Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Kirk E. Hiles; David L. Walters; Vincent Wilczynski

is a capstone experience for the mechanical engineering and naval architecture/marineengineering students. Through this project, the students are exposed the dependence of academic courses, for they seehow material covered in one discipline is used in another discipline. The project is design driven, for thestudents have to design their own system, and experience the joys and/or frustrations of transferring adesign done on paper into a working system. The necessity for and results of experimentation arehighlighted in the project, for it is only through experimentation that the system's performancecharacteristics can be identified. Similarly, it is through experimentation that the designs are verified

Conference Session

Track 1b - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Nannan He, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Han-Way Huang, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Tagged Topics

Curriculum and Lab Development

offer courses on Eclipse-based MBD of embedded system, only the graduate school in Chinese Science Academy hasopened a research course recently as far as best knowledge.5. ConclusionMBD is cost effective for developing complex and reliable-critical embedded systems. Thispaper presents our teaching experiences of integrating this new MBD paradigm into a system-level Programming Tools course for CE and EE students. It mainly describes two new topicsintegrated to this PT course: MBD concepts and eclipse-based software tools supporting MBD,from the course materials preparation and instruction approaches two aspects. In the future,students and our teachers will together create and gather more capstone projects related to MBDby means of eclipse-based

Collection

2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

John W. Gibbons

Senior Capstone studentswith the idea of designing a point-and-click adventure game for preschool children. Once I had aComputer Science team willing to take on the project, I reached out to a professor from theSchool of Art and Design, Matthew Cook, who was able to assemble a team of artists for theproject. Professor Bryan ‘Kip’ Haaheim (currently retired) arranged a collaboration with a lonemusic student to write the score.The goal was to create a point-and-click adventure game for preschool children. I gave the teamthe following parameters: ● No reading ability required ● Theme appropriate for children ● Playable on PC ● Mouse is the only input deviceThe result was the creation of the game "Dragon Adventure" [1] , winner of

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Bryan Cooperrider

The Importance of Divergent Thinking in Engineering Design Bryan Cooperrider Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZAbstractWith the emergence of capstone and cornerstone engineering classes in recent years, designplays an increasingly prominent role in engineering education. This paper will focus on theimportance of divergent thinking in the design process. (Divergent thinking is associated withcreativity in that multiple unique solutions are generated for a single problem. In contrast,convergent thinking is a process that identifies a single “correct” answer.) Once divergentthinking is defined, the paper

Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Eniko T. Enikov; Vasco Polyzoev; Joshua Gill

greatestcontribution of the project was in using controls in their senior-year capstone design course.More than 50% of the students also indicated that they had used this experience in their jobsearch by including it on their resumes.V. ConclusionAn inexpensive (less than $100) take-home experimental setup has been designed for a hands-onexperience of mechanical engineering students with a real control system. This makes it suitablefor a term project, where minimal or no supervision is required, and no special time or place isneeded. It also helps students whose major is not electrical engineering to become familiar withthe modern developments in implementation of real-time control systems. While simple, thehardware allows demonstration of advanced concepts

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 9

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Tan, Texas Tech University; Sampa Halder; Luke LeFebvre, University of Kentucky

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

education. This paper presents an undergraduate elective course for biomedicalinnovation. In this course, junior or senior Industrial Engineering (IE) students withoutbiomedicine backgrounds will be asked to team with medical students to develop innovativesolutions for clinical problems. Unlike conventional senior design or a capstone project, this courserequires students to identify a problem in an authentic clinical setting and translate the clinicalproblem into an engineering project. Fifty percent of the credit for the final project will be basedon the analysis of the problem and fifty percent of the credit will be based on the proposed solutionin terms of novelty and technical rationale. This elective course is expected to encourage studentsto

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) Technical Session 10

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nusaybah Abu-Mulaweh, Johns Hopkins University; Alissa Burkholder Murphy, Johns Hopkins University; Jenna Frye, Johns Hopkins University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

skills needed for responding innovatively and responsibly to today’s challenges. Her technical background in electrical and com- puter engineering and experience in industry coupled with her teaching experience in computing and human-centered design have informed her scholarship, which centers on advancing how engineers design concepts and products that are both innovative and aligned to actual needs through empathic formation.Alissa Burkholder Murphy, Johns Hopkins University Prof. Alissa Burkholder Murphy: Alissa is the founder and director of the Multidisciplinary Design Pro- gram at Johns Hopkins, where engineering students from various disciplines collaborate to tackle design challenges with project partners in

Conference Session

Energy Conversion and Conservation Division Technical Session 2: Solar Track

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Reg Pecen, Sam Houston State University; Keith L. Coogler, Sam Houston State University; Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Ulan Dakeev, Sam Houston State University; Lance David Sebesta

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

has been achieved in successfully chairing ten or more graduate student culminating projects, theses, or dissertations, in 2011 and 2005. He was also nominated for 2004 UNI Book and Supply Outstanding Teaching Award, March 2004, and nominated for 2006, and 2007 Russ Nielson Service Awards, UNI. Dr. Pecen is an Engineering Tech- nology Editor of American Journal of Undergraduate Research (AJUR). He has been serving as a re- viewer on the IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing since 2001. Dr. Pecen has served on ASEE Engineering Technology Division (ETD) in Annual ASEE Conferences as a reviewer, session moderator, and co-moderator since 2002. He served as a Chair-Elect on ASEE ECC Division in

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions I: Communication in Engineering Disciplines

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Conrad, Portland State University; William A. Kitch, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Timothy James Pfeiffer P.E., Foundation Engineering, Inc.; Tori Rhoulac Smith, Howard University; John V. Tocco J.D., Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #12608Students Writing for Professional Practice: A Model for Collaboration amongFaculty, Practitioners and Writing SpecialistsProf. Susan Conrad, Portland State University Susan Conrad, Ph.D., is a Professor of Applied Linguistics and head of the Civil Engineering Writing Project. She has written numerous articles and books about English grammar, discourse, and corpus linguistics.Dr. William A Kitch P.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Dr. Kitch is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona. Before starting his academic career he spent 24 years as a practicing engineer in both the

Conference Session

Industrial Interactions and Educational Resources

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Nutter, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

thecollaborative environment that is essential to successfully implementing concurrent engineeringpractices.” 6Curriculum Background at Our UniversityA grant from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers in 1997 permitted the initial offering ofvirtual simulation (VS) as a senior capstone project for technology majors. By the summer of1999, simulation internships had placed 12 of 17 students after running full-scale simulationclasses 7. Internship placements included NASA-Johnson Space Center, a Navistar truck plant,Deneb Robotics, DaimlerChrysler, and General Motors. By 2000 graduates with these skillsreceived the following successful job placements: Applied Manufacturing Technologies(Systems Engineer); Argus & Associates (Simulation Engineer); Delphi

Conference Session

Innovations in Pedagogy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Casey Jane Ankeny PhD, Arizona State University; Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

education, capstone design, and introductory materials science and engineering. His research interests include strategies for web-based teaching and learning, misconceptions and their repair, and role of formative feedback on conceptual change. He has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge of stu- dents in introductory materials engineering classes. He is currently conducting research on web-based tools for teaching and learning, misconceptions and strategies and tools to promote conceptual change in materials courses. Page 24.614.1 c American

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Swedish; Glenn T. Wrate P.E.; Frederik Betz; Emily Blakemore; Lee Greguske

important aspectof this second phase has been the handoff of the project from one team of students to thenext. Information transfer has been smooth, and continuity has been maintained. Theexperiences of the students in working through this phase of the project are described.IntroductionThe Microturbine Demonstration Project is a collaboration among the Milwaukee Schoolof Engineering, the City of Milwaukee, WE Energies, and Wisconsin’s Focus on Energy.The City of Milwaukee was planning the renovation of a city-owned building into a smalloffice complex. City engineers hoped to incorporate cutting-edge energy technology intothe building redesign. Their choice was installation of a 60-kW microturbinemanufactured by Capstone Turbine Corporation, along

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Durward Sobek

. IntroductionDesign is one of the quintessential characteristics of the practicing engineer. It is perfectlyappropriate, then, for it to hold a prominent position in engineering education—most engineeringprograms in this country culminate in a significant design project as the capstone of the degreeprogram. Also, ABET places special emphasis on design in its accreditation evaluation criteria. 1The activities that typically fall under the category “design” consist of analysis activities, that is,making some determination about an existing idea or solution, and synthesis activities—generating a new idea to address an identified problem. While a good deal of research has lookedat design, and there is much we know about good design and good design processes

Conference Session

Software Engineering Pedagogical Approaches

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jon A Preston, Southern Polytechnic State University; Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

what is learned in courses and applying these softwareengineering processes within the context of real software development projects. The key issue asdocumented by previous studies is how to capture both the conceptual ideas of softwareengineering processes while at the same time (or in following semesters) implementing theseconcepts successfully within software development projects. Typically, the processes are taughtin one course with minimal implementation within a project; at the same time, softwaredevelopment courses emphasize the development with little to no formal utilization of processes.This is not a criticism of faculty; it is simply a very difficult task to cover both the processes andimplementation in a cohesive manner. Covering

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 14

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nicolas Ivanov, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto; Nhien Tran-Nguyen, University of Toronto; Neal Callaghan, University of Toronto; Theresa Frost, Toronto District School Board; Jose Luis Cadavid, University of Toronto; Huntley H. Chang, University of Toronto; Ileana Louise Co; Patrick Diep, University of Toronto; Guijin Li, University of Toronto; Nancy T. Li, University of Toronto; Corinna Smith, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto; Joshua Yazbeck; Locke Davenport Huyer, Johns Hopkins University; Dawn M. Kilkenny, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

in capstone-style projects. These projects are performed in teaching lab spaces oncampus under the mentorship of undergraduate and graduate students [17]-[20]. Graduatestudents develop and deliver projects motivated by current challenges in biomedical engineering.Curriculum is designed in collaboration with classroom teachers to meet Ontario STEM learningoutcomes while promoting the global competencies of scientific investigation and careerexploration skills. Discovery deliverables are assessed by teachers and comprise 10-15% of therespective final course grade. To date, student grade data and survey responses support thebenefits of Discovery participation to student engagement and interest in STEM [17]. RemoteDiscovery programming is unique

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Emma Torbert; Eleanor Abrams; David Bourgeois; Carmela Amato-Wierda; Anneliese Mueller; Christopher F. Bauer

projects in which studentteams investigate chemically-related problems from various disciplines, including chemistry,engineering, materials science, biochemistry, earth science, soil science, and environmentalscience. Chemprojects are developed in consultation with faculty from these disciplines andindustry. Science education experts are evaluating the effects Chemprojects on student practices,attitudes, and performance. This paper discusses various aspects of the Chemprojects curriculumreform, including: objectives, description of implemented Chemprojects, modifications to lectureand laboratory format, student teams, description of evaluation methods, and preliminary studentreactions.The General Chemistry Curriculum: What Is Needed?There is an

Conference Session

Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gayle Elliott, University of Cincinnati; Cheryl Cates, University of Cincinnati; Brian Dansberry, University of Cincinnati; Louis Trent, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

International

country.Following a rigorous preparation program in the US, students use their technical, language, andcross-cultural skills in a capstone co-op assignment abroad. The combination of skills acquiredthrough the professional practice and language/culture programs creates a structure whichattracts highly-motivated students, and allows them to succeed in an international workenvironment1.About ten percent of all engineering students (over 200 to date) participate in the ICP. Thestrengths to the UC program are: 1) Students complete four co-op quarters in the US, prior to aninternational co-op assignment and 2) An intensive language program comprised of over 300classroom hours of German, Japanese or Spanish was created specifically for students preparingto live

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Elliott Bryner, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Daniel Dannelley, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

report the results oflaboratory activities and projects in various formats that require strong communication skills.Much of the knowledge, skills, and abilities students gain in this class is used during the yearlongcapstone course the following year in the recommended curriculum.IntroductionThe stated purpose of the Thermal Fluid Science lecture and lab course is for students to learnskills and gain a level of knowledge that will allow them to be successful in laboratory and testsettings in industry and academia. The learning outcomes stated in the course syllabus are: - Students will: 1. Be able to design experiments to characterize a temperature, pressure, mass flow rate within a region of fluid, system or subsystem

Conference Session

Integrating Curriculum and Labs in ET Programs

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ying Zhang, Texas A&M University; Jyhwen Wang, Texas A&M University; Monish S. Mamadapur, Alcon Research, Ltd.

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

. Page 26.1619.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Understanding Additive Manufacturing Part Performance through Modeling and Laboratory ExperimentsAbstractAdditive manufacturing (AM) has attracted extensive attention in recent years due to its wideapplications in academia and industry. As most of the AM parts are built layer by layer, it isclear that parts manufactured from AM processes would perform differently compared toparts manufactured from conventional processes such as casting and injection molding. Sincestudents often rely on AM for part fabrication in courses and capstone projects, and industriescould adopt AM to produce components for their products, there is a

Conference Session

Accreditation and Assessment Concerns in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Hanus, United States Military Academy; Scott Hamilton, United States Military Academy; Jeffrey Russell

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

, R.W. and S.D. Hart (2001). USMA CE Model for Client-Based Multidiscipline Capstones. In ASEE National Conference and Exposition. Albuquerque, NM.30. Rabb, R.J. and R.W. Welch (2002). Projects Day: Completion of the Engineering Capstone Design. In ASEE National Conference and Exposition. Montreal, Canada.31. Welch, R.W. and M.D. Evans (2004). Undergraduate Independent Study Research Projects. In ASEE Page 13.1209.12 National Conference and Exposition. Salt Lake City, UT.

Conference Session

Contemporary Instrumentation

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seyed Allameh, Northern Kentucky University; Morteza Sadat-Hossieny, Northern Kentucky University; Paul Cooper, Northern Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

build bio-mimicked layered composites. Labview™ virtualinstruments (VIs) were developed to guide the robots, to actuate injectors, and to analyzeimages. The implications of this work for the projects assigned at the undergraduate levelas well as students’ capstone project will also be discussed.IntroductionIn the aftermath of the major disasters that claimed human lives and caused extensivefinancial losses, it is necessary to develop materials that resistant to powerful forces ofnature. Most buildings, especially in the third world countries are built from manuallylaid clay bricks (unfired or fired) in layered structures with mud or gypsum mortarinterlayers. In the event of an earthquake or other disasters that exert dynamic shearforces on

Conference Session

IE Program Design II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bin Wu, University of Missouri, Columbia; Cerry Klein, University of Missouri; Michael Hosokawa, University of Missouri; Karen Cox, University of Missouri; Beilei Zhang, University of Missouri

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

a Capstone Project: 1. Systems class: Systems Perspective of Modern Healthcare 2. Healthcare class: Introduction to Healthcare Structure, Technologies and Operations 3. Systems Engineering class: Methodologies and Tools of Systems Engineering Page 12.396.7 4. Healthcare Systems class: Healthcare Systems Analysis and Design. 5. Capstone Project - continuous system improvement in healthcare.This will establish a new minor degree of HSE at University

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Hankley

from otherengineering disciplines. The course is prerequisite to our capstone project course on softwareengineering. The architecture course does not cover general software engineering topics (such astesting, estimation, and management), but it does provide students in the capstone course withfoundation skills for software design and development. This type of architecture and designcourse should be an appropriate second level course for engineers with a minor emphasis ofsoftware.IntroductionThis paper addresses the underlying issue of where and how and why architecture and design fitinto the curriculum of courses for majors in computing and for service computing courses, whichare often taken by engineering and science majors. Historically, the

Conference Session

Importance of Technical & Professional Writing in Engineering Technology Curriculum

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peilin Fu, National University; Shekar Viswanathan, National University, San Diego; Ronald Uhlig, National University, San Diego; Howard Evans, National University, San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

College ofLetters and Sciences. The assessment of the ability of SOET students to communicate effectivelyin writing is most often done through an analysis of the formal documentation accompanyingend-of-program capstone projects (undergraduates) or master’s projects and theses. Data in someprograms have shown an increase in the length of time required for students to complete theseend-of-program projects, many times as a result to needing additional time to correct and polishwritten documentation. Other anecdotal evidence across many SOET programs indicates thatstudents reaching these capstone and master’s projects are frequently not fully prepared toprofessionally document their results in writing. Due to the importance of writtencommunication

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taryn Melkus Bayles, University of Pittsburgh; Joaquin Rodriguez, University of Pittsburgh; Robert Enick

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

as reported below in Table 1. The assignments in the sophomore and junior year areintended to provide students with the foundation they need to complete larger scale projects duringtheir senior year, in three capstone courses (Process Control, Safety & Ethics, and Process Design).Simultaneously, rubrics have been developed, used, and refined to assess the attainment of theseoutcomes. Some basic rubrics have been established at the departmental level (Tables 2 and 3).However, instructors are encouraged to develop variations of these rubrics to better assess thespecific assignments. In addition, during lectures of each of the classes – the students are providedspecific examples of considerations in terms of the global, environmental

Conference Session

Educational Research

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Lattuca, Pennsylvania State University; David Knight, The Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

introductory engineering courses as multidisciplinary because they include studentsfrom all engineering majors.Similarly, study participants often described capstone courses in this manner. For example, aHarvey Mudd College faculty member’s description of a “Clinic” project suggested that he usesmultidisciplinarity as we defined it, referring to teams of students from within engineering: And clinic is where students have this, usually multidisciplinary problem that they are trying to deal with. So they draw from, I mean today you saw the mechanical engineering, structurally how do we make this not fall off our plane, and electrically, how do we make it communicate to the down station or base station. So I think that is it, they have to use

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoff Wright; Paul Skaggs; Richard Fry, Brigham Young University; C. Richard Helps, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

with activities to helpthem semantically encode the primary principles of innovation, and b) to help them prepare forthe final two innovation activities: a formative ideation project, and a summative capstoneexperience.Both the formative ideation project, and the innovation capstone experience required the studentsto demonstrate how they came to their solutions as a result of using/engaging the principles andprocesses of innovation. The participants were assigned and completed the ideation projectduring the first day of instruction. It provided the participants with the opportunity toimmediately put into action the principles and processes they had experienced in the innovationmini-activities. The ideation project required the participants to

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fernando Tovia, Philadelphia University; Muthu Govindaraj, Philadelphia University; David Brookstein, Philadelphia University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

such as Engineering Drawing, Introduction to Computing, Statics andEngineering Statistics. All of these freshman and sophomore courses require that the students Page 12.80.8work in teams, have a capstone hands-on final project, and are offered at the student-centered,state-of-the-art engineering classroom (Figure 1). Figure 1. Fundamentals of Engineering Lab/Classroom.IV. Preparing the Students to be Life-Long LearnersConsidering the pace at which technology change nowadays, it is essentially impossible to teachthe students all they will need during their career span. However, enlightened engineeringeducators can teach them

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne C. Christensen; Robert B. Roemer; Donald S. Bloswick

design for safety.The remaining texts, while perhaps excellent texts in classical design, contained relatively little(from a few paragraphs to a few pages) on safety and health issues. One text in this lattercategory is that used at the University of Utah in the senior level engineering capstone designcourse. At the University of Utah, safety and human factors material is included through a set ofspecial lectures, handouts, and homework assignments. Students are required to perform apreliminary hazards analysis as part of a homework assignment during the middle of the termand their final project must include a more detailed failure modes and effects analysis. Studentsare also provided with information relating to ergonomics and are required to

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics & Structural Modeling Courses

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Praveen Malali, Old Dominion University; Pooja Bais, Old Dominion University; Robert Choate, Western Kentucky University; Sushil Chaturvedi, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

outcomes fromthe professional plan, it is necessary to provide students with the opportunity to acquire tools andskills, as well as technical competency5.The ability of ME graduates to successfully design, conduct and analyze experiments is one ofthe skills integrated across the ME curriculum, and is demonstrated in the execution of multiplelab experiences in senior lab courses and of the senior capstone design course. Beginning in thefreshman year, students are provided with opportunities to acquire experimental, analytical andmodeling tools and skills, and to develop effective means of communicating the results of theirwork. In an analogous fashion to the capstone design project providing a measure of thestudents’ ability to perform a design