Conference Session

How to Effectively Teach Using Teams

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shashi Nambisan, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

AC 2007-1513: ENHANCING THE CAPSTONE DESIGN EXPERIENCE IN CIVILENGINEERINGShashi Nambisan, Iowa State University Shashi Nambisan, PhD, PE: Director of the Center for Transportation Research and Education and Professor of Civil Engineering at Iowa State University (ISU), Ames, Iowa. Prior to coming to ISU, Shashi was at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) from July 1989 to January 2007. He enjoys working with students and he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in the area of Transportation systems as well as the undergraduate capstone design course sequence. An active researcher, Shashi has led efforts on over 130 research projects that have addressed and responded to

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregg Warnick, Brigham Young University; Spencer Magleby, Brigham Young University; Robert Todd, Brigham Young University; Alan Parkinson, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

International

AC 2008-1230: GLOBALIZATION: A NEW FRONTIER FOR CAPSTONECOURSESGregg Warnick, Brigham Young University Gregg Warnick came to Brigham Young University (BYU) in May 2006 as the External Relations Coordinator for the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He actively works to recruit approximately thirty industrially-sponsored projects each year for the Engineering and Technology capstone course. He is currently working to increase international project opportunities for students and faculty. He is also the internship coordinator and helps students develop and improve their resumes and interviewing skills and to help identify potential job opportunities. In addition, he is responsible for

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susannah Howe, Smith College; Jessica Wilbarger, Smith College

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

wasimplemented online, with requests sent via email to representatives of all ABET-accreditedengineering programs (1724 programs at 350 institutions, as of 2004). The online survey yieldeda strong response, with 444 programs from 232 institutions submitting responses. Thiscorresponds to a 26% response rate from engineering programs and a 66% response rate frominstitutions. The results of this survey, with a focus on developments in the past ten years, arepresented graphically and discussed. Particular focus areas include course logistics, facultyinvolvement, project coordination, funding details, and industry sponsorship. The results serveas a snapshot of current practices in engineering capstone design education as well as anindication of trends over

Collection

2023 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Abolfazl Amin; Israd Jaafar; Abdennour Seibi; Sean Tolman P.E.; Matthew Ballard

was realized that a very strong Capstone program was needed in each of the fourdisciplines of engineering. Team-based learning was the core of the Learning Outcomes inCapstone courses as required by ABET. The focus of this paper is on the Capstone course in theMechanical Engineering (ME) program. Capstone has been taught as ME-4810 and 4820 in twoconsecutive semesters as three-credit-hour courses. In the past five years practical projects havebeen assigned to teams of seniors with great success. Each team has been assigned a coach/mentorwho has advised and monitored each team’s progress. Extreme care was taken in requiringstudents to use a comprehensive engineering design process, perform correct engineering analysis,use CAD and FEA tools as

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie Vance; Michael Cornachione; Harriet Cornachione

group dynamic components, a focus similarto efforts at other instutions7,8,9. The result is a required three-term sequence,commencing in the fall, incorporating 9 of the required 12 senior level design credits, and6 credits of communication work7.Course Premise The premise of the capstone design sequence is that the students are junior engineersin a civil engineering consulting firm1,8. Faculty act as project engineers and one faculty(rotating) is the chief executive officer (CEO) for the firm for the year. Communicationfaculty are part of the firm’s management as well. To the extent possible, references areto “the firm” and “the project” rather than “the class” or “the assignment.” A typicalorganization chart is shown in Figure 1

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Rachel Koh, Smith College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

product. Another problematicassumption made in the students’ economic proposal was that what works under consumercapitalism in the U.S., where a high percentage of the population has expendable income, wouldwork in the very different economic circumstances of Nicaragua. The project was ultimatelystalled at the proposal stage because of disagreement about this point.By the time they reach their senior capstone, engineering students have often had few- if any-courses that require them to consider empathic approaches to designing for a client orcommunity whose racial, ethnic, national, socioeconomic, or other demographic backgrounddiffers from their own. This experience gap is reflected when students don’t have the tools tounderstand the needs of

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shawn Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus; Cecilia La Place, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus

engineering design reality TV show "Design Squad." He also held the Guinness World Record for the largest number of steps – 125 – in a working Rube Goldberg machine. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Adapting Hackathon-Honed Skills Toward Software Engineering Capstone Courses AbstractCoding marathons known as hackathons are informal teaching and learning environments wherestudents build skills they can use in class, and design innovative projects they can use to pursueindustry employment. Though many elements of undergraduate engineering programs

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Pembridge, Virginia Tech; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

AC 2010-811: THE CURRENT STATE OF CAPSTONE DESIGN PEDAGOGYJames Pembridge, Virginia TechMarie Paretti, Virginia Tech Page 15.1217.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 The Current State of Capstone Design PedagogyAbstractIn the fall of 2009, faculty involved in capstone design courses were surveyed to track trends inthe course structure and to explore current pedagogical practices. Where prior surveys probedcourse logistics, faculty involvement, project coordination, funding details, and industryinvolvement, this survey complements that work by also addressing the teaching beliefs andpractices of capstone faculty. The results provide a basis for

Conference Session

ABET Issues and Capstone Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kendrick Aung

capstone classes for the last three years in theDepartment of Mechanical Engineering at Lamar University. The paper presented difficultiesand problems encountered in completing these projects from the viewpoints of both instructorand students. Each project and the problems associated with it were discussed in details. Theexperiences and lessons learned from these projects are applicable to most capstone designprojects and thus, the paper will be beneficial to other instructors teaching capstone designclasses.Introduction Senior capstone design classes represent the penultimate experience for undergraduatestudents in completing their bachelor degree. These classes require higher learning skillsinvolving analysis and synthesis of knowledge and

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Capstone and Design

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Stephen Andrew Wilkerson P.E., York College of Pennsylvania; Stephen Andrew Gadsden, University of Guelph; Kala Meah, York College of Pennsylvania; Donald Jerome Hake II, York College of Pennsylvania

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

2W1, Canada This paper presents an engineering capstone design project that is community or service-based. By and large, most students in the school’s capstone program design and build a car forcompetition in the Baja or Formula collegiate program. However, there are several other growingoptions that students are exploring. In 2019-20, one of the options was for students to design andbuild a star tracking mechanism for a 4.5-meter radio telescope. This paper presents the ongoingtelescope work and, where appropriate, contrasts that with the traditional capstone projects likeBaja. In particular, a series 8345 Prime focus radio telescope is to be modified to track stars. Thismeans that we could use the 8345-dish, but little else. Nearly

Conference Session

How to Effectively Teach Using Teams

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norman Dennis, University of Arkansas; Kevin Hall, University of Arkansas

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Criterion 4, producing a product for thebetterment of the community, promoting university goodwill and instilling an ethic of publicservice in the student. In practice, however, poor project selection and poor conceptualdevelopment of service learning activities will negate any of the positive attributes listed above.In fact, the difficulty in creating meaningful service learning projects for the capstone designcourses has limited their use. Fewer than 30% of the 477 campuses that responded to the CampusCompact survey on service learning have used service learning projects as culminating designexperiences in all disciplines. The statistics for engineering disciplines is even lower. In light ofthe proposed “Body of Knowledge” for civil engineering

Conference Session

Capstone and Senior Design in Engineering Technology: Part I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vladimir Genis, Drexel University; William Danley, Drexel University; Warren Rosen, Drexel University; Shawn Racz, Lockheed Martin, Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

students pick thetopics of the project recommended by the faculty, industry representatives, or chosen by thestudents based on their experience during co-op cycles. This capstone experience allows studentsto demonstrate their knowledge and skills at a professional level. The course sequence isfinalized by the completion of a working prototype and a presentation of the project to the SeniorDesign Project Committee, AET students and faculty, and general audience during the thirdweek of May.Introduction The mission of the Applied Engineering Technology program is to provide contemporary students with an academic foundation and practical education in engineering technology through an outstanding curriculum and applied research

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marvin Dixon

andteamwork. However, more is required to prepare engineering students to interact in teams withmembers of different backgrounds and to meet the challenges that they will encounter in theircareers. Universities and industry must work together to identify and eliminate those barriers toeffective teaming and communication. This paper addresses some of the issues associated withthe modification of the aforementioned capstone design activity to include multi-disciplinaryteams of engineering students addressing real industrial problems.Since 1970 over 3000 mechanical engineering seniors have teamed with other mechanicalengineering seniors in the capstone design class at Clemson University to address more than 200industrial projects proffered by 76

Conference Session

INDUSTRY DAY SESSION: CMC PANEL SESSION ONE

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert B. Rhoads, Ohio State University; Jacob T Allenstein, Ohio State University; Krista M. Kecskemety, Ohio State University; Clifford A Whitfield, Ohio State University

Tagged Topics

Corporate Member Council

were to identify characteristics that were important to early-careerengineering professionals and to identify the most important learning outcomes to the capstoneexperience from an industry-sponsor perspective.Multidisciplinary Capstone Program StructureThe multidisciplinary capstone experience is a two-semester course sequence with industryrelated projects defined by sponsor companies who support the projects financially and withcompany engineers working directly with the project. Projects include process and equipmentdesign, energy and environmental improvements, and new product development. Students fromall 14 undergraduate engineering programs have participated in the program. Programs include:aeronautical and astronautical, aviation

Conference Session

Teaching Design in Manufacturing Curriculum I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University; Ronald Earley, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

Project Report and Portfolio is also examined in detail andgraded by the instructor. The instructor assigns different weights for eachcomponent of the project (Group Dynamics, Member participation, Maintenance ofLog Book, Mathematical rigor, Conforming to the principles of Liberal Education,Miami Plan Component, Technical expertise, English composition, etc.) anddetermines the overall grade based on these data.This capstone course is taken by the student groups in their senior year. They areexpected to incorporate their four-year college learning experience in a productivemanner. As such, the senior design project provides the instructors with variousassessment data. Over a period of time, it is possible to consolidate these in a systematicmanner

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Davis

engineering degree programs while the technical contentwill vary with the project and engineering discipline. The focus of this paper is how Page 9.978.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ø 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationABET assessment can be conducted within the framework of a capstone design course,rather than on specific project topics themselves.The University of Cincinnati employs a quarter system and thus the senior capstonecourse sequence for ECE seniors is divided into a fall, winter, and spring term, coveringabout 33

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Williams; F. Edwards; E. Egemen; Adrian Hanson

paper revisits this design experience andshares some thoughts regarding introduction of a consulting engineering environment into the classroomsetting for capstone design experience. Issues of interest are team selection, project load distribution withinteams, personal billable time, engineer/manufacturer interaction, permit procurement, client interactions,understanding plans, specifications, and contract documents, and presentation of the final product to theclient.IntroductionThe goal of capstone courses is to have students experience the overall design process as a whole andrealize the different components of an engineering design project. In general, the design process is aninteractive process with the client and regulatory agencies to

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Kasarda, Virginia Tech; Brenda Brand, Virginia Tech; Eugene Brown, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

research has been published in many journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Brown is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has served the University and the profession as Virginia Tech’s Associate Provost for Program Development and as Program Manager of the Graduate Research Fellowship Program at the National Science Foundation. Page 12.1348.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Teaching Capstone Design in a Service Learning SettingAbstractThis service-learning-focused capstone design project requires students to design and build one

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel; James Righter, The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

experiences.Capstone courses and projects are very important activities for student outcomes of an academicprogram. Capstone courses integrate and further build on the learning outcomes from many ofthe courses students study. Integrating mechatronics into a senior capstone design project is notalways possible. However, much like a senior capstone project, mechatronics is a course thatallows students to exercise their creativity and problem solving skills using project basedlearning and exercising teamwork. In this paper, sample capstone design projects usingmechatronics and their outcomes will be presented. In particular, this paper gives an overview ofthe developed devices specifically by focusing on the design and development aspects of theprototypes

Conference Session

Design Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein; William Janna

FRESHMAN-SENIOR COLLABORATION IN A CAPSTONE DESIGN COURSE John I. Hochstein, William S. Janna Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Memphis Memphis TN 38152ABSTRACTAn innovative capstone design course titled “Design of Fluid Thermal Systems,” involves groupsof seniors working on various semester-long design projects. Groups are composed of 3, 4 or 5members that bid competitively on various projects. Once projects are awarded, freshmen enrolledin the “Introduction to Mechanical Engineering” course are assigned to work with the senior designteams

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Jackson

as a member of a two or three-member team to workclosely with an industry sponsor throughout the term. Students must coordinate their activities toaddress a significant and challenging issue facing the manager within the sponsor’s organization.Each sponsor commits to a mentorship role for the student team(s) assigned to the organization,while at the same time, serving as the manager who is responsible for personnel performancewithin his/her department and/or division.The AMT Capstone course provides each student with real-world exposure to problems andissues faced by line and staff managers across a wide variety of aviation-oriented disciplines.Recently completed capstone team projects include: evaluations of current and pending

Collection

2006 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Lawrence E. Whitman P.E., Wichita State University; Don Malzahn, Wichita State University

assessment of student ability in these often difficultto assess areas. This paper presents the method of the course and the method usedfor assessment.Introduction and motivationCapstone design projects are common in engineering curricula. In response toindustry demands for more practical engineering graduates, many engineeringcolleges have implemented capstone design projects as well as to respond toemerging ABET requirements1. A survey by Todd, et al. found that about 60% ofengineering programs use industry based projects for some or all of their capstonedesign courses1. Dutson, et al. performed a literature review of over 100 papers.The survey identified the course duration, format, content, and evaluation as wellas a review of team size and

Conference Session

Design and the Capstone Experience

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shayne Kelly McConomy, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Ruturaj Soman; Nikhil Gupta, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Chiang Shih, Florida A&M University/Florida State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

over three semesters, as opposed to thecollege’s traditional two-semester curriculum. The integrated approach used collaborationbetween one semester of Engineering Design Methods (EDM) and two-semesters of the SeniorDesign Project (SDP). The integrated approach, modeled on the engineering design spine withroots in freshman courses, involved both the EDM and SDP cohorts. The interclass involvementincludes participation in design review presentations, senior-to-junior mentorship, and multiclassworkshops. Student feedback through periodic surveys and interviews provided insight into thestudents’ progress and learning outcomes. This paper reports on efforts that would help anintegrated Capstone Design curriculum succeed. The Department’s surveys

Conference Session

Manufacturing Systems Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Linards Stradins; Richard Rothaupt

; in fact it is an old idea.The capstone experience in the Manufacturing Engineering program at UW-Stout is a two-semester course sequence. In the first course students experience the engineering design processby designing realistic products for manufacture. Design projects are managed by teams ofstudents, industry contacts and faculty advisors. The final detailed design is used in the secondcourse, where an automated manufacturing system is developed to produce the product.IntroductionUniversity of Wisconsin-Stout was founded on the educational principle that people learn best bydoing. In 1891 James H. Stout, a wealthy lumber baron, established the Stout Manual TrainingSchool to provide training and education “through which young people of

Conference Session

Capstone Mechanical Engineering Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Janna

, and the freshman-senior interaction isdescribed.BACKGROUND“Design of Fluid Thermal Systems” is a senior-level, capstone design course at the University ofMemphis. Students in this course are divided into groups of 3, 4 or 5 members who work Page 7.580.1together as a team on a design project. Selected projects are presented to the design teams who Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationmust bid competitively on three of the projects. The design team with the lowest bid is awardedthat

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2003 GSW

Authors

Richard Bannerot; Ross Kastor

created a new course number ECE4334 and joined the existing INDE/MECE 4334 capstone design course, required of allstudents in the Departments and Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.This paper describes the changes that have occurred in the new combined courseECE/INDE/MECE 4334, the interdisciplinary capstone course for three departments andprovides a description of projects from spring, 2002. IntroductionThe capstone design course in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) at theUniversity of Houston has proven to be one of the Department’s most successful courses.In one form or other it has been around since the early 1960’s. It has existed (untilrecently), more or less, in its present

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2008 GSW

Authors

Mohamad H. Ahmadian

• Analyzing and evaluating arguments, interpretations or beliefs • Synthesizing subject-matter insights and knowledge The Capstone CourseThe course enables students to: (1) complete two projects based on their field of interest, (2)prepare an effective written technical report, (3) plan and produce presentation materials whichmost effectively communicate the intended message for their technical oral presentation, and (4)apply concepts and practices of their field of experience to develop and effectively present their Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of New Mexico – Albuquerque Copyright © 2008

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Alicia A. Modenbach P.E., University of Kentucky; Michael "Mick" Peterson, University of Kentucky

Tagged Divisions

Biological and Agricultural Engineering

therealization of the design. Parts are ordered and prototypes are manufactured. For the 2019-2020academic year, all the actualization of the projects happened simultaneously with the global shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Seven months of design work suddenly had to pivot intoprojects and deliverables that could be completed remotely without access to much of the tools,equipment, and resources typically used by teams. This transition was much easier for someprojects than others.Upon completion of the Spring 2020 semester, the instructors reflected upon the outcome of thecourse and acknowledged several positive and negative aspects and used those to guide changesimplemented on the next iteration of the capstone course. This practice seemed to

Collection

2023 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Joaquin Rodriguez, University of Pittsburgh; Robert Enick

thinking, problem-solving and fundamental competency [1]. Someteachers have also been concerned with entry-level engineers in industry lacking skills oncritically analyze and critique work performed by other engineers, and have implemented arotation of three preliminary design projects where teams review previous and advance new stepsin different projects before completing the final report of their former process [3].Recent research has shown that a large percentage of chemical engineering faculty consulted inan extensive survey perceived significant deficiencies in teaching ethics and broader impacts inundergraduate education [4]. They also identified capstone courses as the most common courseto include these topics [4]. The importance of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed El-Sayed; Lucy King; Matthew Sanders; Jacqueline El-Sayed

recently taken. Traditionally, at Kettering University, eachdepartment conducts its own capstone experience within the confines of the discipline. In the lastfew years, a few engineering faculty members from ME and Manufacturing programs atKettering University have been cross-training engineering students from Manufacturing andMechanical engineering programs to work as interdisciplinary teams. For example, (1) Roboticsand Machine Components Design (MCD) courses had a common project in designing,fabricating and implementing a robotic gripper in the assembly of flashlights;4 (2) Automationand Design of Experiments had a common project in designing the experiments to producemachining parameter values for the best quality of a turned workpart. (3) An