Conference Session

Exploring Trends in CPD

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

M. Zoghi

been designed to follow a logical four-year progression.The CEE curriculum is heavily design-oriented during the first semester of the senior year whichleads to the capstone design course offered in the subsequent semester. The capstone designcourse (CEE 450) is the “showcase” of Civil Engineering program at the University of Dayton.This comprehensive, multi-disciplinary, design course differs from other design courses in thatthe design focuses on a total, integrated system rather than on a single discipline subsystem. Thedesign projects are “real-life” applications with team of students responsible for different aspectsof design. There is significant interaction among student groups and practitioners. Both writtentechnical report and oral

Conference Session

Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Dunn; Jessica Matson; Kenneth Hunter

designthroughout the curriculum and increased emphasis on capstone design courses and team designprojects.The current ABET Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs requires that graduates possessa wide range of knowledge and abilities, including “an ability to function on multi-disciplinaryteams.”1 Most undergraduate engineering programs utilize team design projects as a means ofdemonstrating compliance with this criterion, and some programs also include formal instructionin teamwork issues. Page 7.625.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

Conference Session

COED Modulus Topics

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mike Borowczak, University of Wyoming; Andrea Carneal Burrows Borowczak, University of Wyoming

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Department of Secondary Education University of Wyoming mike.borowczak@uwyo.edu , andrea.burrows@uwyo.eduWith the adoption of pedagogical practices such as Authentic Science and Inquiry-based projects withincollegiate level classrooms, researchers focused on delivering advanced concepts investigated the level ofstudent success in conducting authentic science during a six-week long inquiry project. Two main questionsare explored: 1) do students working on self-guided, problem-based projects, engage in active inquiry? and2) is there alignment between exemplar active inquiry projects and other assessments? This pilot researchstudy focuses on twelve self-selected projects from a group

Conference Session

From Entrepreneurship Education to Market

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James V. Green, University of Maryland, College Park

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

managing partnerships in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Green’s research interests in- clude entrepreneurship education and the psychology of entrepreneurship. Prior to Mtech, he provided business development and product management to WaveCrest Laboratories (acquired by Magna Interna- tional, NYSE: MGA), an innovative start-up in next-generation electric and hybrid-electric propulsion and drive systems. At Cyveillance (acquired by QinetiQ, LSE: QQ.L), he served in operations, client service, and product development roles for this software start-up and world leader in cyber intelligence and intelligence-led security. While at Booz Allen Hamilton, he provided technical and programmatic direction to the DARPA Special Projects Office (SPO

Collection

2023 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

devi kalla; Zsuzsa Balogh; Julio Proano; Jeno Balogh; Fred Barlow

fields.COURSES AND CURRICULAThe proposed Master of Engineering Program consisted of 30 credit hours grouped into corecourses taken by all students in the program, track courses from the discipline of interest (civil,electrical, or mechanical engineering), elective courses that provide depth and interdisciplinaryfocus depending on the student’s interest, and a graduate capstone project course to demonstrateapplicability of skills and synthesis of knowledge. Table 1 shows the program courses for each ofthe three track options. Each course is 3 credit hours.Table 1. Proposed Program Courses (program total 30 credit hours) Core Courses • EAET 5000 Engineering Modeling 9 credit hours • EAET 5001 Design Optimization (Choice of 3

Conference Session

Learning Strategies

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Khalifa H. Harib, United Arab Emirates University; Sangarappillai Sivaloganathan, United Arab Emirates University; Hayder Zulafqar Ali, United Arab Emirates University; Bobby Mathew, United Arab Emirates University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

node showing a choice between possible assembly path and the AND node representinga given assembly path. The motivation for the inclusion of this assignment came from theobservation of struggling students in their capstone projects, where assembly planning wouldhave helped them. This paper describes how assembly planning principles and theirimplementation at the product level, is taught to senior mechanical engineering studentsthrough the Design and Manufacture Lab course, so that they can use assembly planning intheir capstone projects.2. The MethodologyThe methodology consists of two steps and an assessment through a practical question in themidterm examination. In the first step a lecture on AND/OR graph explaining how it is used ina matrix

Conference Session

ECE Curriculum Improvement

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dennis A. Silage, Temple University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

studentoutcomes. The College of Engineering at Temple University has four academic departments,including the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and a newly establishDepartment of Bioengineering (BE).The Director of the General Engineering degree program has the responsibility to insure allaspects of the Program including continuous improvement of the interdisciplinary curriculum.The Director is also the single interface between the Program and industry for co-operative workstudy assignments, internships, capstone design projects and professional employment. Providingan identified Director on point assures that the General Engineering degree maintains visibilityand creditability within the College.Faculty advisors from both ECE and ME

Conference Session

Controls, Mechatronics

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

H. Joel Lenoir

. Educational Control Products, ecpsystems.com Figure 1: ECP Lineal and Torsional Test SystemsAn additional mechanical vibration project involved the creation, simulation, and verification ofthe mathematical model for the transverse vibration of a cantilever beam, Figure 2. Studentsderived a model for the continuous system, and then compared these results with a 8-DOFlumped-parameter model in Matlab as well as to a finite element analysis (FEA) model. Thestudents then devised a method of determining the mass, stiffness, and damping properties of anactual beam, and then verified their models by driving the physical system to find its harmonicresponse. This project was actually conducted during a senior capstone lab course, but was

Conference Session

Stories, Communication, and Convergence in Engineering Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer C. Mallette, Boise State University; Harold Ackler P.E., Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

create integrated writing instruction within their own institutions.Approach to integration in one programAt Boise State, we work to integrate communication skills instruction and feedback into project-based courses in materials science and engineering. Harold teaches sophomore and junior labcourses as well as the senior capstone courses. This multiyear sequence provides the opportunityto build a progression of technical education integrated with communication and professionalskills education. The laboratory courses are built with multi-week modules designed to mimicengineering projects one might experience working in industry, drawn from Harold’s personalexperiences in multiple companies. Most modules are staged in progressive phases

Conference Session

"Green" Topics in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Cherif Megri, University of Wyoming

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

. o Individual instructor evaluation of the degree of learning achievement of individual students on a capstone team, which includes consideration of the collective achievements of the team. o Peer evaluation (optional by instructor). o Grading of deliverables by the instructors (project plan, mid-term review, final report, exhibit (and abstract), oral presentation, team minutes, web site if applicable). o Teamwork survey. Page 22.28.14 2011 ASEE Annual Conference o Self-assessment. o Senior

Conference Session

ChemE Curriculum: Junior, Senior, and Graduate

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Madeline Polmear, University of Colorado, Boulder; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Nathan E. Canney

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

capstone design (72%). Other course types believed to include ESI educationwere: sophomore/junior engineering science/ engineering courses (49%), design-focused coursesin sophomore to senior year (non-capstone; 45%), first-year introductory courses (43%),humanities and/or social science courses (35%), first-year design focused courses (26%),professional issues courses (24%), full course on ethics (15%), or “other” courses/co-curricularactivities (13%). Course types written in as “other” included: laboratory courses, safety course,inter-professional team project course, and “students are required to take a "Technology inSociety" course chosen from a list of ~15 courses that meet this category”.There was a median of three different course types that

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J.W. Bruce, Mississippi State University; Lee Hathcock, Mississippi State Univ.

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

standards4,5,6 which detects defects during design. This developmentprocess has been used with success in the subsequent offerings of the design course based on amore complex project3. The resulting student designs are typically on time and of high quality.Furthermore, students report satisfaction with the experience, because of both the visible resultsat course end and the perceived relevance of the process that they used.All of these course offerings1,2,3 have made a visible impact on the computer engineeringprogram at Mississippi State University. Computer engineering student projects in the capstone Page 12.596.2design course have greater complexity

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Ostheimer

time for attention to “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationstudent writing, even though, when questioned, these professors assert that such writing is crucialfor their graduates.Recognizing our graduates’ need for strong communication skills, the ECE Department beganteaching its senior-level capstone design courses as writing emphasis courses beginning in 1989.Writing projects integrated into these senior classes included a well-defined problem statement, adesign proposal, a status memorandum, an engineering notebook documenting the designprocess, and a final technical design report. The

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonid Preiser

Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Intelligence, and CST 452, Human-Computer Interaction.Bachelor of Science in Information Technologyo Based on both assessment of separate course outcomes and assessment of program outcomes, the BSIT program has undergone extensive renovation during 1999-2000 and 2000-2001 academic years: revised course descriptions for CST 431, 432, 433, 434, 435, 437, and 438, enhanced hands-on computer components throughout the program curriculum, and introduction of the two-part capstone project, IS 420A/B.Master of Science in Software Engineeringo The updated MSSE curriculum emphasizes the state-of-the art concepts of SDLC (Software Development

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Matt W. Mutka; Betty H. C. Cheng; Diane Rover

design (capstone course in computer engineering). The approach comprises modular course pack development, suitable for alternative teaching models, such as team teaching and development of multidisciplinary courses; team projects to give students hands-on experience with embedded systems; and incorporation of innovative teaching techniques designed to facilitate and enhance the student’s learning experience. Curriculum developments focus on embedded systems and our courses. In the software engineering course, students are exploring how object-oriented development techniques can be applied to industry-oriented embedded system projects, such as pro- cess controllers for numerous appliances (e.g., washing

Conference Session

Learning & Teaching Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vikas Jain; Durward Sobek

FIGURE 1: A TYPICAL DESIGN PROCESS MODEL (ADAPTED FROM DYM AND LITTLE3)3. Research MethodologyThis study focused on the capstone mechanical engineering design projects completed betweenSpring 2001 and Fall 2002 semesters at Montana State University. ME 404, the mechanicalengineering capstone design class, is a 4-credit one-semester course. Students are divided intoteams of 2 - 4 with a faculty member as advisor. The projects are industry sponsored so eachteam must interact with their client/sponsor to define the needs, devise a solution to meet thoseneeds, and deliver a product (i.e., a set of engineering drawings and specifications, written report,oral report, and in many cases a hardware prototype) by

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division Curriculum Development

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Doug Kim, State University of New York, Farmingdale

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

, and RF filters. Figures 3 and 4 illustrate the breakdown oftopics covered in each of the first two courses. Figure 3: Topics in RF Course 1 Figure 4: Topics in RF Course 2 The third and final course in the program is the senior capstone project. The students arerequired to choose their projects in various areas of RF engineering. Each project group musthave between two and four people to work together. The restriction on the number of groupmembers to learn and encourage teamwork. The course requirements are illustrated in Figure 5. Figure 5: Course Requirements for Senior Capstone ProjectPossible areas of project topics can be: • RF Test automation • RF device performance improvement • A standalone

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Cherif Megri, University of Wyoming

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

process will be used for this capstone course assessment. o Individual instructor evaluation of the degree of learning achievement of individual students on a capstone team, which includes consideration of the collective achievements of the team. o Peer evaluation (optional by instructor). o Grading of deliverables by the instructors (project plan, mid-term review, final report, exhibit (and abstract), oral presentation, team minutes, web site if applicable). o Teamwork survey. o Self-assessment. o Senior Design Symposium judging (with evaluation criteria explicitly indexed to the learning objectives and articulated via

Collection

2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kathy Vratil Brockway

1 The Income Tax Return: A Framework for Engineering Economics Kathy Vratil Brockway Kansas State University at SalinaAbstract StatementThis paper will explore the use of the income tax return as a capstone project in an EngineeringEconomics course.IntroductionAs educators, we are faced with the task of connecting textbook theory to real-world application.In Engineering Economics courses, the income tax return is the ideal way to tie together all‘engineering economics’ topics while, at the same time, demonstrating the practicality of thecourse topics

Collection

2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Andy S. Zhang; Ali Harb; Iem Heng; Farrukh Zia; Alex Wong

true for many small companies on which an engineer maybe required toperform many tasks that go beyond his/her originally field of study. To help college students tolearn the latest multidisciplinary approach to product design, in the fall 2010, the departments ofmechanical engineering technology and computer engineering technology introduced a hands-ondesign project in their respective capstone courses as well as in extracurricular undergraduateresearch projects. These hands-on design projects contained mechanical design,electrical/electronic design as well as software design components.In previous studies, various embedded systems such as Compact real-time controller (cRIO)from National Instruments, NXT brick from Lego Mindstorm, and Arduino

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Liang Hong, Tennessee State University; Lee Keel, Tennessee State University; Charles David McCurry, Tennessee State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

relationship of these components. Oncethe students understand the fundamental knowledge of signal and systems and digital and analogcircuits in sophomore and junior years, they learn how to effectively “divide” complex problems,refine the decomposition, and integrate the pieces. Finally, the students compile, synthesize, andapply the various techniques that they have learned in previous courses into actual solutions toreal-world problems through capstone projects.Curriculum integration is a methodology widely used by educators to implement the “divide andconquer” strategy and improve students’ education experience 17, 18. In this project, verticalintegration 19 is employed. The importance and curricular need for vertical integration was firstexpressed

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dennis K. McLaughlin, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sven Schmitz, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Irene B Mena, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

1research projects proven to increase undergraduate students’ skills in collecting and analyzingdata1, but they have also been found to enhance students’ awareness of what it is like to be agraduate student, thus opening further options for their career paths.2 To some extent suchintegration of teaching and research is reasonably common in senior level capstone designprojects. A common aspect of such design projects is the establishment of student teams whowork together with little day to day supervision to meet a project goal, normally set by theoverall course instructor. At Penn State University, Departments of Mechanical and ElectricalEngineering have conducted such a project activity course in which students form teams to workon design projects

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Danner Friend, Norwich University; Jacques N Beneat, Norwich University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

year’s work. Since January 2010, a total of 21 undergraduate students have worked onthe CubeSat project under the mentorship of two faculty members (Mechanical and Electrical &Computer Engineering). Among these students, seven started as a summer research fellow, andthen five of those seven students applied the results of their research in their capstone seniordesign project.The second project involves students working on an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle. Theoriginal motivation for this project comes from NASA’s interest in Europa, a large moon ofJupiter, which has a large liquid ocean beneath its ice crust. The liquid ocean is believed to havethe necessary conditions to support life. To investigate the ocean, an underwater vehicle

Conference Session

Sustainable Energy Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Shepard, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Camille George, University of St. Thomas

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

Page 15.1073.3The project was open-ended and the performance of the design was minimally weightedin the grading to allow students to be as creative as they liked. The instructor wasavailable for questions and to help recognize potential issues but refrained from offeringsuggestions during the design phase. As the students had yet to take a heat transfercourse the project was not intended to be a capstone, but did provide a qualitativeintroduction to the different forms of heat transfer and how they occur. The finalproducts can be seen in Figure 1; note the use of shaded glasses for protection from thebrightness of the collected and focused light. Figure 1. Solar cookers in actionUpon completion, the solar cookers

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Cases and Models

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jane Laux, Arizona State University; Anshuman Razdan, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

century and beyond. From a university’s perspective the fundamental set of issues are: 1. Promote university-industry collaboration between its faculty (and students) and industry with projects funded by industry. 2. Do so in an environment of academic freedom, i.e. with as few constraints as possible on publishing, IP rights, technology transfer, etc. 3. Fit collaborations in the academic setting such as the calendar when faculty and students are available to work on projects or Capstone type projects which might be one or more semesters long. 4. The bottom line is that the projects must contribute to the educational mission of the university, rather than be seen as the university just

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mayer

capstone design project, three teams of 1 st-class midshipmen (seniors majoring in oceanengineering at the U.S. Naval Academy) set about to identify and design an ocean energy systemto compete, at least conceptually, with Navy contractors. These teams explored various renew-able energy sources such as ocean thermal, wave, and offshore wind energy. In four-monthstime, each team researched the alternatives and developed a concept design for its selectedenergy source. Results were presented to a Review Panel consisting of Navy representatives andocean engineering professionals. Brief details of this capstone experience and educational oppor-tunities in renewable ocean energies at the U.S. Naval Academy are shared later in the paper.Past developments

Collection

2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Yuva M. Tammineni; Talha Khan; Rajeev Nair; Yimesker Yihun

students were done twice; once before the principles of innovative thinkingand problem solving was introduced to the students and once after the students were introduced tothese principles and were tasked with its application on various activity-based class projects. Thelone survey for the capstone-design students were done towards the end of the semester. It wasobserved that there was considerable improvement in the Cronbach’s alpha number (a measure ofconsistency) in the second survey that was done at the end of the semester by which time thestudents were effectively well versed with the EM mindset and were able to successfullyimplement it. However, for the capstone course it was observed that the Cronbach’s alpha numberwere similar due to the

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mostafa Batouli, The Citadel; Negin Shamsi, The Citadel; Nahid Vesali, The Citadel; Rebekah Burke, The Citadel

) History (4) Physics Dynamics Methods of Estimating (20) Example Social Science (21) (8) Constructio Accounting (11) Capstone (10) Algebra Courses Structural n (8) Construction (15) Introduction (15) (Frequenc Analysis Heavy Project Senior to Engineering Calculus y) (10) Constructio Management Project (9) (10) (21

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Will Cluett; Peter Weiss; Kim Woodhouse; David Bagley; Susan McCahan

cohesive course outline. The newcourse, entitled Engineering Strategies and Practice (ESP), is a two-course sequence (26 weekstotal) that was offered on a pilot basis for 100 students in the 2003-04 academic year.There are many different elements that have been developed for design courses.1 The two-course sequence that was piloted this past year combines a number of these elements and hassome special attributes. There is a major design project carried out for a real client. The team ofinstructors is a mix of engineering professors, communication instructors, and industryprofessionals. In addition, considerable class time is allocated to understanding how human,social, and environmental issues are brought into the design process. This is done, in

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 4

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly Lechasseur, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kristin Wobbe, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Sarah E. Stanlick, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

following survey items were used to construct measures for theseanalyses.3.2.1 Development of Professional Skills and Content MasteryGains in three types of professional skills were assessed using survey items. A compositemeasure for each of three types of skills was constructed using items that began with the prompt,“Indicate the extent to which your project experiences (through GPS, HUA capstone (inquiryseminar/practicum or sufficiency), your IQP, and/or your MQP) enhanced your ability to…”Response options were on a five-point Likert scale from not at all (1) to very much (5).Teamwork skills used responses to five items: interact effectively as a professional, effectivelymanage interpersonal dynamics, effectively function on a team, effectively