Conference Session

Engineering Technology Curriculum Issues

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

MD B. Sarder, University of Southern Mississippi; Shahdad Naghshpour, University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Park

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, students who select the PRM options are tasked with projectsthat allow them to apply concepts learned in the Learning Factory environment that focuses onhigh volume manufacturing. In addition to facilities and technologies, students will also haveaccess to a staff of students and professors who assist with product realization tasks. Studentsare assigned one project per semester until their senior year of study. The curriculum is roundedoff with a capstone project that encompasses the final year of study. ―This capstone courseprovides students with the opportunity to practice the design of products, processes andenterprise from conceptualization to actualization5‖.Learning factories issues:The Learning Factory concept has been a work in progress

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

necessary.Design faculty across a range of educational institutions still feel that the leaders of engineeringschools (deans, department heads, tenured faculty) are unable or unwilling to recognize theintellectual complexities and resources needed to support good design education.Fortunately, more and more educators are becoming aware of the issues of design, and steps arebeing taken world wide, to address the concerns of industry at large. One approach has been toform “symbiotic” partnership between industry and academia through senior capstone projects.The capstone course has evolved over the years from “made up” projects devised by faculty toindustry-sponsored projects where companies provide “real” problems, along with expertise andfinancial support

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division: Design Methodology

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

necessary.Design faculty across a range of educational institutions still feel that the leaders of engineeringcolleges (deans, department heads, tenured faculty) are unable or unwilling to recognize theintellectual complexities and resources needed to support good design education[1].Fortunately, more and more educators are becoming aware of the issues of design, and steps arebeing taken world wide, to address the concerns of industry at large. One approach has been toform “symbiotic” partnership between industry and academia through senior capstone projects.The capstone course has evolved over the years from “made up” projects devised by faculty toindustry-sponsored projects where companies provide “real” problems, along with expertise andfinancial

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanical Systems: What's New

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raghu Echempati, Kettering University; Richard Dippery, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

the power and speed limits ofthe system are specified, leaving everything else open-ended. Students are expected to start withan application in mind that uses a similar subsystem, and justify all the subsequent assumed data,including the safety factors. This produced several alternative designs, which can be used by theinstructor for future classes. Each design report can serve as a case study that includes the mathand CAE tools that the students used for the project. Conventionally, many capstone designclasses use this approach. However, to a smaller scale, this idea serves the same purpose as acapstone course. Several other alternative inputs may be specified rather than input power and

Conference Session

Engagement In Practice: Integrating Community Engagement into Engineering Curricula

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ines Basalo, University of Miami; Jonathon Anthony Toft-Nielsen, University of Miami; Scotney D. Evans, University of Miami

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

, Computer Graphics, Materials Science and laboratory courses. Since 2015 she has been actively involved in the University of Miami College of Engineering’s ”Redefining Engineering Education” strategic plan on educational innovation. As part of this plan, Dr. Basalo worked with 2 other faculty members to organize inaugural Senior Design Expo in May 2017, an exposition where over 200 senior students showcased their Capstone projects to the University of Miami community, alumni and industry leaders. Starting in 2016 and through her work with the University of Miami’s Engaged Faculty Fellowship program, Dr. Basalo incorporated an academic service component into the final project for a sophomore-level Measurements Lab

Collection

2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Charles McIntyre

number of engineering/design projects that canbe integrated into the structure of classroom activities,4 such as, Rube Goldberg Contraptions,Leonardo da Vinci: The Engineer, Lego Robots, Battle Bots, etc. Specifically, within theconstruction management discipline, few examples of first-year classroom applications areprovided in the literature. These hands-on application within construction education areprimarily focused on the senior capstone experience.10,12,13The basic purpose of this project is two-fold: first, to document current first-year constructionmanagement courses, and second, to develop and deliver a hands-on first-year “constructionmanagement experience” within the framework of CM&E 111

Collection

2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Charles McIntyre

such as, Rube Goldberg Contraptions,Leonardo da Vinci: The Engineer, Lego Robots, Battle Bots, etc. Specifically, within theconstruction management discipline, few examples of first-year classroom applications areprovided in the literature. These hands-on application within construction education areprimarily focused on the senior capstone experience.10,12,13The basic purpose of this project is two-fold: first, to document current first-year constructionmanagement courses, and second, to develop and deliver a hands-on first-year “constructionmanagement experience” within the framework of CM&E 111.Overall Objectives for Course RevisionThe basic objectives for the revised CM&E 111 course are presented below.  To expand the body of

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rubaya Rahat, Florida International University; Piyush Pradhananga; Mohamed Elzomor, Florida International University

,” Int. J. Constr. Supply Chain Manag., vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 19–42, 2018, doi: 10.14424/ijcscm801018-19-42.[33] N. McWhirter and T. Shealy, “Bridging engineering and psychology: Using an envision gold certified project to teach decision making for sustainability,” ASEE Annu. Conf. Expo. Conf. Proc., vol. 2017-June, 2017, doi: 10.18260/1-2--27978.[34] L. Brunell, “A real-world approach to introducing sustainability in civil engineering capstone design,” ASEE Annu. Conf. Expo. Conf. Proc., 2019.[35] C. Boyle et al., “Delivering sustainable infrastructure that supports the urban built environment,” Environ. Sci. Technol., vol. 44, no. 13, pp. 4836–4840, 2010, doi: 10.1021/es903749d.[36] G. Weerasinghe, K

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Valana Baxter; Mark R Henderson; Jim Baxter; Alan de Pennington

academic calendar requires intense exams during some of this period while the US universities spread exams throughout the semester and break for a month of vacation. Also, ASU students continued with the same course format for the spring as a capstone course, while Leeds students were required to switch to an individualized course in design rather than one that emphasized teaming. In addition, the Leeds students were provided with an office setting including a computer workstation where they could gather everyday to discuss the project while ASU students, most of whom commuted to campus, had disparate class schedules and no meeting place provided so their meetings were less frequent, but by necessity more structured

Conference Session

NEE Technical Session 1 - Educator's Tools

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Mott, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Steffen Peuker, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators Division (NEE)

societal contexts [7]. Theemphasis is on enhancing students' ability to confront social and ethical dilemmas in theirprofessional lives, acknowledging the crucial role that ethical decision-making plays inengineering practice.One approach is to integrate ethics and societal impact (ESI) issues directly into senior capstonedesign courses. This integration can be achieved through various methods, including dedicatedlectures, discussions, and project work that emphasize ethical decision-making in engineeringpractice. According to a 2016 national survey [8], 40% of engineering faculty include ethics andsocietal impacts (ESI) in capstone design courses. ESI topics such as professional practiceissues, safety, engineering decisions in uncertainty, and

Collection

ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023

Authors

John Reap, Quinnipiac University

pedagogy in introductory engineering [3], design skilldevelopment in courses between introductory cornerstone and final capstone [4], and even uniteclinical and engineering students [5]. Some universities are exploring the best ways toencourage faculty to incorporate makerspaces in their curricula. This may take as simple a formas pop-up “inreach/outreach” demonstrations that expose faculty and staff to makerspaceequipment [6]. For those seeking a higher intensity experience, B-Fab, a fabrication workshoporganized by Bucknell University, trains faculty to use equipment often found in a makerspacewhile exposing them to related pedagogical theory and example makerspace STEM projects [7].Carnasciali and coauthors surveyed faculty given three

Collection

2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Wolchok; Hanna Jensen; Timothy J. Muldoon

2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Impact and Delivery of an Engineering Service Learning Course in a Remote Environment Jeffrey Wolchok, Hanna Jensen, and Timothy J. Muldoon Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, ARExtended AbstractIntroduction:Undergraduate engineering curricula typically culminate with a “Capstone Senior Design”course, which integrates much of the engineering topics learned to date in a yearlong experiencewhich addresses a field-specific engineering question. The Department of BiomedicalEngineering at the University of Arkansas has recently adopted the Clinical Observations andNeeds

Conference Session

Track 5: Technical Session 4: The Next Leaders Academy: Learned Experience from an AI Summer Camp Experience

Collection

2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Delano White, The Gaskins Foundation; Whitney Gaskins, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Topics

2025 CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

how to structure a debateDay 3 – The students participated in a live AI demonstration. Hey learnedabout ”hallucinations” and the importance of have clear inputs. They also hada discuss about how AI and other technologies have bene utilized in unethicalways.Day 4 – The students worked with a professional videographer and producer 5to learn about storytelling and using technology to share an effective storyDay 5 – The students presented their capstone projects to a panel of industryand academic leaders 5 Camp Instructors

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques in Graphics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Irwin, Michigan Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

year MET students from each of thefocus areas are required to complete a team-based senior design project. Studentsprogress through a two semester sequence starting with Product Design and Developmentpresenting integrated methodologies that examine marketing, manufacturing, and cross-functional teams including concurrent engineering and projects utilizing CAD systems,and ending with a Senior Project course including evaluation and design optimizationmethods for efficient and cost-effective designs requiring an oral/written report andcomprehensive exam. In the capstone sequence the student teams first generate thedesign, optimize the design and document the design. Then, during the last semester theteams plan for production, manufacture and

Collection

2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Luis Martinez Medellin; Edward Pines; Patricia Sullivan; Arthur Cox; Motoko Furuhashi

workshop was the first oriented workshopconducted in the satellite location. This was done to introduce students to potential collaborationswith art students. Additionally, metal working and a clay forming workshops were held asadditional multidisciplinary outreach efforts.Since the beginning of the cross-departmental alliance, the AIS has been successful in advancinghigh-resolution prototyping abilities among two high-profile student organization projects andtwo engineering capstone projects. Prior to the alliance, the such projects were dependent on off-campus resources to complete their projects. Specifically, the Design, Build, Fly, and SteelBridge student organization projects were able to benefit from access to the newly available

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Cambron; H. Joel Lenoir

traditionalservice courses in each of the disciplines. Although mechanics and thermal/fluid courses for theEE’s and circuits/machinery courses for the ME’s are important and necessary, they are notsufficient to give the students the skills to deal with these new systems.Western Kentucky University has implemented a course, EE 285: Introduction to IndustrialAutomation, in an attempt to build a bridge between the EE and ME programs. The goal is givethe students a common language in this area so that multidisciplinary capstone and professionalprojects are more easily accomplished. The results of two years of offering the course, includingstudent feedback and course assessment are included. Examples of projects tackled by thestudents, lessons learned by the

Conference Session

Research on Engineering Design Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Hyun Kyoung Ro, Penn State University; Alexander Yin, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

industry connections also provide a pool of adjunct faculty that has, historically, beenengaged in teaching engineering at ASU, particularly at the capstone design level. Thesepractitioners have the potential to provide a valuable connection for students in the areas ofdesign and problem solving.Another theme that arose from our study was instructional innovation, initially stimulated byinvolvement in the Foundation Coalition in the early 1990’s. An education faculty membernoted that the Foundation Coalition was very influential in the area of engineering design and“thinking about what that capstone design project should be. . .and they spent a long timeworking on it very, very hard.” One outcome of the Foundation Coalition and two other

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session _Monday June 26, 11:00 - 12:30

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeff R. Brown, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach; Chad Rohrbacher, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach; Taylor Joy Mitchell, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University ; Leroy Long III, Sinclair Community College - Dayton; Jenna Korentsides, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach; Joseph Roland Keebler, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

the four comparison sections did not complete theintervention.Figure 1. Activities and timeline for critical-narrative interventionProject-Group Discussion AssignmentBoth the study and comparison groups were required to complete the project-group discussionassignment near the end of the semester. Because the primary objective of this research effort isto gain insights on the impact of critical narratives on students’ abilities to identify the broaderimpacts of engineering work and transfer these abilities to their own senior/capstone designprojects, researchers designed the group-discussion exercise to be focused on each groups’senior/capstone design project.The project-group discussion (PGD) was organized in an identical manner to the

Conference Session

Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: The Role of Engineering Education towards Attaining UN Sustainable Development Goals

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Cowan, James Madison University; Elise Barrella P.E., James Madison University; Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Robin Anderson, James Madison University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering, Community Engagement Division, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering

full list in Table 1). While the rubric was designed to allowfor assessment of a variety of project types, it has only been applied to civil engineering studentdesign projects.5The rubric includes two four-point rating scales to aid evaluators in judging capstone reportsbased on the 16 sustainable design criteria. The earned points scale [0-3] captures the extent towhich students consider each sustainable design criterion in their capstone projects. Evaluatorsassign a score of 0 to projects that show no evidence of incorporating the design criterion, whilea score of 3 is assigned if the project shows evidence of extensive criterion application. Thepotential points scale [0-3] describes the extent to which each sustainable design criterion

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approaches

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Dunn; John Brauer

with two practice rounds followed by an eight weekcompetitive series. Using this simulation, the students learn the interaction of all corporatefunctions and the trade-offs necessary for a company to gain market share and make profits. Astockholders meeting presentation by the team is conducted at the end of the 8 simulated years ofcompetition. The CAPSTONE business simulation is used in hundreds of business curriculumsalso being used in undergraduate engineering education at University of Colorado-Boulder,Arizona Western College, and Milwaukee School of Engineering.2. Effective Business PresentationsEffective business presentations are learned in a project based exercise taught by the members ofthe class. Sections of the book The Articulate

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sidra Gibeault, California State University, Los Angeles; Joseph D. Iorio, California State University, Los Angeles; Jorge Diego Santillan, California State University, Los Angeles AUV; He Shen, California State University, Los Angeles; Mark Tufenkjian P.E., California State University, Los Angeles

Tagged Divisions

Student

can’t bedeveloped in class, has been shown in [2]. Given the necessity for teamwork across multipledisciplines, robotics provides an excellent platform for senior design/capstone projects, campusorganizations, and design competition teams.While many positive results have been reported in the literature, there remain several challengesin effectively managing a robotics competition and related activities such that a students’learning outcome can be maximized. First, many robotics competitions are demanding in termsof resources. The lack of ample funding experienced by this particular team during the past yearhas created an improvisational stigma among members working on creating parts of the sub,which requires much more time and effort to be put

Conference Session

Assessment of Engineering Leadership Skills

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Bayless, Ohio University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Leadership Development Division

of their followers, as well as teach them why they make certaindecisions. Note that while students may think this effort is repetitive at first (e.g. one inventoryexercise is the same as another), if they are challenged to find the differences, they can criticallyunderstand the importance of each effort designed to help them learn more about themselves.The team concept is further built through multiple class interviews of visiting leaders. While theteambuilding is important to the capstone project, the immediate goal during the Fall seminar isfor the students to work together as a team in the interview of the visiting leader. It can beuncomfortable for students to ask probing and sometimes personal questions of noted leadersthat might wind

Collection

2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

design process will require many iterativesteps requiring applications of higher order skills in the cognitive domain of Bloom’sTaxonomy1, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation, or in revised form of Bloom’staxonomy2, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create. The revised form replaces noun in each skilllevel to the corresponding verb form and exchanges the places of top two levels. Both originaland revised taxonomy are shown in Figure 1. (a) (b) Figure 1 Original (a) and revised (b) Bloom's taxonomy3 A capstone design course, a culminating course designed to showcase students’ ability toapply engineering design process, is a required course in every engineering

Collection

2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jeffrey Ashworth; William Crisler

performance parameters for a given type of aircraft and the IPT completelydesigns the prototype, capstone-course aircraft. Results are documented in four presentationsand three reports. The final presentation is evaluated by a panel of industry experts who assign agrade for the students and valuable industry perspectives for the students and faculty. In thethird course (Aircraft Detail Design), the same design groups continue the capstone experienceby taking their aircraft into the next phase of the Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation(RDT&E) process by applying wind tunnel testing, model modification, and re-testing to verifythe best design solution. The IPT will complete the project by making a configurationrecommendation for the first

Collection

2008 GSW

Authors

William Jordan

service and not enough engineering. This is, in itself, an ethical issue. Ifwe are offering courses that get engineering credit without doing realengineering, we are being deceitful to our students. This is an issue that manyengineering programs have faced as some faculty are resistant to this new wayof doing things.Several papers were presented at the 2007 EPICS national conference thatattempt to alleviate these concerns about the real engineering content ofengineering service learning courses. Hefzy from the University of Toledo 2 andZoltowski from Purdue 3 made presentations about how to do service learningbased capstone design courses. Budny and Lund 4 from the University ofPittsburgh have written about how to use engineering service projects

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods in IE Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Judith Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ron Billings, Georgia Institute of Technology; Garlie Forehand, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

Systems Engineering. His teaching and research is in the area of manufacturing operations and includes capstone design. Before coming to Georgia Tech, he worked as an engineer in the semiconductor industry for a dozen years and served as Partner and CEO for a small company that developed software for factory scheduling.Garlie Forehand, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Forehand was Director of Research Program Planning and Development at Education Testing Service until February 2000. Dr. Forehand teaches and consults in the areas of research design and workplace communication. His research emphasizes curriculum innovation and evaluation. As a consultant to Georgia Tech, he has assisted

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Batchelder; Elaine Linde; Dan Dolan; Daniel Dolan

CompE.Student teams have become very successful at completing the increasingly imaginativeprojects they choose.Results from the five years over which the course has been developed show increases inteaming skills; increased cooperation among students of different departments leading tomore multidisciplinary capstone design projects; increased multidisciplinary participationin student competitions such as IEEE Robotics, American Solar Challenge, and FormulaSAE; increased levels of enjoyment as students succeed in real engineering projects(especially obvious as students cheer on their team’s robot in the end of semestercompetition). Page 8.844.1IntroductionSDSM&

Conference Session

Assessment of Learning in ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne Lu, University of Portland

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

effective teams,4,5 intra-team communication,6 team skills,7,8,9 implementing design projects,10 assessing learning level,11and improving students’ ability to function in teams.12 To make sure students can satisfy thisrequirement, engineering programs try to provide team-oriented design projects through astudent’s college education starting from freshman year and culminating with a capstone designproject in the senior year.It is a challenging task to assess and demonstrate an intangible student outcome such as theability to function on multidisciplinary teams. Teamwork in a design oriented project can beassessed by a team’s tangible finished product and the team members’ self-reportingsurveys.9,13,14,15 However, there is little discussion on how to

Conference Session

Meeting ABET Requirements

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Freeman, Tufts University; Douglas Matson, Tufts University; Grant Sharpe, Tufts University; Chris Swan, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

provide university oversight. The design team included faculty from boththe Mechanical Engineering Department and the Civil and Environmental EngineeringDepartment based on the needs of the community. The current project has been successfullyintegrated into the curriculum of the Mechanical and Civil & Environmental EngineeringDepartments through senior capstone design coursework, senior thesis credit, and underclassspecial topics courses. Students from the School of Arts and Sciences can obtain elective creditfor research conducted in the School of Engineering. The role of the students was to develop the team organization and personal leadershipskills necessary to support the ambitious tasks associated with implementation of an

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Mechatronics, Robotics, and Technology

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lei Miao, Middle Tennessee State University; Tanzeena Karim, Middle Tennessee State University; Tamir Shahir Hussain; Cen Li, Middle Tennessee State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

majors in the industrial setting, were reported. Arduino has beenwidely used for teaching junior and senior level controls [3]-[9] and microprocessor courses [10],computer engineering capstone projects [11], and communication systems courses [12].Arduino has also been widely used in lower-division courses. For freshman engineering students,Arduino was used as a platform to teach programming, design, and measurement [13]. In thiswork, the authors transited the Living with the LAB curriculum, which used the Boe-Bot mobilerobotics and the Basic Stamp microcontroller, to the Arduino platform. In [14], Sullivan et al. usedArduino in an Introduction to Mechanical Engineering course where freshman students designedand implemented a cornerstone project