issues. She developed and ran for 8 years a faculty-led international program to Brazil focused on Sustainable Energy and Brazilian Culture. This program educates students on the effects of various energy systems and the challenges of social and environmental justice in developing countries. In 2017, Dr. Pfluger moved into the ChE department where she implemented improvements in the Transport 2 Lab and Capstone courses. She assists Capstone students to develop dynamic design projects that address and help solve real-world, global challenges. Dr. Pfluger has served as the AIChE Student Chapter Faculty Advisor for 10 years and will become chair of the AIChE Student Chapter Committee in November 2021. She is a Mathworks
, thermo-fluid andenergy systems, and devices that introduce a new problem-solving approach or innovate acapability that improves people’s life. Students are allowed to select from a set of department-proposed and industry-sponsored projects. Students work in teams of three to five members,depending on the expected scope of the capstone project. The establishment of the 1500 squarefeet VR Lab in the College enhances the access to research tools in VR field for both teachingand research, hence fulfilling one part of the priorities of the College. The VR Lab attractedexternal equipment funding that facilitated expanding the three-wall system into 4-wall system.The Mechanical Engineering program is a fairly new program and is growing very rapidly. It
1 Agile Capstone Integration of Free, Disparate Cloud Services Produced a Prototype Application that Tracks Airborne Wildfire Firefighting Resources Bryan K. Allen and Gordon W. Romney School of Engineering and Computing National University, San Diego, CAAbstractA prototype application designed to leverage state-of-the art cloud computing technologies wasdeveloped as a capstone project for U.S. Defense Support to a Civilian Authority mission. Theoutcome of this paper demonstrates the Agile development and
engineering and other STEM-disciplinestudents to the university, retains them, and makes them more marketable to employers whenthey graduate. Each alternative capstone design team operates as much as possible like a realcompany in the private sector and is run by the students. Team sizes range from 10 to 70 or moremembers. All team members have prescribed responsibilities corresponding to their level ofmaturity, abilities, and technical education. Team members define problems, develop and designsolutions, perform testing and analyses, make recommendations, manufacture parts, stay withinbudgets and schedules, and manage multiple projects. This alternative capstone design programhas converted the traditional classroom into a multi-year
-class assignments. All assignments weresubmitted electronically via Blackboard to instructors by the end of the class period. The in-classactivities were designed so that students applied the knowledge and professional design skills Page 25.1140.5discussed in the introductory lecture to their own capstone project. During the in-class activities,four course instructors and one teaching assistant circulated to provide immediate assistance andreal time feedback (one instructor to 10 – 15 students). The professional skills covered are listedin Table 1. A slightly different course format was used for ethics and economics, where thecourse time
piloted with a capstone project involving two teams withmembers from BYU and the National University of Singapore (NUS). The course was taughtsynchronously with BYU students meeting at 7:00 AM and NUS students meeting at 9:00 PM.Several key insights were gained during the first semester of this course.First, students at both universities need to be awarded course credit. This commits the studentsto full participation in the course. It also commits both universities to finding a time where thecourse may be taught. In this particular example, the time zone difference in the second semestercould have been over come with BYU moving to an afternoon time and NUS to an earlymorning (next day) schedule. Unfortunately, the NUS capstone course structure
task-oriented roles and from the perspective of the students, the first phaseof the study uses student surveys to explore how students choose suggested roles, how theseopportunities affect their course satisfaction, engagement, and perception of team success, and ifthere are limitations towards assuming desired roles. This WIP paper presents preliminary resultsfrom one course. This work aims to promote strategies that increase student team engagementwithin a collaborative and inclusive environment and identify indicators for early intervention.IntroductionIn multidisciplinary engineering capstone courses, students of a variety of disciplines work inteams to complete design projects. The importance of working in teams throughout theengineering
Interdisciplinary BmE Capstone Design Course to Enable the Continued Supported Employment of Persons With DisabilityAbstract (Mission and Outcomes)A humanitarian need exists to help individuals with disability remain employed in a supportedwork setting. In partnership with a local not-for-profit service agency, our students carried out anentrepreneurial multi-year interdisciplinary biomedical engineering capstone project that innova-tively involved using commercial industrial electronics to make beverage container recyclingmore worker-friendly, flow-efficient and accountable. The project’s mission was to improve theefficiency of, and maximize the dollar return from, a beverage container recycling business,while taking into account
) and Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT), HAWT is relatively ineffective forbuildings and locations near buildings, and faces local resistance due to noise as well asaesthetic, visual and public safety concerns [6]. Alternatively, VAWT has been predicted as apotential solution for small-size wind turbines that are installed at buildings and near buildings[7, 8].Responding to that line of discussions, one of the engineering capstone teams have been workingon designing and building an Aesthetically Pleasing Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (APVAWT)system with a logo of the Liberty University School of Engineering for their capstone project. Toachieve the functionality and aesthetics of the APVAWT system, art design team joined fordesigning aesthetically
Engineering Ira A. Fulton Schools of EngineeringProf. Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University Stephen Krause is professor in the Materials Science Program in the Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches in the areas of introductory materials engineering, polymers and composites, and capstone design. His research interests include evaluating conceptual knowledge, mis- conceptions and technologies to promote conceptual change. He has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory and a Chemistry Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge and change for intro- ductory materials science and chemistry classes. He is currently conducting research on NSF projects in two areas. One is studying
. His current engineering education research interests focus on learning through service-based projects and using an entrepreneurial mindset to further engineering education innovations. He also researches the development of reuse strategies for waste materials. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Incorporation of Ethics and Societal Impact Issues into Senior Capstone Design Courses: Results of a National SurveyAbstractThis paper provides an overview of the ways that ethics and societal impacts (ESI) are taught andassessed in senior capstone design courses by engineering faculty. A national survey wasconducted in spring 2016 that asked engineering and computing
Senior Engineering Capstone DesignCourse Learning with a Variation on the TIDEE Design TeamReadiness Assessment I and IIAbstract:Efficacy of engineering design education in an interdisciplinary team-based course setting,with exposure to the broader concerns of business, finance and management, interestsmany educators. This paper reports on the use of design knowledge assessment patternedafter the Transferable Integrated Design Engineering Education (TIDEE) Design TeamReadiness Assessment (DTRA) I and II [1,2,3,4] to evaluate what aerospace, mechanical,electrical and computer science students learned about engineering design as a result ofparticipating in a Boeing-supported, two-semester, project-based senior capstone designcourse at Texas A&
“thinkingabout thinking” and Ayersman’s explanation that it “occurs as a result of one’s individualevaluation and observation of their cognitive behavior in a learning environment” [4]. Inexplaining the importance of metacognition to critical reading, Baker and Brown state that“effective learning requires an active monitoring of one’s own cognitive activities” [6]. Acrossthe various descriptions of metacognition, the recurring theme is of learners being consciouslyaware of, and taking responsibility for, their learning. Vos and de Graff argue that active learningin engineering (ALE) experiences like project work and problem-based learning, e.g., theactivities we undertake in engineering capstone design courses, require clear developmentalobjectives [7
Exploring Collaborative Research and Development Opportunities, between Two Universities, for a Capstone Electromechanical Engineering Technology Course for a Microprocessor Controlled Hand Opening Assistive Device (HOAD)Edward M. Land, Johns Hopkins University; Michael Marcus, Penn State University and JHUVisiting Faculty member; Harley Hartman, Penn State University; Capstone Project TeamStudents, Penn State University, Anthony Derosa, Seth Klepper, Eduardo Rayner, Justin Stahl;Collaborating Research Assistant, Johns Hopkins University, Hansong LiAbstractTo cooperatively and synergistically develop a purpose-built, Hand-Opening, Assistive Device,enabling a stroke victim or other neurologically injured
that makes easy the assessment of the some of the trickier ABET Student Outcomes to measureIntroduction This paper describes a one-year nuclear engineering capstone designcourse that is rich in assessment data to evaluate student achievement in severalABET (previously known as the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology) Student Outcomes (SOs). Efforts in the course begin about sixmonths prior to its start by engaging students with a course overview, generalguidance about design project options, and a requirement for students to provideprofessors with their topical interest areas. Over the summer, professors work toalign student interests with faculty capabilities and with possible external projectclients. Students are
Session 1566 Capstone Design Experience in a Thermal-Fluid Applications Course, and Development of an in-house Refrigeration Recovery System. Ganesh Kudav, Aaron Cain Youngstown State University, Youngstown - OhioAbstract The Mechanical Engineering curriculum at Youngstown State University (YSU)integrates design and computer aspects throughout the freshmen, junior, sophomore, andsenior years. However, some senior year courses have much more intensive capstone designrequirements. Thermal-Fluids Applications, ME – 726, is a late junior/early senior level
theirstudents to seek projects for their "Design for Manufacturing" course from their co-op basedsponsors. Freckleton6 talks about design course experiences at RIT. Senior capstone courses arenot unique to only mechanical or manufacturing programs. Hodel and Baginski7, Emery andLin8, Rude9 and Bekkala, Higgins and Lekhakul10 describe their senior design courses inelectrical engineering. Wheeler and Anderson11 discuss experiences since 1985 at the Universityof Memphis in the senior design course for Civil Engineering. McDonald et al.12 discuss therelatively new concept of a multidisciplinary design team that is used at Lake Superior StateUniversity. This is an excellent approach for the senior capstone course, but one that is verydifficult to
teaching and engineering mechanics. Before coming to academia, he was a design engineer, maintenance supervisor, and plant engineer. He is a registered professional engineer. Page 22.481.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Development of a Small UAV with Real-time Video SurveillanceAbstractThis paper describes a capstone project whose objective was to design, build and successfullytest an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with real-time video surveillance capabilities. Thestudent team was composed of seven students within an aeronautical concentration of theirMechanical Engineering
., 2023; Yeter et al., 2023). Such partnershipssimulate issues in the real world and expose learners to the environment in the industry(Waryoba et al., 2009; Pembridge & Paretti, 2010). An appropriate avenue for fosteringindustrial-university partnerships is through engineering capstone courses, where students areexpected to apply their theoretical knowledge in real-world contexts. By engaging with theindustries, students experience first-hand how products are developed, work with designconstraints, and learn communication and project management skill sets crucial for transitioninginto the workplace after graduation (Goldberg et al., 2014; Holt et al., 2004; Taraban et al.,2017).To adequately prepare engineering students to apply their skills
lectures described above, the students are giventwo writing assignments, the first on process hazards and the second on a HAZOPs analysis.The students are directed to use their chemical process from their ongoing senior design projectas the subject for these two writing assignments. In the case of the HAZOP, the students areencouraged to work with their design group to develop a HAZOP chart, but they are required towrite their essay individually. The students are also required to incorporate the technicalmaterial developed from these writing assignments into their capstone design project final report.The prompts for these two writing assignments are given below [7]:Process hazards “Prepare a 500-word project memorandum that presents your
by theVee Model [1] [2] [3] [4]. Table 1. Measuring Learner AchievementThe Systems Engineering (SE) ApproachIn order to promote the systems engineering approach, the COE began by changing the requiredcourses from project management courses to the first two systems engineering courses. Then,the capstone was revised to follow the Vee Model from systems engineering. The perceivedbenefits of implementing systems engineering concepts include: Shift students’ focus from technology solution to what system must do (e.g. requirements) SE helps with planning, organizing, executing and evaluating a project SE provides structure through weekly deliverables to guide students throughout a project
Design Applications I. Principles of design of mechanical components; theories of failure; fatigue and fracture design criteria; Soderberg and Goodman diagrams; materials and their selections to engineering application; tolerance and fit, design for manufacturing and assembly. • ENTC 463 – Mechanical Design Applications II. Application of principles of design to mechanical power transmission elements such as shafts, gears, rolling chains, belts, bearings, clutches and brakes; design of power transmission systems. • ENTC 422 – Manufacturing [and Mechanical] Engineering Technology Projects. A capstone projects course utilizing a team approach to an analysis and solutions of manufacturing [and
Paper ID #28316The Use of MATLAB Live as a Technology-enabled Learning EnvironmentforComputational Modeling Activities within a Capstone Engineering CourseMr. Joseph A. Lyon, Purdue University, West Lafayette Joseph A. Lyon is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education and a M.S. student in the School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University. He earned a B.S. in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from Purdue University. His research interests include models and modeling, computational thinking, and computation in engineering education.Ms. Aparajita Jaiswal, Purdue University, West Lafayette Aparajita
and parallel ideas. tasks. Curriculum objectives related Select an engineering project to the Washington Accord; outcome (PO) in the corresponding standard for the e.g. environment and learning outcome (CO) requiredEvaluation based on sustainability, abstract thinking by professional coursesthe matrix of and originality in analysis to Construct the CO-PO matrixcompetency criteria Isa et al.[24
behavior at high temperatures. An apparatusand a specific methodology to measure thermal distortion have been proposed and developed bythe authors, and it is reported in this paper. The proposed apparatus, now in its secondgeneration, is simple to operate and the test specimen is a disc piece, which is already used fortransverse strength testing of chemically bonded sands. The proposed protocol allowsexamination of thermo-mechanical properties of the specific sand-binder combination. Thermaldistortion curves obtained for various sand-binder-catalyst combinations, when tested foraluminum castings, are presented.This project was carried out over several semesters, where students in the capstone designproject course sequence participated. This is a
process of designing, building, and flying an unmanned aerialvehicle (UAV) capable of assisting first responders. As students engaged in design activities, asecond goal was to develop an instrumentation methodology and data architecture needed tofully characterize industry relevant engineering design behaviors as manifested in the digitalenvironments. Multi-disciplinary, multi-university teams consisting of students from 5 major USuniversities participated in a two semesters, year-long capstone project. These courses have beeneffectively offered starting 2013. The third cohort of student teams is now experiencing thiscapstone course. This enables us to gather a significant amount of data related to designbehaviors that form the basis for many of
students’ development of effectivecommunication skills along with technical skill development. The senior capstone report oftenplays an instrumental role in this development, since it comprises both the final assessment ofstudent communication performance and also students’ most significant opportunity for activelearning of in-discipline communication skills. Peer review has been proposed as an ideal meansto provide students with much-needed feedback toward this communication learning. Peerreview also has the potential to increase students’ interpersonal communication skills andmetacognition, provided that the review activity is structured to encourage constructivecontributions and reflection[1]. The goal of this work-in-progress project is to
; engineering design decisions are consequential for the design and how it performsupon implementation. To use a spoon, the person may need to like the color; and the material ofthe blade must be strong enough for an endurance task. Because design decisions areconsequential, undergraduate engineering programs have a responsibility to prepare students asdecision makers.Capstone design courses allow undergraduate engineering students to experience open-endeddesign projects before starting their professional careers. As such, capstone serves as anopportunity to develop students’ ability to make decisions in an ill-structured setting. Typically,explicit instruction related to decision making includes an introduction to rationalistic tools, suchas decision
currently beingutilized in the automotive industry is required. Page 13.831.2The implemented tool has been tested with brake hoses. The use of three-dimensional cubicsplines in combination with discrete flexible links has resulted in an adequate solidrepresentation of the flexible elements. As with all software-based engineering tools, it isrequired to have validation of the implementation. In order to do so with the proposed CAD-based tool it was necessary to apply Reverse Engineering (RE) techniques. Towards this end, asa Capstone Design Project in our Engineering Design Technology program, a testing fixture tohave wheel/suspension components was
had been violated. Adherence to this plan was then assessed three times throughouteach semester through self- and team peer evaluation surveys that included questions specificallyaddressing behaviors that promote inclusivity, psychological safety, respectful communication,and conflict resolution. This integration of the DEI skills into an experiential learningenvironment is a critical component of the Learn-Practice-Assess model’s implementation, andrepresents a potential paradigm shift in the way that DEI concepts and capstone projects can bewoven together.Conclusion & Next StepsOver the last two years, ~250 Penn State aerospace engineering senior undergraduate studentshave participated in the DEI Module as part of their capstone design