. Even within a single program, e.g. electricalengineering, design challenges are not propagated through the curriculum. Consequently, designis seen as an isolated activity, rather than a driving force for the curriculum. In independentcourse design exercises, students experience little design rework, systems integration, teamdesign and testing. Students seldom have time to follow a complete design cycleA capstone design experience in senior year traditionally addresses these problems. At BostonUnveristy, each program has a required senior design capstone course, usually organized overtwo semesters. In the first semester of senior design, students are instructed in design andprototyping methods, project planning and management, proposal and
and Monitor Temperatures and Atmospheric Air ParametersAbstract The optimization and performance of many systems require data collection for thetemperature variation of solids, liquids, and air parameters that vary from one location toanother. For example, monitoring the performance of an Atmospheric Water Generator Devicethat utilizes geothermal heat rejection to condense vapor in the humid air. This device requiresair parameters, water temperatures, and soil temperature variation to be measured to understandthe system. This paper presents a capstone project that involved the design and implementationof an inexpensive data acquisition system that utilizes off-the-shelf components. Twelveparameters are collected
reports on the results of efforts at integrating online learning to the junior-level and capstone fifth-year-level interdisciplinary electromechanical andelectromechanical/biomedical design courses at Wentworth Institute of Technology. Themotivation is to enhance student time management as well as develop an effective model ofhybrid interdisciplinary engineering design course with the most appropriate technology. Thejunior-level course is an intense course where students are expected to complete an originaldesign and a prototype in one semester. Project and time management are critical. The capstoneproject is made of a sequence of 2 semester courses and involves the same requirements as thejunior design course. Groups typically include 3 to 5
number of capstone projects selected by students involving the implementation of variouswireless/wired monitoring systems. These systems measure various physical phenomenon suchas a creek’s water level and water flow, or counting the number of cars in a parking lot, or thepower generated by a solar panel system. While our EE students are capable of completing anddemonstrating the hardware design, they often struggle in areas such as data management anddeveloping data visualization. Many student teams have used various platforms known as Cloud-based IoT services, that allow data logging on the cloud [5]. The key issue with utilizing suchservices is that many students don’t fully understand the underlying technologies. In fact, our student
interfaced to the Internet, in thesecond the project was design to be interfaced to a PLC. All of the projects are now in use sup-porting undergraduate laboratories and outreach programs.1. IntroductionThe school of engineering at Grand Valley State University (GVSU) had it’s first graduates in1988. Since then, the school has continued to grow and now has students in electrical, computer,mechanical and manufacturing engineering. The faculty and curriculum are not departmentalizedby program as is found in most programs. As a result, it is quite easy to offer courses and projectsthat have multidisciplinary content.The engineering program at GVSU is practical in nature. This includes mandatory co-op employ-ment and a two semester capstone project. The
leading a team, and enhancement of students’ understanding of the ―big picture,‖ such asethical and social concerns relevant to the engineering field.13 In addition, Nelson et al. (2014)state that learning and practicing how to collaborate with other students and working in teams is amain objective of the capstone program.15 Regular team meetings every week are seen to beeffective in improving the team functions, eventually resulting in developing leadership skills.27The objectives of team meetings are to better monitor the fulfillment of assignments and worktasks, argue ideas and thoughts for questions associated with team projects and responsibilities,and authorize team members to provide work plans for the upcoming week.27Other literature
of technical information. Record keeping is critical to successfullegacy projects, both to accelerate the learning curve of teams at the start of each semester, andto maintain progress across multiple teams during the term. Student enthusiasm is high for real Page 4.466.8projects like SPECTRE, and the design experiences are valuable for novice engineers.Substantial extended design can be successfully attempted within a capstone course ifmanagement continuity is maintained and if student teams develop effective communicationsand provide good engineering documentation for their successors.AcknowledgmentsThe author wants to thank Amptek and Ocean
obtained from the evaluation both for individual student grading and forprogrammatic assessmentA previous paper6 described how this process evolved over the past ten years. This paperfocuses on the assessment process as it is currently implemented. One section is devotedto each of the six tasks summarized above.1) Identify Courses that Offer a Culminating Experience in the CurriculumThe program’s current assessment plan is built around two courses: Chemical PlantDesign, the capstone design experience, and Junior/Senior Engineering Clinic, aninterdisciplinary project-based course.Chemical Plant DesignNote that programmatic objectives require that graduates will possess certain skills andaptitudes. Demonstrating, for example, that students are
Paper ID #37759Design and Fabrication of an Accelerated CorrosionChamber for Naval ApplicationsNathan M. Kathir (Associate Professor and Director of Senior Projects) Nathan M. Kathir, Ph.D., P.E.(CO), F.ASCE Director of Senior Design (Capstone), Dept of Mechanical Eng., George Mason Univ. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comDesign and Fabrication of an Accelerated Corrosion Chamber for Naval applicationsAbstractAn improvement in capability to better manage and reduce degradation of materials in theDepartment of Navy (DON)’s
formal technical proposal for a project, 8 - write a formal technicalreport on the results of the project, 9 - define a problem, and propose a solution to be carriedthrough in their capstone senior design course. At the end of the team project course, thestudents took the information learned through the prototypes they developed and then proceededto carry out a full project implementation in their individual capstone senior design course.System Integration:The overall system integration occurred in a two week period at the end of May, 2009, inSwitzerland, at the beginning of which the Purdue students and one of the faculty coachestraveled to Lucerne. It should be noted that the Purdue University students were promised at thebeginning of the
competitive teams (iii) increasing the recruitment and retention of female and underrepresented students, faculty, and staff (iv) developing a more diverse set of engineering design projects (Capstone) and activities to show the broader inter-disciplinary nature of ME and, as a result, further increase student motivation and engagement in the field (v) increasing the awareness of the department as a whole of the need for an inclusive environment 3Our current departmental goals include recruiting and retaining underrepresented students andfaculty, and encouraging their active participation as stakeholders of our school. Our current goalclosely aligns with our College’s
entrepreneurship.1,2,3 In thissame spirit of “doing” versus “lecturing”, the Electronics and Telecommunications (EET/TET)Programs at Texas A&M University have been developing an emphasis in electronics productdesign. To this end, the curriculum has been augmented to include topics such as electronicsmanufacturing, system integration, innovation, project management, and entrepreneurship. Aninitiative to team engineering technology students with business students who understandmarketing and small business plan development has also gained substantial momentum over thepast three years.4 Finally, all students are required to participate in a capstone design sequencewhere they work in teams to develop the concept for a product and implement a fully
(Proposal) Donn the design and development of a Clark, product which would be Senait considered an "Assistive Haileselas Technology" device. Students sie work with a specific client and identify Capstone Assistive Technology project to be accomplished in 16.499.S 16.399 S 3 Capstone Proposal Donn Business plan to fund the design & 17
education professionals about the risks of dismissing the pedagogy model infavor of the andragogy model.MethodologySince 2016, the instructional approach for a Construction Capstone course at BGSU has followedthe active-learning principles of adult education by employing a series of surveys on students’prior experiences, interests, preferred topics, and preferred target projects to pursue in termlength project-based learning (PBL) assignments. In addition to having course length PBLassignments mimic real world conditions, the Construction Capstone class has also entailed areview of prior course work in preparation for the American Institute of Constructors’ (AIC)Associate Constructors examination. The project based assignment was designed to
peers to bea valuable experience. Title: A Student Centered, Active Learning Approach to the Delivery of a Visiting Professional Lecture SeriesBackground:The Wentworth Capstone Experience consists of a two semester eight (8) credit multi-disciplinary project-based curriculum. The Wentworth Institute of Technology employs acooperative education model that includes two required co-op experiences. One during theSpring semester of their Junior year and one during the Fall semester of their Senior year. To“make-up” for these two required co-ops during traditional Spring/Fall semesters, Juniors andSeniors attend classes full-time in the Summers of their Junior and
-mentoring. Incorporation of engineering design experiences across the undergraduatecurriculum with linkages to the university’s engineering innovation laboratory for access toindustry projects contributes to increased student retention and persistence to graduation.CASCADE uses promising practices from research to create a retention program that includesintegrated curriculum, peer-mentoring, learning communities, and efforts that build innovationand creativity into the engineering curriculum. CASCADE vertically aligns 32 problem-baseddesign efforts from the first-year to senior-year (capstone) courses. Research on engineeringstudent learning communities indicates increased retention and student satisfaction with theirfirst-year experience 18, 33
University is surrounded by several autosuppliers and furniture manufacturers. Over the years, our engineering school has developed astrong partnership with the local industry. Co-op is mandatory in our undergraduate program andwe provide well trained co-op students to the industry. All of our capstone projects are sponsoredby the local industry. It is therefore imperative that we strive to keep our curricula up to date, sothat they reflect local industry’s needs and our students remain competent in the fast changingenvironment of technology and businesses. Our engineering program emphasizes teaching andapplied research. Therefore, our faculty is continuously engaged in pedagogical research and itsimplementation and it is active in disseminating the
. This development culminates with (3) student research and project design in the capstone experience during the second year. Students enter the process as novices, and faculty use MCNP5/X to demonstrate fundamental interactions and to explore different scenarios that would be difficult to build experimentally. Later in the curriculum, students become licensed MCNP5/X users, and they make modifications to faculty-prepared MCNP5/X input files that support activities in the laboratory. This first year builds student confidence and demonstrates the merits and limitations of MCNP5/X. The next year begins with a two-week intensive MCNP5/X training program which includes
instance, students will draw on their knowledge of all courses fortheir capstone design project, including strengths of materials, thermodynamics, and machinedesign to name but a few. The presence of small design, build, and test projects in these coursesis intended to help students develop problem solving and design skills in the context of thosecourses. The portfolio provides a means for instructors of those courses to quickly see how theirclass contributes to the design goals of the program. More importantly, it allows instructors ofcore courses who may be from different departments to see the importance of their course to theMechanical Engineering program. At a small institution like the Coast Guard Academy, whereover 50% of students
upon principal machine designtopics, are employed to develop the formative skills needed in the senior design Capstone course.These problems are in addition to textbook (closed-ended) solutions and typically requireadditional research towards solution. A detailed design report is required and will include alogical analysis, solution, design discussion and summary. The design report componentsinclude: Design Report • Table of Contents • Introduction • Technical Body (sketches, figures, tables, clear statement of design approach, reference all equations). • Results • Conclusions and recommendations • Appendix • ReferencesThe design projects were prepared either on an
changes to anarchitectural engineering program in the Midwest. Responses were collected across 52 closedand eight open-ended items to gain an industry perspective on the relative importance of coursetopics in the curriculum, the selection of Architectural Engineering (AE) degree concentrationoptions, the format of graduate degree capstone projects, and the factors that AE&C employersconsider when hiring graduates and experienced employees. The curriculum changes inspired bythis survey are presented together alongside the program’s previous AE curriculum to morethoroughly characterize the program attributes that are desired by the AE&C industry.IntroductionThe Architectural Engineering (AE) program considered in this study is at the
pervasiveness of computers throughout society, thereis a growing demand for diligent computer science education to satisfy the growing needs of amultiplicity of enterprises. This paper describes one approach to teaching computer science whilerequiring students to develop systems for various community, school, and university organizations. Thebenefits derived by the students and the clients receiving their services are many. A survey ofundergraduate students involved in community based projects provides a good summary of the impactof this type of education. There is a wide range of opportunities for civic engagement through project-oriented computer science courses that serve community needs. The results of the survey indicate thatthis type of education
pervasiveness of computers throughout society, thereis a growing demand for diligent computer science education to satisfy the growing needs of amultiplicity of enterprises. This paper describes one approach to teaching computer science whilerequiring students to develop systems for various community, school, and university organizations. Thebenefits derived by the students and the clients receiving their services are many. A survey ofundergraduate students involved in community based projects provides a good summary of the impactof this type of education. There is a wide range of opportunities for civic engagement through project-oriented computer science courses that serve community needs. The results of the survey indicate thatthis type of education
design teaching and learning, program content and structure, student assessment, and continuous course improvement techniques. She managed and was a key contributor to a two-year pilot project to introduce Blended Learning into Engineering Capstone De- sign Courses, and is a co-author with John M. Shaw on a number of recent journal, book, and conference contributions on engineering design education.Dr. John M. Shaw John M. Shaw obtained his B.A.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering and his Ph.D. in Metallurgy and Ma- terial Science at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, in 1981 and 1985 respectively. In 1985, he joined the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at the University
design.While there are many inclusions of product redesign in papers discussing capstone designcourses, this paper focuses on the use of FMEA in a Design Support Analysis course in anAeronautical Engineering Technology program at a junior level. The course includes lectures,videos, quizzes, and the final project. The goal of the final project is to dramatically reduce lifecycle costs through maintenance reductions, a priori failure identification and analysis, andsubsequent reliability and maintainability improvements. This paper introduces the FMEAprocess as described in SAE ARP5580, presents the FMEA method as completed in the course,and discusses FMEA changes that could be incorporated to improvements to the course.Keywords: standards, FMEA
hands-on design projects. Also unique in the class studies is the fact thatvarious stages of the design projects are used extensively throughout the entire course from thevery beginning to the final.These projects use software to create designs that include the very basic concepts of national firealarm code and carry on through the more advanced concepts. In addition, there is a capstoneproject for the course. This capstone project requires a proficiency in both the national fire alarmcode and application software.The innovative software exercises and projects that have been developed for the national firealarm code studies are given.IntroductionThe goal of the development of the fire code studies is to create a new National Fire Alarm
to analyze their responses to short answer ethical design questions before andafter the course. This data, combined with an ethical thinking survey and self-efficacy assessment,resulted in a number of statistically significant differences. The authors propose that “the integra-tion of ethics and design holds promise as a way of fostering the development of professional skillsamong engineering students.” Nicola Brown, from Massey University, New Zealand, describes the implementation and evalua-tion of a website based assessment tool for project based learning. Used with first year engineer-ing students, the author found that developing a website rather than writing a report was a lessonerous task for most students. In addition, developing
268 The Design and Construction of a Tiny House: Small Is Beautiful John Murray, Erin Elder, Ryan Bingham, Glen Longhurst, and Desmond Penny Southern Utah UniversityAbstractThe Danish scientist and poet, Piet Hein said, “Art is solving problems that cannot be formulatedbefore they have been solved. The shaping of the solution is part of the answer.” Hein’sstatement sets the stage for a senior capstone project involving two Southern Utah University(SUU) students majoring in Integrated Engineering, and justifies their undaunted roving
the cloud -Collecting data from sensors and uploading to the cloud DB -Commanding actuators through RPi per cloud DB CSCI -Detailed RISC architecture with multistage pipeline 4335 -Benchmarking -Effect of code arrangement on pipeline performance -Effect of code on cache performance CSCI Different RPI-based capstone projects per student selection - some selected projects done by students 4390 are as follows: -Remote site real-time security and safety system -An embedded system based medical app for tracking health vitals and emergency issuer of notifications -An embedded system for real-time overhead clearance and
at Purdue University and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Page 15.1312.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Using a Design Course to Augment Program Curriculum and Foster Development of Professional SkillsAbstractThis paper describes the structure of a recently reorganized senior design project coursesequence in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of the Pacific.The paper focuses on the first course in a two course senior project sequence, a course that wasrecently reorganized with a view to improve student design and professional skills. Previously