Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 2 - Community Engagement without Frontiers

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Schwartz, The University of Texas at Arlington; Kathleen Smits, The University of Texas at Arlington; Jessica Smith, Colorado School of Mines; Thomas Phelan, United States Air Force Academy; Rosalie O'Brien

stakeholder perspective into problem definition and engineeringdesign using different strategies, include case study analysis [27], semester-long design projects[7], [9], [28], and engineering service-learning capstone projects [5], [28]. Students are allowedto explore a topic from the perspective of numerous stakeholders by analyzing and discussingcase studies, particularly if the case study is high-profile and therefore well-documented bydiverse sources (e.g., the Deepwater Horizon spill). Students can use these discussions to explore“empathic perspective taking,” a strategy in which students examine a scenario from theperspective of a stakeholder to gain a better understanding and level of empathy for the actionstaken [27]. However, such a

Collection

2022 ASEE Gulf Southwest Annual Conference

Authors

Shawna Thomas, Texas A&M University; Randy Hugh Brooks, Texas A&M University; Robert Harold Lightfoot Jr, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

. We discuss specific waysto leverage the information gathered in these surveys for course launch, providing one-on-onecare even in large classes, and fostering community. We present observations from deploying these surveys in several different courses in-cluding a first-year engineering course, a junior-level project-based computer science andengineering course, and a senior capstone design course. Impact demonstration will be inthe form of specific applications where the authors used survey results to best design teams,build connections within and across the student community, and to determine the level ofscaffolding needed to address survey-identified student knowledge and skill set challenges

Conference Session

EMD Program Design

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cassandra Elrod, University of Missouri; Ashley Rasnic, University of Missouri; William Daughton, University of Missouri

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

Bridge the Gap Material/Equipment Management Business Operations Management Science Decision MakingTerm Systems Problem Solving Ethics Staffing Controlling Resources Project Management Organizations Planning Marketing Cost/Finance Organizing Communication Leadership

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Silage

) anddiscrete sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) and error correction techniques are detailed in theyearly Marconi Challenge contest rules. These entries use either low power unlicensed RFtransmissions on 300 or 432 MHz but, preferably, high power Amateur Radio licensedmicrowave transmissions on 1.2, 2.4, 5.6 and 10 GHZ. Amateur Radio has been usedextensively in the TU ECE capstone senior design project and it’s certainly not just for Morsecode anymore1.The Marconi Challenge can also be integrated into the ECE capstone senior design course. Theactive components include RF ICs and microwave transistors, 10 GHz Gunn diodes, and IR orlaser transmitters and receivers. Microwave stripline electronic circuit designs and helix andhorn antennas incorporate

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

William Gay

students selecting this option would have to complete 120 quarter-credithours before enrolling at CBA. This aspect of the Aviation Technology pre-business optionrequired more than six quarters to the Program. No other technical program at the Collegerequired as much coursework. Indeed, the other technical programs typically required fewer than100 quarter-credit hours. The College of Business Administration suggested that a 12 to 15 credit hour sequence ofsophomore pilot training could be repackaged into an upper-division option in operationsmanagement. The final offering in the sequence would be a capstone course utilizing case studiesand student projects or portfolios. The capstone course also could serve as a student learningassessment tool

Conference Session

Integrating Computer-based Technology in the Civil Engineering Classroom

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chad Caldwell, United States Military Academy; Joseph Hanus, United States Military Academy; Adam Chalmers, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

engineering, hydrology, hydraulicengineering, construction management, site planning, and engineering economics in an open-ended, realistic, semester-long capstone design experience. Working in small groups acting as acivil engineering consultant team to an architecture firm, students follow a nine phase EngineerDesign Process, commonly used in the US Army Corps of Engineers, to develop the functionalrequirements for a proposed project site and develop several feasible courses of action that theycan then quantifiably evaluate against measurable criteria. The teams consist of a ProjectManager, Structural Engineer, Geotechnical Engineer, Hydrologic Engineer, and a ConstructionManager. The students have to conduct in-depth problem solving and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs and Curricula

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert W. Fletcher, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

some (but not a full complement) third and fourth yearengineering courses, as well as technical electives.All students at Lawrence Tech, regardless of college or discipline must take a series of generalcore-curriculum liberal arts courses consisting of language and literature, leadership,communications, and social science classes for a total of 32 credits. Two “zero” credit coursesare also required and include the COM 3000 Writing proficiency Exam (which is a one-timewriting assessment to assure students have the ability to communicate comprehensively bywritten word) and a capstone leadership course (which meets weekly and comprises certainleadership projects, develop portfolio, and through participating in various leadershipworkshops).The

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angelica Burbano, Universidad Icesi

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

Management of Manufacturing andService Processes.The graduation project is supervised by a faculty member of the IE Department, and may befocused on either solving an engineering problem or contributing to a research project. Veryfrequently, engineering problems correspond to real life needs of Colombian companies. Thecompany involved supports the project by assigning an engineer who acts as a co-supervisor ofthe project. Graduation projects are developed through the courses 05174 – Graduation Project Iand 05175 – Graduation Project II, which are capstone projects focused on the development ofprofessional skills such as project management, problem solving, and communication. The co-opexperience is a professional internship that must last no less

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Laboratories

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chiu Choi, University of North Florida

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

of the CSM12C32 module is small enough that our microcontroller projects havebecome truly embedded systems. Third, the skills and the tools covered in this microcontrollercourse are useful to the students that they prefer to use them in their capstone design projects.Fourth, the student evaluation results of this course taught by the author have been among thehighest in our department and the college. This microcontroller course with the Freescale studentlearning kits is a viable approach for equipping students with the skills and tools that they needfor prototyping embedded systems and for preparing them for their future design projects.I. INTRODUCTIONThe microcontroller course is one of the most demanding courses in our undergraduate

Collection

2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Mohammad Amin

areas should complete some prerequisite courses or equivalent courses beforetaking any graduate level course at National University.The MSWC program consists of 10 required courses and two capstone Master’s researchprojects. Students are encouraged to take these courses in the order of presentation. WCM601and WCM602 are referred to as foundation courses, therefore they must be taken before takingany other graduate level course in the program. The capstone project class is an integratingmechanism to provide realistic experience for the student. It is a two-month project solving a realproblem for a real client against a time deadline using all available tools and resources asstudents work together in teams. This component addresses the need to

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Penny L. Hirsch; J. Edward Colgate; David M. Kelso; C. Yarnoff; Barbara L. Shwom; J. Anderson

Session 3353 The Web as a Model Technology in Freshman Design J. Anderson, J. E. Colgate, P. Hirsch, D. Kelso, B. Shwom, C. Yarnoff Northwestern UniversityAbstractThe challenge of teaching design to freshmen is to find projects and technologies that suittheir level of proficiency while allowing them to experience the design process andprepare for upper level courses. In the first quarter of a two-quarter freshman course indesign and communication, students work on web site projects for campus clients. Webtechnology is an effective tool for this purpose because it is widely available, inexpensive,timely, easily

Collection

2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Fangyang Shen; Bing Qi; Hong Li; Arvid Friberg

often through casestudies published by both Harvard University and Yale University. More recently ElectronicsEngineering programs have espoused similar project based learning. The findings show that thebest educational methods force students to cooperate using their knowledge of interdisciplinarysubjects to solve problems within an environment using “incomplete or imprecise information”[1].For decades the instruction of Engineering and other disciplines have used “Capstone”, wherefinal projects are used to reinforce skills and foster design[2]. Since 1990 the NationalInformation Assurance Education and Training Partnership Program (NEITP) has beenresponsible for information assurance, awareness and training. They issue the IT

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Lloyd Barrett; Edward Young; David E. Klett; Jeffrey Morehouse; Jed Lyons

teams building Mini-Baja vehicles every third year or so. In 1993, an ABET-inspired two-semester ‘capstone’ senior design course was initiated, wherein either vehiclecompetition or industrial-based design projects could be chosen by the students. During the last6 years, about one-third of the seniors have chosen vehicle competition projects for their seniordesign project. While only 50% of the design teams actually finish their project ‘in time’ and/or‘well enough’ to go to the actual competition, in these last 6 years USC teams have competed inthree East Mini Bajas, two Midwest Mini Bajas, two Formula SAE’s, two East Aeros, threeSupermileages, and six ASME Solar Splashes. In addition, a solar car and a hybrid car (naturalgas/electric) have

Collection

2012 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Jani Pallis; Neal Lewis; Ravi Mishra; Navarun Gupta; Arthur McAdams; Richard Yelle

intheir final semester(s): a two-semester (6 credit) thesis option, or a one to two semester (3-4 credit total) Master’sproject. A technical capstone course is an alternative to the Master’s project in the Technology Managementdepartment. These courses are fairly typical of most graduate engineering programs in the U.S. The thesis optionentails a research project. The Master’s project may be research or application-based, but is done by a studentworking alone with an advisor. The technical capstone course focuses on the creation of a business plan, but lacksthe time needed for student teams to create prototypes, and has not led to commercialization of any productconcepts. More than 150 graduate engineering students take these courses each

Conference Session

CIT Division Technical Session #6

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emil Salib, James Madison University

byexcluding cattle and establishing riparian buffers along streams and rivers. This requires establish-ment of mechanical watering systems for the cattle. In this senior capstone project, we developeda monitoring alert system that notifies the farmer in the event of a watering system failure. Werecognized from the outset of the project the importance and high value of having to actively andprofessionally interact with our client. We have also realized the significant opportunity and riskwe were presented with when the client offered us his farm as a platform to exercise our ideas andtest our system prototypes.To meet our client’s requirements, two senior students, under the guidance of their senior cap-stone project advisor, designed a system that

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Tim Coppinger; Carl Steidley

Controllers, Control Systems, Capstone Projects, Systems Programming,and System Analysis and Design.The Mechanical Engineering Technology students benefit from the study of mechanicalcomponents, the design of tooling and fixtures, the selection of material handling equipment,pneumatic actuators and clamps, and the relationship of material selection to the manufacturingprocess.The Control Systems Engineering Technology students study the use of sensors, data acquisition,actuators, networking of equipment, robot controllers, programmable logic controllers, and thecommunication of the cell with overall factory operations.The Computer Science students will focus on the development of controlling algorithms, cellcontrol, user interfaces, networking, and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mott

, participants complete a final project that requires them to reapply the competencies of the entire program. Ideally, the capstone experience is designed to meet a real industry need.Impact and Results Generated by the NCE/AMEThe impact of the work of the NCE/AME is extensive and far-reaching, beyond the ModuleArchitectureÓ, the manufacturing engineering technology (MfgET) curriculum, and theinstructional modules themselves reported thus far in this paper. A summary of impact andresults is available in References 6 and 7. Highlights are listed here. · The MfgET program initiated at Sinclair Community College that implements most of the instructional modules developed by the NCE/AME · Dissemination of the Module

Collection

2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Christopher R. Carroll

• Politics.Accordingly, the College of Science and Engineering at UMD has developed the course “Engr4001: Engineering Professionalism,” to address the relationship between these topics andengineering practice. This course will not focus on issues that are traditional, technicalengineering topics, but instead will explore the “soft side” of engineering as it relates to thesocial issues listed above.Engr 4001 will be a design oriented class, required as a pre- or co-requisite for capstone designcourses in all engineering programs at UMD. It will bring together junior and senior studentsfrom Chemical, Industrial, Mechanical, and Electrical and Computer Engineering programs towork together in a multidisciplinary setting to solve design problems and to learn

Conference Session

Exploring the Entrepreneurial and Innovation Mindset

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tuuli Maria Utriainen, Aalto University; Ville Taajamaa, University of Turku; Raghu Ram Movva, SAFM - College des Ingenieurs Italia; Joona Kurikka, Aalto University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

innovations rely more on research ontechnology and problem solving based on natural sciences and engineering [13,14]. Designthinking does not exclude these, but aims to add on to the systemic thinking and to theresearch and technology-driven innovation approach by focusing on the user.There is a vast literature on learning outcomes of Capstone courses and project courses ingeneral [1,13,15]. However, educational innovations or innovations within education are aless researched area, for example what are the foundational skills and mindset that actuallyfoster the capabilities needed in order to achieve innovations. Engineering knowledge andskills are important especially in technology-driven innovation, but our argument is that theyare not enough

Conference Session

Humanitarian and Sustainability in a Global Engineering Context

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael F MacCarthy, Mercer University; Holly F. Berns, Mercer University ; Ryan Monty, United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot; Mitzi Erin Brett; Zachary Lewis Martin; Pietro Sannipoli, United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot; Nicolas Jerome Messmer; Walid Ibrahim; Scott Schultz, Mercer University; Katelyn C.N. Dimopoulos, Mercer University

Tagged Divisions

International

that the shipping solution becapable of keeping SNF below this temperature threshold.For such an extensive project, the best fit within MUSE’s curriculum is Senior Design. MUSErequires every senior engineering student to complete a two-semester capstone design course.Senior Design projects allow teams of 3 to 4 students to apply their engineering knowledge in areal-world setting prior to graduation. The student teams collaborate to design, build, and test anengineered product under faculty supervision. Faculty serve as technical advisors to the studentteams and are available to help offer specific technical advice to students while promotinglearner autonomy. In addition to the engineering concepts being considered, students must alsotake into

Collection

2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

John T. Tester

remained fairly constant,1 though differentdepartments have increased steadily (such as Mechanical Engineering) while others have varied.The “Design4Practice,” or “D4P,” curriculum is a series of innovative undergraduate classes whichinvolve active learning laboratories for the students in each of their freshman, sophomore, junior andsenior years. The program objectives were developed in response to the call by industry forbaccalaureate engineers to possess a broader set of skills beyond their analytical and computer skills.This call was strengthened by the Engineering faculty’s observation of the students’ experiences insenior capstone design during the late 1980’s and 1990’s. These students, who had had no priorexperience with a design process

Conference Session

Integrating Sustainability Across the Curriculum

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melanie L. Sattler, University of Texas, Arlington; Victoria C. P. Chen, University of Texas, Arlington; Brian H. Dennis, University of Texas, Arlington; Stephen P. Mattingly, University of Texas, Arlington; K.J. Rogers, University of Texas, Arlington; Yvette Pearson Weatherton, University of Texas, Arlington; Madhu Rani, University of Texas, Arlington; Ketwalee Kositkanawuth

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

Mechanical and N/A N/A 160 160 320 Engineers?” Aerospace Engineering CE 4383 Senior Project N/A 28 N/A N/A 28 “Engineering Design: IE 4350 Industrial Engineering10 Seeking Sustainable N/A 2 21 14 37 Capstone Design Solutions” MAE 4287Design Project I N/A 42 N/A N/A 42 TOTAL 336 1027 821 1065 3249

Conference Session

ECCD International Outreach

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mustafa G. Guvench, University of Southern Maine; Philip W Swanson, University of Southern Maine; Kevin Michael Wacker, University of Southern Maine

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

bent, positioned and held in a frame to reflect the lightat the focal point where the multi-junction cell is fixed. The system follows the celestial path ofthe sun within 1.6 degree.This project was completed as a senior capstone design project utilizing all of the educationgained thus far in the engineering curriculum along with a large amount of self-directed learning.Every stage in the design and development of the project was an educational test that had to beovercome. Discussion on the short comings, challenges, and the use of the education received toresolve these issues are presented.1. IntroductionAccess to power namely, heat, and electricity is ubiquitous in developed nations. Much of thedeveloping world however, still lacks access to

Conference Session

Methods, Techniques, and New Programs in Graduate Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Niaz Latif, Purdue University, Calumet ; Joy L Colwell, Purdue University, Calumet (Tech)

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

, Simulation, and Visualization, following the process outlinedabove. This concept paper was approved in Spring of 2009. Consequently, a pre-proposal wasdeveloped in the Fall of 2009. The working group recommended the concurrent development ofseven core courses as the degree proposal was being developed and submitted. One of the corecourses, the directed project capstone course, had already been approved as a graduate course forthe campus. In the summer of 2009, three core courses were developed, and two of these courseswere approved by the Graduate Council during the 2009-2010 academic year. The remainingthree core courses were developed during summer 2010 and these courses were approved by theUniversity’s graduate council in 2010. As noted, the

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph A. Shaeiwitz

history of these individual projects, that students would revoh if thesewere implemented today. Questionnaires are a usefil assessment measure and should be part of anassessment plan; however, our experience is that the fraction actually returned is not sufficient for them to bethe basis of a good assessment plan. There are other excellent methods of assessment available. In fact, mostdepartments are probably already doing things that can, with only minor modifications and formalization, formthe basis of an excellent assessment plan. Two examples are portfolios of student work and well-designed andevaluated capstone experiences. Portfolios are a documentation of experiences that demonstrate that students are achieving statedgoals. They are

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii

design projects in advanced mechanics of materials; Atherton (1998) 1 discusses controls;Schilling & Hagen (2000) 34, sanitary engineering; Lightner, Carlson, Sullivan, Brandenmuehl &Reitsma (2000)17, the concept of a living laboratory in Colorado; and Westerberg &Subrahmanian (2000)43, product design.D. Senior year: Capstone Design courses: These courses are offered toward the end of theundergraduate career of students to allow them to integrate what they have learned. Typically,they solve a practical problem that is both substantial and relevant. Capstone design courses aretaught in a wide variety of approaches. Two sample references to capstone designs are: a casestudy in which senior designs were supervised and evaluated by

Collection

2023 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Grant Heileman, Ohio Northern University

they run into inconveniences with thestandard cooler design, such as difficulty carrying it and having to dig through the ice to findtheir beverages. The motivation behind this engineering design capstone project is to design acooler that solves these problems. In order to successfully do that, market research was neededwhich was performed in the shape of a survey. From the results found in the survey and otherresearch, a governing list of constraints and evaluation metrics was generated which heavilyinfluenced the design generation and evaluation. Paired with the market research, research intothe background and the current state of the art was conducted on the coolers that exist currently.The generated designs were evaluated within a weighted

Conference Session

1st and 2nd Year Instruction in Design

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Quamrul H. Mazumder, University of Michigan - Flint

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

experience between HighSchool and University students.H3. There is no significant difference in importance and satisfaction between male andfemale students of High School and University students.Literature ReviewEngineering design is a critical element of engineering education and a competency thatstudents need to acquire1. Previous investigations have shown that students engaged intechnological project learning achieve higher grades than those taught using traditionallab experimentation2. The students involved in these projects demonstrated a strongpositive correlation between learning principles and their applications and achievedhigher grades. In the capstone design course, students were required to design anddevelop a product from concept to

Collection

2019 CIEC

Authors

Maher Shehadi

Session ETD 545 Building a Filtration and Control System for Auto-Parts Corrosion Oil Immersion System Maher Shehadi, Ph.D. School of Engineering Technology, Purdue Polytechnic Institute Purdue UniversityAbstractThe purpose of this capstone project was to design and build an immersion system that pumps arust preventative oil through a filtration system after being applied to protect automotive parts suchas camshafts. The system improves a pre-existing immersion system, used by an automotive partspackaging company, that has no

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve E. Watkins, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Randall L Musselman, U.S. Air Force Academy

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

work from one semester to the next.Resource for Education The UAV locator problem can support education objectives in several different contexts.The material could be used to the basis for an assignment or case study in a coreelectromagnetics, communications, or systems engineering course to emphasize the interrelationamong technologies in a specific application. A design project or activity could be used in anelective antenna course to emphasize desired performance differences among antennas. Alocator system design could be the focus project for a capstone design team in which teammembers with backgrounds in electromagnetics, communications, electronics, etc. must interact.An extra-curricular activity or competition could use this