the Executive Committee for the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET, and also serves as a program evaluator for the Engineering Accreditation Commission. He is also a founding member and serves as Vice President of The Pledge of the Computing Professional, an organization dedicated to the promotion of ethics in the computing professions through a standardized rite-of-passage ceremony. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Partnering to Develop Educational Software Applications: A Four-Year Retrospective StudyIntroductionSeveral years ago, a project was added to the first-year programming sequence at Ohio NorthernUniversity that focused on
handling. When youphotocopy a page from your text (almost all books are copyrighted), are you breaking thelaw? Generally the question arises, what to do and what not to do under differentcircumstances. What is legal and what is ethical? In this paper, the role of professionalethics in teaching engineering design is discussed. The material presented here is part oftopics which are taught in a two course sequence of Mechanical Systems Design at NJITand is considered in detail in my forthcoming book [1] titled, ”Mechanical Design:Fundamentals to Capstone “ being published soon by NJIT.Engineers are responsible to build things, make them perform better, create solutions toproblems facing the society and also train other engineers. Engineers have
. L. Chen, S. Sheppard, L. Ludlow, C. Rosca, “Outcomes of a Longitudinal Administration of the Persistence in Engineering Survey,” Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 371-395, 2010.[9] M. W. Ohland, S. D. Sheppard, G. Lichtenstein, O. Eris, D. Chachra, R. A. Layton, “Persistence, Engagement, and Migration in Engineering Programs,” Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 259-278, 2008.[10] D. Kotys-Schwartz, D. Knight, G. Pawlas, “First-Year and Capstone Design Projects: Is the Bookend Curriculum Approach Effective for Skill Gain?”, in Proceedings of the 2010 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. Louisville, KY: American Society for Engineering Education, 2010.[11] S. Sheppard, R. Jenison, “Examples of Freshman Design
Engineering Education 2002 Annual Conference & Exposition, Montreal, QC, June 16-19, 2002, 13 pp. (CD-ROM). 4. Stanfill, R. K., Crisalle, O. D., “Recruiting Industry-Sponsored Multidisciplinary Projects for Capstone Design,” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Southeastern Section 2003 Annual Meeting, Macon, GA, April 6-8, 2003, 12 pp. (CD- ROM). 5. Stanfill, R. K., Sander, E. J., Rossi, W. J., Ingley, H. A., Whitney, E. D., Hoit, M. I., “The University of Florida Integrated Technology Ventures (ITV) Program,” Proceedings of the NCIIA 8th Annual Meeting—Education That Works: Invention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in Practice, San Jose, CA, March 18-20, 2004, p. 93-98
electrical and computerengineering. The rapid changes that are taking place in the engineering field, some of thetechniques the students learned or exposed to might have changed since the time theyentered the program to the time of graduation.Thus a capstone course was necessary to bring the senior students up to date in thevarious fields of electrical and computer engineering and to provide guidance tosuccessfully complete their senior design project. The students take courses based on theplan of study from the freshman year to the senior year when they are required tocomplete a project for graduation. Also the students may not be familiar with sub field ofelectrical engineering like power electronics if they have taken the electives
in a number of exercises designed to help themvet the ideas they have developed and to form teams around the ideas deemed most likely toresult in successful companies. Academic Year ProgramDuring the following academic year, students participate in a year long course taught jointly byfaculty from the Colleges of Business and Engineering. Students work on interdisciplinary teamsto prepare both prototypes and business plans for their own entrepreneurial ideas. At the end ofthe year each team participates in the Business Plan Competition sponsored by the College ofBusiness and judged by external referees. The first course, “Capstone Projects in Innovation andEntrepreneurship” (Entr 496) is a three credit, one
first joined UW-Madison’s faculty in 1989 as an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, where he co-founded the Construction Engineering and Management Pro- gram and developed the construction curriculum. In addition, he has authored and co-authored papers on the subject of educating civil engineers. His body of work demonstrates his commitment to using emerging technology in the classroom to prepare the next generation of engineers and other students for the challenges of the future. Jeff was honored in 2014 with an Outstanding Projects and Leaders Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Society of Civil Engineers. He holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from
. [11] 2019 Engineering Capstone/senior design Entrepreneurial mindset Current Work 2020 Engineering All courses Entrepreneurial mindsetAlthough coaching in engineering professional development has happened, to our knowledge there have been nocross-university and inter-disciplinary coaching programs.Coaching Project StructureApproximately 30 faculty participants registered and attended each of three workshops held in the summer of2019, representing three cohorts of faculty participants. The cohorts were distinguished based on the month –June, July, August – the training occurred. Workshop participants were recruited from schools in the KEENnetwork or potential member schools
, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Baltimore. (http://www.abet.org/criteria.html) [3] Schmaltz, K.S., Byrne, C., Choate, R. and Lenoir, J., “Integrated Professional Component Plan from Freshmen Experience to Senior Project,” Proc. 2004 ASEE Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT. [4] Lau, Andrew, “Teaching Engineering Ethics to First-Year College Students,” Science and Engineering Ethics, Volume 10, Issue 2, 2004 [5] Catalano, George, “Senior Capstone Design and Ethics: A Bridge to the Professional World,” Science and Engineering Ethics, Volume 10, Issue 2, 2004 [6] Fleischmann, Shirley, “Essential Ethics – Embedding Ethics into an Engineering Curriculum,” Science and Engineering Ethics, Volume 10, Issue 2, 2004 [7
chapters has a discussion of the issue in question followed by anumber of problems or cases that students can be assigned.Of the eleven above issues we have added three, usability, compassion and lifelonglearning. The other eight are the issues specified by ABET in Criterion Four of EC2000.ABET requires that these issues be addressed in senior capstone projects. We added Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Page 9.45.2usability to the list because we believe that it is
Olds9 describe one capstone course with a design sequence of two semesters. Thecourse is based upon a multidisciplinary team work of students who are linked to the industry.Wilczynski10 shows the experience in one university where the design is included in manyengineering courses.Öztürk et al11 in the University of North Caroline describe a new approach about the designengineering teaching for undergraduate students with the creation of a design center that is linkedwith the local industries and where the students perform real projects helped by computersnetworks for the preliminary design.Gorman et al12 establish the development of multidisciplinary learning modules for developinginvention, design and creativity in the students.Shaeiwitz et
AC 2011-1849: BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES OF GO!: AN INNOVA-TIVE ONLINE PUBLICATION TO ATTRACT TEENS TO TRANSPORTA-TIONShashi S. Nambisan, Iowa State University Shashi Nambisan, PhD, PE, is Director of the Institute for Transportation and a Professor of Civil Engi- neering the at Iowa State University. He enjoys working with students and he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in the area of Transportation systems as well as undergraduate capstone design courses. Dr. Nambisan has led efforts on over 150 research projects. He has taught over a dozen under- graduate and graduate courses in various areas related to transportation systems as well as undergraduate capstone design courses. He also has been very
engineering learning outcomes. Senior mechanical engineering students participating in asenior capstone project were shown to ascribe high value to the learning outcomes of theexperience. Personal and professional skill gains were ranked higher than their technicaloutcomes with female students having statistically higher scores than their male classmates.Engineering co-op students (mostly rising seniors) revealed that a co-op experience was alsohighly valued overall with females rating the five most highly ranked outcomes (all professional Page 22.454.3skills) significantly higher than their male classmates.While these two contexts are not service
of the writer.ConclusionMost academic and technical writing can be accomplished successfully and efficiently byusing a practice-based model that includes drafts and revisions that are written over thelife of the project. This model can be scaled down to support undergraduate capstone ordesign projects as well as larger, complex thesis preparation. Although many advisorswill still comment knowledgeably on the actual writing of the thesis, it is hoped that theuse of this suggested model would allow them to devote their attention to the substanceof the research project. Page 10.1480.6 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering
design modules Multi-disciplinary design projectJunior Product development Process developmentSenior Capstone design/research Capstone design/researchFreshman and Sophomore Clinics serve as an introduction to the rigors and opportunities of anengineering major. They typically incorporate topical engineering scenarios and use simpleengineering projects to strengthen students’ understanding of mathematics and scienceprinciples. Junior and Senior Clinics consist of projects, often sponsored by industry orgovernment, which represent the culmination of the Rowan Clinic experience. Students applyengineering principles learned in the classroom to solve industrially and socially relevantproblems
design modules Multi-disciplinary design projectJunior Product development Process developmentSenior Capstone design/research Capstone design/researchFreshman and Sophomore Clinics serve as an introduction to the rigors and opportunities of anengineering major. They typically incorporate topical engineering scenarios and use simpleengineering projects to strengthen students’ understanding of mathematics and scienceprinciples. Junior and Senior Clinics consist of projects, often sponsored by industry orgovernment, which represent the culmination of the Rowan Clinic experience. Students applyengineering principles learned in the classroom to solve industrially and socially relevantproblems
synthetic fuels. The course isdesigned to inform and prepare students who could enter energy fields as engineers. ColoradoSchool of Mines is responsible for preparing the curriculum at the lecture level and for trainingthe college staff through a summer workshop to offer the courses. We are also available duringthe academic year as content consultants as well as visitors to present special topics to thecollege students. The process of curriculum development has resulted in challenges as well assuccesses. This paper will describe the overall IEED project and, specifically, the Overview ofEnergy Resources course, discuss the assessment of both the teachers and the studentsparticipating in the course, and will detail the challenges and successes of
communication ispart of our existence. From our first cries when we are born to the movements we make as we leave theworld, we are communicating either to ourselves or to the world around us. Because this activity is so mucha part of our lives, we cannot separate it from any of the other activities that we perform. Communication is, Page 1.407.1 {hx~~ 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.,+,RYR’..’therefore, never an entity unto itself, and should never be considered as such. Ronald L. Miller and BarbaraOlds in “A Model Curriculum for A Capstone Course in
the structure. Several differentbracing systems can be installed. These include X, K, and knee bracing (creating an eccentrically bracedframe, or EBF), as well as pieces of Styrofoam that simulate concrete shear walls. The different bracing typesare easily interchangeable. Thus, in class, the instructor can use the models to demonstrate how each systemachieves its lateral stability, and to illustrate the relative effectiveness of each system in controlling lateraldrift.K’NEX Building Set Often we have felt the need to model a particular structure, or perhaps just a portion of a structure, toillustrate a teaching point or to explain an upcoming design project. We have found an ideal tool for thispurpose--the K’NEX Building Set (Figure 9
Society for Engineering Education, 2017 #FunTimesWithTheTA – A Series of Fun, Supplementary Lessons for Introductory Level Biomedical Instrumentation Students (Work-in-Progress)Engineering is hallmarked by the process of assessing a need and implementing a design to meetthe need[1]. Over the years, universities have adopted the capstone Senior Design project inorder to provide students the opportunity to put their engineering skills to the test in real-worldprojects. However, educators agree that obtaining competency in engineering design requireshours of hands-on practice beyond the time and scope of a university course. As a result, we arepilot testing a series of supplementary active-learning
programs are non-thesis Masters Programs, with only a few requiring a capstone project. Although not conclusivefrom this data we can see that in general, the graduate degree programs offered in logistics &transportation have a heavy focus on workplace readiness by encouraging interaction withrelevant corporations and by helping working professionals to further advance their careers in thelogistics & transportation fields.IntroductionUS domination in manufacturing in the 1980s were declining steadily until recently due to themass outsourcing of US products and services to overseas countries (see figure 1). On the otherhand the logistics transportation sector is booming in the US (see table 1) [1]. Even though massoutsourcing is blamed for
Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston. Among these are twointeractive demonstrations housed in an acrylic display case intended to facilitate theunderstanding of SMAs and their possible applications. The demonstrations have been designedto show SMA wire actuation displacement and force in an interactive, easy-to-use fashion.To further enhance undergraduate learning in the area of smart materials, the development ofthis interactive demonstration was assigned as a senior capstone design project allowing fourstudents in mechanical and electrical engineering to gain hands-on experience in designing anintelligent system.The Interactive SMA DemonstrationGeneral Description of the Interactive SMA DemonstrationFour undergraduate senior
”; Computerworld; Framingham; May 19, 1997.4. Hicks, Capt. Philip C. “What Are We Teaching Our Engineering Managers”; Capstone Project for MEM; 1998; pp. 331-340.5. Kocaoglu, Dundar F. “Educating Engineering Managers for the Future”; 1983 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings; pp. 794-798.6. Kocaoglu, Dundar F. “Engineering Management Education And Research”; 1984 IEEE; pp.341-342.7. Kocaoglu, Dundar F. “The Emergence of Engineering Management Discipline”; 1986 ASEE Conference Proceedings; pp. 240-247.8. Kocaoglu, Dundar F. “Education for Leadership in Management of Engineering and Technology”; 1992 IEEE; pp. 78-83.9. Maglitta, Joseph. “Top 25 Techno MBA”; Computerworld; Framingham; Dec 4, 1995.10. Nystrom
Session 2502 Establishing a Computer-Aided Manufacturing System to Extend the Capability of Traditional Aircraft and Spacecraft Design Courses Charles N. Eastlake, Alfred L. Stanley Embry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityThe Aerospace Engineering Department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’sDaytona Beach, FL, campus has just completed the initial implementation of a ComputerAided Manufacturing (CAM) system within its long established capstone aircraft andspacecraft design course sequences. This paper details the development process whichwe went through in order to establish that capability.1. Why do we need it
demonstrate mastery, significantly lowering the stakes ofany individual attempt. Efforts have manifested at every level, up to and including entire mastery-basedprograms.In this work, the five-year-long reinvention of a mechanical engineering computer applications course isexamined as it was transformed from traditional to flipped to competency-based, navigating the onsetof COVID along the way. In the most recent iteration, the course involves a framework of repeatableassessments across an array of outcomes, including both traditional exam format assessment as well asmore involved project-based assessments, a set of video modules, and a group project. The rationalesfor and lessons learned from this journey are explored, along with student comments
course.They were split into four teams of two students each working on separate projects. The generaltopics were pulley systems, vibrations, alternative energy and thermoelectric devices. Some ofthe projects were more successful than others, as might be expected. The overall outcome was asuccess and resulted in several hands-on activities that have been used for students in grades 1-12.This paper begins with a brief overview of the outreach programs in the School of Engineering.The main topic of the paper is the independent study course. The course goals and generalproject requirements are included. Each of the four projects are discussed with an emphasis onthe project goals, activities that were developed, success levels, and ongoing efforts to
seamless integration of the codedeveloped by different groups. Additionally, user testing of prototype implementations adds asense of real development to the project. Since simple graph theory topics are an important aspectof a computer science education, the project also gives an opportunity for the students to presenttheir tool at local and regional computer science meetings that encourage student participation.1 IntroductionMany computer science programs include some type of capstone course in the senior year as a wayto challenge their students to apply all of the knowledge they have gained on a substantial project.However, there are typically not many opportunities in the second and third year of these programsto introduce students to a team
Southern University: A. Assessment of Program Outcomes 1. Course assignments (Homework/ Quizzes) 2. Exams 3. Comprehensive final exams 4. Laboratory reports 5. Oral presentations 6. Field-work 7. Capstone projects 8. Course exit survey 9. Teaching portfolios 10. Exit Survey of graduating seniors 11. Industrial Advisory Board Review B. Assessment of Program Educational Objectives 1. Survey of alumni 2. Survey of employers 3. Industrial Advisory Board reviewsIn the list of assessment methods pertaining to program outcomes (list A), the focus ofthis paper, the first seven methods constitute direct measures, while the remaining
Approach to First-Year Ethics InstructionThrough both success and failure, many engineering projects have a profound impact on individuals and society.Thus, ensuring future engineers consider these impacts and reflect on the ethical implications of their future work isan extremely important topic. There are many pitfalls with the traditional ways in which ethics is taught toengineering students. Often it is taught by a non-engineer as an abstract philosophical topic, rather than an act ofpersonal decision making situated in complex real-world contexts. . It is usually included late in the undergraduatecurriculum, such as during a senior capstone project, and is a relatively short subtopic (module) within a larger
viable their product is, and the value of their contribution throughout the entireproject. Page 1.64.1 {hii$$ 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.ylllml’j Students are organized into teams (5- 10 is the ideal size) with one to four (2 is ideal) senior leaders, whoare fidflhng their capstone design requirements. Other members of the team are taking the course for one hourcredit and may be at any point in their academic careers. Students are encouraged to take the class for multiplesemesters, which allows for continuity of the projects and the