Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David A Saftner, University of Minnesota Duluth; Sara D. Ojard, University of Minnesota Duluth; Eshan V. Dave, University of Minnesota, Duluth; Nathan William Johnson, University of Minnesota Duluth; Eil Kwon; Rebecca Teasley, Civil Engineering University of Minnesota Duluth

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Design in Engineering Education

a New ProgramABSTRACTThe University of Minnesota Duluth’s Department of Civil Engineering accepted its firststudents in 2008, graduated its first class in 2012, and first offered a capstone design course inthe spring semester, 2012. Groups of five to six students designed a building on a local site.Students organized their teams based on interest in a particular branch of civil engineering,allowing individual students to focus their efforts on a particular subject. Based on feedbackfrom faculty, practicing engineers, and students, several changes were implemented prior to thefall 2012 semester. These changes included making the group size smaller, modifying the gradedsubmissions, and changing the project location. Most significantly, the

Conference Session

Partnerships in IE Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Griffin; Paul Griffin; Donna Llewellyn

The Impact of Group Size and Course Lengthon a Capstone Design CoursePaul M. Griffin¹, Susan O. Griffin and Donna C. Llewellyn²¹School of Industrial and Systems Engineering²Center for Excellence in Teaching and LearningGeorgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta, GA 30332January 15, 2003AbstractIn the spring semester of 2003, the School of Industrial Engineering at Georgia Tech ranan experimental one-semester version of their capstone course, Senior Design. Thestandard version is two semesters in the length, and the purpose of the experiment was tocompare the marginal benefit of the second semester for the student (and project sponsor)to the cost of running the second semester in terms of faculty and sponsor resources. Inaddition, a survey was

Conference Session

Engineering / Education Collaborations

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Shooter; Micheal Hanyak; Matt Higgins; Marie Wagner; Ed Mastascusa; Dan Hyde; Brian Hoyt; Bill Snyder; Michael Prince

Session 3531 Engineering Engineering Education A Conceptual Framework for Supporting Faculty in Adopting Collaborative Learning Brian Hoyt, Michael Prince, Steve Shooter, Michael Hanyak, , E.J. Mastascusa, William Snyder, T. Michael Toole, Mathew Higgins, Daniel C. Hyde, Marie Wagner, Margot Vigeant Bucknell UniversityAbstractOver the last three years, nearly a quarter of Bucknell’s engineering faculty haveparticipated in Project Catalyst, a NSF funded project to promote systemic change

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Michael Klein; Matt Walker; Kevin Organ; Dan Gerbus

(IEW) at the University ofIdaho is formed of a diverse group of graduate students whose purpose is to develop anenvironment that fosters professional as well as technical excellence. This paper analyzes theactions taken each year by IEW leading to the formation of well-trained, collaborative, and highly-reflective cohort of graduate students that support design education. This team is developedthrough directed study courses, team projects, personal reflections and monumental technical andinterpersonal challenges. Since 1994, IEW has been successful in delivering hardware thatexceeds expectations of industry customers, shortening time frames required for large-scaledesign projects, enriching senior design mentoring, and expanding the number of

Conference Session

Energy, the Environment, and Nano Technology

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dhananjay Kumar, North Carolina A&T State University; Devdas M. Pai, North Carolina A&T State University; Kwadwo Mensah-Darkwa; Robin Guill Liles, North Carolina A&T State University; Mainul Kader Faruque, North Carolina A&T State University; Courtney Lambeth, North Carolina A&T State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

laboratories. These efforts have been primarily supported by two successive NSF NanoUndergraduate Education (NUE) projects. Our first activity for enhancing nanoscience andnanoengineering education was to introduce simple concepts of nanoscience and technology intoexisting required undergraduate engineering courses. These modules covered the core conceptsof nanomaterials and unique phenomena at the nanoscale. Introducing the concepts ofnanoscience and engineering at this early stage of undergraduate education was found topositively impact student interest in registering for a technical elective nanotechnology coursethat we developed as our second initiative. An interdisciplinary 3-credit nanotechnology course(Nanotechnology I) with a significant hands

Conference Session

Curriculum in Mechanical Engineering Technology: Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

B. Sridhara, Middle Tennessee State University

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Engineering Technology

-on project and an industrial visit. The student teams are required to design, build and test aHelmholtz resonator. A Helmholtz resonator, which can be modeled as a spring-mass system,consists of a body (cavity) and a neck whose dimensions can be selected to tune the resonator torespond at a desired natural frequency. In the fall of 2007 student teams as well as the authorbuilt resonators using steel and aluminum. We used a laptop computer and a freeware (software)to test the resonators. The testing included pressing the resonator neck opening against our lowerlip and quickly blowing once and simultaneously recording the time domain data. The freewarewas useful in recording the time domain data but the frequency response was not good because

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Clair Nixon

financial information ofthe aerospace industry and included analysis of specific aerospace projects. It wasassumed that the students had little to no prior exposure to basic business principles.Class exercises were used to determine the level of competency in applying thesebusiness principles to engineering problems. The design of the interview instrument usedin the Welliver Program was determined after the completion of this course and wasbased in part on the perceptions of the value of the information for these universitystudents. Further, multiple discussions were held with engineering and business faculty aswell as Boeing personnel prior to the final development of the interview instrument andthe start of the interview period. Over a

Conference Session

Research in Graphics Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Derek Yip-Hoi, Western Washington University

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Engineering Design Graphics

-ended individual projects where students get to select a mechanism to modeland analyze are presented. In addition an overview of the strategy adopted and experiences inconducting a collaborative team project for creating a complex mechanism will be discussed.This strategy enables a realistic model of an assembly with over 100 components to be modeled,simulated and analyzed within a 10 week term.The paper concludes with a discussion of observations made on how students benefit from theinstruction, assignments and project work in this advanced area of CAD. This includes theirability to assimilate and apply both the mechanics and strategies of advanced assembly modelingand the challenges faced in collaboratively creating large

Conference Session

Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sanjay Raman

traditionalRF/microwave background). These tutorials will be discussed further below.The course fundamentally involves “hands-on” circuit design at the IC level; state-of-the-artcommercial RF/microwave CAD and layout software is used in conjunction with the course.The CAD environment will be discussed further below. The culmination of the course is amajor course design project involving the design and full-custom layout of a functionalblock/component RFIC for wireless communications applications. The project guidelines arepromulgated, and student design teams (typically 2-3 students per team) are assigned, ~10weeks into the semester; the projects are due at the end of the semester. Typically no finalexam is given, and the final design project report

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew L. Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Donald D. Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Robert W. Fletcher, Lawrence Technological University; Eric G. Meyer, Lawrence Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Page 24.288.1 http://www.ltu.edu/engineering/experimental biomechanics lab.asp Dr. Meyer directs the Experimental Biomechanics Laboratory (EBL) at LTU with the goal to advance ex- perimental biomechanics understanding. He developed and teaches a number of courses in the Biomedical c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Paper ID #10438Engineering program, including; Introduction to Biomechanics, Biomechanics Lab, Tissue Mechanics,Medical Imaging, Orthopedics, BME Best Practices, Intro to BME, and Fundamentals of EngineeringDesign Projects. Recently, the EBL has partnered with ME and EE faculty to

Conference Session

BME Technical Modules and Laboratories

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Waugaman; Brian Self

focused primarily on physiology, the second on electrical engineering topics, and thethird on mechanics issues. At the end of the course, teams of students completed a final projectwhich focused on some type of control system within an aerospace cockpit. The teams had tocreate working hardware that collected some type of physiologic signal that would indicate pilotstressors, then determine some action based on these signals. Examples of projects includecollecting electro-oculography to determine if a pilot is spatially disoriented, usingelectromyography and heart rate to predict G- induced loss of consciousness, and using thermalsensors to help control pilot stress and over heating. The course content attempted to provide thestudents with

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing and Integration

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Lobaugh

groups, once formed, go to the Champion’s industrial location for a tour to discussopportunities for improvement through lean practices. The groups follow the guidelines ofValue Stream Mapping1 to “map” the processes with the plant. The team then chooses one leanpractice within the plant to concentrate on, and analyzes the best methods for initiating changes.At the end of the course, each group presents their findings and turns in a written report coveringthe entire project. The “Champion” then has the opportunity to present the project paper to theirmanagement for review and possible implementation.Penn State Erie - The Behrend College is currently in the second year of teaching this course.Lean Manufacturing is offered only in the fall

Conference Session

Trends in Biological & Agricultural Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Lacey; Ann Kenimer

Session 2003-1240 Teaming Freshmen with Seniors in Design Ann Kenimer, Ronald Lacey Associate Professors, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M UniversityIntroductionThe Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at Texas A&M University offersdesign-focused courses for freshman and senior engineering students. The senior-level coursesconstitute the curriculum’s capstone design experience. Seniors work in teams of four to five on adesign project suggested by industry clients. Many of these same projects are used in the freshman

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter E. Thain Jr.; Thomas Fallon

theoretical foundation intelecommunications.The five technical courses in the BSTCET degree are designed to teach students about suchtopics as communication protocols, wide- and local-area networks, managing network resources,Internet-related concepts and development, and network security issues. These courses aresupported by numerous hands-on laboratory experiences. The four management courses providestudents with the principles necessary to manage people and projects. This paper discusses issuesconsidered during the development of the program, classroom and laboratory curricula, problemsconfronting the program today, and assessment.I. IntroductionTremendous growth in the telecommunications industry has inspired a similar growth ineducation

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Ramers

Session 1346 An Undergraduate Research Experience in New Technology Commercialization of PEM Fuel Cells Doug Ramers University of North Carolina, CharlotteIn 1997, I was asked as a faculty member of Gonzaga University to participate on a project todevelop a commercializable polymer exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) technology forpower plants in the 1-10kw range. The project was managed, sponsored, and funded jointly byWashington Water Power (WWP) and the Spokane Intercollegiate Research and TechnologyInstitute (SIRTI). Our Gonzaga engineering team, which

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa A. Pruitt, University of California, Berkeley

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First-Year Programs

California at San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, 2001-present Adjunct Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, 2001- present Research is focused on structureproperty relationships in orthopedic tissues, biomaterials and medical polymers. Current projects include the assessment of fatigue fracture mechanisms and tribological per- formance of orthopedic biomaterials, as well as characterization of tissues and associated devices. Surface modifications using plasma chemistry are used to optimize polymers for medical applications. Attention is focused on wear, fatigue, fracture and multiaxial loading. Retrievals of orthopedic implants are char- acterized to model in vivo degradation and physiological loading

Conference Session

Capstone Courses and Design Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bobby G. Crawford, U.S. Military Academy

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Mechanical Engineering

American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Undergraduate Capstone Design: Inductively EnhancedAbstractThe Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy atWest Point, New York requires its graduates to complete an integrative, year-long capstonedesign during their senior year. One of the capstone projects available to the mechanicalengineering students in the department’s aerospace sub-discipline requires the design,construction, testing, and demonstration of a small, highly autonomous Uninhabited AerialVehicle (UAV) for a Department of Defense client. This particular project was added to the listof available capstone options in the fall of 2005

Conference Session

From Entrepreneurship Education to Market

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donte Harris, Southern Illinois university Edwardsville; Sohyung Cho, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; H. Felix Lee, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Kevin M. Hubbard, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Luis T. Youn, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Advanced Manufacturing (SIAM) Center at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. Hubbard has worked in the field of manu- facturing engineering for 20 years, and has conducted more than 120 research projects for manufacturing and technical enterprises across the United States.Dr. Luis T. Youn Page 25.418.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Developing a State-of-Art Supply Chain Test-bed for Engineering Education and Research Donte J Harris, Sohyung Cho, H. Felix Lee, Kevin Hubbard, and Luis Youn School

Conference Session

Mechanics Concepts II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sinead C. Mac Namara, Syracuse University

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Mechanics

AC 2012-4322: THE DESIGN COMPETITION AS A TOOL FOR TEACH-ING STATICSDr. Sinead C. Mac Namara, Syracuse University Page 25.1283.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 The Design Competition as a Tool for Teaching Statics.1. IntroductionThis paper describes ongoing efforts at Syracuse University to re-engineer the traditionalstatics course. This course forms part of a larger NSF funded project aimed at increasinginnovation and creativity in engineering curricula. The principal aim of the overallproject is to find strategies to foster and reward creativity in engineering students.This study examines a design

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeremy Koczenasz; Bradley Bashford; Anil Sawhney; Andre Mund

Session 3226 Internet-Based Interactive Construction Management Learning System Anil Sawhney, Jeremy Koczenasz, Brad Bashford, and André Mund Arizona State UniversityAbstractThe Del E. Webb School of Construction is currently involved in a three-year project aimed atenhancing the construction management education. The primary undertaking of this project—in itssecond year—is to incorporate practical content in the construction curricula thus bridging the gapbetween the classroom and the construction

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knecht; Randal Ford

applications.Central to the curriculum is a project which requires teams to make decisions based onassumptions and constraints imposed by the problem, situation and client. This project providesan opportunity to exercise both creative thinking (brain storming and data gathering) and criticalthinking (technical assessment and economic analysis). Teams assess various design parametersto develop the “best” solution through evaluation, analysis and synthesis of alternatives. Second -Year Students Propose A ProjectSecond-year students proposed to the Director of Design (EPICS) that they use their production Page 3.224.1of The Music Man as a

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Gulcin Cribb

"students will be more responsible for their learning. The highlystructured and prescriptive nature of traditional undergraduate courses in engineering willbe replaced by programs affording greater freedom of choice." Project-based, problem-based or inquiry-based education encourages the shift in ownership of the educationprocess from staff to students, from teacher to learner. Dependence on reading lists, oneor two text books, lecture notes and the pearls of wisdom coming from the teacher do notallow students to take responsibility for their own learning, rather, it restricts their abilityto be independent seekers of information and knowledge and to be able to solve problemson their own in a creative and independent way.Engineering education, like

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Kirk E. Hiles; David L. Walters; Vincent Wilczynski

courses "Mechanical Control of Dynamic Systems" and"Experimental Methods in Thermal and Fluids Sciences" is to use design projects to demonstratephenomena and solve problems. A unique project, involving having students design a bungee cord tominimize the distance from the ground that an attached egg reaches when released from a distance of 35feet above the ground. In the mechanical controls class, the students design the bungee cord system andin the experimentation course, the bungee cord's characteristics are determined and the experiments isconducted. Since the project includes mathematical modeling, numerical methods solutions ofdifferential equations, design, system response, and the collection and analysis of experimental data, theexercise

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 2: Enhancing Learning through Hands-On Design

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Cheadle, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Christian D Torres, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Theodore Zheng Hong Lee, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Corinn Sievwright, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

, Madison B.S., Mechanical Engineering University of Wisconsin - Madison, Dec 2023Theodore Zheng Hong Lee, University of Wisconsin, Madison Theodore Zheng Hong Lee is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin Madison. He is currently a Project Engineer in Alkar Rapidpak.Corinn Sievwright, University of Wisconsin, Madison ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Design and Development of a Pneumatic Breadboard and “Sandbox” for Students in Mechanical Engineering Capstone DesignIntroduction Many students entering senior design have never taken a fluid power course or workedwith pneumatic circuits in any way. Most have only taken an introductory

Conference Session

Computer and InformationTechnology-Related Issues

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

the semester so that in class activities, homework and exams can be provided to students at the right time. This provided the students a tentative schedule so that they can plan their other activities accordingly. 3. Clear and Concise grading guidelines were prepared to grade homework and exams. Thought was put into coming up with the grading guidelines such that students get more points for showing higher level of understanding. 4. Detailed grading rubric was created for the project. 5. Students were encouraged to post on discussion boards. 6. An outline for the exams was created after a thorough analysis of the topics that need to be

Conference Session

Novel Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Ewert, Iron Range Engineering; Ronald R. Ulseth, Iron Range Engineering; Bart M. Johnson, Itasca Community College; Jeff Wandler, Iron Range Engineering; Andrew Lillesve, Iron Range Engineering

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2011-974: ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE IRON RANGE ENGINEER-ING (IRE) MODELDan Ewert, Iron Range Engineering Dan Ewert is the Director and Professor of Iron Range Engineering, Virginia, MN – a program of Min- nesota State University – Mankato.Ronald R Ulseth, Iron Range Engineering Ulseth is an instructor of engineering at Iron Range Engineering and Itasca Community College both in northern Minnesota. He is the co-developer of both programs. For the past 20 years he has taught physics, statics, dynamics, fluid mechanics, and thermodynamics. He has successfully implemented engineering learning communities in first year programs. Recently, Ulseth began a new 100% project-based, industry- sponsored, engineering

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tiffany Veltman, University of Calgary; William (Bill) Rosehart, University of Calgary; Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary; Denis Onen, University of Calgary

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Design in Engineering Education

development and evaluation of criteria used to compare these twoapproaches to a freshman design experience. Using the Canadian Engineering AccreditationBoard (CEAB) Graduate Attributes criteria and drawing from the Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate (CDIO) Initiative as the basis for evaluation, a detailed analysis of the strengths andweaknesses of the two design courses in terms of learning outcomes is explored.IntroductionAs technology continues to advance, it becomes increasingly important for engineering graduatesto have strong design skills, in order to meet the widely varied requirements of industry1. Whilecapstone projects provide senior engineering students with the opportunity to apply their designskills in a large-scale setting, it is first

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Mildren; Karen Whelan

importance of various applications ofteamwork to the concept and successful outcome of an integrated, holistic engineeringcurriculum. In these first two years it also became evident that to incorporate effective teamteaching and student teamwork would require a specific and concentrated effort. As a result in1997 the University of Ballarat sought and was successful in obtaining a 12 month NationalTeaching Development Grant (NTDG) from the Committee for University Teaching and StaffDevelopment (CUTSD). The grant was awarded in order to fund a project in partnership withtwo other universities in Australia, Swinburne University of Technology (in Melbourne,Victoria), and the University of Tasmania. The project title being, "Co-operative Developmentof

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

William J. de Kryger; David A. Lopez

to observe foreign industrial technology, to provide cross-culturalexperiences, and give the students and faculty an opportunity to collaborate on technical projects. Page 3.144.1The first two objectives were easily accomplished, the third is well underway, accompanied bycontinual challenges and refinements.One measurement of the exchange program’s success is the most recent agreement, which wassigned in October 1997. The new agreement, a change from the first, is an open-ended document,allowing greater flexibility and is based on mutual expectations and trust, attributes which had tobe earned. The early exchanges had many challenges and

Conference Session

Student Learning and Teamwork

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fernando Rios-Gutierrez, Georgia Southern University; Rocio Alba-Flores, Georgia Southern University

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Engineering Technology

Mechanical and Electrical EngineeringTechnology (METEET) Department at Georgia Southern University. The main topic of thiscourse is concentrated on team-based, one semester-long projects in which students design andbuild mobile robots for different applications.At our university, the METEET department has implemented a popular course in whichinterdisciplinary teams of mechanical and electrical undergraduate students build and deploy awide range of robotic projects, ranging from small remote-controlled vehicles to totallyautonomous robots. These projects expose students to the experience of working in teams, toknow the interdependence among engineering disciplines, to schedule and prioritize activitiesassociated to the development of the project, and