Conference Session

Capstone Mechanical Engineering Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Archibald

Session 3566 RECONCILING WELL-DEFINED CAPSTONE OBJECTIVES AND CRITERIA WITH REQUIREMENTS FOR INDUSTY INVOLVEMENT Mark Archibald, Mark Reuber, Blair Allison GROVE CITY COLLEGEAbstractMechanical engineering capstone design students benefit from interaction with practicingengineers. This is widely recognized, and many programs require students to work onprojects that originate with local industry. This approach has the appeal of “real-world”engineering, and the benefit of external project evaluation. However, it can be difficult toreconcile industry-sponsored projects with established

Conference Session

Circuits and Systems Education 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University; Stephen Keith Holland, James Madison University; Brian Groener, James Madison University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

circuit analysis arecovered along with instrumentation topics. The laboratory portion of the course reinforces the conceptslearned in lecture and assignments while building skills in circuit prototyping and measurement. Labexercises have traditionally been a time when students follow a given procedure, collect data, andinterpret the data. The highly structured experience often leads to students focusing on the procedureand not fully thinking through the concepts being covered. To encourage a deeper understanding ofcourse concepts and how they translate to physical systems, two open-ended design projects wereoffered in place of structured labs in the most recent offering the circuits and instrumentation course.The design projects are undirected

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Budny P.E., University of Pittsburgh; Sina Arjmand, University of Pittsburgh; David V.P. Sanchez, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

- versity of Pittsburgh, Freshman Engineering, 126 Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261; 412-624-6474. [budny@pitt.edu]Mr. Sina ArjmandDr. David V.P. Sanchez, University of Pittsburgh Page 26.156.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 ADDING AN INTERNATIONAL SENIOR DESIGN COMPONENT INTO THE CIVIL CURRICULUMAbstractInternational exposure as well as project-based service learning for undergraduate students hasgained much attention for their positive impact on students. Additionally, ABET engineeringcriteria require international exposure for all undergraduates. As

Collection

2013 ERC

Authors

Peder Maarbjerg

ARPA-E: Changing What’s Possible 2013 ASEE Engineering Research Council (ERC) Annual Conference Peder MaarbjergMarch 4, 2013Evolution of ARPA-E 1ARPA-E Mission 2Creating New Learning Curves 3What Makes an ARPA-E Project? IMPACT ‣ High impact on ARPA-E mission areas ‣ Credible path to market ‣ Large commercial application TRANSFORM ‣ Challenges what is possible ‣ Disrupts existing learning curves ‣ Leaps beyond today’s technologies BRIDGE ‣ Translates science into breakthrough technology ‣ Not researched or funded elsewhere ‣ Catalyzes new interest and investment TEAM

Collection

2013 ERC

Authors

Peder Maarbjerg

ARPA-E: Changing What’s Possible 2013 ASEE Engineering Research Council (ERC) Annual Conference Peder MaarbjergMarch 4, 2013Evolution of ARPA-E 1ARPA-E Mission 2Creating New Learning Curves 3What Makes an ARPA-E Project? IMPACT ‣ High impact on ARPA-E mission areas ‣ Credible path to market ‣ Large commercial application TRANSFORM ‣ Challenges what is possible ‣ Disrupts existing learning curves ‣ Leaps beyond today’s technologies BRIDGE ‣ Translates science into breakthrough technology ‣ Not researched or funded elsewhere ‣ Catalyzes new interest and investment TEAM

Conference Session

BIM in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stan Guidera, Bowling Green State University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

, and integrating digital applications into the design process. He is skilled with a variety of digital modeling tools including Revit, Rhino 3D, Grasshopper, 3DS Max Design, and AutoCAD Architecture. In addition to university teaching he is an Autodesk Certified Revit Professional and provides training and consulting services. Page 26.1660.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Using BIM to support Habitat for Humanity: A case studyAbstract This paper documents a graduate level research project intended to enable students togain experience with Building

Conference Session

Product Development and Manufacturing

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University; Jyhwen Wang, Texas A&M University; Manoj Vanajakumari, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

ofthe initiative is to provide engineering students at all levels with opportunities in learning productdevelopment in the real-world setting.This article discusses the details of the activities organized by PID Initiative and how theyimpact the student learning. The focus of PID Initiative activities is innovative productdevelopment. Undergraduate students from ETID department are recruited to form teams thatdevelop new products. The student teams, with the help of faculty members, generate ideas fornew products, conduct market analysis, design and manufacture the product, sell the products,and provide technical support to the customers. The PID Initiative projects generate revenue tosupport student learning. The objective is to become self

Collection

2016 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

N. Fang; L. McNeill; Robert Spall; P. Barr

engineering graduation and retentionrates at U.S. universities are not keeping up with the nation’s increasing demands for engineeringtalent. In 2000, less than 5% of all undergraduate degrees were awarded to engineers.Engineering bachelor’s degrees have grown only 1% since 2005.This presentation describes the overall framework of a project that has been recently funded bythe Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program (S-STEM) ofthe National Science Foundation. The goal of the project is to provide S-STEM scholarshipsupport for academically-talented, financially-needy engineering students, and to train thesestudents to become effective scientific and technological contributors when entering theengineering workforce. The

Conference Session

Off the Beaten Path

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerald Sullivan, Virginia Military Institute; Jon-Michael Hardin, Virginia Military Institute

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

at amilitary academy, where highly structured time schedules scatters study time through outthe day, and where students face all of the same hi-tech distractions as their civiliancounterparts. To compete for time in this new study-scape, the study of engineeringconcepts must be re-cast into exercises that entice students with interesting and evenentertaining results. In this paper we describe several projects that have been incorporatedinto the ME curriculum at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) to keep students engagedin their studies and improve the acquisition of engineering concepts as well as designskills. In this paper the authors examine case-study projects used at VMI and, based ontheir experiences with these projects, conclude

Conference Session

Innovation in the Civil Engineering Classroom

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane Bondehagen, Florida Gulf Coast University; Simeon Komisar, Florida Gulf Coast University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Resources DesignAbstractA first semester, senior level civil and environmental engineering course, Water ResourcesDesign is, for most, the first experience for students at Florida Gulf Coast University in workingwith non-trivial design projects. To make the course experience as transferable as possible tofuture graduate engineering employment, students learn and apply hydraulic software to projectdevelopment and execution. The course takes an innovative case study approach with 5 designprojects required with rotating teams assigned to each project. The projects are taken from "realworld" engineering problem assignments which impart to students an appreciation of theconstraints and uncertainties inherent in the design process. Project 1 necessitates

Conference Session

Building a Better Program - Construction Curriculum Enhancements

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip A. Dunn Jr. P.E., University of Maine

Tagged Divisions

Construction

Page 23.390.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Developing Across the Curriculum Examples to Use in the Construction ClassroomAbstractThis paper presents an across the curriculum case study used at the University of Maine withinsome of the core courses of the Construction Management Technology program. Exercises havebeen developed using this case study as the reference project. Students are first introduced to theproject as sophomores and refer to the project in select exercises in courses through andincluding in their senior year. The consistency in using a familiar project helps students graspconstruction concepts within the context of a working project

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

James vanPutten; Brad Mulder; John Krupczak

Session 1661 Multidisciplinary Student Experiences in a Liberal Arts Engineering Program John Krupczak, Jr., Brad Mulder, and James vanPutten, Jr. Hope College AbstractA two-semester senior undergraduate design sequence has been developed for an engineeringprogram in a liberal arts college. The courses provide a wide range of design experiencesincluding: study of structured design methodologies, individual and team projects, prototypeconstruction, communication of design results, incorporation of industrial design

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hong Man, Stevens Institute of Technology

introductory course. A possible solution is to keep thesesubjects at a conceptual (or qualitative) level and allow students to visualize the physical effectsthrough lab exercises.Developing and maintaining a medical imaging laboratory is quite expensive, and it may requiremany specialized equipment and hazardous materials. Although many schools and programshave been offering some kind of lab exercises for this course, not many of them can actuallyafford and support a comprehensive laboratory that can cover all the aspects and modalities ofmedical imaging4,5.The objective of this CCLI Phase 1 Project is to develop a computer simulation labenvironment—SimuRad, that can help junior or senior undergraduate students from differentmajors to understand the

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lori M Houghtalen, Abilene Christian University; Timothy Kennedy P.E., Abilene Christian University; Raymond Earl Smith, Abilene Christian University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

. Entering the 2015-2016 academic year,program faculty envisioned a capstone design experience that would engage student teams in ayear-long, professional level design project sponsored by an industry client. The first two yearsof the capstone design program have been inarguably successful, and in this paper we identifyand reflect on the keys to our success. The intention for writing this paper is to ensure thesuccess of the program is repeatable, and to assist other programs, especially those residing insmall liberal arts universities, in starting or revising their own senior design experience.Our key factors in assembling a successful industry-sponsored capstone design program havebeen: (1) faculty buy-in and involvement, (2) engaged industry

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frederick Berry; Patricia Carlson

reflect on whether they have gained a deeper level of understanding for the assignment and its outcomes.How We Applied CPRAfter some experimentation with CPR, it was very obvious that with proper design of exercises,CPR could be used to assess EC3(g). In fact, CPR could be used to make writing a method oflearning engineering design. Therefore, the ECE Department has developed a complete courseusing CPR assignments to help our students develop proposals for their senior design projects.This course, ECE362 Principles of Design, is a junior level required course for all computer andelectrical engineering students. ECE362 includes intellectual property, research methods, designspecifications, conceptual design, scheduling, project management

Conference Session

Computer and Informtion Technology-related Issues

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Se Jun Song, Texas A&M University, College Station

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

) undergraduate programs have been offering a “Mobile Computing ApplicationDevelopment with Android (ENTC 489)” course from 2009. For the nature of the open programenvironment, Google’s Android becomes major development platform along with Apple’siPhone Operating Systems (iOS). The course has provided various opportunities to harness thestudents’ mobile application development skills for their research and development projects. Thecourse curriculum is designed to learn the Google’s Android application developmentenvironment by examining various hands-on software technologies. Then students (working inteams) identify application ideas for delivering their final project. The course also covers theusability issues of mobile devices. The detailed course

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Beatrice Isaacs; Donald Leone

) with a sociology course, “Ethics in the Professions”. The ILBmechanism allows for the study of specific ethical issues associated with the design projectsbeing undertaken by the engineering students. In the sociology course, engineering studentsbenefit from wide ranging discussions of ethical issues, and non-engineering students and facultyare brought to understand the nature of engineering work and its broad social context. Severalworkshops were held to engage the faculty teaching “Ethics in the Professions”, and to defineoutcomes for the ILB.In order to formulate realistic design projects with identifiable ethics components, an OutreachCommittee, comprised of local professional engineers, was formed and met as a group to discussthe types of

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Vernon-Gerstenfeld

Session 2460 When Engineering Students Apply Theory to Practice Internationally Susan Vernon-Gerstenfeld Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, MAAbstractWPI has long embraced a project-based curriculum that now extends to sites throughoutthe world. Established programs in Europe, the Far East, Australia, Latin America andthe Caribbean provide opportunities for undergraduates to complete degree-requiredprojects with sponsoring organizations under the guidance of WPI faculty. This type ofexperience is unrivaled by traditional

Conference Session

Design Across Disciplines

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith G. Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology; John Nastasi, Stevens Institute of Technology; Eirik Hole, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

engineering from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 1995. Page 25.88.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 A Pilot for Multidisciplinary Capstone Design incorporating a Systems Engineering FrameworkSynopsisIn this paper we discuss a pilot project to develop an approach to multidisciplinary capstonedesign that incorporates a systems engineering (SE) framework which can be a model for broadimplementation. It is a reflection of the growing demand for engineers educated to recognize theoverarching significance of systems engineering approaches for the

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert L. Green

: Page 4.302.11. The instructor identifies an ongoing project and provides the students with a brief written description of the project.2. The students then review the construction documents (plans and specifications) and the contractor’s critical path (CPM) schedule for the project.3. The students’ visit to the site would ideally occur when construction has progressed to the point to reveal the magnitude and complexities of the project.4. During the visit the students should meet with the contractor’s project manager. It is important that the project manager discusses his project budget and explains his firm’s project team, especially his “boss” and their relationship.5. The students will prepare written reports on their site visit

Conference Session

Perspectives and Evaluation of Engineering Design Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Radian G. Belu, Southern University and A&M College; Lucian Ionel Cioca, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu; Fred Lacy, Southern University and A&M College

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #28657A Service-oriented Learning Approach for the Electrical EngineeringCapstone Design CourseDr. Radian G Belu, Southern University and A&M College Dr. Radian Belu is Associate Professor within Electrical Engineering Department, Southern University, Baton, Rouge, USA. He is holding one PHD in power engineering and other one in physics. Before joining to Southern University Dr. Belu hold faculty, research and industry positions at universities and research institutes in Romania, Canada and United States. He also worked for several years in industry as project manager, senior engineer and consultant. He has

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Wall; Kathy Belknap

engineering programs specify the number of credits of engineering topics where design integrateswith engineering science throughout engineering courses. The electrical engineering section of the ABETGuidelines further encourages “a significant design experience” in the senior year[1]. The University of Idaho requires a two-semester senior level course sequence focusing entirely on designissues. Students develop skills in open-ended problem solving, identifying solution options, and maximizingresources under constraints. They are repeatedly exposed to the “design process” and are given numerousopportunities to develop written and oral communication skills. The projects require an element of originaldesign and the demonstration of a working

Conference Session

Engagement In Practice: Integrating Community Engagement into Engineering Curricula

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan E Canney P.E.; Elizabeth O'Brien, Seattle University; Teddi Callahan

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Canney taught in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Seattle University for four years and now works in private consulting.Elizabeth O’Brien, Seattle UniversityTeddi Callahan c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Engagement in Practice: Using community engagement to teach drafting software to civil engineering studentsAbstract This paper explores a course design that uses a software drafting program, Revit, as thefoundation for community engagement (CE) projects in a required course for civil engineeringstudents. Over four terms, this course has used seven CE projects with three different partners.Local community

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Buffardi, California State University, Chico; William Zamora, Califonia State University, Chico; Colleen Robb, California State University, Chico; David Rahn, California State University, Chico

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

experience of software development skills andconcepts, while working toward a whole-term software project [2]. However, it does notfacilitate a realistic industry experience and may even be harmful to students’ education whenthey define their own “toy projects” for the class [3]. In particular, Nurkkala and Brandle [4]observed that, “The most significant gap,” between software engineering projects and industrypractice, “is that student projects seldom involve a real customer.” Real customers have a stakein the quality and timeliness of software deliverables and therefore hold the development teamaccountable. Likewise, contemporary practices in the software industry have evolved with anemphasis on customer involvement in the development process

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen; Christopher Rowe

Session 2793 Getting to know your engineering major Christopher J. Rowe, Anita Mahadevan-Jansen Vanderbilt UniversityAbstract The first semester in engineering education is arguably the most important in laying thefundamental groundwork and preparing students for advanced study in their choice of engineeringmajor. An estimated 40% of entering freshmen are uncertain as to their choice of major. Studentsare typically required to declare their engineering major as freshmen. The burden and the goal ofthis project then is to educate students about engineering and

Conference Session

Real-world Applications in ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Randall Timi; Dannie Hutchinson; William Strenth; James Otter

role. Field engineers, material testers andestimators at the second year level. Senior estimators, project engineers, superintendents at the "Proceedings of the 2002 American Society foe Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Education" Page 7.9.1third year level. Project managers, contract managers, etc. at the senior/graduate year. Projectteams would be developed from a cross section of the various levels of students. As thesemester/year progressed, special workshops, training sessions would be required for the variousjobs and responsibilities

Conference Session

SPECIAL SESSION: Educational Methods and Tools to Encourage Conceptual Learning I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald P. Visco Jr., University of Akron

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering, Educational Research and Methods

from many disciplines within engineering and cover alllevels of students, such as Freshman projects where students are involved in the design process2 orin working with modules3, to multidisciplinary design projects4 and many implementations inbetween.Within the field of chemical engineering, Arce (among other faculty) recently has had studentsdesign and build modules (he called them experimental prototypes) to demonstrate chemicalengineering concepts, such as flow meters, though they varied greatly in size.5 Minerick, on theother hand, has used faculty-designed and built modules that do fit on a desktop (called a Desktop Page 22.1330.2Module

Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Christopher W. Swan; Julia Carroll

professional issuesassociated with the practice of engineering. The course also examines the economic, political andsocial issues that frame the project delivery process. Professionalism, ethics, communications,and leadership skill development were threaded throughout the course. Though specificallydeveloped and aimed for civil and environmental engineers, course materials are applicable tomost areas of engineering and science. This paper presents an overview of the course and provides specific examples of differentpedagogical methods and tools used for topic and course delivery. In addition to exams andassignments, a number of term projects were completed, allowing students to actively apply theskills discussed. Some of the pedagogical

Collection

2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Christopher W. Swan; Julia Carroll

professional issuesassociated with the practice of engineering. The course also examines the economic, political andsocial issues that frame the project delivery process. Professionalism, ethics, communications,and leadership skill development were threaded throughout the course. Though specificallydeveloped and aimed for civil and environmental engineers, course materials are applicable tomost areas of engineering and science. This paper presents an overview of the course and provides specific examples of differentpedagogical methods and tools used for topic and course delivery. In addition to exams andassignments, a number of term projects were completed, allowing students to actively apply theskills discussed. Some of the pedagogical

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Christopher W. Swan; Julia Carroll

professional issuesassociated with the practice of engineering. The course also examines the economic, political andsocial issues that frame the project delivery process. Professionalism, ethics, communications,and leadership skill development were threaded throughout the course. Though specificallydeveloped and aimed for civil and environmental engineers, course materials are applicable tomost areas of engineering and science. This paper presents an overview of the course and provides specific examples of differentpedagogical methods and tools used for topic and course delivery. In addition to exams andassignments, a number of term projects were completed, allowing students to actively apply theskills discussed. Some of the pedagogical