Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tariq Khraishi, University of New Mexico; Kristine Denman, University of New Mexico

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

participate in SL/CE: paidinternships or through taking credit hours that counts towards their degree.Literature Review:Although there are not a lot of journal papers on the topics of SL/CE, there are many conferencepapers, especially published in ASEE conference, that address these topics. For example, Koh(2020) [1], developed a “Community Engaged Design” course as a senior design capstone in asmall liberal arts college. Students were able to address pedestrian safety in their community bycoming up with a prototype for a system which detected and warned drivers of the presence ofbicyclists. Jordan (2014) [2] took their service learning all the way to Haiti by working with thelocals there to establish a solar project that can offer sustainability for

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators: Tricks of the Trade I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

expanded into funded summer research projects, and several have produced publishable results.”—from a Computer Science faculty member at a regional state university “Absolutely; every such study is focused on my research program. It has been extremely worthwhile doing so. While some students flop, it happens, about a third of my papers are authored with students who are, or were, undergrads. And some of those papers are in top places.”—a faculty member in Informatics at a Research I institutionThe Civil Engineering department at the U.S. Military Academy offers every student anopportunity to undertake an independent-study project.4 These are similar to capstone projects,but they need not include the four subdisciplines that ABET

Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

Programming) course project (freshman level) and through multidisciplinary IEEE student chapter projects & a required for-credit capstone project. 5. Provide faculty mentors for each program participant; increase the efficacy of faculty mentoring provided to each student participant in the scholarship program by faculty- mentor training and accountability. 6. Establish mechanisms for acquiring ongoing sources of funds to sustain at least five annual full-tuition scholarships after the grant is over.”6The LEAP program addresses the three following areas6: 1) The financial and educational needs of students in computer science and engineering disciplines at an open enrollment university. 2) Increases leadership

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bradley Bishop, U.S. Naval Academy; Carl Wick, U.S. Naval Academy; George Piper, U.S. Naval Academy

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

previous experiences in the course, providing students with added experienceand insight into their craft as roboticists. This exercise is also extremely beneficial in otherways, especially for students who are about to undertake a capstone senior design project.Students are frequently asked to develop and carry out a novel design project as part of theircapstone experience without ever having an opportunity to do so on a smaller scale. This projectis intended to provide experiential support for these future capstone efforts.Experience has shown that this sort of student-driven, open-ended project requires a great deal ofinstructor flexibility, deep familiarity with available components, and ready suggestions forpotential projects. But, for

Conference Session

Assessment & TC2K Methods

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Khan, DeVry University-Addison; Robert Lawrence, DeVry University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

anintegrative senior project, where students work in teams to solve a real world problemrelated to their major. Students demonstrate a wide range of competencies during thecourse of the project, making the direct measurement of student academic achievementvia the senior project (EET-410L) and a companion general education capstone course,(HUMN-432) a major part of assessment effort, and overall continuous qualityimprovement (CQI) process at DeVry. Student outcomes assessment at DeVry serves asthe "check" function in the "Plan-Do-Check-Act" model for CQI (see Figure 1), whichemphasizes the iterative and ongoing nature of the process. A number of direct andindirect indicators are also established against which the student learning/performanceoutcomes are

Conference Session

Experience with Experiential Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Summers

management skills to manage their projects? Responses were very mixed for this question Yes (15), No (13), Should (13). Regardless of their answer most respondents went on to clarify that students should use the skills but usually don’t. The response that best summarizes responses to this question was: ‘We’d like to think so.’ Several respondents, though they listed projects throughout their curriculum, said that project management skills were expected to be used in only the capstone course or senior design course. Other respondents reported the project management skills were taught too late in their curriculum to be fully effective. When respondents discussed the types of project management

Conference Session

Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bopaya Bidanda; Kim Needy

the model being used at the University ofPittsburgh and its benefits. This approach or elements of it can be easily adapted into an existingsenior design capstone course.ModelStudents in the Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Pittsburgh work in a teamof three or four students and utilize analytical investigation techniques to solve a significantproblem at a client site utilizing industrial engineering capabilities acquired during their programstudy. The course provides a good learning experience for students whereby they gain project Page 7.1039.1team experience, write a formal technical report, and professionally

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Manocher Djassemi

that: a) a hard automation project can be constructedusing low cost standard parts and built-in-house components which are more affordablealternatives to the ready-to-use devices bought from the market, and b) many ET and ITprograms are already equipped with laboratory equipment such as conventional machine toolsand fluid power, which facilitate fabrication of various customized components in-house. To thisend, the remainder of the paper describes the resources required to implement hard automationlaboratory projects using two student projects. The educational values as well as the costs of theprojects are also discussed. The first project was part of a CIM capstone course (ITD 592)offered to manufacturing/electromechanical ET and IT students

Collection

2023 ASEE GSW

Authors

Akila Ravichandran; Kiran Katira; Tariq Khraishi

. Literature ReviewAlthough there are not a lot of journal papers on the topics of Service Learning/CommunityEngagement (SL/CE), there are many conference papers, especially published in ASEEconferences, that address these topics. For example, Koh (2020), developed a “CommunityEngaged Design” course as a senior design capstone in a small liberal arts college. Students wereable to address pedestrian safety in their community by coming up with a prototype for a systemwhich detected and warned drivers of the presence of bicyclists. Jordan (2014) took their servicelearning all the way to Haiti by working with the locals there to establish a solar project that canoffer sustainability for them. Schneider (2017) presented a paper that discussed several

Collection

2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

, along with proper reinforcement – onesuggestion is that several simple design problems precede the larger capstone design project [1].In addition, design and other engineering subjects are best learnt through hands on activelearning, e.g. project based learning [18, 19]. Therefore, the integration of impromptu designexercises into all aspects of the curriculum is motivated by the above research findings.2.1.2 Use of impromptu design contests in university classrooms: Aside from using impromptudesign contests in university courses as ice-breakers [6, 10, 20], little research has been carriedout on using impromptu design to achieve desired education outcomes. The current research inthis area has focused on the ability of impromptu design contests

Conference Session

They're Not "Soft" Skills!

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eckehard Doerry, Northern Arizona University; James Dean Palmer, Northern Arizona University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

practically manageable approach.In this paper, we describe the peer-evaluation approach that we have developed at NorthernArizona University over more than a decade of teaching courses in a team-project-basedcurriculum. Driven by resource limitations and expediency, our approach has been shaped by aminimalistic philosophy: how can we achieve maximum efficacy with minimal overhead forstudents and instructors? We begin with a brief description of our Capstone course and theevolution of the efficient peer evaluation schema we have developed. We then present ourongoing efforts to increase the efficacy of our peer-evaluation system while managing overhead,by integrating the key elements into a flexible automated system for supporting team-based

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Design I

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie M. Gillespie, Arizona State University; Mark Vincent Huerta, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Jared Joseph Schoepf, Arizona State University; Joshua Loughman, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Newswander identified 5 themes of assessing multidisciplinary work: disciplinarygrounding, integration, teamwork, communication and translation across discipline boundaries,and critical awareness [6]. Multiple studies have explored the aspects of multidisciplinary teamoutcomes for capstone design teams [7,8]. Other studies have explored the possibility ofmultidisciplinary teams in a variety of other courses including having a multidisciplinary groupof faculty teach general engineering classes during the first-two years of study [4].Since service-learning projects often require both engineering and non-engineering knowledgefor successful deployment, having students from a variety of backgrounds, including non-engineering, can be valuable. While

Conference Session

Impact of Community Engagement on Communities

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carlos German Montoya Rodriguez, Ohio State University; Mariantonieta Gutierrez Soto, The Ohio State University; Roger Dzwonczyk, The Ohio State University; John A Merrill, Ohio State University; Howard L. Greene, Ohio State University; Miriam Cater, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

being fulfilled. Service learning allows engineering to be donewith a community that serves as a customer, while creative and original design solutions can be Page 24.188.4developed by students to meet the community’s needs. Projects can be chosen as a group effortor as a senior capstone design project.Since 2005, the College of Engineering (CoE), Engineering, Education Innovation Center (EEIC)at The Ohio State University has conducted an engineering service-learning program in Honduras.The program is designed to introduce and teach students the concepts of humanitarianengineering through a practical, real-world, hands-on, service-learning

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Crawley, MIT; Robert Niewoehner, United States Naval Academy; Jean Koster, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

knowledge and product skills most needed for America’s aerospace workforce [CDIO Standard 2] ≠ Developing laboratory and design-implement projects that help aerospace engineering programs integrate learning laboratory and project-based experiences throughout the undergraduate program, focusing on first-year and multidisciplinary capstone design- implement experiences. [CDIO Standards 4, 5, and 6]15,16 ≠ Developing a rigorous approach to assessing student learning and skills development, based on objective measures, and surveys of student self-confidence in learning. [CDIO Standard 11] System development as the context for aeronautical engineering education Context is the surroundings and environment that

Conference Session

Focus on Capstone Experiences in the Chemical Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip H. Harding, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

, fromreporting a perceived lack of hands-on-experience in recently graduated engineers to providingmentorship and projects for capstone course.4 A recent trend in laboratory instruction includesthe introduction of alternative modes for the laboratory, including virtual and remotelaboratories.5 These alternative modes have been shown to provide an opportunity for a widerarray of learning objectives to be addressed.6 A survey of capstone courses in 360 engineeringdepartments across the country identified teamwork and project managements as the top lecturetopics.7Feisel and Rosa1 state that “while much attention has been paid to curriculum and teachingmethods, relatively little has been written about laboratory instruction.” To make matters worse,they

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margaret Ellis; Ryan Gniadek, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Godmar Back, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Kirk Cameron, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Powered by www.slayte.com Integrating DevOps to Enhance Student Experience in an Undergraduate Research Project Ryan Gniadek, Godmar Back, Kirk Cameron, Margaret Ellis Virginia TechAbstractDevOps technologies that often accompany an agile workflow such as Continuous Integration andContinuous Delivery have become much more widespread in professional software development in thepast decade. In recent years, many undergraduate research projects or capstone experiences have begun toincorporate such agile workflows, helping with student self-regulation and teaching themindustry-standard practices before entering the workforce. Existing literature shows that

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jin-Hwan Lee, University of Cincinnati; Ali Asgar Bhagat, University of Cincinnati; Karen Davis, University of Cincinnati; Ian Papautsky, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Computer Engineering. It now includes students from mechanicalengineering, environmental engineering, biomedical engineering, and chemistry.Figure 1. MEMS and BioMEMS courses offered at the University of Cincinnati.Fifth-year undergraduate students (seniors) in the Electrical and Computer EngineeringDepartment take a sequence of 3 senior capstone courses for a total of 9 credit hours in theirsenior year.4 Typically, students self-organize into teams and select a project of interest. Theymay choose a variety of projects proposed by industry, community organizations, professors, co-op employers, or themselves. All teams meet with the course instructor and complete a series ofdeliverables to specify and document their projects. Each team has a

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Experiences

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ciprian Popoviciu, East Carolina University; Philip J. Lunsford II, East Carolina University; John Pickard, East Carolina University; Colby Lee Sawyer, East Carolina University; Dale Drummond, East Carolina University; Zachary Ryan Zynda, East Carolina University; Spencer Lee; Sean Wear

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

multiple admin domains without requiring significant local IT resources [11]The second project is providing the monitoring tools deployed on the platform developed by this project.3. Project SetupDuring their degree seeking studies students are mostly exposed to individual projects or projectsinvolving classmates studying the same subject matter. Capstone projects, when offered, are the mostcommon opportunities for more diverse and more creative learning opportunities. The challenge faced bythe video-conferencing service provided an opportunity to explore models for formalizing models ofengaging students from different departments to advance their own domain knowledge and to workacross domains by addressing real-life problems. In this section we

Conference Session

Been There, Done That: Advice for New Faculty

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Dahm, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

/Senior Clinic as the capstone design experiences in their programs. While theChemical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering departments haveseparate capstone design courses, these departments also recognize Junior/Senior Clinicas a course that well reflects engineering practice. Consequently Junior/Senior Clinicfigures prominently in the assessment efforts of all four programs. As noted in theprevious section, the Junior/Senior Clinic final reports were included in the portfolios ofstudent work that were reviewed at the end of every year. While the department obtainedvaluable data from the portfolio evaluation, an inefficiency in the process was alsoevident: each paper was being read by the project supervisor(s), who assigned a

Conference Session

Experiences in Engineering Community Engagement

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Cardenas, Harvey Mudd College

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

Humanity, museums, and natural resources and conservation organizations. Anumber of institutions of higher education have engaged in K-12 outreach work6. Typically,students work with K-12 partners in order to produce curricular materials intended to introduceyoung students to engineering and to promote interest in engineering and science. Padmanabhanand Katti7 described an example of a capstone project in civil engineering at North Dakota Stateinvolving community engagement. In this project, students worked with a local homeownersassociation to mitigate slope instabilities.In common to these engineering projects is a sometimes limited amount of back-and-forthbetween the students and the community sponsors. Typically the students contact the

Conference Session

Project-based Education in Energy Courses

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Somerton, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

. Page 15.140.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010An Appropriate Technology Project: A Solar Powered Vaccine RefrigeratorIntroductionNearly half of the vaccines in developing countries go to waste every year due totemperature spoilage, according to the World Health Organization. Currenttransportation and storage methods in remote regions rely on ice packs that lastjust a few days. In order to maintain the optimal temperature range of 2 to 8° Cfor vaccine preservation, these regions need reliable long-term refrigeration whereelectricity is not available.To address this problem, a capstone design team developed an affordable, robustrefrigerator that operates with energy from the sun. The vaccine refrigerator wasdesigned with

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Engineering Design and First-Year Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles E. Baukal Jr. P.E., Oklahoma Baptist University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

their understanding and enjoyment of engineering,  increase their technological repertoire,  appreciate the integration of design and analysis,  learn how to work in multi-disciplinary teams,  develop leadership, management, and communication skills,  appreciate the importance of professional responsibility, and  become motivated towards their engineering studies.While capstone projects have been a staple of engineering education for many years, freshmendesign projects have more recently also become ubiquitous [4]. That is a dramatic change fromthe past where it was not uncommon for engineering students to first encounter engineeringcourses as late as their junior year [5]. A key recommendation from the iconic

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyoung-Yun Kim, Wayne State University; Carolyn E Psenka, Wayne State University; Karl R Haapala, Oregon State University; Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Iowa State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

by a collaboration of undergraduate engineering students atthree different universities in their senior capstone projects. Additionally, CooL:SLiCE is currentlyincorporated into the sustainability modules of three engineering courses (i.e., Integrated ProductDevelopment, Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing, and Sustainable Manufacturing)offered at the three universities from which we expect to collect over 125 student assessments ofCooL:SLiCE for analyses. Additionally, this research will provide behavioral findings byinvestigating how learners with different levels of autonomy engage in cyberlearningenvironments.In one of the engineering courses (Integrated Product Development) that introduced CooL:SLiCE,semester-long group projects

Conference Session

Security

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yu Cai, Michigan Technological University; Guy Hembroff, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

are required to complete a capstone senior design projectduring their final year. The senior design project affords students the opportunity to applytheir individual technical skills and knowledge on a real world project, as well as developtheir problem solving skills, communication skills, and teamwork skills.DDoS attack has become a rapidly growing threat to today’s Internet. A large number ofDDoS detection and defense mechanisms have been proposed to combat the problem.In this paper, we present the design and implementation of an Information Technology seniordesign project named DDoS Attack, Detection and Defense Simulation. In this project, weaim to set up test bed and configure the network environment to simulate the “real-world”DDoS

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Tech Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.); Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.)

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

graduating from 4-year ET program must complete some type of capstone designproject. It is of utmost that the project selected is not any project, but rather one thatsimultaneously enhances the learning experience of students, prepares the graduating ones forthe real world, increases freshmen retention and strengthens relationships between universitiesand industries. The key to making the most out of capstone design projects is to carefully selectones that will accomplish all of the above. After completing a 4-year Engineering Technologyprogram, most students are proficient in the principles they studied in the classroom. Whetherrecent graduates are able to apply these principles to various situations upon entering “the realworld” is another story

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Doherty; Gerald Gannod

­ Copyright c 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationwith the latest in research and industrial practices 1 . The concentration track emphasizes funda-mental issues such as the balance between hardware and software and the respective trade-offs ofbuilding embedded systems. Our curricular project spans the entire spectrum of activities related to the design and deliveryof educational and research efforts and is characterized by three main innovative components: 1) anew industry-university collaborative model for integrating basic and applied research into a degreeprogram4 , 2) creation and delivery of state-of-the-art course content and appropriate laboratories,and 3) creation of capstone projects that are implemented through internships

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mort Isaacson; Francis Di Bella

straightforward and rewarding exercises. It is the purpose of thispaper, to support the contention that creativity and art in an engineering problem solution canbe demonstrated to the students in a manner that then promotes creativity in the engineeringstudent. Thus, the Design Process Methodology helps to bolster the engineering student’snatural abilities and to establish a personalized technique and talent for creative problemsolving.This paper will detail an Instructor’s personal Engineering Design Project that was presentedto senior engineering students as a ‘work in progress’ ostensibly to facilitate the completion oftheir own and more significant Capstone Design Projects. The actual step-by-step engineeredsolution to the problem at hand was carried

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Marcus

recommended. This method can be used in any number of technology courses and will helpthe student prepare for problem solving and working in a team environment.Attendees willing to use this video and participate in a research survey will be given a free copyof the video.I. IntroductionThe following is a method of problem solving used by project teams in industry1. It has beentailored for use in courses taught in Engineering and Engineering Technology. This example wasused in an introductory course in Engineering Technology and was completed in about twohours. These methods could be expanded and applied to projects of various lengths of time inother courses, including a capstone design project.The project consists of the class dividing into project

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert George; Allen Soyster; John Lamancusa

effort.Acknowledgement: This project was funded by TRP Project #3018, NSF Award #DMI-9413880. Our goal: students interacting with industry sponsors as the result of senior design projects Page 2.233.1 1I. IntroductionOur university graduates approximately 240 Mechanical and 150 Industrial Engineering B.S.degrees each year. Every ME student, and approximately one-third of the IE students take a“capstone design” class in their senior year. Each department has its own class for its ownstudents. The IE class was a true

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Grace Lynn Baldwin Kan-uge; Carol S Stwalley P.E., Purdue University, West Lafayette; Robert Merton Stwalley III P.E., Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

thepotential impact of the on-going work was evident [30]. It is well-accepted that the currentgeneration of college students have an affinity for environmental and social issues and thatlinking efforts to these “Grand Challenges” is inspirational and provides an external motivationfor long-term career goals [31], [32]. The Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation(LSAMP) program was used to give the RS students their first experience working in a modernresearch laboratory as a team member under faculty direction [33]. Once the students hadexperienced working under a faculty member, they were given a chance to direct a project oftheir own choosing. Similar to a capstone experience, self-directed technical work buildsconfidence and marketable