Conference Session

Electrical ET Labs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Newman; Albert McHenry; John Robertson, Arizona State University; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

° • Operate in multi-disciplinary teams • Troubleshoot and design • Be effective project managers • Understand limitations Classroom for Clarification WEB To prepare for class Laboratory Project Exploration Figure 1 Execution Figure 1 Microelectronics Curriculum Delivery Format at Arizona State University EastThe content delivery plan that is being tested in the microelectronics curriculum is ahybrid model that consists of a

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Blanton; Mark Rajai

Session 2525 Designing Global Monitoring System to Locate Missing Children and Alzheimer Patients Mark Rajai, Hugh Blanton East Tennessee State UniversityAbstractThis paper presents a joint effort between engineering students from various majors, and theiradvisors to design a sophisticated global monitoring system to monitor location of children,Alzheimer patients and other valuable items. This project was part of a capstone design coursedeveloped to introduce engineering students to real world problems. This funded project wasdeveloped in response to

Conference Session

Materials Science Education for the Future

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey W. Fergus, Auburn University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

. The courses are listed as materials engineeringcourses (MATL), but they are designed to be accessible to students in other majors (engineeringand non-engineering). Freshman chemistry is listed as a prerequisite, but the necessarychemistry is minimal so students with high school chemistry or other sciences are allowed totake the course – as long as they are not distressed by seeing chemical equations.These courses have also been approved as electives in a university-wide Sustainability Minor.The Sustainability Minor has six hours of required courses (an introduction to sustainability anda capstone course) and nine hours of elective courses from a wide variety of topics in the generalareas of Society and Market, Environment, Social Justice2

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Shafaat Qazi; Sam Gile; Mustafa Guvench

-bandwidth performance of student designed CMOS operational amplifiers which were fabricatedthrough MOSIS. The system was built and the programming was done as a part of senior electrical engineeringcapstone project at the University of Southern Maine. Figures 3, 4, and 5 shown in the remaining pages giveresults obtained with two different circuits, (1) a JFET-input AC-coupled Three-stage BJT audio amplifierdesigned in junior year Electronics II laboratory, and (2) an inverting 10X gain amplifier constructed from aNMOS-input CMOS operational amplifier. The CMOS operational amplifier was designed as a part of ELE444 Analog Integrated Circuits class, and sent out to MOSIS, fabricated and packaged. The 10X amplifier wasbuilt as an application of the

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Parviz F. Rad; David M. Woodall

also required. Given that this program is a non-thesisprogram, the capstone elements of the program include an independent project ona selected practical aspect of engineering management, and a comprehensiveexamination which will demonstrate the candidate's ability to integrate thecourse-work leading to this degree.In addition to the independent project, the curriculum requires 32 semesterhours, divided into the following categories:Engineering Management Core Courses:Engineering Management 510, Fundamentals of Engineering ManagementEngineering OrganizationTotal Quality ManagementManaging Project TeamsManaging ProjectsCommunications Page 3.252.3Managing

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

K.A. Korzeniowski

non-Electrical Engineering student. Most engineeringstudents take some introduction to basic electric circuit analysis, DC and AC circuits, therefore this course is notmeant to be another Electrical Engineering circuit theory course. Some of the books used in the basic circuit 1 2analysis courses at the USNA are listed in the Bibliography section of this paper ’ . This course was developed to meet a need expressed by members of Physics, Chemistry and theEngineering Departments at the USNA, to provide a course that applied the circuit theory material to the nextlevel. Most of these students will be involved with Capstone Design projects and will be

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Shreekanth A. Mandayam; John L. Schmalzel; Ravi Ramachandran

the freshman andsophomore levels stress teamwork, implementation of engineering principles into practice, oralcommunication, and written communication [1][2]. In the freshman year, the theme of the fallsemester is measurements [3], while the theme of the spring semester is competitive assessment(the topic of this paper). Comprehensive one semester and two semester projects at the juniorand senior levels (more discipline specific) give the students exposure to the nature of scientificresearch and provide the initial maturity to appreciate how research is carried out. Althoughmany schools have recognized the need to integrate design into the freshman year [4][5], mosttraditional programs offer only a senior capstone design course and ignore the

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian K. Jennison; Glenn S. Kohne

capstone design coursedo students attempt to combine materials treated in diverse courses in a coherent manner to solve asignificant design problem. This paper describes a two-semester senior-level ElectricalEngineering course in communication electronics that combines a systems-level treatment ofcommunications theory with practical electronic circuit implementations of these systems. Whilemost Electrical Engineering programs have courses in electronics as well as a course incommunications theory, seldom are the two subjects jointly treated. The electronics coursestypically describe the construction and behavior of amplifiers, filters, and oscillators but littleattention is given to realistic applications of these devices. Similarly, a typical

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Education: Upperclass Years

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Turton, West Virginia University; Joseph Shaeiwitz, West Virginia University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

education, and outcomes assessment. Joe is an associate editor of the Journal of Engineering Education, and he is a co-author of the text Analysis, Synthesis, and Design of Chemical Processes (3rd ed.), published by Prentice Hall in 2009. Page 15.56.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 A Module for Teaching Batch OperationsRationaleFor the past several years, the majority of projects chosen for one of the two required designs inour senior capstone course have involved some form of batch or semi-batch process. However,no formal instruction in the design and operation of batch processes was

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Robinson; Jody Finnegan; Gene Stuffle; D. Subbaram Naidu; Al Wilson; Jay Kunze

College ofBusiness. However, we have not seen a clear way to accredit this program with either theCollege of Business (through AACSB) or with ABET.Present Stage (1996-): Several changes took place during this period. We carved out of theexisting interdisciplinary program by adding 9 more credits leading to 3 new programs: BS inCivil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. In order to be unique compared to other traditionaldiscipline-oriented (CE, EE, ME) programs, we retained the interdisciplinary engineering corefor all these 3 new programs so that the students get a broad-based engineering education. Theprogram is summarized in Figure 2. Another important thing to be noted in our program is thatthere are 2 senior capstone design courses spread

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jim Richardson

the University of West Virginia has anoutstanding peer review of student learning—the Majors. 2 “The Majors are design projects thestudents must complete individually and defend in front of at least two faculty members.” TheMajors, which date back to the 1970s, incur significant faculty time, however. Other examplesof peer review of student work include: faculty-colleague check sheet evaluations of projectreports3, reviews of student portfolios and course folders of capstone design work3, annualevaluation of portfolios of student writing assignments by faculty advisors 4, and before- Page 7.106.1graduation evaluation of writing assignment

Conference Session

Educational Trends in Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Riley

;processes solutions, immobilized, non-aqueous non-aqueous solutions enzymologyCell culture immunology, kinetics, bioreactor scale up toxicology, and animal bioreactors cell growthTable I: Topics presented in two biosystems engineering courses highlighting the biological andengineering aspects of each.For each module, course material begins with the chemical and biological fundamentals requiredfor a basic understanding of the system, followed by engineering analysis approaches or tools.These two aspects are brought together in a final capstone project which is either a small

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michele Miller, Michigan Technological University; James P. De Clerck, Michigan Technological University; Sheryl A. Sorby, Ohio State University; Laura Maria Roberts; William J. Endres, Michigan Technological University; Kevin David Hale

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #7337Meeting the NAE Grand Challenge: Personalized Learning for EngineeringStudents through Instruction on Metacognition and Motivation StrategiesDr. Michele Miller, Michigan Technological University Dr. Michele Miller is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan Technological Uni- versity. She teaches classes on manufacturing and does research in engineering education with particular interest in hands-on ability, lifelong learning, and project-based learning.Dr. James P. De Clerck, Michigan Technological University After an eighteen year career in the automotive industry, Dr. De Clerck joined the

Collection

2023 CIEC

Authors

John Irwin

West Michigan fluid power engineering and distribution company, DonaldEngineering, has been instrumental in the advancement of fluid power education. DonaldEngineering President, Mark Gauthier, has generously donated a pump test stand, a large powerunit, and is sponsoring a student capstone design project to design and manufacture a fluid powersystem to operate a tensile test apparatus. This industry support has been a great supplement tocourse learning objectives. For example, the pump test stand enables students to evaluate flowrate and temperature change in and out of the cooling unit for the hydraulic pump, which relatesto heat transfer, thermodynamics as well as fluid power topics. Proceedings of the 2023 Conference for

Collection

2024 CIEC

Authors

Maged Mikhail; Peter Zafiro

bysupport from the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI) Foundation and the“PMMI U Skills Fund” exemplifies that unity. Using industry-standard software, equipment,and resources, like that provided by LinMot USA, allows students and workforce trainees tolearn about the newest equipment, learn about emerging technologies in packaging andprocessing, and provides a pipeline of workforce-ready talent. In this paper, the author explainsthe steps to design, fabricate, and build a testbed trainer to be used with the existing trainers inthe hands-on activity laboratories, student/industry projects, and capstone design. This project isa good tool for students to practice innovative technology hands-on skills using anelectromagnetic linear

Collection

2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Rebeca G. Book

different inputs, it is sometimes hard to accommodate allsuggestions for coursework because of the number of credit hours and still be able to keep theprogram as a four-year program. Advisory council members advise and give their input to whatis important for industry needs and may even suggest that some courses be eliminated orreplaced.AccomplishmentsThe advisory council has done assessments of the plastics program for ABET and has also donebenchmarking for the program to see what courses should be included or changed. Oneparticular accomplishment for giving input was on the senior project/capstone class and whatshould be included. Another example of their input and involvement was writing letters andtalking with university administration to

Conference Session

Professional Papers

Collection

2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Gregory J. Mazzaro, The Citadel

Tagged Topics

Professional Papers

(planar) antennas and digital capture instruments, students canaccomplish synthetic-aperture radar and generate 2-dimensional images of their environments[8]. Depending on equipment available at-hand (possibly borrowed from a nearby PhysicsDepartment), students might conduct experiments such as matching impedances withtransmission-line stubs, measuring the wavelength of a laser using an interferometer, orestimating the permeability of free space [9]. Capstone projects in the senior year might includethe design, construction, and testing of an electronically steerable antenna array, a microwaveFM communication link, or an optical AM communication link.Textbooks can include case studies, to merge fundamentals with engineering practice and

Conference Session

Innovative Course Structures and Learning Environments

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian P. Helmke, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering

. g = 0.55 The Concept Questions and Practice Problems 4.49 ± 0.64 4.23 ± 0.70 p = 0.21 helped me learn. g = 0.40 Homework problems and test questions helped 4.12 ± 0.62 3.69 ± 1.20 p = 0.09 me assess my progress learning the course g = 0.56 content. The structure of this course encouraged me to 3.94 ± 1.07 3.85 ± 0.77 p = 0.77 explore outside resources to help me learn. g = 0.09 I can relate what I learned in this course to other 4.12 ± 0.88 4.31 ± 0.61 p = 0.47 courses, my Capstone/Thesis project, and topics

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University; Bruce R Maxim, University of Michigan, Dearborn; Jeffrey J. Yackley, University of Michigan, Dearborn

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Division

four credit-hour course that meets for 14 weeks. As shown in Table 4 several additionalmodules were developed to cover all topics offered in CIS 375. This course is required of allcomputing majors: Computer and Information Systems (CIS), Software Engineering (SE) andCybersecurity and Information Assurance (CIA) and is taken prior to working on their capstonedesign projects. The capstone projects completed by UMD students involve working withexternal clients for eight months as part of a four-person team to develop software solutions tosmall industrial problems.The term project for CIS 375 was the creation of a small web-based software engineering tool.Each team created a different tool (e.g., cost estimation tool using use cases or a risk

Collection

2010 North Midwest Section

Authors

William R. Peterson; Guanghsu Chang

goal of this course is to prepare the studentto do the research necessary to successfully complete their thesis or alternate plan paper (appliedproject) this requirement became the basis for the course.The students in the class have typically include a mix of majors – manufacturing engineeringtechnology and mechanical engineering – and mix of thesis (all mechanical engineers plus a fewmanufacturing engineering technology student) and applied project papers. The class size hasranged from 12 to 15.The basis for the course has become the proposal the student will need to make prior to startingtheir capstone research project. By using the student’s own research topic we provide relevanceto the research and since they need to submit a proposal soon

Collection

2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Felipe J. Perez, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Yasser Salem, Cal Poly Pomona

Shear Wall Building Felipe J. Perez1, Yasser S. Salem1, Brittany J. Myers1, Cristian Aguilar1, Garrett Jones1, Daniella Ginocchio1, Edwin Medina1, and Kevin Chin1 1 California State Polytechnic University, PomonaAbstractThis paper presents results of a capstone senior project at California State Polytechnic University,Pomona. Students conducted a vulnerability assessment of a five-story building constructed inSouthern California. The structure has non-ductile concrete shear walls at the core and gravityframes at the perimeter. Partial infilled walls exist within the perimeter frames, creating captivecolumns. Students studied as-built plans for the structure and conducted an assessment of

Conference Session

Make It!

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leanne Petry, Central State University; Augustus Morris, Central State University; Cadance Lowell, Central State University; Abiodun Fasoro, Central State University; Ibrahim Katampe, Central State University ; Anthony R. Arment, Central State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

engineering educators creates Capstone experiences that are of intellectualinterest to the undergraduate student.Research Conducted by CSU Research TeamsThis multidisciplinary effort is aimed at conducting research related to cellulosic materialsderived from a variety of resources for polymer fabrication, characterization, and application toengineering materials manufactured from natural products. It is of significant interest to theCSU community as a focus area for land grant research currently funded by agencies such asNational Science Foundation Research Experience for Teachers (NSF-RET) and the UnitedStates Department of Agriculture (USDA). In the past two years, four CSU research teams haveworked on natural product related projects.7 Each team

Collection

2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Talal D. Gamadi; Bethany Disque; Marshal Watson; Lloyd Heinze

evaluation process by applying students, and strategies for course future improvement. the following: as shown in Figure 1, we mapped the Senior Capstone Project. Performance in the capstone courses relevant to each other and asked the faculty in each design courses, PETR4121 & PETR4222. map (loop) to cooperate with each other. The main Senior Exit Survey. This survey is given to students objective of these loops is to provide faculty with clearer during the last month before their graduation. These targets for developing standards-based curriculum, students complete a program evaluation survey instruction, and assessment. Thus, aiding in mapping the containing twenty

Conference Session

Engineering in Middle Schools

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry Richards, University of Virginia; Christine Schnittka, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

all grade levels. At the national level, the International TechnologyEducation Association (ITEA) standards have led to curriculum materials to introduceengineering in middle and high schools (http://www.iteaconnect.org/). Our ETKs aredesigned to meet state and national standards in science and/or math, and whenappropriate to also meet the Massachusetts and ITEA standards. Each ETK includes a listof the specific standards addressed.The ETK Design ProcessThe ETKs are developed by teams of fourth year Mechanical Engineering students in ayear long capstone design class. For the last five years, this experimental class has beenoffered as one of several options for meeting the capstone design requirement. During ourlast ABET visit, the examiners

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Teams

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Durward Sobek, Montana State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

even moredifficult to evaluate. Over the past year, we have introduced a new course at the junior-level, “Introduction to Engineering Design.” The course focuses on the skills necessaryto complete a project in a multi-disciplinary team, and it will eventually be required forall engineering students as a precursor to their department-specific capstone designcourses. In a previous paper, we described our approach of using the engineering designprocess to determine the best solution to the problem of providing students with a multi-disciplinary educational experience in engineering at Montana State University.1In order to determine if our new course improves student performance in this area, wedeveloped a rubric for evaluating an individual’s

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; John Law; Donald M. Blacketter; Herbert Hess

1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedingsscheduling request, and to clarify instructor as well as technician roles.[4] The coursewould stress a structured approach to engineering problem solving, would involve tenhands-on sessions in a computer lab, and would require students to work together in amini-design/modeling project. Both classes would meet together twice a week in a lectureenvironment and would meet separately once a week in a computer lab. Twenty-fivestudents were expected on the Moscow campus and ten students were expected at theBoise campus. The Electrical Engineering curriculum requires the student take three of sixintroductory senior-level technical electives for technical breadth. The ElectricalEngineering course, Power

Conference Session

What's New in Statics?

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Dong, Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

Page 11.908.5environment, the topics and the related homework were geared to match problems seen in the“industry”. In order to fulfill this goal, load path problems were added into the curriculum.Students were taught how to draw and “read” a framing plan and then how to trace a load to theground. This gave the students something tangible – why are we doing this - and a directapplication to real world situations. Our “hands on approach” philosophy is epitomized by theStructures II capstone project; students build a simple two-story model, draw a floor framingplan, develop the beam and column loading diagrams, compute the shear and moment diagramsfor the beams and the axial load diagrams for the columns, calculate the internal stresses for

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer R Amos, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Rashid Bashir, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Kelly J Cross, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Jeffrey Loewenstein, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Marcia Pool, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Dorothy Silverman, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

electives throughout their sophomore and junior years like"Healthcare Innovation by Engineering" that deepen their understanding of healthcaretechnology, policy, and needs, and can participate in clinical or industry immersion experiences.These classes and experiences culminate in their capstone design project, which they plan intheir junior year and complete in their senior year.  Future WorkMoving forward, we aim to come closer to solving the health challenges that will shape thetracks in our curriculum and implement these challenges into faculty-led communities of practicethat are integrated into the project-based curriculum. The health challenges in these communitieswill be the point of integration for co-curricular, research, and core

Conference Session

Works in Progress: Curricula and Pathways

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bingbing Li, California State University - Northridge; Robert G. Ryan, California State University - Northridge; Nancy Warter-Perez, California State University - Los Angeles; Yong Gan, Cal Poly Pomona; Hadil Mustafa, California State University - Chico; Helen Cox, Institute for Sustainability, California State University - Northridge; Li Ding, California State University - Northridge

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

the CommunityCollege system for lower division courses.All campuses will develop a capstone which will comprise the design/development of a solutionfor a specific problem by a team of students from a variety of disciplines working together. Forexample, this could be a solution for a problem in the developing world which has the capacity toinclude many elements of liberal arts, humanities and social sciences such as historical context,anthropology, geopolitics, economics, sustainability, environment, politics and political structureand a complete understanding of the society’s culture and ethics. Engineering solutions are butone piece of the project solution, and students will work in teams with others from differentdisciplines.The minor will

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

AHAMAD FARHOUD

theemphasis is on computer hardware and software instead of electronics, the controller can be adigital one provided by a personnel computer. The student has to design and build an interfacecircuit to enable the computer to read the voltage from the LM335 and send a signal to energizethe relay. The interface circuit includes an ADC0804 analog to digital converter, a 4N28 Opto-Isolator and the PC parallel port. A computer program using C and Assembly languages iswritten to control the temperature. The designs presented in this paper can be a part of anysenior electronics, automatic control, digital systems design, or capstone courses.Introduction A good experiment in engineering technology is one with a lot of practical implications.Through it