Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilfrid Nixon

opportunity to demonstratethat their education has brought them to a point at which they can begin to contributeeffectively in the workplace. However, finding a project that is sufficiently challengingpresents a perennial challenge.To address this issue, the class was changed in 1997 to allow local civil engineers toprovide projects for the students. These local civil engineers served as “superclients” forthe students, who worked on their projects in groups of five or six. Students were able tovisit project sites and “kick the tires,” which substantially reduced student complaints thatprojects were not realistic. They also had the experience of interacting with clients whowere not faculty.While the approach creates some logistic difficulties, the

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ryan Edward Lake, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Jessica Brooke Altenberg, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Arin Rzonca, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Kariem Hashem, University of Illinois; Ann-Perry Witmer P.E., University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Student

. Jessica is a member of the Special projects team for ASME, working on projects for Engineering Open House and other events throughout the school year. As a member of TAMID, she also works on consulting projects for Israeli startup companies. Jessica’s research focuses on the application of Contextual Engineering in the realm of entrepreneurship. Specifically, she is looking at how entrepreneurs interpret and apply contextual thinking to their respective projects, as well as the effects of the use of contextual engineering principles.Arin Rzonca, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignMr. Kariem Hashem, University of Illinois Junior in Civil and Environmental Engineering and member of the Contextual Engineering

Conference Session

Trends and Applications in Curricula and the Capstone Experience

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel M. Dulaski PE, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

“real-world” project, others continue to offer a traditional project that falls under therubric of “textbook” problems. Although there may be sound, legitimate support for offering a“textbook” capstone, including the magnitude of work involved for instructors, using a real-world project offers tremendous benefit.In order to ensure that the students’ capstone experience is true-to-life, and emulates consultingfirms, the transportation capstone program in the Department of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering (CEE) at Northeastern University (NU) has created a program that benefits thestudents and the surrounding communities. The 14 week semester emulates a major project in aconsulting firm with project requirements, deliverables, and community

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Y. Omurtag; T. Ioi; S. Enomoto; M. Matsunaga

Session 2263 Collaborative Manufacturing Engineering Education and Research in Japan T. Ioi, S. Enomoto, K. Kato, M. Matsunaga, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan, Research Committee of MOT, Japan , Y. Omurtag, University of Missouri-Rolla, USAAbstractThis paper describes an emerging engineering education system for manufacturing professionalsat Chiba Institute of Technology (CIT) in Japan, based on the principles of industry academiacollaboration and case study methodology in teaching and research.First, the Department of Project Management (DPM

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Ferguson; Lisa Anneberg

, with two student design projects. The first design project is introduced inthe second week of the course. The students design, develop, and present a small webpage. The students must also write up a project description to document and accompanythe web page.In particular, a semester of PSP data for the first and second freshmen projects in fall1998 was collected. The first project is Design Project in HTML for presentation to theclass. The freshmen estimate their time for the three phases: planning, implementation,and testing. The freshmen use these results in the prior design project -- which is notsoftware based. The second project is a three person engineering project. The threestudents design, build, and test an egg drop and transportation

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Shamamy

animals (wild, domesticated or composite), transport vehicles (to transport people orgoods over land or water), people (two figures representing humans involved in some task), and,most recently, models of interplanetary vehicles. M.E. faculty judge the projects and prizes areawarded in different categories, among them, Most Original, Easiest to Manufacture, and MostPotential for Commercial Product.I. IntroductionStudents enrolled in our Mechanical Engineering curriculum are required to complete a seniordesign project. The project is intended to require the student to apply his/her engineeringknowledge to design, build, and test an actual product. These products vary from componentsfor SAE competition projects such as the Formula Car, Mini-Baja

Conference Session

Patenting & IP Issues for Commercializing University-Developed Technology and Launching Innovative Technical Entrepreneurship Ventures in Universities

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Baker, Michigan Technological University; Mary Raber, Michigan Technological University; Richard Berkey, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

agreements, and other related agreements with industrial partners. Jim is a registered Patent Agent and holds a B.S. in Environmental Engineering, an M.S. in Civil Engineering and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Michigan Technological University.Mary Raber, Michigan Technological University Ms. Mary Raber is the director of the Enterprise Program at MTU. In this role, she secures funding and projects from external sources, oversees day-to-day operation of the program and teaches various instructional modules in the curriculum. Prior to Michigan Tech, Ms. Raber worked in the automotive industry for 14 years, holding various positions in engineering and management. Mary holds a B.S.M.E

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 11: Program Descriptions and Learning Analytics

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Aurand, Dunwoody College of Technology; Peter Walls

Introduction to Engineering courses. At Dunwoody College of Technology, the coursetitled “Introduction to Engineering” is taken by electrical, mechanical, and software engineeringfirst-year students. The team-based project involves designing, building, programming, andcalibrating an electromechanical balance. This project makes use of the skills and interests ofeach represented discipline.In the prior work (“Balancing the Engineering Disciplines!: An Interdisciplinary First-YearDesign Project”), the authors laid out the project in detail and proposed changes to furtherimprove the flow and educational value of the work. Many of these changes were incorporatedfor the fall 2021 course offering. This paper addresses those changes and compares

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Priyadarshan A. Manohar, Robert Morris University; Fahad Saad Almutairi, King Fahd Security College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

College, SA Project Manager Master of Engi- neering Management, USA Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, SA c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Work In Progress: A Thesis Based Option for Enhancing Pedagogy in Engineering Economyat the Graduate LevelAbstractEngineering students typically learn the basics of engineering economics through an introductoryEngineering Economics course. Such courses do cover the basic financial modeling and analysistechniques, however they don’t provide an understanding of the complexity of economic analysisof real life situations. In particular, the financial analysis of public sector projects necessitatesfinancial modeling based on incomplete data and multiple selection

Conference Session

Potpourri of First-Year Issues

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farid Farahmand, Sonoma State University; Saeid Moslehpour, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

partners,develop professional skills and team work, participate in community building, improveleadership abilities, and learn project management.This paper provides a brief description of a service-learning component that wasintegrated into the Introduction to Engineering course. Through this pilot project,engineering students were assigned to design a simple electro-mechanical throwingmachine that can assist children with physical disabilities participating in the Sidekicksprogram. The Sidekicks program at Sonoma State University assists adolescents andchildren with autism and developmental disabilities to participate in recreationalactivities. Many of these individuals are not capable of fully participating in groupactivities. Existing studies

Conference Session

Mechanical Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heather E Dillon, University of Portland

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

ArtsAbstractThermodynamics is a difficult course for many undergraduate students due in part to the complexnature of the concepts learned. Pedagogical literature has suggested that students learn difficultconcepts better when they are presented in different formats that address different learning styles(verbal, visual, etc). During the last two years a new student project called “thermodynamicsin the arts” has challenged students in an introductory thermodynamics course to represent onethermodynamic concept in an art project. Each team of students selected a thermodynamic conceptand a different art medium including poetry, sculpture, music, painting, drawing, photography,and creative essays. Concepts the students visualized included entropy, enthalpy

Conference Session

Publicity Elements of Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Staggers; Lynne Slivovsky

professional writing students into the EngineeringProjects In Community Service (EPICS) curriculum. This program is running on three EPICSteams in conjunction with the Writing For the Computer Industry course in the Englishdepartment at Purdue University. EPICS is a multidisciplinary vertically integrated design class inwhich teams of students work on open-ended technical problems in partnerships with local not-for-profit organizations. They design, build, test and deploy projects into the community that meettheir partners' specific needs. Our model for integrating professional writing students into EPICSteams allows EPICS students to draw on the expertise of professional writings students in humanfactors and information design. It gives professional

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assurance in engr edu

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Creese

with2,200 students from three different schools. It is the newest university in Denmark of the 6universities and institutions of higher learning and now has more than 13,000 students. It wasestablished to use the project-based educational approach to overcome some of the problems ofthe traditional course-based educational system. Discussions with Poul H.K. Hansen (one of the two faculty members on the AalborgUniversity Senate), Sven Hvid Nielsen and Erik Pedersen who have been with AalborgUniversity since it started and are active advocates of the project -based system, and with theRector, Sven Caspersen, have been essential in gathering information about the AalborgUniversity System. These leaders have contributed greatly (and are still

Conference Session

Focus on Capstone Experiences in the Chemical Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip H. Harding, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Engineering Education, 2011 Design of a Senior Laboratory Sequence to Guide Students in Multiple Academic Programs Towards Workforce PreparednessAbstractThis paper describes the integration of upper division experiential laboratory and project coursesin the chemical engineering, biological engineering, and environmental engineering programs atOregon State University. Student enrollment has doubled during this 5 year process. The year-long integrated curriculum is built around a theme of “college to career” transition and targets awide array of learning objectives. This paper focuses on three: experimental methodology,communication, and project management. It is demonstrated that the dramatic changes havebeen implemented while successfully

Conference Session

Session/Panel 4: Cost-sharing & Seed Funding

Collection

2017 ERC

Authors

Jennifer Bernhard

Seed Funding Opportunities and Challenges Many colleges and universities have seed funding in support of the development of research projects – Often focused on grand challenges or interdisciplinary projects – Usually last one-two years, dollar amounts and configurations vary, e.g., M-Cubed – Goals are development/submission of proposals, external funding, growth toward center proposals, etc. Challenge: Ensuring desired impact – Balancing opportunity costs – managing selection and priorities – Holding faculty accountable – Establishing expectations, reporting, and metrics – Measuring

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James A. Mynderse, Lawrence Technological University; Robert W. Fletcher, Lawrence Technological University; Liping Liu, Lawrence Technological University; Andrew L. Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Selin Arslan; Kingman E. Yee, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

engineering and the program director for the Master of Science in Automotive Engineering. In addition, he is faculty co-advisor for the Collegiate Chapter of SAE and the Blue Devil Motorsports Organization. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 A Three Semester Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design Sequence Based on SAE Collegiate Design SeriesAbstractMechanical engineering students at Lawrence Technological University complete a five-credithour capstone project: either an SAE collegiate design series (CDS) vehicle or an industry-sponsored project (ISP). Students who select the SAE CDS option enroll in a three semester, threecourse sequence. Each team of seniors designs

Conference Session

EM Skills and Concepts in the Real World

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Neslihan Alp

Session 2003-2140 Roadblocks in the Six-Sigma Process Neslihan Alp, Ph.D. and Mike Yaworsky University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaAbstractSix-Sigma is a quality improvement program used by many major companies with varying degreesof success. This paper shows the Process Map for the Six-Sigma Process and identifies the mostdifficult steps. A survey is conducted to collect data from several companies to develop the Six-Sigma Process Map and determine the most critical steps. The results show that the followingsteps are the most difficult steps throughout the whole process: q Develop project

Collection

2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Carolyne Garcia; John Crone; Jim Gattis; Otto Loewer

Re-Design in West Memphis: Engaging Engineering Students in Multi-Disciplinary TeamsCarolyne Garcia, John Crone, Jim Gattis, and Otto LoewerUniversity of ArkansasAbstractA multi-disciplinary team comprising landscape architecture, civil engineering andart students developed 20 design alternatives for visually enhancing the entranceto the City of West Memphis. The project was directed by landscape architectureprofessor John Crone, in partnership with the West Memphis Chamber ofCommerce and the U of A Economic Development Institute. Its success hasresulted in funded research that will involve more engineering, architecture, andcommunication students in a multi-disciplinary project.

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

William Michalson; Robert Labonté

Session 1232 Capstone Design in the ECE Curriculum: Assessing the Quality of Undergraduate Projects at WPI William Michalson, Robert Labont6 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Worcester Polytechnic Institute AbstractSince adopting the WPI-Plan in 1972 at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, one of the degree requirements forundergraduates has been the completion of a Major Qualifying Project. Although this project

Conference Session

Capstone and Senior Design in Electrical and Computer ET

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fernando Rios-Gutierrez, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

successful and interesting projects, in its original format, the capstone course was tooshort and did not afford the students time to truly demonstrate their capabilities.Also, in order for the EET program to fullfill more strongly the ABET outcomes related todemonstrate that students are able to function on multi-disciplinary teams (outcome d), that theyshow a strong ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems (outcome e) andare able to understand professional and ethical responsibility (outcome f). Based on these goals,the EET faculty and its Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) agreed to modify and expand the EETSenior Project Course into two courses. TEET4610 is a 1-credit course offered in the fallsemester, and a TEET4620 is a 2

Conference Session

Challenges in Engineering, Models in Professional Programs, Capstone Design and Function Generator for Educational Environment

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Aidoo, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Shannon M. Sipes, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; James H. Hanson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Matthew D. Lovell P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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International

international design projectevery year.The Civil Engineering Department and the Office of Institutional Research, Planning andAssessment (IRPA) of RHIT have implemented an annual assessment on both the short and longterm impact of international design projects. Despite the associated challenges with internationalprojects, results indicate that the short term benefits are immediate and profound. In spring 2012,in order to assess the long term benefits, civil engineering alumni from 2006 through 2011 wereasked to participate in a survey on their senior design experience and how this experience hasimpacted their professional growth. A total of 84 alumni completed the survey. Majorcomparisons were made between two main alumni groups: those who undertook

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Margaret Pinnell; Leon Chuck

environmentalimpact of engineering. Inclusion of these soft skills into an already packed engineeringcurriculum can be difficult. One approach that appears to be effective at helping students developthe soft skills without compromising the acquisition of technical knowledge is service-learning.Service-learning is a form of project based experiential learning where the students are engagedin an activity that meets the specific needs of a community or nonprofit organization. Whencorrectly implemented, both the service and educational objectives are met. Service-learning hasbeen incorporated with varying degrees of success into many courses and/or curriculum in manyuniversities across the United States since the late 1980’s .1-3 However, only a small fraction

Conference Session

Stimulating Broader Industrial Participation in Undergraduate Programs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Schuster, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

AC 2011-2872: AN INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP CASE STUDYPeter Schuster, California Polytechnic State University Peter Schuster is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. His areas of interest include design, stress analysis, and biomechanics. Page 22.176.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 An Industry-University Partnership Case StudyAbstractAt many universities, senior undergraduate mechanical engineers work in teams on industry-sponsored capstone design projects. These projects provide an excellent

Conference Session

Pedagogy

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Pezeshki

Session 2566 Managing a Capstone Design Clinic—Strategies for Pedagogic and Financial Success Dr. Charles Pezeshki School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-2920 pezeshki@wsu.eduMany ABET-certified programs in mechanical engineering have a team-orientedpracticum involving projects generated by outside industrial sponsors that are supportersof the university. A smaller subset of these programs are financially successful, andgenerate

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

William C. Oakes; Leah H Jamieson; Edward Coyle

Session 3630 EPICS: A Model of Service-Learning in an Engineering Curriculum William C. Oakes, Edward J. Coyle and Leah H. Jamieson Purdue UniversityAbstractEngineering Projects in Community Service — EPICS — is a service-learning program that wasinitiated at Purdue University in the Fall of 1995. Under this program, undergraduate students inengineering earn academic credit for long-term team projects that solve technology basedproblems for local community service organizations. The program has grown to include 20project teams with approximately 250 students participating during the 1999 academic

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division 3 - Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Fostering Reciprocal Partnerships and Empowering Change

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marian K. Zaki, Houston Christian University

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

, computer architecture, full-stack development, and cryptography and networks security. Her research interests lie at the intersection of security and distributed systems. Marian has received several awards during her career for teaching, mentorship, excellence in research, and for her contribu- tions in building the Computer Science and Cyber Engineering programs at the College of Science and Engineering at HCU. She enjoys mentoring students and building connections and partnerships with the community and industry to bring real-world problems for her students to work on. She is currently leading the AR development group in the department, as well as multiple academia-nonprofit students projects

Conference Session

IT-based Instructional Technologies

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Judith Challinger, California State University, Chico; Rachael Teasdale, California State University, Chico

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

collection in the field andsubsequent graphing and analysis are important skills for students in many different scientificdisciplines. This paper presents a project currently underway by computer science andenvironmental science faculty at the California State University, Chico to address these needs. Amulti-tier system is being developed to serve as a repository for data collected in the field byenvironmental science students, facilitate graphing and analysis of data, and provide a platformfor interdisciplinary teams of students to collaborate on both software development and dataanalysis tasks.IntroductionIn 2005, Microsoft Research Cambridge brought together an international panel of scientists forthe Towards 2020 Science workshop.1 Their goal

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Gary Teng, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

of enforcing Systems Engineering (SE)principles and practices into course work that can enhance students’ understanding of the issuesin systems integration and project management. In the process of educating SE students,professors need to ensure that students understand the importance of obtaining such skills aseffective communications, good leadership, excellent project management, strong collaborationskills, high ability to adapt to multi-culture environments, and sufficient risk management ability.In addition, SE students also need to adopt two fundamental Industrial Engineering/SE principles,simplification and standardization, into their work. The issue is how we embed the requirementsof these skills and SE principles into course work to

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kurt DeGoede

engineers analyzed “real” dynamicsystems. It seems my sense was not unique, as recently as 6 years ago an in-depth study of 12engineering programs found “computers are usually not used effectively in undergraduateengineering science courses. Often, they are not used at all” [1].In order to open up an introductory dynamics course to less idealized analysis than is typical inthe text books, I have included several problems requiring numerical differentiation and othernumerical analysis assignments culminating in a multi-body simulation project. These activitieswere designed with several goals: • Introduce students to the types of tools used in practice. • Allow students to work on more realistic problems of particular interest to them

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Jamieson; Edward J. Coyle; William Oakes

Session 3461 EPICS: Meeting EC 2000 Through Service-Learning William C. Oakes, Leah H. Jamieson and Edward J. Coyle The EPICS Center Schools of Engineering Purdue UniversityAbstractEngineering Projects in Community Service — EPICS — is a service-learning program that wasinitiated at Purdue University in the Fall of 1995. Under this program, undergraduate students inengineering earn academic credit for long-term team projects that solve technology-basedproblems for local community service