Conference Session

New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Anderson

) [1] has developed a quantitive survey instrument tomeasure the technical and professional competency of newly hired manufacturing engineers and ratehow well these new engineers met expectations. If the survey respondent rated a competency of a newengineer as “below” or “well below” expectations, they were asked to rate how important thiscompetency was to the success of their company.Using the results of this survey SME ranked the competencies in order by their importance toorganizations and the frequency they were cited as falling short of expectations. The competencies arelisted below in order. 1. Business knowledge/ skill 2. Project management 3. Written communications 4. Supply chain management 5. Specific

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Engineering Design and First-Year Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Marie Starkey, Pennsylvania State University; Nicolas F. Soria Zurita, Pennsylvania State University; Sarah C. Ritter, Pennsylvania State University; Matthew B. Parkinson, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

. This first-year maker experience allows students to choose from five projects:Aluminum Pen, Embroidery, LED Acrylic Display, Wireless Charger Housing, and UltrasonicRange Finder. Each of these projects has been developed to engage students in different parts ofthe Learning Factory Makerspace through using tools in the woodshop and textiles shop or via3D printing and laser cutting. As a first step to understanding how students interact with themakerspaces through this course project, this paper focuses on understanding what projects thestudents prefer and why.In this paper, we report on the ranked order data from student project preference as well asresponses collected through an open-ended survey question to understand more about howstudents

Conference Session

Labs & Hands-on Instruction I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cyrus Habibi P.E., University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Chase Fearing, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Mesut Muslu P.E., University of Wisconsin, Platteville

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

cookbook method, students are provided step-by-stepinstructions and are required to prototype, experiment, observe, and draw conclusions based ontheir observations. In the design-based method, students are only provided specifications andmust create their own instructions to accomplish the design. In the proposal-based approach,students are required to propose an idea for a project, create their own instruction, and developexperiments to test their design. In this paper, the pros and cons of each method are discussed. To support the discussion,a survey was conducted using two sections of a design-oriented course as a means forobservation. Students enrolled in this course were exposed to each method and their feedbackwas collected via the

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wael Mokhtar, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

AC 2009-2416: INTRODUCING A TWO-SEMESTER RESEARCH COURSE INTHE FRESHMAN YEARWael Mokhtar, Grand Valley State University Assistant Professor, School of Engineering Page 14.798.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Introducing a Two-Semester Research Course in the Freshman YearAbstractEngineering schools have been using capstone projects to introduce the students to ‘real world’applications and break the barrier between theory and practice. It is usually in the form of a two-semester course where the students use the first semester to develop the soft skills needed for theproject in terms of project management and

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Malinda S Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder; Michael A Soltys, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jennifer Kracha, University of Colorado Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

Paper ID #30265Engagement in Practice: Practicing Empathy in Engineering for theCommunity CourseDr. Malinda S Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder Malinda Zarske is a faculty member with the Engineering Plus program at the University of Colorado Boulder. She teaches undergraduate product design and core courses through Engineering Plus as well as STEM education courses for pre-service teachers through the CU Teach Engineering program. Her primary research interests include the impacts of project-based service-learning on student identity - es- pecially women and nontraditional demographic groups in engineering - as well

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Lorcan Folan; Gunter Georgi

Paper #808 for Multi-Media at ASEE 2001 Session 2793 Introductory Design in Freshman Engineering Gunter W. Georgi and Lorcan M. Folan Department of Introductory Design and Science Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY 11201AbstractPolytechnic University teaches a 4-credit course in Freshman Engineering that introducesstudents to software and hardware tools, teamwork, written and verbal communicationskills, project management, as well as overview lectures on major technical and non-technical disciplines. Several laboratory experiments and two term projects emphasizeengineering design

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Kiefer

courseofferings. Teaching independent study courses of six to eight students does not require thecourse material to be completely polished, and the students can be evaluated without spending alot of time grading written homework or exams. Furthermore, the students can be used todevelop projects and handouts that will later be used as hands-on laboratory exercises orclassroom demonstrations. At the same time, the students are getting the background necessaryfor them to be valuable to a research program.This paper presents the results of teaching an independent study course in mechatronics to agroup of six mechanical engineering students. The course included both undergraduate andgraduate students working in teams of two. The first ten weeks of the course

Collection

2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Stuart Bernstein

ENGAGING ENGINEERING STUDENTS THROUGH SERVICE LEARNING Stuart Bernstein University of Nebraska, Lincoln at OmahaAbstractIn the Personnel & Supervisory Methods class (CET 4200) the students start off by writing apaper describing what they expect to get from the class. I received comments such as, “nothing,I think this is going to be a big waste of my time” , and “I’ve spent the past six months as anassistant project engineer and already know how to manage people.” That kind of negativeattitude can be difficult to overcome, but each year I have tried new exercises in an effort tomake this an important and enjoyable class.Due to the

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack

Session 2525 Multidisciplinary Design of Computer Controlled Systems Hugh Jack, Padnos School of Engineering, Grand Valley State UniversityAbstractWhen we teach design we quite often focus on a single area or problem. Senior design projects areoften seen as a way to broaden the subject area of the design. But, quite often we experience diffi-culty when crossing disciplinary boundaries.Two successful projects that include electrical, mechanical and computer elements will bedescribed. These projects were conducted by mixed groups of senior students from mechanicaland electrical programs. In one of the projects, a mobile robot was

Collection

2022 CIEC

Authors

MADDUMAGE KARUNARATNE; Christopher Gabany

ETD 525 Capstone Courses Enhanced to Suit Larger Industry Maddumage Karunaratne, Christopher Gabany University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractThe paper elaborates on assessments utilized in capstone projects to meet many of theaccreditation criteria and narrower individual components in student outcomes. It also describesthe structural components adopted recently into our electrical and computer engineering capstonecurriculum, which may be atypical at other institutions. Most engineering technology programsfollow similar engineering capstone project curriculum, thus there

Collection

2022 CIEC

Authors

Joseph Untener; Philip Appiah-Kubi

ETD 525 Building a Strong Foundation for Senior Design Courses Joseph A. Untener, Philip Appiah-Kubi University of Dayton1. IntroductionThe inclusion of a capstone project course is one of the most universal elements of curriculathroughout the widely diverse Engineering Technology programs in the country, Yet at the sametime, probably no single course in those curricula has more variation in approach, structure,assumptions, and resources than the capstone design course.The University of Dayton’s approach to senior capstone projects is just one of many usedthroughout

Collection

2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Thomas Mertz

Teaching and Assessing Quality and Continuous Improvement Thomas Mertz Engineering Technology Department Computer Systems Technology Kansas State University – SalinaAbstractThis paper describes an attempt to teach and assess students’ commitment to quality, timelinessand continuous improvement in a computer software course. The paper discusses continuousimprovement and describes the course, the projects assigned to the students and the gradingmodel used to assess them. A summary is given of the students’ performance and theirperspective of the experience.IntroductionCriteria 3i of the 2012-2013

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Daryl R. Kipke

bioengineering program at Arizona State University, laboratory courses inphysiological systems and medical instrumentation have been offered for many years. These courses emphasizemaking measurements from and analyzing properties of physiological systems using clinical instruments orspecial-purpose computer hardware and software. The laboratory projects are generally highly structured andclosed-ended to ensure ample coverage of the selected subjects. While these courses are an important part ofthe curriculum, they do not provide students with the experience of developing solutions to open-ended,systems-level bioengineering projects. In order to fill this gap, over the last three years we have developed andoffered a laboratory course that provides senior

Conference Session

Design and Making

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jewell Amanda Brey, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Danianne Mizzy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Richard Goldberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Biomedical Engineering. He teaches several instrumentation courses and a senior design class. His primary interest is in rehabilitation engineering and assistive technology for people with disabilities. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 1 A Maker-in-Residence program to build a community of MakersAbstractThe BeAM (Be A Maker) Makerspace at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hosts aMaker-in-Residence (MIR) program. Through this program, undergraduate students participatein design-build projects under the guidance of expert Makers who are skilled in a particulartechnology or

Conference Session

Involving Undergraduates in Research

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yusuf A Mehta, Rowan University; Ralph Alan Dusseau P.E., Rowan University; Ravi P. Ramachandran, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

focused on undergraduateeducation with a small M.S. program in Civil Engineering. The typical cohort of full-timefunded graduate students in Civil Engineering is around 3-4 per year. In the undergraduateprogram, each student in the junior and senior years has to take two clinic credits per semester.In each of these four semesters, the students work on industry or grant funded project. Thetypical workload for a full-time faculty member is nine credits, which includes supervision ofthree to four clinic projects, with 3-4 students in each clinic project. The lack of a doctoralprogram usually could be a big limitation for faculty members to attract large research fundingthat spans over 3 to 4 years. This may be due to lack of continuity of the

Conference Session

Computer-Based Data Acquisition Systems

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Parten

Session 2068 Instrumentation and Control of an Ecological Life Support System in a Laboratory Project Micheal Parten Electrical and Computer Engineering Texas Tech University1. Project Laboratories The laboratory structure in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) atTexas Tech University is somewhat different than most university laboratories.1-10 There are 5, threehour credit required laboratory classes. Although all of the laboratories have pre-requisites, they arenot

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Somerton, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

1982, all in engineering from UCLA. Page 14.84.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 A Partnership between Capstone Design and K-12 OutreachIntroductionThe nation continues to face a shortage of engineers. Concurrently, public schools are strugglingfinancially and making severe budget cuts which significantly impact STEM enrichmentprograms. This can lead to even a further reduction of potential engineers in the pipeline. Themechanical engineering design program at Michigan State University has addressed this issue bypartnering with a local elementary school on capstone design projects. A team of

Conference Session

Design Cognition

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Micah Lande, Stanford University; Larry Leifer, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

DesignAbstractDesigners and Engineers view things differently. A Ways of Thinking framework relating FutureThinking, Design Thinking, Engineering Thinking and Production Thinking is introduced andexplained using design documentation generated by recent student design projects from theME310 graduate engineering design product-based-learning course sequence at StanfordUniversity. Example student team project work and their design steps through their process iscompared to a general model for the design process, a pedagogical learning model for theME310 course and the Ways of Thinking framework.IntroductionIn observing students in ME310 Design Project Experience with Corporate Partners,1,2 a year-long mechanical engineering design product-based-learning course at

Conference Session

Faculty and Program Exchanges: Internationalizing, Collaborations and Interactions

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fanyu Zeng, Indiana Wesleyan University; Chao Liu, Southeast University; Xiaodong Zhang, Southeast University

Tagged Divisions

International

Student Learning OutcomesAbstractThis paper presents an initiative of an engineering curriculum enhancement and an example ofcollaborative junior student’s project development, based on the enhanced curriculum. The maingoal of this research is to integrate the best practices from the American engineering educationprograms into existing engineering curriculum, and to study the effectiveness of theenhancement, made up of a number of new focus areas in critical thinking and practical problemsolving.The research is carried out to study the feasibility and effectiveness of newly designed projectcollaborations between an American professor and a Chinese student, involved in a juniorproject. American professor helps to integrate successful American

Conference Session

Programming, Virtual Reality, and Dynamic Systems

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle M. Blum, Syracuse University; John F. Dannenhoffer III, Syracuse University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Paper ID #18448Integrated use of Programming in Machine Design CourseDr. Michelle M. Blum, Syracuse University Dr. Blum is interested in research in improving undergraduate engineering education; including devel- opment of student design projects, professional skills development and inclusion and outreach activities. Dr. Blum is also involved with advising and outreach. She was a founding member of the Advisory Committee for the WiSE Women of Color in STEM Program and has developed and participated in many college level outreach programs; specifically developing a hands-on activity to introduce students to the

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Martin Pike

Session 2625 Capstone Design Courses: A Comparison of Course Formats Dr. Martin Pike Purdue UniversityAbstract A capstone design project course is a common component of Engineering andEngineering Technology curriculums. There are many possible formats for offering such acourse, each with its advantages and disadvantages. The author has taught the capstone designcourse at three different universities, each with a different format (single term with a singleproject, multi-term with a single project and a single term multi-project). This paper will discussthe author’s

Conference Session

Design Across the Curriculum 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nicholas Mulka, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kinsey Herrin, Georgia Institute of Technology; Amit Shashikant Jariwala, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

. This paper discusses the suite of virtual toolsutilized to support senior capstone design courses to manage logistics. We report on studentsatisfaction associated with team formation, project selection, and project presentation aspects.For each of these aspects, an interactive, virtual conferencing platform is utilized in whichparticipants can freely move between small informal groups at any time. This platform'sstructure is designed to mimic a traditional in-person exhibition. Participants can listen topresentations at tables, ask questions, talk individually, and move to a different location at theirdiscretion. The platform relieves the logistical burden of gathering people from geographicallyseparate locations in the same space while

Conference Session

Service-Learning in Developing Communities

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beth Wittig, City College of the City University of New York

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

involved in the chapter are inpursuit of undergraduate degrees in Civil, Mechanical, and Chemical Engineering, but there arealso a handful of students pursuing degrees in Economics, Public Health, Spanish, andCommunications. The student chapter is advised by a professionally licensed EnvironmentalEngineer and faculty in the Civil Engineering (CE) Department at the CUNY City College ofNew York (CCNY). The chapter also receives guidance from a licensed Structural Engineer andCE faculty, and from a practicing licensed Environmental Engineer.Our first project is nearing completion. In this project, we are developing a potable water supplyto serve over 350 people, distributed across several valleys in a mountainous region in Honduras.Even by Honduran

Collection

2021 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Conference

Authors

Eric Anderson R.A., Farmingdale State College

REMOTE 1 Teaching Construction Management Capstone as a Remote Course Eric E. Anderson Farmingdale State College – SUNY Department of Architecture and Construction ManagementTEACHING CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT CAPSTONE REMOTE 2 Abstract The capstone project course for Construction Management Engineering Technologystudents (CON496), has been taught by guiding students to demonstrate integration of the variousskills for drawing management and plan reading, technical calculations, materials selection, andproject management (scope of work, estimating, risk management and

Conference Session

Capstone Courses I

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Leiffer, LeTourneau University; Roger Gonzalez, LeTourneau University; Thomas Hellmuth, LeTourneau University

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering Constituent Committee

with concentrations inElectrical, Mechanical, Computer, Biomedical, and Materials Joining, it is our goal to involve asmany students as possible in an interdisciplinary design experience involving two or moreconcentrations. As we offer projects each year, we define more clearly the purposes andguidelines for the senior design experience, important lessons in interdisciplinary design, and thefactors for project success.Student involvement in interdisciplinary teams is not only an expectation of industry but also hasbecome a required outcome of the ABET engineering criteria. EC2000 criteria now includeoutcome 3d which states that “engineering programs must demonstrate that their graduateshave…an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams.”1

Conference Session

Integrating Taxes, Law, & Business

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeannette Russ

investigate realcompanies, real decisions, and even real failures. After completion of the project, the studentscan compare their solution to the historical one and speculate upon how events could have beendifferent. Another aspect of the course that simulates the real world is its cross-disciplinarynature, which introduces students to the challenges of developing a solution that simultaneouslysatisfies criteria in several different areas. In terms of classroom discussions, the World War IIsetting provides an excellent foundation, since many modern industrial engineering practiceshave roots in that era. To build upon this foundation, students are required to presentintermediate progress reports related to specific issues. Preparation for these

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

James Holt; Hal Rumsey; E. Ray Ladd

, systems engineering, design formanufacturing and theory of constraints. Students can choose from electives to customize this study ofworld-class management of technology. The Washington Higher Education Telecommunication System(WHETS), web-based instruction, and satellite allow the delivery of Engineering Management coursesthroughout the State and nationwide. Participants come from a multitude of industries and companies.This paper concentrates on the relationship with one company, The Boeing Company, with corporateoffices in Seattle, Washington, with students and facilities across the country. Students of the EngineeringManagement Program complete class projects as a normal part of every course and as a final end-of-program project. These

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Timothy B. Whitmoyer; David T. Vader; Joel Z. Bandstra; William H.J. Strosnider

Design of Sustainable Water Pumps for Burkina Faso Timothy B. Whitmoyer and David T. Vader Messiah College, Grantham, PAAbstractThe Department of Engineering at Messiah College has partnered with the Handicapẻs en Avant,(a center for rehabilitation and education of handicapped persons in southeast Burkina Faso) forover a decade. One of the enduring student-faculty projects spawned from this relationship is theModified Rower Pump Project. The long-term vision of this project is to provide a sustainabledesign, including construction methods, allowing local manufacturers to build water pumps aspart of their businesses. The present goals of the project are to quantify the pump’s

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Fani Zlatarova; Pavel Azalov

formulated as: “Collect,analyze, and interpret data”. Obviously, this statement implies possessing computing knowledge andskills. Current engineering students are future operational employees, supervisors and team leaders,middle managers and knowledge workers, and also top managers. Obtaining an appropriate backgroundin Computing during the years of undergraduate studies is important for their successful career. Theauthors of this paper try to answer the question if the currently offered undergraduate computing coursesfor engineering students provide the needed preparation for taking advantage of Information Technologywhen developing a variety of projects in the everyday professional activity. After analyzing academicprograms for engineering majors

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2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Timothy B. Whitmoyer; David T. Vader

Design of Sustainable Water Pumps for Burkina Faso Timothy B. Whitmoyer and David T. Vader Messiah College, Grantham, PAAbstractThe Department of Engineering at Messiah College has partnered with the Handicapẻs en Avant,(a center for rehabilitation and education of handicapped persons in southeast Burkina Faso) forover a decade. One of the enduring student-faculty projects spawned from this relationship is theModified Rower Pump Project. The long-term vision of this project is to provide a sustainabledesign, including construction methods, allowing local manufacturers to build water pumps aspart of their businesses. The present goals of the project are to quantify the pump’s