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course concludes with a major project that includes some form of controller, most commonlya PLC. The results of these projects, and the course notes can be seen at http://claymore.engi-neer.gvsu.edu/eod/egr450.html5.0 ConclusionEGR 450 replaced a previous linear controls course, EGR 455 - Automatic Controls, that wasnever highly regarded. The success of EGR 450 was overwhelming, and it continues to be themost popular senior elective for all disciplines. EGR 450 also serves as an excellent prerequisitefor EGR 474 - Integrated Manufacturing System which discusses the design and implementationof fully integrated manufacturing facilities.Indicators of the success of this course are clear. Of the 12 senior capstone projects conductedduring the 1998-9
with afillet radius, a cylindrical pressure vessel and flange. The final assignment in the courseis a special project of the student’s choice. They are encouraged to pick a project thatwill support their senior capstone design project. Some of the projects have includedanalysis of a composite beam with non-isotropic properties, a Formula One car frameunder roll-over loads, a complex alloy car wheel, a spoked bicycle wheel and amotorcycle engine piston. These special projects are a valuable learning experience forthe students and a meaningful practical application of their studies. Through theseprojects, they have to work through one of the most important issues with FEA, how tosimplify the model, loads and boundary conditions to something that
- 5 students/team), 9 short form reports, individual Tools: MS Word, Excel, Matlab ME – 471 Machine Design II ME 481 – Senior Capstone Design Design Project Documentation: Formal Design Reports Problem Definition, Progress Tools: C Programming, Excel, Matlab, WWW report, Project Report ( 1 @ 35- 200 pages) Detailed description
, methodsand applications of GIS. It also teaches the students basics of tools and techniques for operating software. A couple of freshmen endup with internship opportunities because of this course. The students use GIS for their freshman design project and during their senioryear during their capstone design projects, specifically for generating project site maps. In addition, the GIS skillset can be helpful tothe freshmen in several of their upper-level courses such as water resources, soil mechanics, environmental engineering, geology etc.This is because the GIS database has a huge repository of real-world data such as demographics, environment, geology, hydrology,government, and infrastructures throughout the world.Historically, this course has
AC 2011-1098: USING THE PRINCIPLES OF MANUAL TRAINING TOPERFORM S.T.E.M. OUTREACH FOR URBAN YOUTHGreg Murray, Pittsburg State University Greg Murray is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Technology Department of Pitts- burg State University in Pittsburg, KS. He received his BSET in 1993, and his MST in 1995 from Pittsburg State University, and his MBA in 2002 from Wake Forest University. Professor Murray worked in indus- try for over 11 years in various product development, process engineering and management roles. He currently teaches subjects based in Engineering Graphics, Computer-Aided Design, Capstone, and Fluid Mechanics.Prof. Randy Winzer, Pittsburg State University Randy Winzer is an
projects in industry encompassing principles of professional engineering. These coursesare capstone courses taken at the end of the MEP curriculum. 10. Elective or Independent Study (3 credits):Can be substituted for one of the industrial projects. Approval of advisor required.6. Implementation It is anticipated that the first cadre will be made up of approximately 20 students. Theprogram will be structured in an executive format. In this structure, professional engineers fromindustry or the military will remain together as one cadre and take courses in a prescribedsequence. Each course will be offered during the latter part of the week and during weekends andbe completed in approximately ten weeks. A distance learning format may be
environment.A comparison between the competencies which are presented in the ManufacturingEnterprise Wheel and the competencies taught in engineering programs suggests thatthere is a need for a greater emphasis and/or improvement in the following curricularareas10:1. People and managerial skills.2. Written and oral communications skills.3. Greater emphasis on educating students to work with a multi-cultural workforce.4. Study of the global marketplace.5. More emphasis on resources management.6. Ethical and environmental responsibilities.7. Capstone projects emphasizing teamwork.8. Greater emphasis on hands-on projects that simulate the real working environment.9. Cooperative educational experiences.The following skills were
. Overall Course and Laboratory Evaluations based on Question No. 1 and Question No. 2Educational Institution No. 2 - Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, FLThe lead author was faculty at this institution from Fall 2015 to Spring 2019. She taught multiplecourses which had both laboratory and theory components here. She also taught some courseswhich were only laboratory based and had no theory component, such as capstone project 5courses. All the courses taught at this institution were taught in-person format at undergraduatelevel.This institution had an anonymous end of semester evaluation system till spring 2016, whichcollected student comments on various questions including,“What were the
theapplication of C for microcontroller programming are included4,5. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section Conference ConclusionsThe transition of this course from assembly language to C programming has proved very popularwith students. A minimal number of Motorola assembly language instructions are stillintroduced in the course. Once students understand some basic fundamental concepts, they canrealize the full potential of programming a microcontroller using C. Most of our students decideto use the 9S12 microcontroller in their capstone senior design project course, allowing them totackle larger problems
industry’ needs • Provide logistical support to collaborators • Encourage talented engineers from local industry who is willing to work with students to become part-time adjunct faculty [7] • Enhance partnerships between faculty members and selected people from industry through senior capstone projects and research projects in selected areas [7] V. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONSThe relationship of college of engineering at King SaudUniversity with industry has developed over the years to full-fledged partnerships. This paper presented the various aspectsof collaborations which include but not limited to:consultation, research, scholarships and rewards, training andthe formation of industrial advisory committees.The collaboration
. dditional challenges included using new programming languages and software. PythonAprogramming was used to conduct the Monte Carlo simulations and GIS software was used to analyze and represent the car transaction findings. hen working on the classroom implementation, Lugo was challenged to convert their summerWproject into a format that was manageable for high school students taking a Project-Based Research Capstone. Lugo’s students also experienced difficulty in obtaining mentorship from identified subject matter experts and university faculty members, which was a required component of their assignment. hile Treadway has not executed the lesson in the classroom yet, they have experienced challengesWwith the Google Earth
grid clinics Implementing Smart Grid clinics Senior/Junior capstone design and hands-on experiences in projects. senior and junior projects Smart grid The effect smart grid is having Its effect on climate change environmental effect on the environment Smart grid future What are the aspects that the More social power/connections/ industry smart grid industry is willing to legacy system upgrade/ improve in the future modernizing gridsFinancial process of The financial process/cash flow Budget, financial support,smart grid project for a smart grid project
robotics curriculum is presented in this section. The structure isorganized in a hierarchical manner from senior robotics course and projects to advanced graduaterobotics courses.Senior Robotics Course:Introduction to RoboticsCapstone Senior Design Projects, Robots-relatedNote: The capstone senior design projects on robot development can be used to apply theknowledge in introductory robotics courseEntry Graduate Robotics Course:Robotics Kinematics, Dynamics and ControlNote: This graduate course can also be used to recruit graduate students interested in robotics,but with different backgrounds. The requirements are higher than those of a senior level course.Such examples are shown in previous sections. The coverage can range from
. Excel worksheet. The system is an electrically powered The electrically powered mode of transportation and is transportation system responds to a 35% controlled with a handheld remote handheld remote control. control. By the end of the project, a new system is expected to be fully functional and On project completion, the fully ready to operate. In the end, the functional new system gives people a 54% excellent design is meant to give people great new way to pursue happiness. a great new way to pursue
exciting project he could possibly imagine: the Space Shuttle. Over his career, David held successively influential management positions including Deputy Branch Chief of the Aerodynamics Branch in the Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Division, Chief of the GN&C Analysis and Design Branch, Deputy Chief of the Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Division, and for the final 10 years of his career, Chief of the Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Division in the Engineering Directorate at the Johnson Space Center. Dave retired from NASA at the end of 2010 after more than 38 years of service in the US Space Program. His career spanned numerous projects and programs, including both crewed and robotic spacecraft. After retiring
specific analyses for passive voice are describedin the next section. In addition, civil engineering practitioners conduct holistic scorings ofsamples of student papers so we investigate whether there is overall improvement in addition toany specific language changes. Students' reactions to the materials are also gathered throughsurveys, reflective writing, and interviews.3. Practitioner and Student Use of Passive VoiceIn phase one of the Civil Engineering Writing Project, we investigated the use of passive voice in60 workplace reports, 60 student reports and 50 journal articles. The student reports mimickedthe workplace context: they were written to specific clients for specific projects (usually realpeople and real projects, such as in capstone
Department of Computer Science and Engineering at MichiganState University. He has had a strong research record in computer science research, specifically in knowledge-basedsystems. His main contributions have been in the theory and application of principled approaches to knowledge-based systems following a school of thought known as “task specific approaches.”Timothy Hinds is an academic specialist in the MSU Department of Mechanical Engineering. He teachesundergraduate courses in machine design and statics as well as advises senior engineering student teams working onindustrially sponsored capstone design projects. He also teaches a senior-level undergraduate international designproject course and has taught graduate-level courses in innovation
, its progress beinghighlighted in the following sections. The CNC simulators to be developed and implementedduring this project will provide realistic operation, part programming and maintenanceenvironment at a fraction of the current cost. This will be done by using a real CNC hardware,therefore significantly lowering training costs. Industry-supplied and coordinated projects will beused in conjunction with capstone projects using collaborative student teams. The newly-equipped laboratories will be networked for cross-institutional use between Drexel Universityand affiliated community colleges. Figure 1 shows the overall architecture of the proposedcollaborative project involving web-enabled, advanced manufacturing systems over the Internet
, requiring 24-credit hours of work to complete the program.Besides work in general technical communication, editing, and oral presentations,elective courses include web design, teams, electronic publishing and user manuals.Other courses outside technical communication are selected from approved course incommunication, computer science, math/statistics, and management/business/economics.Students may also work in all phases of the production of Wisconsin Engineer, theaward-winning college engineering magazine; and, as a capstone project, TCC studentscomplete a practical internship which requires substantial “real” technicalcommunication work “on-the-job.”About half the undergraduate students taking the TCC are first and foremost engineerswho want to
attend and participate in a MechanicalEngineering seminar series that will expose them to topics such as Ethics, Safety, EnvironmentalIssues, Global Collaboration, Energy Conservation, Entrepreneurial Aspects of Engineering,Engineering Professionalism, Sustainability, Manufacturability, Project Management, and othertopics of professional interest and use. Furthermore, students will have opportunities to work asa team on faculty’s research project or a creative project of their own. These hand-onopportunities will give Mechanical Engineering students a more insightful appreciation formanufacturing capabilities and limitations, and permit them to coordinate more effectively withengineering technologists to create more competitive products in the
institutions should supportbased on the existing problem [5].The existing gap between academia and industry has enormous impacts on reducing the chanceof employment for engineering graduates [6]. Many scholars discuss the importance of thedesign skills industry and state that universities should pay more attention to capstone designprojects in their curriculum [7]. Capstone design projects give students the chance to work onreal-world projects, strengthening and linking the information gained during their studies topractical concepts [8].This paper aims to determine the most demanded skills of a graduate in electrical and computerengineering by identifying the curriculum needs based on the skills required by professionalengineers with at least ten
AC 2009-162: INTRODUCING ROBOTSRyan Meuth, Missouri University of Science and Technology Ryan Meuth received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Missouri –Rolla in 2005 and 2007 respectively. He is currently a Computer Engineering PhD student at Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly the University of Missouri – Rolla). He works as a research assistant in the Applied Computational Intelligence Laboratory, contributing to research projects on optimizing the behavior of robot swarms, large scale optimization problems such as computer Go, and high performance computing methods utilizing video game consoles and graphics processing units. His
analysis for ongoing CETL projects. His master’s thesis is an analysis of choice and player narratives in video game storytelling.Dr. Judith Shaul Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Judith Shaul Norback, Ph.D. is faculty and the Director of Workplace and Academic Communication in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. She has developed and provided instruction for students in industrial engineering and biomedical engineering and has advised on oral communication instruction at many other universities. The Workplace Communica- tion Lab she founded in 2003 has had over 19,000 student visits. As of Spring 2013, she has shared her instructional materials with
courses; over 1100 survey responses were received. Over 50% of therespondents taught students about professional practice issues and the societal impacts ofengineering and technology in one or more of their courses; only 12% did not include any topicsrelated to social or ethical issues in their courses. Faculty most commonly reported teachingthese topics in senior capstone design (41%); 30% also taught these issues in graduate levelcourses. The majority of the respondents felt that both undergraduate and graduate studenteducation on these issues was not adequate (67% and 80%, respectively).KeywordsEthics; societal impacts; sustainability.BackgroundThere is general consensus that engineers need to perform their duties in an ethical manner
teaching note, 63 peer-reviewed conference proceedings, and was the keynote speaker at the food banks Conference. She works with the Texas Education Agency (TEA) in developing innovative Career and Technical Education (CTE) courses in logistics and distribution. Dr. Natarajarathinam has chaired 91 graduate capstone projects, and several undergraduate capstone projects, and has served on two master’s committees. Dr. Natarajarathinam was chosen as of the “40 under 40” faculty by the American Society of Engineering Educations, Prism Magazine in 2018.Michael Johnson Dr. Michael D. Johnson is a professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University. He also serves as the
ultimately design for.” In a review ofempathy in philosophical and psychological literature, the authors recognize theempathizer’s cognition and identity formation. However, this focus on the empathizer’s(designer’s) inner life did not translate into pedagogical practice in the capstone projects,where empathy was once again operationalized as an instrument for data collection.Speaking of the projects—designing for users with disability, the authors concluded,“[r]egular exposure to handicapped users, their limitations, and how these impact theirability to perform daily tasks, can provide useful data”[22]. When empathic design is translated into a method for user observation, the focus isoften placed on an exclusive, two-entity relationship: the
to the globalenvironment is the international senior capstone project introduced at the Purdue PolytechnicInstitute and is fully described elsewhere12. This new approach to increase the awareness inengineering students of the challenges of global teams has already resulted in multi-national teamsinvolving students from Peru, Germany, Poland, and the Netherlands and coming in the nearfuture, teams including Denmark, Russia, Australia and Dubai. This mixing of students fromdifferent nationalities stimulated this interest in learning motivation so that project topics for theseteam can be selected that would appeal to a mixed nationality team.MotivationMotivation is a crosscutting element of personality. Motivation reflects the level of identity
issues6. Programs that havesought to emphasize this approach have ranged from small-scale graduate programs7; todepartmental8; to large-scale multi-institutional efforts9. Successful programs supplementtraditional engineering science with practical experience in solving real problems, developing thesystems, IT and business skills.2.2 Interdisciplinary EffortsIncreasingly, such experiential learning involves working with multiple disciplines10. Manyuniversities, encouraged and supported by industry, now offer capstone senior design projectsperformed by teams composed of varying engineering disciplines. More recently, the teams forsuch projects are being expanded to include business disciplines, IT disciplines, and sciencedisciplines. Industry and
, andExcellence in all we do). To support that mission, we firmly believe in “learning space by doingspace.” Every student graduating with an Astronautical Engineering degree completes acapstone design project, either a satellite design (FalconSAT) or rocket design(FalconLAUNCH) effort.FalconSAT provides students an opportunity to participate in the design, build, test, and/ormission execution of real microsatellites that perform DoD missions. FalconLAUNCH providesan opportunity for students to design, build, test and launch payload-capable sounding rockets.Before students can participate in either of these capstone engineering design courses, spacesystems and rocket design issues must be well understood through prerequisite classroomexperiences. The