology, and industrial design.Prof. Seda Yilmaz, Iowa State UniversityDr. Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder Dr. Daniel Knight is the Program Assessment and Research Associate with the Design Center Colorado in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Science at University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Knight’s duties include assessment, program evaluation, education research, and teambuilding for the Center’s hands-on, industry-sponsored design projects. Dr
convergent thinking as well as through deep needs and community assessments using design ethnography, and translating those strategies to design tools and education. She teaches design and entrepreneurship courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, focusing on front-end design processes.Dr. Kathleen H. Sienko, University of Michigan Kathleen H. Sienko is a Miller Faculty Scholar and Associate Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan (UM). She earned her Ph.D. in 2007 in Medical Engineering and Bioastronautics from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology, and holds an S.M. in Aeronautics & Astronautics from MIT and a B.S. in Materials Engineering from the
the University, the local Intermediate School District, andlocal industry formed a commission to begin investigating ways to strengthen K-12 linkages tohigher education and industry. This new commission has three charges: help strengthen the highschool curricula to prepare more students for higher education and STEM careers, extend theexcitement generated by the highly successful University Enterprise program into the K-12system, and create a culture of 21st century entrepreneurship among high school students. Basedon its positive experience with undergraduate Enterprise, the University agreed to fund a small,one-year pilot High School Enterprise program in three Michigan high schools for the 2007/08school year.Three diverse Michigan high
AC 2008-2318: FOCUSED FOLLOW-UP TO 2005 NATIONAL CAPSTONE SURVEYSusannah Howe, Smith College Susannah Howe is the Design Clinic Director in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College. She coordinates and teaches the capstone engineering design course and serves as co-faculty advisor for entrepreneurial activity at Smith. Her interests include innovations in engineering design education, entrepreneurship education across disciplines at the undergraduate level, and durability and structural performance of cementitious and natural building materials. Page 13.616.1© American Society for Engineering
knows how to make EE work fun. A+. My favorite lab course!! This lab was definitely the most enjoyable course I have ever taken. If you don’t have fun in this class, you picked the wrong major!Conclusions:Five examples of design projects incorporating various technologies and off-the-shelf parts werecreated to better prepare students to meet the challenges of the capstone design. The results ofassessment indicate that these projects are very effective at doing this. This combined withanecdotal student feedback show that the introduction of these new projects makes the coursemore fun, more relevant to an engineering career, and better prepares students to meet theexpectations of their senior capstone project.References:[1] B.E. Marino, “One
(2018), and is studying for a Master’s degree in higher education at SJTU. Her research interest includes engineering students’ international learning experiences, innovation and entrepreneurship edu- cation.Jiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Jiabin Zhu is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong Uni- versity. Her primary research interests relate to the assessment of teaching and learning in engineering, cognitive development of graduate and undergraduate students, and global engineering. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Engineering Education, Purdue University in 2013. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Redesign of
AC 2007-166: THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ON RENSSELAER’S PRODUCTDESIGN AND INNOVATION PROGRAMMark Steiner, Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteLangdon Winner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Page 12.1491.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ON RENSSELAER’S PRODUCT DESIGN AND INNOVATION PROGRAMABSTRACTThe experience of students in Rensselaer’s Product Design and Innovation (PDI) program offersa glimpse into how to integrate the humanities and social sciences (H&SS) into an engineeringcurriculum. PDI offers a dual degree program built around a studio design class each semester,integrated into a core-engineering curriculum
the Carrier New Product Development Council Steering Committee, facilitated Design for X (DFx) workshops internationally, developed business process linkages between new product development and lean manufacturing, and developed and implemented manufacturing systems software. His interests include technology transfer, entrepreneurship, product development, design education and Design for X. He is a registered professional engineer in the state of Florida and is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Institute of Industrial Engineers and the American Society for Engineering Education.Thuriya Rajkumar, University of Florida Thuriya Rajkumar is a Global
- ment at the intersection of design, engineering, and entrepreneurship. Raspuzzi received his Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University and an inaugural Master in Design Engineering from Harvard University–where his projectEMMA: Maternal Healthcare Coachearned him the MDE 2018 Thesis Prize. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 The Prototyping of Human Centered Design Engineering Curricula to Address Global Environmental ChallengesAnas Chalah, Harvard UniversityFawwaz Habbal, Harvard UniversityMichael Raspuzzi, Harvard UniversityIntroduction to Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences(SEAS) CurriculaEngineering embedded in a