Conference Session

Design Projects across the Curriculum

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tom Thomas, University of South Alabama; Michael Doran, University of South Alabama; James Sakalaukus, University of South Alabama

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

drive train design and mechatronics. At USA, Chemical engineers are required totake courses in instrumentation, controls, and real-time data acquisition, all of which wereintegral parts of the JagBot project. Civil engineering is a harder sell, but USA’s CostalEngineering program has approved senior projects in wave height measurement, autonomousunderwater vehicles, environmental monitoring, and embedded instrumentation, all areas thatrequire the same skills used in robotics.Undergraduate engineering education at USA is still parochial in the sense that some studentsand faculty look at the disciplines as being “separate but equal” with their own ways of doingthings. In this sense, education doesn’t reflect present industrial practice, in which

Conference Session

Early Engineering Design Experiences

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kala Meah, York College of Pennsylvania; Timothy Garrison, York College of Pennsylvania; James Kearns, York College of Pennsylvania; Gregory Link, York College of Pennsylvania; Laura Garrison, York College of Pennsylvania; Wayne Blanding, York College of Pennsylvania; Emine Celik, York College of Pennsylvania; Jennifer Dawson, York College of Pennsylvania; Stephen Kuchnicki, York College of Pennsylvania; Barry McFarland, York College of Pennsylvania

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

surveyed twice. First, they were surveyed during the freshmanorientation before they took the course. The second time they were surveyed was when theyfinished their freshman year (FY), right after the taking this course. The student feedback aftercompleting the design project is taken as a reflection of the students’ observations about thecourse and engineering.Fig. 10 shows the results for intended student majors during the open house orientation (thestudents’ entering majors) and the actual major after completing the freshman year. Duringorientation there were no non-engineering majors, but 6% of the students who completed thedesign project either declared to pursue other disciplines or came from other disciplines. Thedata shows that some

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Zemke, Gonzaga University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

discussion and ask for comment. Second, after thetranscripts were completed, the researcher read and reread them to identify other recurringthemes.Results: student interaction and responses to focus questionsStudent interactions during the focus discussionsAs mentioned earlier, the students often elaborated on each other’s ideas to provide a multi-voiced understanding of their reflections. All discussions were relaxed and unusually balanced.In the transcript of the second session the two young men responded 30 and 33 timesrespectively and the two young women responded 34 and 44 times respectively. Though theyoung men would initially answer questions more quickly, the young women would addperspective after a conversation turn or two. At no time did

Conference Session

Early Engineering Design Experiences

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Oppliger, Michigan Technological University; Jean Kampe, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

supported a cyclic model as matching with what their teams hadexperienced. An important advantage of HSE over other learning environments is that the long-term nature of HSE projects (at least one school-year in duration, often longer) allows studentstime to reflect on “where they are” in a model such as that in Figure 8. With coaches that arefluent in the elementary language and tools of design, and thus able to navigate a more complexmodel of the design process, there will be many more opportunities to teach real aspects ofdesign than in programs with very tight time schedules.After this introduction, there was a group activity that compared three very different types ofstaple removers in a systematic way.13 The three staple removers and sheets

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

have been developed for capstoneprojects which fall at different points on the technological readiness level scale. These rubricsare currently in use in the program discussed in this paper and are provided in the appendix forthose who may wish to give projects which fall at different points on the TRL spectrum.AcknowledgementsThe author acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation through award Page 15.371.11NSF0530588. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience FoundationBibliography1

Conference Session

DEED Potpourri

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farrokh Attarzadeh, University of Houston; Enrique Barbieri, University of Houston; Miguel Ramos, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

senior project, it was decided that the senior capstone course would providethe best opportunity to assess these skills. Using a set of comprehensive rubric-basedtools, students are assessed on various dimensions of their performance including theareas described by the general learning outcomes. These in turn reflect the majority ofskills listed in the self-assessment survey. Figure 3 illustrates the basic links between thelearning outcomes and skills in the self-assessment. Skills Presentation skills Learning outcomes Assessments  Writing skills Ability to