Paper ID #29003A Construction Management Competition as the Basis of a CapstoneCulminating EventLt. Col. M. Scott Stanford P.E., US Air Force Academy Lt Col Scott Stanford is an Assistant Professor in the US Air Force Academy’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is an active duty Air Force officer and career civil engineer. He has a B.S. and M.S. from Clemson University and a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado Boulder. His research interests are in construction management, project delivery, and engineering education.Dr. Joel Sloan P.E., U.S. Air Force Academy Col Joel Sloan is the Head of the
AC 2007-2304: THE EVALUATION OF A COMPREHENSIVE MIDDLE SCHOOLOUTREACH PROGRAM--THE STRATEGY, THE RESULTS, AND THECHALLENGESJohn McLaughlin, MacLaughlin Associates John McLaughlin is a senior consultant in strategic planning, performance measurement, and program evaluation. He is presently working on several project including the Environmental Protection Agency, Health and Human Services Administration on Aging and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as well serving as the lead evaluation consultant to seven national centers.Gail Hardinge, College of William and Mary Gail Hardinge is an educational psychologist who currently works with the Va. Department of Education's Training and
experience from reviewing student chapterand club annual reports from many schools over several years, from attending and observingnumerous Regional Student Conferences, from running Workshops for Student Chapter Leaders,from participating in Practitioner and Faculty Advisor Training Workshops, and finally fromserving as advisor for the USMA student chapter, the authors assess the contribution of studentgroups to attainment of Policy 465 outcomes.Through community service projects, field trips, guest speakers, organizing and running local,regional and in some cases national events, and through the leadership opportunities offered inthe ASCE student groups, civil engineering undergraduates can, and do, demonstrate that theyare developing the skills
including the multi-disciplinary project team members, the industry partners, the Users and external vendors. In the EDIC, he teaches and supervises undergraduate engineering students who engage in multidisciplinary projects. Eng Keng has a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) from Nanyang Tech- nological University, and a Master of Science (Management of Technology) from National University of Singapore.Ms. Ameek Kaur, National University of Singapore Ameek Kaur is an Instructor in the Engineering Design and Innovation Centre (EDIC) of National Uni- versity of Singapore. Her current work involves training and facilitating the multidisciplinary engineering teams through their innovation projects. Prior to this, she has
, graphic, and audio-visual manner to an expert audience for its evaluation.According to the Cognitive Flexibility Theory4, 5, multiple representations of knowledge promotethe transfer of abstract knowledge to different contexts while cognitive flexibility is one of thefour base elements of creativity6. For the design of the learning environments of the module, wefollowed Jonassen7. Final projects were presented to experts in the field that assessed studentcreative thinking by means of a rubric adapted from the Investment Theory of Creativitydeveloped by Sternberg and Lubart6, 8, 9, which provided a multidimensional assessment ofcreativity. Additionally a Fluency Rubric was developed, which was divided into four modulesthat correspond to each
microcontrollers. There are also programs where the emphasis of thecourse is on the study of instrumentation and programmable logic controllers.One difficulty in teaching control systems is to provide a good balance between theory and practice. Byincorporating a laboratory component, it could help to provide some connection between the abstractcontrol theory and the real world applications.In the present paper we describe the educational experience gained by including team-based projects intothe control systems course. In these projects students design and implement different controllers forautonomous navigation in a mobile robot. In particular, the design and implementation of three maintypes of controllers are assigned to teams of students, namely: 1) a
completed at the Centre for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. From 2004 to 2006, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Australian Telecommu- nications Cooperative Research Centre (ATcrc) and RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. From 2005, he was the ATcrc networking program project leader. Since May 2006, he was a lecturer and since Jan. 2011 a Senior Lecturer in Telecommunications at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia. His research interests include green IT, teletraffic engineering, performance modelling, QoS provisioning, and engineering education. He is a member of the Telecommunication Society of Australia, Engineers
ofinterdisciplinarity is implemented in the TLP. Page 15.678.4 Figure 2 Technology Leaders Program StructureIn the case of the TLP, purpose and need are initially established through first-year studentrecruiting efforts and throughout internships and the TLP Learning Community. Disciplinarygrounding is primarily accomplished in the sophomore-level courses. Integration is focused oninitially in junior courses and more fully in internships and capstone projects. Reflection, whilepresent throughout, is most directly addressed in the TLP Learning Community.First-Year StudentsStudents do not declare majors until the end of their first year at the
a waiting list for placement as demand has continued toexceed capacity.Service-learning has been integrated as a curricular or co-curricular connection for several of thelearning communities10. Historically, these were self-contained projects within the first-yearprogram. Limitations on the scope of these projects include the capabilities of the first-yearstudents and the short duration of the academic period. While these efforts were beingundertaken, a large service-learning design program was developed that involved students fromall four years, first-year to senior. There were opportunities to link the first-year experience withthe larger program through the learning community.EPICS ProgramEPICS is an engineering-centered
the results of their work. In an analogousfashion to the capstone design project providing a measure of the students’ ability to perform adesign project, the capstone experimental experience requires that student teams demonstrate theapplication of experimental abilities to set up and analyze less-defined experimental problems.To assist in the organization of course content and its assessment, the following six componentshave been used to define design of experiments 2, 3: 1. Experimental Planning 2. Methods of Measurement 3. Selection of Instrumentation 4. Analysis of Data and Results 5. Uncertainty Analysis
schools along the front range of the Rocky Mountains.A short-term goal of this project was to have students develop and demonstrate innovativeconcepts for weather stations. A longer-term goal was to identify and to select the mostpromising stations for development both on Earth and for planetary exploration. These studentswill describe their processes for constructing a weather station based on a project-basedcurriculum in engineering design. They will discuss the design of their station to gather climatedata for land use decisions as well as the potential for a weather network for planetaryexploration. Engineering design, a complex, interactive, Designand creative decision-making process
Session 2159 Design and Construction of In-situ Moisture Sensors For a Solid Waste Landfill Philip T. McCreanor and Debra R. Reinhart Mercer University / University of Central FloridaAbstractUndergraduate students at the Mercer University School of Engineering (MUSE) were employedto work on a cooperative project with graduate students at the University of Central Florida(UCF) to design a moisture sensor which could survive in the landfill environment and producereliable data. Students from the mechanical, industrial, biomedical, and environmentalengineering
, casestudies, and projects used to teach sustainability in this context. The key research goal of thispaper is to identify and document some methods of using BIM as an effective tool to teachsustainable building design and construction.A building design and construction class integrating BIM was developed and its initial offeringwas used as a case study for this paper. One feature of this class was the introduction of threedifferent BIM software packages during a single semester, which enabled students to use BIMtools to conduct “what-if” sustainability analyses during design and construction scenarios. Aresidential and a commercial building were used as class projects to allow students todemonstrate the knowledge they had learned in class. Project
-to-analog conversion, multiplexing, cyberspace 3. Communication, Navigation and Radar Modulation, demodulation, antennas, wireless communications, radar, GPS, electronic warfareAt the end of each block, an exam is given, and two or three lessons are reserved for projects. Aproject is the culmination of the previous block, tying all principles together into an overarchingscenario. Students must work in teams to solve analytical problems, identify viable options, andthen step through a decision-making process in order to recommend the best option. Page 25.1478.4Assessment MethodologyThis section defines the methodology
Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET) has released a new set of accrediting criteria for engineeringprograms in the United States, requiring engineering programs to demonstrate that theirgraduates have “ an ability to communicate effectively.” The emphasis oncommunications in EG166 was increased by including a team design project in thecourse.The project ran in parallel with instruction in graphics for the last six weeks of thequarter. Students were required to design a piece of equipment to solve a simpleengineering problem, prepare a complete set of working drawings for the equipment,produce a written report, and make an oral presentation on their work.Meanwhile, in the English Department, faculty and graduate students in the
its effect on student’s feelings of impostorsyndrome and perceived self-efficacy. Impostor syndrome has been found to occur morefrequently in scientific communities and found more prevalently in marginalized communities.Context: In 2020, USF’s D-EE was awarded the Revolutionizing Engineering Departments(RED) grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The ongoing grant supportsorganizational and cultural revolutions to improve the current Research-Teaching-Service modelto a Research-Students-Practice model. Research efforts within the grant include sections onParticipatory Action Research (PAR) in which students within the department could launch theirown research projects into the effectiveness of the changes within the department, such
Americans, LatinX, women, students with disabilities and first-generation college students. Thegoals of this project are to 1) engage undergraduate students to foster innovative research cancerdiagnostics to therapeutic intervention; 2) cultivate multidisciplinary research among NJIT faculty; and 3)increase the participation in research by underrepresented minority groups, resulting in participants beingco-authors on publications and presenters at scientific conferences. During the 10-week summer program, -related researchprojects in biomedical engineering, materials science and photonics. Students gain perspective on theircareer paths through weekly seminars
capstone project within theComputer Engineering Technology (CET) department at NYC College of College. The conceptsof parallel, serial and USB ports and Bluetooth wireless communication are explored as part ofthe trend in computer communication technology. In particular, emphasis is placed on thediscussion of how to interface and communicate, using wired serial port and Bluetooth wirelesstechnology, between user designed software and a custom designed hardware system, which mayincorporate an embedded micro-controller.In the past, parallel and serial ports were the standard communication interface available on mostpersonal as well as industrial computers. The underlying hardware and the communicationprotocols were simple and easy enough to be
Portfolios in Academic Advising, Self-Guided Learning, and Self-AssessmentAbstractAs part of our undergraduate program’s commitment to producing quality engineers who havebegun to look beyond entry-level jobs, we have recently launched the Notre Dame ElectronicPortfolio (NDeP) project. In its second year in the chemical engineering department,implementation of the program for new sophomores was informed by the pilot year andimproved in both scope and execution. We have further collected data at the start and end ofthese sophomores’ first semester to track changes in student perceptions as they relate to many ofthe desired outcomes of our accredited engineering programs. We have found that this semestermarks several changes in
students who aspire toseek higher education degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)by 1) creating a strong alliance between the universities and the state’s tribal colleges; 2)implementing an initiative of research capacity building in tribal colleges that will engage tribalcollege faculty and baccalaureate anticipatory STEM majors in basic scientific research; and 3)engaging tribal college students in research using a tribal college-university collaborative modelfor research mentoring. Recent educational research has shown that students who engage inresearch projects are more likely to enroll in and complete STEM degree programs whencompared to other students. Increased understanding of the research process, a shift
into research laboratories at the University of Pittsburgh. Thispaper presents an introduction to the RET program and delves into the findings from theinternship portion of the RET Site.The RET Site at the University of Pittsburgh has four main components including curriculumdevelopment for Pittsburgh area high school teachers during an intensive summer experience,teacher implementation of new engineering design units into their courses, an annual designcompetition where the teachers’ students present their projects, and finally high school studentinternships within research laboratories at the University of Pittsburgh. Interns participated inresearch activities with the aim of developing their interest in engineering, developing theirability
series of relatively worthless trinkets thathad little to no intrinsic value.This paper describes the design and implementation of a simple bottle opener project that servesas the framework for an entry-level introduction to machining in an undergraduatemanufacturing course. The bottle opener’s design allows students to machine it using variousmanufacturing sequences, so they may start on any of several machines and end up with thesame final product. This paper also provides an assessment of the effectiveness of theimplementation of this project through the use of student grades and performance, an assessmentof the quality of team products and prototypes in a follow-on project, surveys, interviews withstudents, and course-end student feedback
in the capstone experience. However, there is little transition between the highlydefined problems provided in lecture and laboratory courses versus the open-ended projectstudents are asked to solve in their capstone design course. The capstone design projects for theNanosystems Engineering program is provided by faculty across a variety of disciplines.Therefore, it became evident that rather than expecting each faculty mentor to provide certainbasic skills, a more effective approach would be to have all Nanosystems Engineering students towork on a smaller open-ended project in the last quarter of the Junior year to teach all theelements that they would need to apply more deeply in their capstone project the following year.The educational
introductory course on engineering innovation and entrepreneurship ≠ A review of best practices at other institutions, including other efforts supported under the KEEN program. ≠ A faculty workshop to enlist the perspectives of our colleagues. ≠ Development of a long term integration plan to extend these efforts campus wide ≠ Assessment of the courses and processThe course has now been offered twice and here we describe its structure and the studentreaction to it, as well as the broader campus context.2.0 Structure of the CourseThe I & E course consists of lectures, discussions and a project. The course is a collaborativeeffort, taught by the PIs who come from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and theDepartment of
management systems. She was a faculty researcher on a Business and International Education Grant funded by the Department of Education, completing projects on multimodal transport networks and international and global supply chain curriculum development. She completed preliminary work on global, multi-institutional collaborative student teams referenced in this proposal as part of the BIE grant award. Dr. Long is currently a co-investigator on a related Missouri DOT project and is an investigator on a sustainable waste water treatment project in EPA Region 7 funded by Missouri S&T’s Energy Research Development Center. Dr. Long has over twenty five conference and journal publications, is a
allof the lecture material, a syllabus, homework problems, examinations, and possibly laboratoryexperiments. This is a daunting task for anyone, but especially so for someone who hasabsolutely no experience. Consequently, incorporating some type of voluntary teachingeducation into the PhD curriculum could provide graduates who are better prepared for their firstfaculty position and more confident that they are making the right choice in pursing a career asan educator.In this work, a one-semester junior-level electrical engineering class is taught by a team of onefaculty member (mentor, Phillips) and myself, a PhD-seeking graduate student (mentee,Murphy). The purpose of the project is to provide me with ‘real-world’ teaching experience thatwill
Aided Design class with a Technical Report Writing class. This arrangementmirrors how the AE and ME engineering capstone courses are co-taught by a communicationprofessor and an engineering professor, who guide student teams through a year-long designprocess.In the cornerstone courses students carry out two design projects, one of which is a semester-long team assignment. For the team project, students write a System Specification document thatoutlines requirements, a Trade Studies Report, a Design Proposal, and a Final Report that isaccompanied by a drawing package. They also give three presentations. The Conceptual DesignReview, in which they present their selected concepts, is followed a Preliminary Design Reviewthat introduces their chosen
also completed her post-doctoral studies. Her research has primarily focused on the application of data analysis techniques to engineering education research studies as well as industrial accidents. She has over 20 years of experience in various engineering, IT, and data analysis positions within academia and industry, including ten years of manufacturing experience at Delphi Automotive. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024AbstractA forward-thinking course format based on project-based learning (PBL) was employed in anundergraduate engineering course in the summer 2021. We believe this course is forward-thinking given the international, virtual, team-based format driven by industry-led
throughout the program’s curriculum to complete a design project. This paperinvestigates the ongoing work of restructuring a traditional one-semester, 3-credit springcapstone experience in materials science and engineering into a two-semester fall (1-credit) andspring (2-credit) experience. During the restructuring of the capstone experience, the Human-Centered Design (HCD) framework, a method to formalize the design process in discrete stages,was integrated into the course content. Due to course catalog constraints, a 1-credit fall coursewas piloted in Fall 2022 as an elective for seniors (enrollment was approximately 30% of thesenior population); the traditional 3-credit course was still required of all seniors in Spring 2023.Aspects of HCD were
RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA). Toimplement this project, we used the SN74LS283N 4-bit full adder IC, the SiFive HiFive1 Rev B boardthat hosts a 32-bit RISC-V processor, breadboard, LEDs, and few resistors. To program the circuit,we used Visual Studio Code with the PlatformIO extension to allow deployment and debugging of theRISC-V assembly code on the HiFive board. The goal of this project was to demonstrate the full 4-bitadder truth table by cycling through different inputs and displaying the adder output using LED lights.The input to the adder was driven by onboard GPIO pins that were actuated through RISC-V assemblycode. Using the SiFive HiFive1 Rev B manuals, we identified the base memory addresses of the GPIOpins and the