Collection

2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Harvey I. Lyons

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

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Division (ARCHE) Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samuel Underwood, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Markeya S. Peteranetz, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Clarence Waters, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Tagged Divisions

Architectural Engineering Division (ARCHE)

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

Collection

2005 GSW

Authors

Carole Goodson

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

Collection

2005 GSW

Authors

John D. Fernandez

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

Conference Session

Continuous Improvement in Engineering Leadership Development Programs

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marnie V. Jamieson, University of Alberta; John M. Shaw

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Leadership Development

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

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harry Franz, University of Houston-Downtown

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

Conference Session

Teaching Methodology & Assessment 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Tracy L. Yother, Purdue University at West Lafayette ; Mary E. Johnson, Purdue University at West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

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

Collection

AEE Journal

Authors

Larry Shuman

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

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

John Murray; Erin Elder; Ryan Bingham; Glen Longhurst; Desmond Penny

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

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Technical Session 3: Digital Learning Part I

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Fitratullah Khan, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley; Mahmoud K Quweider, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley; Ala Qubbaj, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley; Emmett Tomai, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley; Liyu Zhang, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley; Hansheng Lei

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

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

Conference Session

Communication in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cherian Mathews, University of the Pacific

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

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

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Rachana Ashok Gupta, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Marshall Brain, North Carolina State University at Raleigh

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

in engineering capstone design. The authors implementedthis collaboration model with a pilot project three years ago. This model was slightly modifiedbased on the lessons learned and learning outcomes reported by the participating EEP and ECESD teams. This model brought forth some keen observations and lessons, which the authorshave seen as the first step in forming a comprehensive multi-disciplinary design program. Thepreliminary impact of these steps is that 15 to 20% of the ECE SD program’s design projects aremulti-disciplinary (with 6 to 8 faculty members from several departments as mentors) and aregrowing. This growing multi-disciplinary collaboration has also brought in additional annualfunding. This paper shares the structure, phases

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Yost

makes senseto bring this multidisciplinary area into focus in UDM’s undergraduate and graduate engineeringprograms.To this end, the students in the author’s section of a first year introductory engineering coursecompleted a mini-capstone project that required them to build and program a robot to move sandfrom one location to another. This project is described in Section 3.2. General Course DescriptionBefore the 1998-99 academic year, first year engineering students at UDM took a three credithour course that exposed them to engineering graphics and engineering design. A second threecredit hour course was devoted to an introduction to engineering computing. Because of theheavy graphics component in the design course, it was taught mainly by

Conference Session

Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tom A. Eppes, University of Hartford; Ivana Milanovic, University of Hartford; Frederick Sweitzer, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. • Professional – Included for all E majors and covers topics common to disciplines. Currently, ET programs do not have a professional component. • Capstone – An integrating experience of 3 to 6 semester credits and taken in the final year of study in which the student completes an unscripted design project. • Other – A technical communication course sequence focused on written and oral skills taken by all ET majors.Broader Educational ContextThe changes being mandated by NEASC are part of a much larger policy initiative that isnational in scope. Most, if not all regional accreditation boards are undertaking similar efforts intheir respective areas of authority. Over the last decade, concern over the quality of highereducation

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pavan Karra, Trine University; Olli Jansson, Trine University

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

surveys fromgraduating seniors and alumni to focus on hands-on experience in the undergraduate program. Alongwith that, there has also been a focus on participating in competitions such as Shell-Eco Marathon byseniors for their capstone project. An opportunity arose to address both these issues by building anengine/chassis dynamometer.A funding request has been granted by a robotics company paving the way for design and build of anengine/chassis dynamometer. The dynamometer, in its first iteration, cost about $10,000 but a reviseddesign costs under $8,000. The dynamometer has been designed for Shell Eco Marathon competitionbut has found its uses in multiple projects over the past year, including a summer toboggan redesign fora local state park

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Will; Wesley Stone

performance • Improved performance on projects The challenge facing the faculty will be to institutionalize all changes that have beenmade, while continuing to develop this course as a positive multidisciplinary design experiencefor the ME and ECE students at Valparaiso University.References1. Tougaw, D. and Will, J. “An Innovative Multidisciplinary Capstone Design Course Sequence,” Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2003.2. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, Baltimore, MD, 2002.3. Olds, B. M., M. J. Pavelich, and F. R. Yearts, “Teaching the Design Process to Freshmen and Sophomores

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Elise Barrella P.E., DfX Consulting LLC; Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Robin Dawn Anderson, James Madison University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

) to enhance process or final designSubstantive and structural stages of construct validation for the Sustainable Design Rubric werebased on a study of capstone design at James Madison University. Our goal was to determine theextent to which our theoretically and empirically defined rubric criteria were accessible tostudent audiences. We collected data during Spring 2018 from 51 junior engineering studentsfrom two course sections of capstone design. Students were given a homework assignment thatincluded evaluating their capstone projects with our draft rubric. Each student belonged to one offifteen capstone teams and was assigned to evaluate their projects against a subset of rubriccriteria (approximately two-thirds of the rubric’s 14 criteria

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Terri Hahn; Nancy Wynn; James Fuller; David Pines

., Senior Design Capstone Course), each student team works on adifferent project for the entire semester under the supervision of a practicing, professionalengineer. Therefore, it was easy to integrate a design project that supported the BloomfieldTown Center into the Senior Design Project course. From the data gathering and focus groupmeeting, it was determined that replacing the existing street lights that are cobra head lightfixtures with sodium lamps on 20 -25 foot concrete poles with 14-foot ornamental lights withfull-cutoff metal halide lamps is a priority for the town. Under the supervision of the TownEngineer and a Connecticut Light and Power engineer, the student team measured the lightintensity at different locations of a central business

Conference Session

Design Spine

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Trivett, University of Prince Edward Island; Daria A. Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado, Boulder; Pemberton Cyrus, Dalhousie University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

substantial body of research into the PBL methods,many engineering faculty continue to come to the model reluctantly. In an effort to give moreweight to the benefits of PBL teaching within the Dalhousie University experience, DalhousieUniversity is eager to assess and evaluate the impact of PBL additions to the curriculum..Motivated by new accreditation rules that will take effect in 2012, the first group of studentsentering Dalhousie University engineering program will encounter a core PBL design course ineach semester of their first two years, as well as a capstone design project in their final year.Thus, we are moving from a “bookend” design experience—having PBL courses in the first andfinal years of the program—to a three-year PBL design

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Teaching Part One

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Bronzini, George Mason University; Michael Casey, George Mason University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Conference, Nashville, TN.11. Chowdhury, S., Jalloh, A., Rojas-Oviedo, R., Seif, M., and Mobasher, A. (2007), “Capstone Design Course as a Tool for Assessment and Improvement,” AC 2007-895, Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI.12. Welch, R., and Estes, A. (2003), “Client-Based Projects for Every Senior – A Mark of Excellence for any Program,” Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Annual Conference, Nashville, TN.13. Bielefeldt, A. (2005), “Challenges and Rewards on On-Campus Projects in Capstone Design”, Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Annual Conference, Portland, OR.14. Chou, K., Wilde, W., and Moaveni, S. (2007), “Subcontracting the Senior Design Project in Civil Engineering” Journal of Professional

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division 2 - Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Equitable Engagement and Transformative Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick Sours, The Ohio State University; Cherish Vance, The Ohio State University; Tylesha D. Drayton, The Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

. The purpose of this collaboration is the development anddissemination of tailored low carbon footprint water treatment plants to further global access tosafe drinking water using gravity-powered technology. The AguaClara Reach partnershipleverages projects across undergraduate research, courses, and capstone. With futureopportunities that will pair with community engaged learning courses providing multipleavenues of engagement across the collaboration.Establishing the Humanitarian Engineering LabNeed and IdeationOver the last twenty years, the Engineering for Sustainable Development field has been growingacross the academic domain. Many universities are offering programming and courses in thespace. Establishing labs and programs to prepare

Conference Session

Creativity and Innovation in Engineering Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Micah Lande, Stanford University; Larry Leifer, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

both better ask and answerquestions and have prototyping skills and Design Thinking as part of their repertoire. Byobserving student engineers learning a design process in the safe environs of a master’s levelcourse, we can more easily follow and analyze their design activities than might be possible in anindustry setting.For mechanical engineering students, especially the cohort of master’s students observed in thecourse of this study, their prior exposure to Design Thinking was mostly limited. They mighthave been exposed to Design Thinking and design activity through a capstone mechanicalengineering course or had summer internship experiences in industry. Projects, though, oftentimes were focused on mechanical engineering optimization and

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovations in Architectural Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Davis, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

22.637.4General Studies Track: CurriculumModifications to the GS track after the fourth semester include the following:Making the previously required design classes after the fourth semester electives Design courses AET 352 Design IV and AET 367 Design V would be elective choices.Repositioning some of the technical specialties and professional electives In order to balance the number of credits per semester and provide required courses in an appropriate sequence, we had to rearrange our technical and professional electives.Making an elective thesis course a required capstone project course Previously our thesis course was not required and only our graduate bound students would take it. It would now be required by all and renamed AET 489

Collection

15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE)

Authors

Gretchen Scroggin, University of Arkansas; Heath Aren Schluterman, University of Arkansas; Aysa Galbraith, University of Arkansas; Leslie Bartsch Massey, University of Arkansas; Latisha Puckett, University of Arkansas

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Students grouped by math placement, Common first-year courses, and access to Peer Mentoring and Academic Coaches Learning Communities Engineering fraternity/STEM sorority Collaborative Assignments and Projects Open-ended, real-world, class-based projects Undergraduate Research Honors Research and Innovation Experience and Symposium Diversity/Global Learning Project-based learning and Drill seminars ePortfolios Honors Research Experience Course Internships Drill seminarsHIPs not in FEP (Capstone, Writing Intensive Courses and Service Learning) have been excluded from Table

Collection

2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Virginia Charter P.E.

, the focus is a project-based assignmentthroughout the course where the student has the capability of applying all of the technicalknowledge learned during their progression through their specific engineering technologyprogram. In order to answer the above question, this study utilized the capstone courses of twodifferent ABET-TAC accredited engineering technology programs. Within these courses, thebaseline Student Assessment of Learning Gains (SALG) was used to determine how well thestudents assessed themselves in relation to the Criteria 3 a-k. The baseline instrument wasadministered at the beginning of the semester to the two different capstone courses. Studentsresponded to the instrument through its online portal.Results The

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Johm W. Duggan; Francis J. Hopcroft

seven Engineering Program MissionGoals, and delivers an educational program consistent with its Environmental EngineeringProgram Philosophy and Academic Goals. Although weaknesses in certain areas were identifiedthrough that process, that was an objective of the process and those areas are being aggressivelyaddressed.For Capstone Design, students are given the opportunity to select and develop their own scopeof work for their area of interest. Successful project proposals must identify actual stakeholderswith an interest in the environmental engineering issue to be addressed. These stakeholdershave taken an active (and appreciated) role in assisting students throughout the Capstone Designprocess and participate in an end-of-year assessment of

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Chang, USMA; Grant Jacoby, USMA; Lisa Shay, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

on coursecurriculum as well as relevant proposals derived for future work in cooperative platforms.Background: Find PartnershipsOur approach begins with a scoped summer internship with a robotics designer andmanufacturer, iRobot in Burlington, MA. We chose iRobot because of the mission needs of theUS Army they are currently meeting in designing and building robots to destroy IEDs. Werequested iRobot to challenge two students to design and build something meaningful for thecompany that they could also continue to work on back in USMA in hope that the endeavorwould meet course requirements to fulfill a two semester capstone multi-disciplinary seniordesign project. The main goal of this negotiation was to set the stage for a

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Richardson, Purdue University; Leslie Reed, Reed Environmental

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

AC 2010-1609: IMPROVING INNOVATION BY ENHANCING CREATIVECAPABILITIES IN ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERINGTECHNOLOGY STUDENTSJeffrey Richardson, Purdue UniversityLeslie Reed, Reed Environmental Page 15.698.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Improving Innovation by Enhancing Creative Capabilities in Electrical and Computer Engineering TechnologyAbstractThis project evolved from an existing research effort in electrical and computer engineeringtechnology in which the gap between the creative capabilities students brought to bear whensolving technological problems, and the level of creativity demonstrated in a capstone designproject, was explored

Collection

2024 ASEE-GSW

Authors

Saman Aria, West Texas A&M University; Sanjoy Bhattacharia, West Texas A&M University; Swastika S. Bithi, West Texas A&M University

witharduous challenges.[2] Furthermore, the inclusion of capstone projects has shown improvement inteamwork dynamics, the ability to develop leadership skills within an independently-leadproject.[3] Thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics are critical courses that are coveredin engineering degree programs. The theory and knowledge gained by students in each of thesecourses culminates in the thermo-fluid design capstone. This curriculum expects students to bringtheir combined aforementioned knowledge and technical skills to develop and produce a workingsystem as part of a team collaboration that meets the needs of their respective customers. Theimportance of such courses and projects is to introduce students to the environment that they

Conference Session

MET Papers 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Azar Eslam Panah, Pennsylvania State University, Berks; Amir Barakati, Pennsylvania State University, Berks

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Design and Build a Water Channel for a Fluid Dynamics LabAbstractWater channels are used for a variety of educational and research purposes includinghydrodynamic and aerodynamic studies. The design, construction, and operation of suchfacilities involve numerous engineering challenges that make it a well-suited choice for anundergraduate capstone project whose emphasis is on multidisciplinary engineering capabilities,exposing to research, and learning and applying state-of-the-art methodologies. Since there was aneed to build a water channel facility for the new Fluid Discovery Lab at Penn State Universityat Berks, a project was defined and presented to the Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology(EMET) students as an option for their Senior