5 students/team), 9 short form Page 14.1372.4 Tools: MS Word reports, individual formal reports Tools: MS Word, Excel, Matlab ME – 471 Machine Design II ME 481 – Senior Capstone Design Design Project Documentation: Formal Design Reports Tools: C Programming, Excel, Matlab, WWW Problem Definition, Progress report
increased team discussion time, frequentassessments and additional teamwork factors such as conflict occurrence and resolution will alsobe addressed. The impact that improved teamwork skills may have on students will be evaluatedthrough collection of annual retention data, performance in the capstone design course, andspecific questions related to teamwork readiness on our department’s annual exit survey tograduating students. The impact will be compared to historical student data, in which thetraditional lecture-based introductory course was offered, and used to guide continuousdevelopment of our undergraduate curriculum to prepare our students for future success.References1. Richardson J. et al., Freshman Design Projects in the Foundation
are promoted with these younger students. The very contact with upper classmen willgain a transfer of knowledge along with a tangible reason for taking many of the courses in thecurriculum.There is one last area that may not have received much discussion but can produce interestingresults. Most colleges and universities have final projects, courses, or capstone design coursesthat culminate the entire body of courses taken by the student. A future project hopes to introducefreshmen to members of the senior design class and allows these freshmen to sit in on some ofthe proceedings of meetings, work sessions, and company visits the connection between whatthey are going to face in their classes and the final real world projects may clarify much
lifetime andalternative triggering approaches. The problem for this senior capstone project was a solarsystem design that could power an image recognition system and provide long life. An externalcompany defined the requirements for the image recognition system. The number of subsystemsthat interconnect to support this expanded functionality is challenging. The subsystems thatmake up this solar-powered camera system include a charging circuit, a heating circuit, a triggercircuit, a solar array, and batteries, Along with the challenges presented from designing thesubsystems, there were a number of lessons learned as a result of the project. Of the lessonslearned, the most notable were the challenge of getting parts for a prototype, the level of
1 devised a clever way to involve freshman engineering students in designthrough the design/redesign of paper clips. Using minimal resources and with minimalprerequisites, students were exposed to the compromises involved in the design of a real product 1 .In another example, Latcha and Oakley 2 describe a Capstone course where students design andconstruct toys or games. This course exposes students to the severe economic constraints oneffective toys and gives them the opportunity to have their designs presented to industry.Both of these project examples involve teaching practices that are recognized throughout thegreater community of educators as high-impact practices 3 . Design project work, especially withconstruction, requires that
. His general expertise and interests include: IoT and Network Technologies, iOS application development, and Secure programming. He has recently published his first ASEE paper and presented at the ASEE NCS Section in March 2019 with his senior capstone team, SoT (Secure of Things). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Pedagogical Assessment of Secure Coding in Student ProgramsAbstractStudents in introductory Computer Science (CS) courses are required to submit severalprogramming assignments and/or projects. The submitted programs are largely assessed on theircorrectness to the given problem, and not against secure software coding practices. In ourexperience, student programs
various approachesto the process of monitoring and controlling projects as well as managing a construction site. Inquadrant III courses, the emphasis is on the detailed tools and techniques for buildingconstruction. The quadrant IV courses emphasize upon acquiring the skills and the approachesneeded for collective representation and dispute resolution. In addition to the courses in Figure2, the capstone course (CM 595 Applied Research in Construction Management) as well as the‘Research Methods’ course encompasses and applies all prior course works, and requires theproduction of a complete professional-quality project analysis, utilizing actual industry data andresources.The students’ ratings on the satisfaction levels of the overall graduate
Paper ID #28121Board 13: Manufacturing Division: Improving Student Engagement in aSenior-Level Manufacturing Course for Mechanical Engineering StudentsDr. Joshua Gargac, University of Mount Union Joshua Gargac is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Mount Union in Alliance, OH, where he advises the mechanical engineering senior capstone projects and SAE Baja team. In addition, Dr. Gargac teaches first-year engineering courses, computer-aided design, kinematics and dynamics of machinery, and manufacturing science. He received his BSME from Ohio Northern University and a PhD in Bioengineering
student and faculty perceptions of productive conflict. Themain conflicts that were reported in our study included conflicts of commitment, differentideas about the project direction as well as different working styles.Results from this research will enable us to rethink common models of team conflict anddevelop direct and indirect intervention strategies that can help students to better integrateemotion and intellect in engineering design and innovation.IntroductionAlthough design projects and course structures may vary, there has been a consistentattempt to integrate team experiences into the engineering design curriculum 1-5. Whilethere has been significant work that describes instructional approaches for integrating andassessing teamwork
and Page 7.336.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationthe original design of new products. A key element in this course was the use of hands-onexperiences through the use of “reverse engineering” projects. 2 After running successfully for a few years, the course was stable enough to weather a fewdesign modifications. We canvassed our faculty and our Air Force constituents for theirsuggestions on course content and process enhancements. Unfortunately, the list of suggestedenhancements
withactual engineering projects to show students how intricately linked communication andteamwork skills are with engineering problem solving and design. Much emphasis is placed onsenior capstone courses, as this meets the immediate demand of preparing graduating seniors forthe non-technical aspects of their careers. In contrast, freshman classes receive less attention interms of their position to “set the tone” for the coupling of communication and engineering,likely because the demands placed on freshman engineering classes are already high. They serveas a recruitment tool, pique interest in engineering, expose students to the many and varied areasof concentration in the discipline, and perhaps, introduce students to engineering projects andbasic
preferfocusing on essential knowledge rather than skills they believe students will acquire on the job.Duston [3] highlights concerns in teaching engineering design via capstone projects, noting thatfaculty worry about the additional time and manpower required, their lack of practical designexperience, and the perceived lack of support. Turns [37] points out that educators fear the timededicated to teaching design might detract from their other responsibilities.DiscussionWe explore how design and making-based pedagogy [38] can be integrated through pedagogicalinnovations and new activities supported by faculty. Using an “additive innovation” framework[39], which encourages sharing, remixing, and iterating ideas, both students and faculty areempowered to
curricular updates to BME305L & BME306L that reflectsstudents’ comments on better preparations for these area core classes, measuring BME studentsuccess in research and industry careers in this sector, and assess improvements in BiotechnologyDesign I/II projects and ventures as a capstone design course.References[1] R. A. Linsenmeier and A. Saterbak, "Fifty Years of Biomedical Engineering UndergraduateEducation," Ann Biomed Eng, vol. 48, no. 6, pp. 1590-1615, Jun 2020, doi: 10.1007/s10439-020-02494-0.[2] D. Collias, R. Marshall, S. P. Collins, C. L. Beisel, and V. Noireaux, "An educational moduleto explore CRISPR technologies with a cell-free transcription-translation system," Synth Biol(Oxf), vol. 4, no. 1, p. ysz005, 2019, doi: 10.1093/synbio
continues into the second year.These positive results indicate that it would likely be advantageous to transition this program to amulti-university project to more effectively demonstrate the robustness of the process for RisingScholar students.I. Background and structure of the Rising Scholars ProgramThe project, NSF S-STEM 1644143: Rising Scholars: Web of Support used as an Indicator ofSuccess in Engineering, is a research/scholarship program that was initiated in September 2016at Purdue University. The research portion of the program was designed to determine whetherhaving a strong support network could outweigh high school grades and test scores in predictingsuccess in STEM majors, particularly engineering. ‘Rising Scholars’ (RS) is the
afocus on hands-on education. This content is a major component of the CSET program thatsatisfies ABET ETAC Criteria. The Computer Science content of the program was enhanced andredesigned after Fall 2006 to meet ABET CAC Criteria.The CSET program is a mid-station between Computer Science and Computer EngineeringTechnology. The program is geared primarily to students that enjoy hands-on or Project-BasedLearning (PBL). Experiential learning effectively engages students 1,2 , supports technology andcollaboration 3,4,5,6 , reduces failure rates 7 , and exposes students to Science, Technology,Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) careers 8 .// The rest of this paper is structured as follows.ABET Student Outcome CriteriaBoth ETAC and CAC require
of a product; then developbusiness and marketing plans for the product, while gaining an understanding of thepatent process. All of these activities are part of a capstone project that is alreadyincluded in the curriculum at ASU‘s Polytechnic campus, Department of ElectronicSystems.Introduction ASU defines entrepreneurship as “the spirit and process of creative risk takingand innovation that leverages university knowledge to spur social development andeconomic competitiveness.”1 Additionally, in a contributed article to Mechanical Engineering Magazine,Ephraim Suhir, President and CEO of ERS/Siloptix Co. in Los Altos, CA, wrote that “atechnological professional with entrepreneurial skills has a better chance than a
when they solve these examples since often verycomplicated problem may have a very simple solution(s). In addition to regular teachingassignments, there are many informal teaching opportunities that arise in which creativity andinnovation can be injected into the curriculum. Most notably, capstone design courses can beeasily utilized for creative thinking to produce quality projects, provided that the instructor andthe project advisor are willing to devote a significant amount of time to advising the student teammembers.Creativity is a process of generating and manifesting a new idea1. This idea may come in secondsand goes with the winds in seconds unless it is recorded and explored. On the other hand,innovation is taking creative ideas into
American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Elective Courses (12 units) 12 quarter units of graduate courses in Engineering, Business and Economics, Computer Science, Statistics, or related areas. The following is a sample list of electives: CIS 6070 Graduate Introduction to Computer Information Systems ENGR 6900 Independent Study MGMT 6150 Global Supply Chain Management MGMT 6470 Management of Technology and Innovation MGMT 6560 High performance Management Capstone Experience (4 units) ENGR 6899 Project, or pass the comprehensive examination and complete an
98-50749 “A Vehicle for Delivering aMechanical Systems Laboratory Experience”) is to procure all of the equipment and Page 4.166.1instrumentation needed for a capstone mechanical engineering systems laboratory course. TheILI project has been previously described 4 , so only a brief review is given here.In developing the Engineering Systems Laboratory, careful consideration was given to selectingan appropriate system for the student experiments. It is not desirable or even possible to attemptto expose students to every type of system that they might work with throughout theirprofessional career. In designing the systems lab, one must select a
Paper ID #41047A Comparison between the Different Accredited Architectural EngineeringPrograms through ABET and CEABDr. Rachel Mosier, Oklahoma State University Dr. Rachel Mosier is an Associate Professor in the Construction Engineering Technology program at Oklahoma State University, with a background in structural engineering and project management. Dr. Mosier has received regional and international teaching awards through the Associated Schools of Construction.Dr. Rania Al-Hammoud, MpowerU Training & Consultancy Inc. Rania Al-Hammoud is a lecturer and the current associate chair of undergraduate studies at the civil
MET 414#3 standards and MET 344 MET 384 Capstone Project and Assessment scale. disciplines in their intellectual, competencies and further MET 414 Team professional, and community the goals of society. lives. 4a. Demonstrate CGT 110 IET 150 substantial knowledge and Comprehensive Results Analysis 70
Laboratory Edith Gummer is the Director of the Classroom-Focused Research and Evaluation Program for the Center for Classroom Teaching and Learning at the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. She coordinated the structure of the research design and the data collection and analysis processes of the project. She has been faculty in science and mathematics education quantitative and qualitative research design courses at the doctoral level. She has been involved in the development of innovative mathematics curricular activities and formative assessment in mathematics problem solving.Philip Harding, Oregon State University Philip Harding holds the Linus Pauling Chair in the School of
, the retention of thatinformation by the students must be assessed. In particular, the retention and internalization bythe students of the necessary content across the entire curriculum must be assessed. Thisassimilated information is that which is carried forward and is built upon in subsequent courses. There are three primary methods for assessing student retention of the information conveyed. Page 12.200.11These methods are: ‚ Retention examinations at critical points in the program of study, ‚ An external jury review of the capstone design projects, and ‚ The Fundamentals of Engineering Examination.Each of the
Design: Nanoscale thin film tester Prof. J. Wang Course: ME 495 Nanodevice projects Design: Research-type open-ended projects will be Title: Capstone Design offered on nanodevice design Prof. All InvestigatorsFig. 1. Relation between novel concepts in nanodevices in proposed modules and the learning outcomes in the eight coursesimpacted by the proposed NUE program. Recently developed courses are initially assigned the numbers ME 498 or ME 499before a permanent unique number is assigned. The other five courses (ME 333, ME 354, ME 356, ME 440, ME 471, andME 495) are core Mechanical Engineering (ME) courses that
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Embedding video-based learning modules for library research methods in an online graduate engineering degree programAbstractAt the University of California, Berkeley, the College of Engineering has launched a fully onlineMaster's degree program in integrated circuits. As part of this program, students are required tocomplete a comprehensive capstone project requiring access to the research literature andtraining on its use.The Library plays an important role in providing the information resources and instruction tohelp students succeed in their capstone. In response to student need, we designed an onlineinstruction environment that supports common information challenges, uses
instructor evaluation of the degree of learning achievement of individual students on a capstone team, which includes consideration of the collective achievements of the team. o Peer evaluation (optional by instructor). o Grading of deliverables by the instructors (project plan, mid-term review, final report, exhibit (and abstract), oral presentation, team minutes, web site if applicable). o Teamwork survey. o Self-assessment. o Senior Design Symposium judging (with evaluation criteria explicitly indexed to the learning objectives and articulated via rubrics for all measures). 5. Conclusions:Teaching a design courses for
isrequired.Figure 1 illustrates the potential knowledge areas and skills relevant to an ecological engineeringcurriculum. The specific sequence of required course work and electives, and the strategy forfulfilling minimal requirements in a four, or perhaps five, year program need furtherinvestigation. The figure shows two paths of knowledge feeding into a capstone designexperience. Capstone design projects allow students to synthesize and apply knowledge gainedfrom their course work to solve real world problems in cooperation with local agencies,companies, and other academic programs. Projects for a capstone design course in ecologicalengineering could include wetland, stream and habitat restoration, mitigation of developmentprojects, and bioremediation
socialresponsibility. Course creation and revisions incorporated EOP learning outcomes; many of theserevisions took effect in Autumn 2023. Additionally, one of the core courses of our proposedspecialization will be offered on a satellite campus beginning Spring 2024.The EOP framework provided the guiding principles for the proposed specialization. Theseprogrammatic elements balance student learning with community impacts while weavingSustainability, Intercultural Competence and Cultural Awareness into a core tenet of engineering.Further, the EOP mentorship program was instrumental in guiding the project participants increating buy-in from stakeholders across the university enterprise.IntroductionThere are many dimensions to sustainability, and our pedagogical
basic question remains; will the professors teaching design courses teach the required infor-mation with considerable added knowledge? Further, does the professor perform knowledging? Page 9.1177.8The capstone course involving design analysis generally has a team of students working on a pro- Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationject, and the class has a number of projects going simultaneously, each with a different set ofspecifications. The knowledge involved in these classes occurs in at
worldengineering fundamentals in order to solve real-world actual EXPLORE a contrarian view of accepted solutionsproblems. Some instructors who teach the senior-level CONNECTIONSengineering courses such as senior capstone design course ENTREPRENEURIAL INTEGRATE information from manyand elective courses may adapt and/or use the project-based MINDSET sources to gain insightlearning (PTBL) and/or experiential learning (EL) for the