Table 1. Participating InstitutionsInstitution A is a small, private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 undergraduatestudents. The department of mathematics and computer science has approximately 25 CS majors,and the CS major is designed to offer students hands-on experience on real-world projects whileproviding a grounding in theoretical ideas. The course used in the survey is a senior-levelsoftware engineering capstone course that used OpenMRS as a project base. Students addressedbug reports to learn the system and then designed and implemented a new add-on module.Institution B is a public liberal arts university serving approximately 6,100 undergraduatestudents and 800 graduate students. Founded in 1980, the Computer Science
students have to offer. Problems lie in (i) identifyingcommunity needs requiring engineering skills, (ii) providing a forum for selecting the service,(iii) integrating the service into an academic environment, and (iv) building a stronginfrastructure for long-term success.ProCEED is the University of Michigan’s initiative to instill community service awareness inmechanical engineering students and to foster community leaders within student organizationsthrough civic-based design projects in the mechanical engineering senior capstone design course, Page 5.502.1ME450. Students in the course interact closely with community sponsors to create a
interests in- clude creativity and innovation in learning and teaching, Design based learning, Cloud learning & located learning and engineering education innovation. His education philosophy is founded on the Project Ori- ented Design Based Learning (PODBL) approach at Deakin University.Dr. Riyadh Ibrahim Al-Ameri, Deakin University Al-Ameri is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia and chartered Structural Engineer. Since 2010, Al-Ameri is appointed as a Senior Lecturer at the School of Engineering, Deakin University. He have more than 25 years of mixed academic and industrial experience and involved significantly with academia, research, construction industry and consultations. He received his BSc in
presentations for students and other users to browse and download from any locationusing remote desktop and virtual lab server. The interactive components, simulations andlaboratory experiments are available for other universities and Drexel University-affiliatedcolleges. Online learning will be a channel for use of the developed materials and also theirdissemination.Curricular developments and integrative approachSenior Design Project Course Sequence Page 26.1009.3One of the most impacted courses by this project is Drexel University Engineering TechnologyMET 421/422/423 (Senior Project Design) - a sequence of three-quarter capstone project designcourses
. Conrad is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Certified Project Management Pro- fessional (PMP). He is also a member of ASEE, Eta Kappa Nu, the Project Management Institute, and the IEEE Computer Society. He is the author of numerous books, book chapters, journal articles, and conference papers in the areas of robotics, parallel processing, artificial intelligence, and engineering education.Claude M Hargrove, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Dr. Claude Hargrove is a Faculty Associate for the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He previously taught at North Carolina A&T State University from 2003 until 2010. He has served as Branch Counselor for
toprogramming software, without compromising the support for low and intermediate-leveleducation.The CourseThe Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) program at Western CarolinaUniversity is focused on preparation for industry. The regional employers are typically discretepart and product producers that make extensive use of industrial control systems. Graduates ofthe schools typically go to work for aerospace, automotive, medical, and similar industries.The school receives annual feedback from external sources including an Industrial AdvisoryBoard (IAB), capstone project sponsors, alumni, and industrial partners. They all share acommon message that there is increasing demand for mechatronics knowledge that is not beingsatisfied by
the collection of 2D images that are then translated to 3D byexternal reconstruction software.As with many computer engineering programs, students of the computer engineering program atUtah Valley University (UVU) conclude their degree programs with a semester capstone designexperience. The intent is for students to utilize competencies developed in the first three years ofthe curriculum in the solution of an embedded design problem. This paper summarizes theresult of an undergraduate capstone experience where the feasibility of utilizing ubiquitoustechnology (2D ultrasound) to mimic the functionality of enhanced but expensive 3D ultrasoundmachines is assessed.Capstone Projects at UVUThe goal of projects in our Capstone Design course is to
. Ultimately, the solution to the lack of dedicated engineering space was simple (butnot easy): construct a new building. However, building a new space on campus requiresinstitutional support and a funding source. The College President and College Advancementoffice began raising funds to design and build an addition to the existing science center. Theseefforts culminated in the construction in 2017 of a joint Engineering and Biomedical SciencesHall, which included a dedicated engineering laboratory, an engineering computation lab, amodern teaching classroom, three faculty offices, and two “project labs” intended to provideworkspace for Engineering and Integrated Science design, research, and capstone projects.However, shortly after construction was
mechanics, heat transfer, engineering graphics, and product design. He has designed products using AutoCAD, CATIA, Pro/E, and SolidWorks and is a certified SolidWorks Professional.Prof. Greg Murray, Pittsburg State UniversityDr. Robert E. Gerlick, Pittsburg State University Robert Gerlick is Assistant Professor of mechanical engineering technology at Pittsburg State University, where he teaches courses in mechanics, graphics, and capstone design. Page 25.652.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Freshman CAD Modeling Competition to Increase Student
sponsor who was keen on engaging students in open-endedcommunity-oriented problem solving. The sponsor entered a partnership with the university tosupport the project for up to four years. The partnership also explored expansion to sponsorshipof capstone senior projects. Plans to expand and add automation to the farm operations wouldprovide a richer set of problems that would be more appropriate for seniors to take on and is agoal for our future work together.References[1] “Service-Learning-and-Community-Engagement.docx.” Accessed: Jan. 10, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vanderbilt.edu%2 Fvu-sub%2Fwp- content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F59%2F2011%2F03%2F19134023%2FService
SettingsWhile each team’s learning environment centers on project-based and simulation approaches toteaching complex disciplinary practices, they span educational levels (secondary,post-secondary) and scientific disciplines (environmental science, biology, engineering), andnational contexts. This diversity provides a unique opportunity to develop potentiallytransformative and generalizable new understandings of engagement and how to support it inSTEM. The secondary contexts include urban, poverty-impacted schools in the US and highschools in Finland with significant numbers of immigrant students. The post-secondary contextsare targeted at capstone students in professional programs (engineering and veterinary) who maybe at risk for disengagement from
brings the graduates together to commemorate the hours of hard work and study and to celebrate with family and faculty. To mark the event, a distinguished speaker provides a presentation that attempts to place their achievements in a business or career positive perspective. Poster presentations are required by TPM graduates to present their Capstone project at the graduation dinner. For about one and a half hours, prior to the graduation dinner, the students make poster presentations to friends, faculty, and distinguished guests. Each student makes his/her presentation from the perspective of having recently completed the project, thereby giving the listener the opportunity to understand the finished project and to ask
solving, and skills development, who also took the previous Engineering Practicecourse. The recent student-faculty research collaborative work in SHE (Safety, Health, andEnvironmental) Subjects in 3D Printing led to multiple journal papers, including a recognitionfrom Emerald Literati Network by a Highly Commended Paper Award7. Original work in 3Dprinting material development have also been carried out by students were enrolled inEngineering Practice to be shifted to this new course.With the new research course, each student or student team will be matched to a faculty memberbased on their interests. The capstone course at this department is usually an interdisciplinaryone. The new research course projects may also include a good number of
requirements. They had to do a complete building code analysis of the proposed design to determine its feasibility and energy efficiency (see figures 1 and 2). • We developed a few internal guidelines to encourage team dynamics across grade levels: o One of the project team leads must be working in senior capstone or graduate student. o One of the project team leads must be a first-year student or sophomore level student. o Our commercial sophomore interior design studio course would lead the design development of the commercial entity in the building. o Interior design capstone students would lead the final deliverables of all spaces. o Weekly meetings with all grade levels
Yogurt.Our relationship with General Mills began with the Pillsbury division, located in nearbySwedesboro, NJ, before it was bought by General Mills. Pillsbury engineers served as industrialconsultants with the Rowan Chemical Engineering Capstone Design Course. As the relationshipbetween Rowan and Pillsbury evolved, and Pillsbury saw other successful Clinic projects, webegan to discuss possible Clinic projects with Pillsbury (now part of General Mills). InSeptember 2002, General Mills boldly sponsored three Clinic Projects for improvement andoptimization of their dough line processes. One project focused on the analysis of raw materials,the second project aimed to optimize a process line, and the third project investigated wastewaterminimization.The
research investigation techniques in order toaddress a real-world, complex problem. The first term of the course will be at Pitt with thesecond term at UNICAMP. Project topics will be developed in combination withrecommendations from various stakeholders including the Industrial Advisory Board, colleaguesin industry, the IGERT faculty at all four institutions, and the interests and preliminary researchof the students themselves. Research will be firmly rooted in industrial needs. The problem willbuild upon the combined students’ acquired engineering knowledge and will requirecollaboration to resolve. The capstone courses will reinforce the community-building aspect ofthe IGERT, since students will work in teams both at Pitt and UNICAMP. In the
for Engineering Education”mechanical engineering). Dutson, et al., state that “the majority of capstone design coursesappear to fall in the ‘engineering program’ category.While most senior design courses are at the engineering program level, there are certainly manynotable programs at the engineering school level. Most of these are aimed at creatingmultidisciplinary courses to prepare students for the reality of multidisciplinary design teams inindustry and to address ABET requirements.Senior Engineering Design at ArizonaWhile the College of Engineering at the University of Arizona currently has a hybrid engineeringprogram/engineering school design program, this grew out of a set of departmental senior designofferings. In the 2000-1 academic
are studied to assess the short term and longer-termdevelopment of the students. The research questions considered are 1. What are the students’ initial responses to encountering an open-ended analysis project? 2. Do the students’ technical skills develop linearly during the courses or is the development recursive? 3. How do students’ conceptualizations of an open-ended problem develop throughout the project? 4. Does an open-ended project in a cornerstone course provide improved preparation for senior capstone?These research questions are assessed via a sequence of surveys and interviews of students fromboth cohorts.IntroductionThe arrival of COVID-19 in 2020 to North American university campuses was disruptive
food consumption. By using organicwaste, this project ensures sustainable consumption and production patterns. Converting wasteto bioethanol creates a fuel from a biomass that would have been energetically wasted during thedecomposition process. Using bioethanol or blending it with gasoline both reduce the relianceon fossil fuel and ultimately reduce the carbon dioxide entering the atmosphere. Thus, it is a trulysustainable transport fuel.In this paper, the design of the bioreactor, instrumentation and automation mechanisms arepresented. Kinetics studies and the results from the optimization of the reactor operatingconditions area also discussed. Since such work also was carried out as part of engineeringtechnology students’ senior capstone
. Erik has spearheaded the Clarkson Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE) Capstone design experience since 2015, using project teams as direct consultants with internal and external clients across the State and region. He has presented on one such project at the ASEE St. Lawrence Section conference on one such CEE capstone effort in the past. He also teaches courses in a variety of areas connected to both building and infrastruc- ture construction. Previous to his time at Clarkson, he was an Assistant Professor of Military Science at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA and an Instructor/Writer for the US Army Engineer School USAES) at the Maneuver Support Center (MANSCEN), Fort Leonard Wood, MO. He was
objectiveof implementing this game within a classroom environment is to start the discussion on teaming,as well as provide a low-fidelity simulation of the design process for comparison during thesemester. Later in the semester, concept selection methods are taught with the reminder that it isnot ideal to simply argue based on initial biases and gut feelings. The game was introduced inboth a first-year and capstone engineering design course. The first-year students were asked toreflect on the experience and determine what personalities hinder a discussion and whichcombinations are beneficial to a group's experience and success.IntroductionTeaming is one of the most challenging aspects of an engineering design project, especially inthe college setting
References[1] R. Felder and R. Brent. (2003). Designing and Teaching Courses to Satisfy the ABET Engineering Criteria. The Journal of Engineering Education. 92(1):7- 25.[2] O’Connor, T, H. Sibray, and K. Forinash. (2001). Interdisciplinary Research Project Involving Physics and Electrical Engineering Students. The Journal of Engineering Education. 90(3):423-428.[3] Wang, E. and J. Kleppe. (2001). Capstone Course Includes MBA Students New Product Development, Sales and Marketing. The Journal of Engineering Education. 90(4):565-569. Page 10.284.9
indicates that the project leads to an excellent compliance of thecourse outcomes.IntroductionSenior Steel Design is one of the capstone courses of the Structural Analysis and Designprogram at the University of Houston Downtown. Students taking this course are in their Senioryear and they were previously introduced to classes of Structural Analysis and Steel Design. Thecourse is taught every other semester, and typically there are between 25 and 30 studentsenrolled.One of the outcomes defined for this capstone course is the evaluation of existing structures, forwhich this project is selected. It consists in the structural evaluation of an existing pedestrianbridge in order to determine if it is able to withstand the loads indicated in current
culture via aLearning project that connects technology with the abroad society. There has also been growing interest in programs such as Engineers Without Borders, which provide service learning via humanitarian projectsInternational Design/Capstone International experiences are integrated with departmental seniorProjects design/capstone programs. In this model groups of students are assigned projects that have international content.Research Abroad Students travel to an abroad laboratory and conduct research under the guidance of a faculty member or post
audiences, interviewing, researching,and organizing and delivering information; and provides them with an opportunity to developand present materials within a variety of group sizes and public contexts.Finally, for the fourth year, the writing and presentational components of the capstone course(CIEG 410, Senior Design) were enhanced. In addition to being mentored by professionalengineers on realistic design projects, student teams now also benefit from a writing instructorwho maintains a clear presence with the class. The writing instructor provides formal lectures onproposal and report writing, offers one-on-one assistance with writing projects at the request ofstudents or teams of students, reviews drafts, and offers additional resources for
issues in combination, yetthey must be proficient at handling these issues in order to be successful in their professionalcareers. In the spring semester of 2000 the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineeringat Villanova University initiated a structural engineering capstone design course that brings tofocus the role of structural engineers in a global context, highlighted by structural design andconstruction in a third world country. The initial project involved the design and construction of a25 foot tall reinforced concrete cross for a Catholic orphanage in Posas Verdes, Honduras. Theproject was challenging due to many constraints and limitations such as time, third worldconditions, communication, material quality and availability, and
, finiteelement analysis (FEA), computer-aided design (CAD), or just hand drawing with trial-and-errormethods.The differences between high school and college students were studied in many ways except howthey address and attempt to solve authentic problems. The present paper investigated these twogroups of students as they were facing authentic problems. Since the two groups are vastly differentin their knowledge level of mathematics, physics, and mental maturity, the present paper will onlycover some comparable aspects, including the logic, steps, procedures, screening, groupcontribution, confidence, and seeking help from others.The author of the present paper served as the instructor of senior capstone projects in mechanicalengineering at a public
engineers. The focus of the course is on both theoretical and applied aspects of DSP, and it is the capstone experience of the DSP education in the curriculum. In the prerequisite course, EE BD 326 (Signals and Systems), students are exposed to the basics of digital filter design (Z-transforms and basic FIR and IIR design). Furthermore, they already have experience with the filter design tools and real-time implementation capabilities available in the Hyperception environment and the Bridgenorth boards. Students are well-versed in the use of MATLAB at this point. In EE BD 473, MATLAB and Hyperception are utilized regularly for both in-class instruction and out-of- class projects. In addition, Texas
have documented: elective face-to-face courses [3],[4], online courses [5], course concentrations [6], [7], capstone experiences [8], [9], and project-based courses embedded in the engineering curriculum [2], [10]–[12]. Most studies on entrepreneurship education have analyzed psychological outcomes, such asself-efficacy and entrepreneurial intent [13]. Few of them have explored short and long-termeffects on professional competencies and career goals [14]. Some of them have used classroomassessment techniques and academic records to understand students’ conceptions ofentrepreneurial learning [15], [16], but more efforts are needed to explore how students learn aboutentrepreneurship as they develop ownership of their ideas [17]. This article
further by requiring a junior-level course (ECE 362: Principles of EngineeringDesign) which teaches the fundaments of design before the students start their capstoneexperience. The course is required for all electrical and computer engineering students.ECE 362 is – essentially – a technical writing course taught within the confines of a ten-week quarter. Page 13.1370.2Students explore, develop, and document the framework for a product idea they wouldlike to pursue during their senior-level capstone course. The concepts of discipline-specific research, project design specifications, high-level design, detailed design, workbreakdown schedules, budgets, and