or electives in • Capstone project in final year together another field. • Professional practice & internships Curriculum: special featuresIn order to promote the success and persistence of traditionally underrepresented students, ourcurriculum is heavily based on pedagogical techniques shown to increase their engagement.● Asset Based Learning ○ Provide opportunities for students to articulate the assets they arrive with, and embed the use of those assets in the lessons of engineering design● Community Engagement ○ Students work with communities throughout the curriculum, integrating engineering skills within the
change in the make up of the group will cause the group to gothrough some of the start up phases again, 3) When a group becomes a high performance team itis fun to be a member, 4) The results obtained by a high performance team represent trueserendipity. Page 4.361.5This is a very important part of the capstone design course, and in the training of effectiveleaders. It is important that leaders and members of project groups understand that a group ofpeople assigned a common task does not automatically represent a team. It takes consciouseffort to build and maintain a team of people focused on a common task. The instructor of thedesign course
performed well in the class (average = 84%, standard deviation = 7%) andon the final group project report (average = 90%, standard deviation = 4%). Future versions ofthis course could be improved by introducing LCA software earlier in the curriculum andintegrating this course as a pre-requisite or co-requisite to a senior capstone. By teachingstudents an innovative approach to the conventional evaluation-of-alternatives, students wereable to propose designs that minimize environmental impacts (e.g., carbon footprint) and provideeconomically feasible solutions simultaneously. Consequently, this paper highlights a viableteaching model for other universities integrate sustainability into their curriculum.IntroductionCoastal regions in the United
7.229.1the University of Arkansas. We present our process for executing the course including “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”information for project sponsors, the specification of the project deliverables for the course, aprocedure for selecting projects and clients, and a procedure for assessing student outcomes.Overview of the CourseIndustrial Engineering Design (INEG 4904) is a single-semester course generally taken duringthe last semester of study. The course draws on all prior required industrial engineering coursesby exposing the student to an integrated, capstone design experience. Thus
requirements persist, as all services face the challenges posed by explosives safety.Beginning in the fall of 2019, researchers at the NAVFAC EXWC in Port Hueneme, CA andfaculty at USMA began partnering in search of mutually beneficial research and educationopportunities. This paper presents a unique research project and capstone experience at theundergraduate level that will benefit DoD research, active-duty service members, andundergraduate civil engineering students from June 2020 to May 2021. Three civil engineeringstudents embarked on a project-based study to support NAVFAC EXWC in their role as subjectmatter experts in protective construction for explosives safety for multiple military construction(MILCON) projects on Navy installations
based on their Acquiring computing and data science skills isfindings in the United States. Similarly, it has been essential for innovation and competitiveness thatpredicted [4] that in many states, mathematical and enables many underserved students to navigate successful STEM career pathways. Recent studies [9,10] found that students’ exposure to advanced CS research can be part of their senior capstone project ortechniques, such as machine learning (ML) as new thesis required for graduation supervised by both CSresearch tools for a variety of majors, can potentially and non-CS faculty. To implement effective SUREengage them in computing and
Database Sys 3 CMST485 Senior Capstone Project 6CMST283 Computer Sys Studio III 1 Hum/SS/Bus elective (300+) 3CMST335 Programming II 3 Science elective 4COMM106 Public Speaking I 3Humanities/Social Science elective The bolded courses will be discussed in Sophomore Spring more detail in the following sections.CMST252 System & Software Fund 3CMST315 Intro to System Admin 3CMST333 Com Sys Portfolio Defense 0CMST332 Web Development Project 3ENGL302 Technical Writing 3Science Elective
course in Aerodynamics, a casestudy from either industry or government is used to provide an authentic problem. In thepast, Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems provided scenarios for design projectsthat are typical of those encountered in the aircraft industry. Upper-level capstone coursesare entirely problem-based: Experimental Projects Laboratory Space SystemsEngineering, and the CDIO Capstone Course. In these PBL experiences, students identifyproblems of interest to them and experiment to find solutions, as well as design complexsystems that integrate engineering fundamentals in a multidisciplinary approach.The Director of The Learning Lab for Complex Systems in MIT's Aero/Astro Department
in Communication Studies and a Ph.D. in Educational Technology. She supports faculty in their effort to improve pedagogy, course design, and interdisciplinary curricula.Dr. Doyle Dodd, University of Oklahoma Industrial & Systems Engineering Capstone Coordinator ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Teaming Tribulations: Using a Role-Playing Game to Improve Teaming OutcomesAbstract:This paper discusses the development and implementation of a board game intended to simulateconversations and debates or negotiations that may occur in design-based projects. One of thechallenging tasks for a design group is learning how to collaborate and debate in a
capstone courses.The manufacturing processes presented include wood working, machining, welding andcomposite lay-up. In addition, software tools are introduced and compared including MicrosoftExcel®, MatLAB®, MathCAD®, and Inventor®. Key aspects of technical communicationincluding reading, writing and presenting are introduced and practiced. Finally, a two-lessonseminar on engineering ethics completes the content. A small desk set is constructed by thestudents as a capstone project, and draws on many of the skills learned throughout the course.To evaluate the course, students were surveyed frequently and faculty feedback was collected.The results presented show that the welding, machining and Excel® content was very successful,while general
a collaborative, crossdisciplinary environment in which Art and Design students integrate coding and algorithmic thinking in creative works and in which Computer Science students apply the principles and methodology of design thinking to visual applications. The minor is composed primarily of existing courses with the addition of a twoquarter long capstone project, in which teams of students from mixed educational backgrounds work together to make a final creative, technical project. We also present demographic information about the three years of mixed disciplinary cohorts that have been admitted to the CIA minor. Each cohort averages 11 students
Ecuadorian villages and twovillages in Panama that did not have a reliable water source. The paper will discuss the creationof a new course that allows the university to offer an international design experience within thetraditional Capstone course, and it will further compare the outcomes of the international servicelearning frameworks to the standard senior design projects.IntroductionMany Engineering programs are becoming interested in including an international servicelearning project into the school’s curriculum [1-6, 8, 9, 12-20]. There are many components in atypical international service learning experience that can benefit both the students and the school.[7, 10] One of the first and well documented benefits comes from the value project
audiences, and understand their potential vocational path-ways, including government, academia, and industry.The NRT program incorporated educational and experiential activities such as field experience,policy experience at the state capital, applied course work, interdisciplinary research projects,faculty and peer mentoring, professional development, and periodic assessment of these activi-ties. The NRT developed and offered three courses: a one-credit-hour cross-listed course, Inte-grated FEW Systems, a two-credit-hour cross-listed NRT Capstone course, and a 0-credit NRTSeminar. The Integrated FEW Systems course introduced students to systems thinking, with spe-cific application to the FEW nexus in Southwest Kansas. The NRT Capstone was a project
construction of analog and digital electronic circuits onbreadboards. Similar materials have been used by EDCSL volunteers at the local Boys and GirlsClub, and a K-8 charter school, beginning in January 2004.Senior Capstone Design ProjectsSenior capstone design projects have included an optics demonstration and experimentation kit3,a children’s classroom playhouse4, and a roller coaster to demonstrate Newton’s Law of Motionand the Conservation of Energy. New projects include a preliminary design completed by a teamof two high-school students from Kalamazoo Area Mathematics and Science Center (KAMSC)in Fall 2004 for an interactive wind tunnel to support the study of two science topics atWoodward Elementary School: aviation technology and aerospace. The
class sizes and the interest, 1-3 interns can be assigned to a team by theinstructors.The students who do not participate in this internship experience or those who don’t get placedare assigned a separate project to fulfill the requirement. Once the pairing is complete, the actualimplementation of the project starts. The design teams then develop the project promptcomparable to the regular controls project but adapted to their capstone project. The twoinstructors ensure that the scope of the work assigned is feasible. The interns start their workwith background information collection based on the assigned prompt. Although, at this point,the juniors haven’t learned all the concepts needed for project completion, they are advised towork on it as
Dynamic Systems X Thermodynamics 2 X Heat Transfer X Machine Design X Mechatronics X Design Capstone XCourses are fairly evenly split between single solution projects and design projects. Somecourses, such as Heat Transfer course, had multiple options for the project that could be done buthad a set list of problems to work out. Single solution problems for these courses may looksimilar to the assignment shown below in Figure 5 for Solid Mechanics course
Arts/Culture Business Models Capstone Project History/Language Business Systems Analysis Humanities Design Research Methods Integrated Teams Seminars/Capstone Engineering External Customers Real Deliverables First, College
University of Texas at Austin AbstractThe ABET accreditation criterion 5 requires a "culminating major engineering design experience"in the curriculum1. This is commonly referred to as the senior capstone design course. Thefreshman engineering education experience is loaded with required science and mathematicscourses, and there is little room for an engineering experience. Nonetheless, most faculty want tohave some engineering course during the freshman year, and many ideas have been tried over theyears. Of these many ideas, the concept of a team design project with hands-on activities seems tobe the most popular and most beneficial. This paper reports on such a proposed freshmanengineering cornerstone
fieldsMediboticsTo address this issue, the authors were awarded a National Science Foundation ITEST grant.During the original Medibotics NSF ITEST program, a total of 60 teachers participated in aseries of school year and summer workshops, where they worked in teams to model foursimulated surgeries using the LEGO® NXT Mindstorm kits. Training was face-to-face, and theassessment of teacher proficiency in terms of understanding the medical robotics program wasdemonstrated through a Capstone project. A workbook including details on construction of therobots, computer programming, the mathematical and scientific topics involved in each surgery,and other support materials for use in STEM classes was created.The emphasis on biomedical engineering applications and
Chemistry. They have a chance to work on some real-world projects during theirsenior year in capstone/senior design courses. Before students get a chance to work on their real-world projects, which typically happen in capstone/senior projects, some of the students wouldhave made the decision to transfer out of engineering school. Based on the feedback fromindustry, even students who finished their engineering degree need more experience with real-world product development experience.To enhance the educational experience for students, TAMU made significant amount ofinvestment in seven activities. The majority of the investment went to Activity 1 with a goal ofenhancing the students’ preparation for the workplace and society through high impact
use of impromptudesign exercises across the engineering curriculum. The paper concludes by describing a pilotstudy on impromptu design exercises being conducted by the authors.1. Mind the gapThe call for more design experience in engineering curricula draws attention to a problem indesign education that engineering educators have noted for quite some time. Traditionalengineering programs lack curricular coherence when it comes to design. Students typicallyhave design experiences during introductory coursework (or “cornerstone” courses2) as freshmenand then again later as seniors during capstone projects or seminars. Thus, design experiencescomprise disjointed bookends in students‟ college careers. Their sophomore and junior years aredevoted
, the group revised theirdesign and developed detailed shop drawings and a materials list for a finalworking prototype. The semester ended and the students were not required to buildan operational version of this final design. However, the assembly drawing of theirfinal design, shown in Figure 2 illustrates the extent of their success with themanufacturing-related issues of assembly, clearances, fasteners, and realizableshop processes. Page 5.689.3 Figure 2 Assembly drawing of a four-bar rock-retriever mechanism.Capstone Design CourseThe capstone senior class in mechanical engineering, Mechanical Systems Design,used the project as an exercise in
, designedtop-down, incorporates a number of best practices, including spiral curriculum, a unified set ofcore courses, multiple pathways, inclusion of social issues and entrepreneurship, an emphasis onprojects-based learning, and capstone design projects. This paper provides a brief synopsis,comparison with other approaches, and multi-year retrospective on the program. The curriculumhas evolved rapidly from the original to its current state, including changes in requirements,courses, hardware, software, labs, and projects. The guiding philosophy remains unchanged,however, providing continuity of purpose to the program. The program has been highlysuccessful in meeting its desired outcomes, including: quantity and quality of enrolled students,ABET EAC
businesses and projects ranging from a $100M innovative business to an over $3B annual revenue portfolio of projects. In his 30+ years at IBM he worked with clients in Government, Aerospace, Automotive, Electronics, Communications, and the Architecture/Engineering/Constructions industries across North America, Europe and Asia. He was a key leader of R&D transformation during the turnaround of IBM in the mid-1990s. Today Sta´s teaches various courses in Senior Leadership, Program Management, System Engineering, and Governance, and is a consultant to numerous clients in the complex systems integration business. He is also actively involved in developing new courses and innovative course delivery methods.Ms. Judith G
evaluate the effects of the Capstone Design course on student traits inthe four specified areas to promote course re-evaluation for improved instruction and adherenceto ABET standards. The research question for this study was generated through workshop onengineering education research conducted at the Colorado School of Mines in August of 2005.The authors participated through a project funded by the Center for the Advancement ofScholarship on Engineering Education (CASEE) and the National Academy of Engineering Page 12.1062.2(NAE). Although the workshop and the literature focus on engineering education, the authorsbelieve they are also applicable to
peripherals and a complexprocessor appear to serve the immediate needs of the introductory microprocessor course.Students who chose to use a microcontroller in a future project were forced to design circuitboards requiring fabrication and assembly at outside vendors at considerable cost; this tended todiscourage their use in our capstone projects course. We discuss our current introductory coursethat uses a MC9S08QG8/4 microcontroller from Freescale. It comes in a sixteen pin DIPpackage, has an internal clock and can be programmed using the same Codewarrior softwareIDE Freescale uses for all of its microcontrollers and can be programmed through aUSBSPYDER08∀interface. We developed a set of four simple input/output boards so studentscan exercise
problems.New engineering programs, such as those at Olin College5 and James Madison University6, aretaking a different approach to engineering education by challenging lower division students withcomplex open-ended problems and by infusing project work throughout the four-year curriculum.The large number of mechanical engineering students at Michigan Tech presents challenges toimplementing more project-based courses, but size has advantages too: well equippedlaboratories, a mature industry sponsored capstone design program, and diverse faculty expertise.This paper will describe the process we followed to develop a new curriculum in addition toproviding details about the new curriculum itself.Curriculum Design ProcessIn Fall 2010 an ad-hoc Curriculum
to the bayous of Louisiana. The final narrative, How doyou solve a problem like Fritz Haber? [6], discusses the German, Nobel-Prize-winning chemistand his discovery of a process to convert atmospheric nitrogen into liquid-ammonia fertilizer.Additional details regarding the narratives can be found in Brown et al. [ 7].The study was completed at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida,and included as participants senior students completing their capstone design projects inmechanical and aerospace engineering. The first phase of the project began with a pilot studythat sought to evaluate whether students were connecting with the narratives and, mostimportantly, able to draw connections between the narratives and
months, where they lead infrastructure projects around their hostcommunity with a team of local Haitian foremen, skilled workers, and general laborers.While many other programs and student organizations provide leadership experience in aclassroom context through capstone projects and extra-curricular activities, CEDC interns aretasked with working with local citizens towards a common goal and tangible results. Interns aresupported by CEDC’s unique organizational structure that allows students in the classroom tolead design projects that are implemented by the interns in Haiti, with supervision from industryadvisors in the United States. CEDC’s project-oriented framework provides students real-worldresponsibility and accountability for small
programs in the US include a capstonesenior design experience, the level of training that the students receive in the product design anddevelopment process can vary considerably between programs. In some cases, students learn theproduct design process in parallel with their capstone senior design project. In others, there areone or more previous courses that focus on teaching different phases of the product design anddevelopment process. Also, there are other factors that impact student learning such as variationsin the design process favored by each faculty member supervising a capstone senior designproject, the specific design process presented and the terminology used in different productdesign textbooks, and the product design textbook