Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Assessment and Integrating Entrepreneurship into the Curriculum

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sridhar Condoor, Saint Louis University; Mark McQuilling, Saint Louis University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

technical competence, customerawareness, business acumen, and social values. In addition, engineering students exposed toentrepreneurship early in their education have shown higher retention rates3-6, higher GPAs6, andimproved soft professional skills, which are components of engineering entrepreneurship, evenwhile their understanding of engineering as a technical field does not change3,7. A recent study8revealed how engineering juniors and seniors believe they should receive education aboutbusiness and entrepreneurship throughout their college careers, even though their major is in atechnical field. Traditionally, the capstone senior design projects in undergraduate engineeringprograms come close to exposing the students to the business aspects

Conference Session

Engaging Students in Learning

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Val Hawks, Brigham Young University; Ronald Terry, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

concepts of delegation and direction, and the difference between leadership andmanagement.Students are also given the opportunity to use a 360 self-evaluation instrument developed byMerrell to help them identify their strengths and weaknesses as leaders and as seen by others.They are then expected to formulate one area in which they can improve, work on that areaduring the semester, and write their observations in a paper submitted at the end of the course.To serve as a ‘capstone’ type of project for the leadership section of the course, the students areasked to develop a personal leadership theory and defend it in a short paper.Question 1: Do the students see themselves as leaders?Although, no formal assessment was made of the students during the

Conference Session

Innovations in Additive Manufacturing Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel J. Walter, Robert Morris University; Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

condition.Even though the Rapid Prototyping Laboratories are equipped with three FDM/FFF (UPrint SE,CubeX, CubeProDuo), two Powder-based (Prometal RXD and Projet 460plus), and one SLA(Projet 1200) printer, maintenance issues and time sharing of the equipment with other coursesincluding the capstone projects reduce the availability of 3D printers. Therefore, multiple newmachines including a Mendelmax and Prusa Mendel were built to utilize in the class. Since theSLA Viper machine was replaced with a Projet 1200, the old but comprehensive software tool of3D Lightyear had to be replaced with new tools used for both processing of the STL files andprinting. These new tools are easier to use but not as comprehensive as the old ones. Thus, a low-cost software

Conference Session

Instrumentation Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Rafiq Muqri, DeVry University, Pomona; Robert Alfaro

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

Paper ID #7789Building Wireless Sensor Networks with ZigbeeDr. Mohammad Rafiq Muqri, DeVry University, PomonaRobert Alfaro Page 23.263.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Building Wireless Sensor Networks with ZigbeeThe microprocessor sequence courses are among the important and challenging courses thatstudents take in the electronics, computer, and biomedical engineering curriculum; these coursesalso lay the foundation for capstone senior projects. The practical, but abstract, programmingconcepts in embedded

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stewart Prince; Robert Ryan

Development of Engineering Case Studies for Integrating Finite Element Analysis into a Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Dr. Robert G. Ryan, Dr. Stewart P. Prince California State University, NorthridgeAbstractThe Mechanical Engineering Department at California State University, Northridge usesSolidWorks and related analysis applications such as CosmosWorks and FloWorks as thecomputational tools of choice for solid modeling (CAD) and finite element analysis (FEA).Originally the use of these tools was concentrated in the senior design capstone course, but oneof the Department’s goals is to integrate the use of this

Conference Session

Creative Ways to Present Basic Materials

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Hisham Hegab

students cameup with a variety of designs. These designs were converted to digital drawings by a graduatestudent. Their second project was to design a nose cone that could fit on a model rocket. On thelast class day there was a contest to see whose model rocket design would go the highest.This concept was also introduced to 7th and 8th grade students who attended a series of “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Page 9.808.1 Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”math/science/engineering summer camps. For this age group the system was

Conference Session

Stimulating Broader Industrial Participation in Undergraduate Programs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda A Thurman, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; William F. Heybruck, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

% Students > "Agree" F09 Sp10 F10 n=160 n=91 n=155Mock Interview DayPrepared for co-ops, internships or FT employment 84.4% 94.4% 89.7%Interviewer gave useful feedback 81.9% 85.4% 83.2%Found it valuable 86.3% 96.6% 85.8%Sponsored Senior Design ProgramThe sponsored Senior Design Program aligns teams of students to work on company sponsoredtechnical projects. The companies provide a technical contact for the team to work with. Thiscontact insures that the team is working

Conference Session

Curriculum Development

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David T. Allen, University of Texas, Austin; Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin; Leema Kuhn Berland, University of Texas, Austin; Karen A. High, Oklahoma State University; Anthony J. Petrosino Jr, University of Texas, Austin ; Theresa A. Dobbs, UTeachEngineering and University of Texas, Austin; Cheryl Farmer, UTeachEngineering; Jill A. Marshall, University of Texas

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. Cheryl Farmer, UTeachEngineering Cheryl Farmer is the founding Program Manager and Project Director of UTeachEngineering. Funded through a five-year, $12.5 million Math and Science Partnership grant from the National Science Foun- dation, UTeachEngineering offers a well-designed, well-rounded, design-based high school engineering course that can be implemented at low cost in virtually any setting, as well as a variety of professional de- velopment programs for pre-service and in-service teachers who want to add engineering to their teaching portfolio. Prior to co-founding UTeachEngineering, Farmer spent several years managing programs for both K-12 and higher education. Before entering higher education, Farmer

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Nicholas Delgass; Phillip C. Wankat; Frank S. Oreovicz

Chemical Engineering at Purdue integrated written and oral communication moretightly into the ChE curriculum. All freshmen are required to take or test out of Englishcomposition and speech courses. ChE professional development seminars forsophomores, juniors and seniors emphasize the importance of communication.Cooperative education students write reports after each work session. Many professorsinclude written and oral project reports in technical courses.The required senior laboratory courses and the capstone senior design course place amajor emphasis on communication. Oral presentations are videotaped and critiquedindividually by a communication specialist while he and the student watch the videotape.The professor or TA grades written reports

Conference Session

Student Learning, Problem Solving, & Critical Thinking 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Micah Lande, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

collaborations. Coming to understand (scholarship of merit) and promotingthe efficacy of project-based learning and design thinking (scholarship of impact)22 are theexpected results of this project. Page 24.902.9References1. Todd, RH, SP Magleby, CD Sorensen, BR Swan & DK Anthony (1995). A Survey of Capstone Engineering Courses in North America. Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 84, No. 2, pp. 165- 174.2. Newstetter, Wendy C, Eastman, Charles E, McCracken & W Michael (2001). Bringing Design Knowing and Learning Together. In Design Knowing and Learning: Cognition in Design Education.3. Lande M and Leifer L (2009). Work In Progress

Collection

2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

James Finne; John Carpinelli; William Barnes

of apower jack, 5 Vdc regulator, RJ12 jack required to interface the Microchip ICD-2 programmingdevice, and an oscillator. It connects to a solderless breadboard with six pins. With six wires anda processor the student has a working single board computer for under $30.00. With some care atthe assembly stage this board should be serviceable for several semesters and is, in fact, used forthe subsequent capstone project course. The only capital expenditure is for the programmingdevice that connects the development software to the microcontrol unit. MCC purchasedMicroChip ICD-2s to support the class laboratory exercises.TextbookThis is controversial. The hard realities are that all of the available texts are expensive and, moreoften than not

Conference Session

International Division (INTL) Technical Session: International Programs and Curricula I

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Loay Al-Zube, University of Mount Union

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

International Division (INTL)

presentationby the project manager and received a guided tour of the construction site. This firsthandexperience provided students with valuable insights into engineering practices and workplacedynamics in the UAE, fostering a deeper understanding of multicultural engineering environments.This satisfies the main objective of an international field trip. Furthermore, over the course of asemester (Spring 2023), students collaborated on a design project to develop a solar-powered waterand flooding detection system. This project, akin to a capstone project, required students fromdiverse engineering backgrounds to work together to address the needs of an international client.Importantly, the system was constructed and tested in the UAE, offering students a

Conference Session

NEW THIS YEAR! - ASEE Main Plenary II: Best Paper Recognition & Industry Day Session: Corporate Member Council Speaker

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Betsy Palmer, Montana State University

Tagged Topics

ASEE Board of Directors, Corporate Members Council

Higher Education as the Senior Project Associate under Project Directors Lisa R. Lattuca and Patrick T. Terenzini on two NSF-funded stud- ies of engineering education: Prototype to Production and Prototyping the Engineer of 2020. She also worked with colleagues Lisa Lattuca, Patrick Terenzini, and J. Fredericks Volkwein on the Engineering Change study, a national study of the impact of engineering accreditation standards on student learning and engineering programs. Betty completed her Ph.D. in Higher Education at Penn State with a minor in Educational Psychology and graduate certificate in Institutional Research in May 2008. She was the recipient of graduate fellowships from both the Joseph M. Juran Center for

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Betsy Palmer, Montana State University; Patrick T. Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Betty J. Harper, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Dan Merson, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

addition to the Common Core, engineering (and other HMC) students take “Clinic,” thesignature curricular feature of the College‟s engineering program. Clinic is a required, five-semester, experiential-learning capstone course that is essentially an adaptation of medicaleducation‟s clinical experience. Students work in teams on meaningful, industry-specified and Page 22.430.12sponsored, engineering problems. Each clinic team must address the project‟s contextual aspectsand their implications.The “Integrated Experience” (IE), another key curricular element, is a required one-semester,interdisciplinary, team-taught course specifically intended to

Conference Session

Mid Atlantic Papers

Collection

2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

Authors

Joseph Michael Mahoney, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus

Tagged Topics

Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

." Computers & Education 53.1 (2009): 74-85.5 Maguth, B. M.; List, J. S. & Wunderle, M. Teaching social studies with video games The Social Studies, Taylor & Francis, 2015, 106, 32-366 Becker, Katrin. "Teaching with games: the minesweeper and asteroids experience." Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges 17.2 (2001): 23-33.7 Adams, Joel C. "Chance-It: an object-oriented capstone project for CS-1." ACM SIGCSE Bulletin 30.1 (1998): 10-14.8 Moser, Robert. "A fantasy adventure game as a learning environment: why learning to program is so difficult and what can be done about it." ACM SIGCSE Bulletin. Vol. 29. No. 3. ACM, 1997.9 Leutenegger, S. & Edgington, J. A games first approach to teaching

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edmund Tsang, Western Michigan University; Anetra J. Grice, Western Michigan University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

schedules in fall and spring semesters. More details on creating theSTEP Cohorts can be found elsewhere [3].We survey students placed in cohorts at the end of each fall semester. A significant majority ofthe students reports in the survey that they have studied with other students in their cohortsoutside the classroom. Our graduating seniors have told us that the relationship they developedwith others students in the study groups which they formed during the first-year, carry over tosenior capstone design project.Factors Supporting Institutionalizing STEP at Western Michigan UniversityIn order to make lasting impacts to support student success in engineering, the best practicesidentified by projects supported by the National Science Foundation need

Collection

2019 CIEC

Authors

Maher Shehadi

Session ETD 545 Experimental and Analytical Comparison of Internally Finned Pipe with Unfinned Pipe for Heating Applications Maher Shehadi, Ph.D. School of Engineering Technology, Purdue Polytechnic Institute Purdue UniversityAbstractThis paper presents a capstone project that was done by two MET (Mechanical EngineeringTechnology) students during their senior year at Purdue Polytechnic, Kokomo. The projectobjective was to build an apparatus that would allow evaluation of pipes performance intransferring heat from an external heating source wrapped

Conference Session

Engineering Without Borders: Programs Involving Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Lin, North Dakota State University; Frank Peloubet, North Dakota State University; Huizhen Wang, Beijing Institute of Civil Engineering and Architecture; Yajun Zhang, Beijing Institute of Civil Engineering and Architecture

Tagged Divisions

International

worked on various environmental projects in the US and China as design engineer and project manager. He serves as the faculty advisor for American Water Works Association (AWWA) and Water Environment Federation (WEF) Student Chapter at NDSU.Frank Peloubet, North Dakota State University Francis (Frank) H. Peloubet is an adjunct professor and guest lecturer with the North Dakota State University (NDSU) Department of Civil Engineering. Frank teaches University Studies/Skills for Academic Success, Introduction to Civil Engineering, Surveying, Fluid Mechanics, and Capstone Senior Design. His research interests are in the areas of transportation and environmental engineering. Frank holds a Master

Conference Session

Freshman Design and Other Novel Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachael Schmedlen, University of Michigan; Mimi (Miriam) Adam; Robert Sulewski; Matthew O'Donnell, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

to populateour capstone senior design course. The senior design course is set up much as the introductorycourse and it is interesting to observe that the more pro-active and confident students in thecourse are generally our former freshman. One such student recently made an unsolicitedcomment during a conference that confirmed this impression: “ Whenever my team-mates freakout at the workload or the project, I tell them not to worry – they can do it. Just keep your eyeson the mark. I told them you don’t make them do more than they can do and they can do morethan they think. All of us who took the freshman class tell them the same thing. That’s probablythe most important thing I learned from that course.”ConclusionWe have developed an

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Holden, California Maritime Academy

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

ready to apply to capstone design projects. The background knowledgeneeded to learn microcontrollers does not require typical engineering prerequisites such ascalculus or dynamics. Assuming that microcontroller programming (programming in C) will betaught as part of the microcontroller curriculum, only basic computer skills are needed from thestudents. Most incoming students have the knowledge to get started in microcontrollers.Another advantage is that the students will learn these skills without adding classes to the Page 14.1258.2curriculum. At the California Maritime Academy, as in most engineering programs, the studentcourse load is at a

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Constanza Miranda, Pontificia Universidad Catholica de Chile; David Leal Martinez, Aalto University; Maurice Forget, Aalto University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Breakers Course, a course targeted to take the students out of the books and into applying their core competences and the scientific methods to put urban legends to the test and understand all sorts of phenomena.Mr. Maurice Forget, Aalto University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Geographically Distributed Teams in Engineering Design: Best Practices and Issues in Cases of International Teams Working from Opposite HemispheresAbstractIt is not rare to have engineering design teams in companies, working from different parts of the worldon a shared project. This new addition to the working context has been triggered by advances incommunication technologies and the knowledge economy. This begs

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caleb Wolters, University of Dayton; Sandra L. Furterer, University of Dayton; Kellie Schneider, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

is currently working on a university project titled Transforming the Industrial Engineering Technology Curriculum through a Graduate Level Management of Systems Engineering Course.Dr. Sandra L. Furterer, University of Dayton Dr. Sandy Furterer is an Associate Professor at the University of Dayton, in the Department of Engineer- ing Management, Systems and Technology. She has applied Lean Six Sigma, Systems Engineering, and Engineering Management tools in healthcare, banking, retail, higher education and other service indus- tries, and achieved the level of Vice President in several banking institutions. She previously managed the Enterprise Performance Excellence center in a healthcare system. Dr. Furterer

Conference Session

Subjects in 3D Printing and ET Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorge Rodriguez P.E., Western Michigan University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

candrastically reduce those costs and timeframes. In this project, functional prototype inserts forinjection molding were developed and analyzed with CAD/CAE software. These molds were 3Dprinted and tested using a commercial plastic injection molding machine. Calculations forcompression, shrinkage, and cooling of the inserts were used to establish initial information fordevelopment of the molding conditions. There were measurements taken on the inserts and themolded parts to validate calculations and specified dimensions. This development procedure willserve as guideline for future parts. The project was taken as a senior project, and it is expectedthat the results will allow a plastic injection molding company to rapidly and efficiently producea short

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Hanson Mui, University of Waterloo; Soo Jung Woo, University of Waterloo; Spencer Arbuckle, University of Waterloo; Rania Al-Hammoud P.Eng., University of Waterloo; Scott Walbridge P.E., University of Waterloo

Tagged Divisions

Architectural Engineering

-based inductive learningexperience. According to Prince and Felder, Inductive learning is conclusively better thantraditional deductive pedagogy [6]. Project-based inductive learning is typical to mostengineering capstone course projects [6], where course knowledge and theories are meant to bediscovered by the students through a realistic design problem, rather than delivered to them at theonset of the assignment. In our particular case, we are attempting a self-driven inductive learningexercise before the students have received any formal post-secondary level instruction. It istherefore important that a sufficient support structure is maintained at all times.In the case of the AE design days activity, this support was given in the form of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: S-STEM 4

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Oleksandr Kravchenko, Old Dominion University; Konstantin Cigularov, Old Dominion University; Tancy J. Vandecar-Burdin, Old Dominion University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

characterization methods for composites and additivelymanufactured materials. SCS participants are engaged in project-based learning activities,including MAM hands-on outreach workshops on various manufacturing technologies,educational seminars, as well as capstone and research projects in partnership with industrial andgovernment research labs. Figure 1. Proposed network of interventions for supporting SCS students in MAM programBy introducing students to various career opportunities through series of educational MAMseminars and workshops, the current program prepares SCS students for the path they will needto take upon graduation in joining the engineering work force. The proposed support networkalso includes curricular, research, and

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jay Porter, Texas A&M University; Jorge Alvarado, Texas A&M University; Joseph Morgan, Texas A&M University; John Poston, Texas A&M University; Kenneth Peddicord, Texas A&M University; John Crenshaw, STP Nuclear Operating Company

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Electronics and Mechanical/ManufacturingPrograms were chosen for the new program. By using existing courses to the extent possible, thedepartment was able to control the cost associated with creating a new program. Through thisselection process, most of the requested topics were covered with the exception of PowerSystems, Thermal Systems and Nuclear Power Topics. To address these missing elements, thenew curriculum proposed that: • the circuits sequence be modified to include power, • a new thermal systems course be added, the inspection methods class be modified to include power generation plant topics, • four technical electives with a nuclear power focus be added, • and the capstone design sequence feature projects related to power generation

Conference Session

Graduate Education and Undergraduate Research in ET

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Schneider, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

through co-op positions or internships. To provide students with a meaningfulexposure to engineering research, an undergraduate research course was developed. While theengineering technology students at UD are familiar with engineering design at the applicationlevel, few are ever exposed to engineering research at the technology level.It has been said that the role of the university is to transfer knowledge, generate knowledge andapply knowledge 1. Most would agree that college courses are primarily geared at transferringknowledge using traditional lecture based courses. Within the UD Engineering TechnologyDepartment course projects and associated industrial experiences such as internships, cooppositions and the senior capstone project provide

Conference Session

Preparing Engr Students for International Practice

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rosalyn Hobson, Virginia Commonwealth University

Tagged Divisions

International

mechanical engineering along withmaterial science and computer science can also incorporate development issues into thecurriculum. At the undergraduate level the Senior/Capstone design project is one way toincorporate international development service learning projects. Even at the freshman levelstudents can postulate and research possible engineering solutions to development problems.Students can be steered to take general education classes in the social sciences in internationalrelations, trade, public policy, international development, urban planning, social systems, ruraldevelopment, etc.Other engineering educational examples include the University of Colorado BoulderEngineering for Developing Communities11 (EDC) program which “educates

Conference Session

Curriculum Development

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shamsnaz Virani, Pennsylvania State University, Great Valley; Iris B. Burnham, Da Vinci School for Science and the Arts

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Design of medicine delivery device, per kit student guide booklet. Research and reports5th Six Weeks Sports materials unit using kit —NSF funded Material Worlds Module Design project of improving a game6th Six weeks Capstone project, possibly Lego Robotics Table 2: 10th grade Syllabus for the Da Vinci Engineering CourseWeek Course work1st Six Weeks • Intro to Engineering • Informal survey of Engineering and show videos, pictures, stories, etc, that will motivate students to learn about Engineering • Review of to

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Nastasi; Leslie Brunell; Keith Sheppard

the potential impact on fish in the river)were also discussed with senior management.The primary focus of the Product-Architecture members of the group was the design ofthe enclosure and an integrated internal interactive exhibit. The Civil Engineeringstudents primarily focused on the construction, regulatory issues, costs and coordinationwith the planning for the pier reconstruction being conducted by a consulting company.The students were scheduled to spend one full day per week (Product-Architecture designstudio and Civil Engineers capstone design) on the project but undertook additional workat other times. The Product-Architecture students also used the project as part of othercourse work, especially in the ME 635 Modeling and Simulation