Conference Session

Design Across Curriculum 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Matthew Lucian Alexander P.E., Texas A&M University - Kingsville; Rajashekar Reddy Mogiligidda, Texas A&M University - Kingsville; David Hicks, Texas A&M University - Kingsville

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Design in Engineering Education

three departments in the Frank H.Dotterweich College of Engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville have incorporatedengineering design instruction and hands-on design projects in the last two years as part of NSFgrant award #1928611. A primary objective of this grant is to increase the retention andpersistence of minorities in the engineering programs by incorporating high-impact enrichmentactivities into courses early in the student’s academic career. A logical course to include high-impact activities for first-year students is the introduction to engineering courses in thedepartments, which are titled “Engineering as a Career” (GEEN 1201), within the Frank H.Dotterweich College of Engineering.This work presents the approach used for a

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natacha Depaola, Illinois Institute of Technology; Paul R. Anderson, Illinois Institute of Technology; Roberto Cammino, Illinois Institute of Technology; Bonnie Haferkamp, Illinois Institute of Technology; Limia Shunia, Illinois Institute of Technology; Eric M Brey, Illinois Institute of Technology; Jamshid Mohammadi, Illinois Institute of Technology; Fouad Teymour, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal context.Interdisciplinary project coursesProject-based learning opportunities can help students develop better communication and teamcooperation skills, gain experience with divergent and convergent thinking modes that fosterengineering intuition, and enhance student ability to apply experiences and skills form onecontext to another6. According to Howe and Wilbarger9, engineering capstone design coursesthat included interdepartmental or multidisciplinary teams increased from 21% in 1994 to about35% in 2005. Lattuca et al.10 examined 40 engineering schools, collecting data from graduates,faculty members, program chairs, deans, and employers, and concluded that relative to

Conference Session

Progress in Manufacturing Education I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian W. Anthony, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; David E. Hardt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Manufacturing

Systems (Material flow infactories and supply chains), Product Design (Need driven product development and design formanufacture), and Business Management and Operational Excellence (Fundamentals of startinga company, global trends and industry seminars) subjects. The capstone activity is a GroupProject leading to a Project Thesis.The curriculum comprises four course-based components: manufacturing physics, manufacturingsystems, product design, and business fundamentals. Each involves both individual and teamwork on class projects. From the January until the end of the second semester the group projectis pursued on a part-time basis and then full time during the summer, for a total of eight monthsof involvement with the project company

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division: Best of Works in Progress

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cameron Kim, Duke University

as to the limits of engineering naturalsystems. To address our future intertwined with biotechnology and its ethical, legal,and social implications, we must develop curricula that addresses the role ofacademic, research, and industrial scientists in these debates and how to addresssocietal concerns with emergent technologies. In BME 590L/490L: BiotechnologyDesign I/II, a two-semester senior/master’s capstone design course at DukeUniversity, students prepare for academic and commercial development ofbiological products with topics in synthetic biology, fermentation, intellectualproperty, and regulatory controls. Lectures, discussions, and laboratory exercisesprepare students for independent design projects that are presented in the fall

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Moser; Michael Bluhm; Allan Goodman; Sarah Lynn Garrett

been devoted to improving individual courses.Our project team has completed a first iteration of curriculum reform which uses applications, woven throughoutthe engineering curriculum as a means to motivate learning and provide relevance to course work. This paperreviews our work to date, summarizes what we are learning about the systems required for sustained reform,and outlines our direction for the next step of work. We will also discuss the impact of this project on ourdepartment and some of the interesting dimensions of what is required to pull off reform across the curriculum.Our Initial Vision We have identified a problem with engineering education. Our pragmatic students want to know whybefore they are motivated to 1- but we wait

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in BIO Engr.

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Nowak; Adrezin Ronald; Donald Leone

graphic (drawing andCAD) skills currently required of all engineers in the major disciplines. As part of the collegesongoing efforts to incorporate engineering and design at all levels of undergraduate education,the students take two engineering courses: “Principles of Engineering”, and “Principles ofEngineering Design”. Capstone Research, Design Project, Mechatronics (or eq.) Biomechanics, Biofluids, Bioinstrumentation, Biomedical Engineering Seminar, Anatomy & Physiology, Cell Biology Statics, Dynamics, Mechanics of Materials, Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Introduction to Electrical Engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul M Yanik, Western Carolina University; Wendy Cagle, Western Carolina University; Andrew Ritenour, Western Carolina University; Chip W Ferguson, Western Carolina University; Scott Rowe, Western Carolina University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

teaching in the field of electrical engineering, he coordinates the senior engineering capstone program which is a multidisciplinary, two-semester course sequence with projects sponsored by industrial partners. Within this role, he focuses on industrial outreach and the teaching and assessment of professional skills. Prior to joining WCU in 2018, he spent a decade in industry managing and developing innovative technologies across a broad spectrum of applications: SiC and GaN high voltage transistors for energy-efficient power conversion, radio frequency (RF) surface acoustic wave (SAW) filters for mobile phones, and flexible paper-like displays for e-readers. He holds 31 patents related to semiconductor devices and

Conference Session

ETAC/ABET-Related Issues

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Byron G. Garry, South Dakota State University

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Engineering Technology

in education, as a function of accountability.This last point falls under the umbrella of the phrase culture of evidence, which is currentlypopular among policy and assessment experts. It captures the belief that colleges can enhancestudent learning and success if they systematically collect and examine data8. Suskie9 states thatfor good assessment to happen, the instructor at the start needs to “develop clearly articulatedwritten statements of expected learning outcomes”, that is, what the students know and will beable to do by the end of the course. Ewell5 calls this the “Improvement Paradigm”, which canembrace many kinds of evidence-gathering, including standardized and faculty-designedexaminations, capstone projects, demonstrations

Conference Session

Learn About Assessment

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

William W. Tsai, California State University Maritime Academy; Amber Janssen, California State University Maritime Academy

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

programs atthe university (see Appendix A for the rubric). In addition to the institution-wide assessment ofinformation fluency, the Library department conducts its own assessment of information fluencyinstruction on an offsetting cycle from IWAC. In this assessment, librarians review therecommendations from previous IWAC findings and collected interim data to monitor theprogress and effectiveness of implemented changes.During the 2016-17 academic year, IWAC collected artifacts from seniors of all programs toassess this learning outcome. Mechanical Engineering students were assessed at the masterylevel using their senior lab reports, capstone project final reports, and engineering ethics papers.The results of the rubric scoring showed the

Conference Session

Understanding Engineering Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Durward Sobek

littleattention.In counterpoint, prior work on product development processes in the automotive industry foundthat this transition phase receives substantial attention and resource at Toyota Motor Corporation,but comparatively little among US competitors.5 Interestingly, Toyota has consistentlyoutperformed its US competitors over the last two decades by nearly all measures. Thismotivated a study of design processes that explicitly included system level design in the slate ofresearch parameters to answer the question: just how important is this transition phase?This paper summarizes a trio of analyses that correlates design process characteristics to designoutcomes in mechanical engineering capstone design projects. A theme from those studies isthat, even

Conference Session

Real-World Manufacturing Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Falkenburg; Tina Harkin

Dictionary wereoverlooked in the initial concept development and added at the end.Overall Performance Rating for Objective 1: +Performance on each task is evaluated using a three-level scale: (+) excellent, (v) good, (-) lessthan satisfactory. In addition to rating each task, the instructor writes an integrated evaluation(the Summary) and assigns an Overall Performance Rating for the objective.A second example of an experiential course is a project-based course. Greenfield requires twocapstone project courses. The first is at the end of the Associates Degree. Here a one creditproject which documents a real experience in the production facility at Focus:HOPE is presentedfor credit. A three-credit design project forms a capstone for both the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Rudy Rogers; Rebecca Toghiani

means, DOE grantedour laboratory a study to determine feasibility of safely storing above-ground natural gas insynthetic gas hydrates. The research suggested a process that provided rapid hydrate formation,complete conversion of interstitial water, and packing of hydrate mass as it formed; 156volumes of gas at standard temperature and pressure stored in 1 volume of the ice-like hydratewas accomplished. Subsequently, as a semester project, a group of five senior chemicalengineering students were asked to put the hydrate research findings into an innovative large-scale plant design for their capstone design course; they were to select, size and cost theequipment; they were to create process flow charts, perform mass/energy balances, and performan

Conference Session

ETD Green Energy/Sustainability

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jesse Gilmore, University of Houston, Downtown; Scott Patterson, University of Houston, Downtown; Lisa Deane Morano; Vassilios Tzouanas, University of Houston, Downtown

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, senior capstone project. As such, the students had to follow a detailedproject execution methodology similar to what is being followed in an industrial environment.Key deliverables included: project proposal with budget, time schedule, roles & responsibilities;mid-term project status update with a written report and presentation; final project report,presentation and demonstration. Weekly status meetings and written reports helped manageproject execution and address any deviations from schedule. Student performance was assessednot only by the quality of work delivered but also by the timeliness and cost of such work.This project was benefitted by a previous team which had developed the garden beds, installedthe photovoltaic panels and

Conference Session

Diversity in Community Engagement Implementation II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy Smith, Australian National University; Jennifer Patricia Turner, Engineers Without Borders Australia ; Nick John Brown, Engineers Without Borders Australia; Joli Price, Engineers Without Borders Australia

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

educationinitiatives and service-learning opportunities are developed and supported by EWB Australia(EWB-A). These include the EWB Challenge, an embedded first year coursework program,and the Undergraduate Research Program, providing service-learning projects for later yearindividual or group work. These represent the extremes of an undergraduate degree, leavinga significant gap in the program for a student interested in humanitarian engineering. Inaddition, it was observed that students undertaking a final year project often did not have arelevant background in development or people-centred approaches. Without this, studentsoften took a strong technical focus in their final year capstone project, often at the expense ofother contextual or people-centred

Conference Session

Clinical Learning Experiences in BME

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara Jean Muller-Borer, East Carolina University; Stephanie M. George, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering

multidisciplinary collaborative research projects, capstone and honors projects, andpotential entrepreneurial initiatives. Follow-up information is collected to track oral/posterpresentations, published manuscripts and patent applications resulting from course projects.4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONEight engineering students enrolled in the course in spring 2016 and six in 2017. The engineeringstudents included students from the biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, andindustrial systems concentrations. In 2017, 3 teams of engineering students partnered with 12students from the entrepreneurship course in the College of Business (4 per team). Studentsreported spending an average of 6.3 ± 2.4 hours per week outside of class and clinic, preparing

Conference Session

Maker Spaces within the University

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vincent Wilczynski, Yale University; Joseph Zinter III, Yale University; Larry Wilen, Yale University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

These authorsexplain that capstone design courses are commonly used to demonstrate the achievement ofprescribed engineering competencies. The development of cornerstone (or introductory) designcourses was prompted by desires to connect new students to the engineering profession in anengaging and meaningful fashion. The value of introducing design thinking and applying project-based learning is emphasized as means to acquire design skills. The Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate (CDIO) process is suggested as a means to infuse design throughout thecurriculum.Design thinking is characterized as the designer’s ability to tolerate ambiguity, addressuncertainty, iterate, maintain a systems perspective, work in a team, make decisions, andcommunicate

Conference Session

Laboratory Experiences with Signal Processing and Controls

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.); Yalcin Ertekin, Drexel University (Tech.); Radian G. Belu, Drexel University (Tech.)

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

: Lab-Scaled Industrial Web Handling System for Vision Evaluation and Detection of WrinklesAbstractWe are presenting a capstone Senior Design project proposed, developed and implemented by ateam of undergraduate students in Drexel University’s Engineering Technology program (a fouryear Bachelor of Science degree). This system will reduce the cost of manufacturing ofcontinuous-web products by eliminating the operator based wrinkle detection currently used inindustry. Using vision technology combined with the known physical properties of the productthe system can recognize and react to waves in the web that lead to these wrinkle formations,using a laser line generator to highlight the waves in the web, and

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Cornucopia #2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Uma Lakshman, NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering; Jack Bringardner, NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering

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First-Year Programs

opportunities.Introduction The motivation of this study is to determine whether students at New York Universitywould electively enroll in a second semester of EG 1003. Incoming students are beingincreasingly exposed to engineering concepts in high school, resulting in a desire for engineeringchallenges in a project-based format. Integrating project-based curriculum early in engineeringeducation will introduce the engineering design process to socially relevant engineeringchallenges. The goal of the course is to be a comprehensive cornerstone course for students,which provides the foundation for first-year students to be prepared for the engineeringcoursework and future projects like their senior design capstone course. The cornerstone is oneof the few

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session II - Student Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Robert O. Warrington Jr., Michigan Technological University; Madelyn Marie Espinosa, Michigan Technological University - Pavlis Institute; Helena Keller, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Topics

Student Development

internationalexperience, and a senior Capstone project, they receive a certificate in Global TechnologicalLeadership.While there are many other programs available for undergraduate students that provideinternational experiences, there are three major differences between these programs and thePavlis Institute. First, Pavlis teams are multidisciplinary, consisting of students from a variety offields. Second, project sites are revisited year after year, and are continually improved. The thirdand most important difference between the Pavlis Institute and other programs with aninternational component is that Pavlis trips abroad are student-led, with faculty onlyaccompanying students for a few days at the beginning of the trip.Data presented in this paper comes from

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Poster Session

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara Ellen Wilson, The University of Kansas; Emma Grob-French, The University of Kansas

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

goals andvalues, commitment to team success, motivation for the team task, interpersonal skills, open andeffective communication, constructive feedback, diverse team composition, leadership,accountability, interdependence, and adherence to team process and performance.While teamwork is often assessed as an outcome in capstone courses, first year courses can serveas a cornerstone, developing basic skills in teamwork such as the ability to be interdependent intasks, the ability to share responsibility for outcomes, and the ability to work together as a singleentity with shared goals and values. Team projects in first year courses can also be powerful inhelping first-year students develop community and can particularly be powerful for first

Conference Session

It's All About the Student: Integration, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Self-Efficacy

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd M. Brown P.E., University of Hartford; David Pines, University of Hartford; Don Quinn

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

CADD, usually AutoCad, taught in the first or second year. For moststudents, their experience with AutoCad ended there, while others were able to build on thatintroductory knowledge through a single class project, capstone project or internship experience.None indicated that their program provided follow-up classes or focus on continuing to build theCADD skills to enhance critical thinking and problem-solving skills, such as using 3-dimensional design to help envision the constructability and maintainability of a design, throughclass projects. None of the programs or students that we contacted indicated that their programincorporated CADD to provide a more holistic design experience.The United States Military Academy at WestPoint initially

Collection

2022 ASEE Gulf Southwest Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Lucian Alexander P.E., Texas A&M University - Kingsville

undergraduate andgraduate engineering education. At Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK) a Hispanic-serving institution, aspects of leadership and ethics are explored in the capstone senior designcourse sequence for chemical engineering, and in master’s thesis and doctoral seminar courses.Instruction in leadership is achieved primarily through project- or research-based learning, whileinstruction in ethics is achieved by case study review and discussion. The objective is to presenthow these sometimes-overlooked topics are addressed at an institution with a majority Hispanicstudent population, noting that Hispanic graduate engineers are underrepresented in theengineering workforce. IntroductionThe

Conference Session

CEED Technical Session I: WIP: Experiential Learning Potpourri

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joel Howell, University of South Florida; Chris S. Ferekides, University of South Florida; Wilfrido A. Moreno P.E., University of South Florida; Tom Weller, Oregon State University; Arash Takshi, University of South Florida

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

; USF Faculty and Administration – Creation of individualized PFE Qualification Plan (QP) career development roadmap – Identification of Capstone project ideas or research of interest to each student – Mock ethics hearing2. PFE 2: Engineering Practice & Research – EE Lab tours and introduction to research fundamentals – Development of foundational engineering skills through external learning courses – Completion of Academic Research Posters and organization of tech conference3. PFE 3: Innovation and Design Thinking – Completion and certification of QP skills and competencies – Expansion of technology development proposals to include business model or product development plans – USF

Conference Session

Clinical, Patient, and Innovation Experiences in BME

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University; Tom Merrill, Rowan University; Sameer Sood, Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine; Jane Greene Ryan; Anilchandra Attaluri, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg; Robert Alan Hirsh, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University

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Biomedical

: Into a third yearABSTRACTA need exists to train undergraduate engineering students to indentify and solve healthcareproblems of today and the future. A team of faculty has been contributing to that need byeducating students in a summer Clinical Immersion and Team Based Design program at a mid-Atlantic University. The summer program involves the Biodesign Process, physiology basics,clinical immersion, intellectual property basics, regulatory basics, business perspectives, anddevelopment of best practices. The program participants’ (or Scholars’) deliverables includedneed statements, specifications, and guidelines to pursue as capstone design projects. A briefoverview of the program content and structure is presented in this paper. Assessment of

Collection

2022 CIEC

Authors

William Evans

types of labs including Simulink programming as well as PIDcontrol and loop-in-loop PID control. It can be useful for stability studies although it tends to bea very stable process. The total cost is about $1,500 per station. See Fig. 3 for the tank-over-tankprocess.From Capstone to MS Student to InstructorA lab that began as a capstone lab, then evolving to a MS project, and finally to a desk topproject for the instructor was the rewind lab [8]. This lab has a number of different outcomesincluding PID speed control and position control as well as initialization of programming andgeneral process design strategies. This lab has been a favorite since it has so many moving partsand combines electrical and mechanical challenges.This lab started as

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I - Courses I

Collection

2017 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Immanuel Edinbarough P.E., University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley; Adriana Olvera, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Anabel Pineda-Briseño, Tecnológico Nacional de México/Instituto Tecnológico de Matamoros

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Main Forum (Podium Presentation)

has operated tirelessly in its national visionto “be one of the fundamental pillars of sustainable and equitable development of thenation”5. In order to accomplish this goal, the institutional mission explores and implementpioneering paths to provide high-quality technological education services with nationalcoverage, relevant and equitable, which contributes to the creation of a just and humanesociety, with a perspective of sustainability.Towards effective and strong cross-border collaboration: a capstone projectCapstone projects have been identified as a significant element for engineering education;during the development of the project, the engineering students get the opportunity toresearch possible solutions to an actual problem, working

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yi Hu P.E., Tatung University; Amy Shumin Chen, Tatung University, Center for General Education; Yung-Yu Chen; Chao Yang Yang, Tatung University; Ching-Long Yeh

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Materials

experimental techniques and creativeproblem-solving skills during the second year. Over their second and third years, a designtheme or an object will be provided for study to apply the fundamental knowledge. In thefourth year, it can be put into practice through their senior capstone project in the course of“Project Laboratory “. The design-based courses modules were introduced into the originalcourse curriculum to promote the creativity of students in the program during the third andfourth years. Some of the courses will be proceeded in a manufacturing-based Maker Space. OurMaker Space was built as shown in Fig.1. This space develops on the strength of TatungUniversity’s experience in the field of industrial design, but also creates new programs

Conference Session

Engineering Management In The Classroom

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alireza Kabirian, California State University Northridge; S. Jimmy Gandhi, California State University, Northridge; Ileana Costea, California State University, Northridge; Ahmad R Sarfaraz, California State University, Northridge; Mark Rajai, CSUN

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Engineering Management

pretty much the typical requirements of an MBA, though they somehowaccommodate engineering titles: o Engineering Management (gateway course) o Accounting for Engineers o Financial Issues for Engineers o Marketing Issues for Engineers o Decision Tools for Managers o Strategic Management for Engineers (capstone course)The students should take the above 6 cores and 6 others as electives; of which some are taught inbusiness school. The program allows optional concentrations in one of 3 areas: Supply Chain andOperations Management, Design & Innovation, or Project and Process Management.• Dartmouth University [4] also has a Master of EM (MEM) that is “jointly taught by facultyfrom Thayer School of Engineering and Tuck

Collection

2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

James Helbling

472 INTEGRATING DESIGN APPLICATION AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS INTO SENIOR DESIGN COURSES James Helbling, Department of Aeronautical Engineering Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZThis paper recounts the evolution of a capstone senior design course taught at Embry-RiddleAeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona. It will discuss the development of the applicationbased learning objectives and the integration of a technical communication component into thecourse in question, and the challenges and negotiations involved in successfully implementingthese

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ehsan Sheybani; Singli Garcia-Otero; Keith Williamson

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

lessons learned andinnovative approaches in the new ABET accreditation process at VSU∀in this first visit arepresented.Capstone Senior Design Course:Capstone senior design experience is both a graduation requirement for undergraduateengineering majors and for ABET accreditation of these programs. A senior design course istypically the last bridge for students between undergraduate education and the engineeringprofession in their respective disciplines. The course differs from other lecture and laboratorybased courses in the engineering curriculum in fundamental ways. Many capstone senior designcourses include lectures to develop students’ knowledge of the product development process,project management, professional engineering practice, and the