Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bryan Goda; Pete Hanlon; Lisa Shay

Session Number: 2471 Experience with Multidisciplinary Design Projects at the US Military Academy Peter D. Hanlon, Bryan S. Goda, and Lisa A. Shay Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996 {peter.hanlon/bryan.goda/lisa.shay}@usma.eduAbstract - The intent of Senior Design Capstone Projects at the US Military Academy is toprovide cadets with a challenging engineering problem that requires them to integrate keyconcepts from several previous EE courses. Multidisciplinary projects add to that challengebecause the students who

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard K Sase; Julie Wei

Session 2793 The Challenges to an Undergraduate Student Team Undertaking A Complex Project Julie H. Wei and Richard K. Sase California State Polytechnic University, Pomona/ Main San Gabriel Basin WatermasterAbstractCal Poly Pomona’s Civil Engineering Department offers a capstone course that allows studentsthe opportunity to work in a group on a comprehensive project that will ready them for a careerin Civil Engineering. The project discussed in this paper was to evaluate the sediment removalplan in San Gabriel Canyon Reservoirs by

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Kushner; Jay Martin

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyrightÓ 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationDutson, A.J., Todd, R.H., Magleby, S.P. & Sorensen, C.D. (1997). A review of literature onteaching engineering design through project oriented capstone courses. Journal ofEngineering Education, 86(10), 17-28.Purdue University EPICS Website: http://epics.ecn.purdue.edu/Jackson, L. & Caffarella, R. (1994). Experiential Learning: A New Approach. NewDirections for Adult and Continuing Education, 62 (3)43-54.Wilkerson, L. & Gijselaers, W. (1996). Bringing Problem-Based Learning to HigherEducation: Theory and Practice. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 68(1), 13-22.BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATIONJENNIFER

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum Innovations.

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron K. Ball, Western Carolina University; George D. Ford, Western Carolina University; Frank Miceli, Asheville Bucombe Tech Community College

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Engineering Technology

. Further, PBL culminates in ateam approach during the senior capstone where industry sponsored projects are carried out. Thesponsored projects are coordinated through the University’s Rapid Center for ProductRealization, and all senior project classes fall under the responsibility of the Rapid Center’sdirector. The goals, logical progression and integration of PBL at WCU are shown in Table 2.The incorporation of PBL as described in this paper focuses on the integration of mechanical andelectrical engineering applications through a joint partnership between the university and aregional community college. Elements of entrepreneurship are included such that design andfabrication are developed for a Do-it-Yourself-Kit (DYK) with customer input playing

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Potpourri

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andy Shaojin Zhang, New York City College of Technology; Farrukh Zia, New York City College of Technology; Iem H. Heng, New York City College of Technology; Sidi Berri, New York City College of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

not make the connection properly so the two motors did not run in sync. Thisis a classical example that students learn from their mistakes. They won’t find anything wrong oftheir design until they saw the test results. Fig6.6 Top View of the Robot Prototype Designed by Team Two with 2 Motors to drive the Robot.7. Assessment and ConclusionsThe project was conducted in capstone courses of two associate degree programs. For moststudents, this is the first time they were exposed to this type of hands-on design project. Pre andpost surveys were conducted. Although most students said they learn a lot from this freshexperience, majority asked that this type of hands-on design project be given much early in theirfreshman years. Most students

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Jody A. Knoll; Jan T. Lugowski; Nancy L. Denton

. “Logistics Goes “Live”: Supply Chain Management in Industrial Distribution.” Journal of Engineering Technology 16, no. 1, (1999): 44-47.8. Mahendran, M. “Project-Based Civil Engineering Courses.” Journal of Engineering Education (84), no. 1, (1995): 75-79.9. Humphreys, M.A. “Client-Sponsored Projects in a Marketing Research Course.” Journal of Marketing Education 3 (1981): 7-12.10. Dutson, A.J., R. H. Todd, S. P. Magleby, and C. D. Sorensen. “A Review of Literature on Teaching Engineering Design Through Project-Oriented Capstone Courses.” Journal of Engineering Education (86), no. Page 5.285.8 1, (1997): 17-28.NANCY

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

M. A. Mooney; K. K. Muraleetharan; H. Gruenwald; B. E. Vieux; Randall L. Kolar

Session 1526 Integrating Design Throughout the Civil Engineering Curriculum - The Sooner City Project R. L. Kolar, K. K. Muraleetharan, M. A. Mooney, B. E. Vieux, H. Gruenwald University of OklahomaABSTRACTEvaluations of existing undergraduate engineering programs continually cite three weaknesses:graduates lack technical literacy; graduates lack oral and written communication skills; andgraduates lack design experience. To address these weaknesses, the School of Civil Engineeringand Environmental Science (CEES) at the University of Oklahoma, is proposing a systemicreform initiative that

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer T. Ross

sequences for advanced courses. 2) By identifying computerusage in each course, and monitoring design experiences throughout the curriculum, a broaderexposure to software languages and tools can be incorporated. 3) Seeking out science and engineeringelectives that incorporate more of the manufacturing end of the design cycle outside the ElectricalEngineering curriculum and working with those departments to incorporate more IC process examplesin their courses. 4) Encompass more of the professional component listed in Table 1, through selectedgeneral education classes and a more structured capstone design project including manufacturing, legal,and project management issues.3.2 Course Level Implementation 3.2.1 Project Definition Of course the

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Werner

knowledge should be obtained, and the mechanics for obtaining, mastering and utilizing it.The aim of this article is to show that the Internet can be used as a key enabling technology for astudent-centric course. It was successfully tried in a course given in the summer of 1998.Among the unanticipated issues that came up in the teaching of this course was a livelydiscussion of intellectual property rights.Background:Wentworth Institute of Technology is a medium-sized technical college located in Boston,Massachusetts, with concentrations in Environmental, Electronics, and Mechanical EngineeringTechnology, Architecture, and Computer Science (CS). For some time, the non-CS programsrequired students to do a senior project as part of a capstone course

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Mase

Session 1358 A Virtual Golf Ball Design Project Using LS-DYNA Tom Mase Kettering UniversityAbstractStudent groups design a golf ball by specifying cover and core properties as well as geometry.To have a starting point for the material properties, experimental force deflection curves areprovided (posted on the internet) for Surlyn® and polybutadiene rubber. From these curves thestudent groups must analyze the data to get baseline material properties. Sample two piece ballsare cut up so the students can get reasonable cover thickness values. Each group conducts

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Pune Innovation Centre; Ayano OHSAKI P.E.

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Student Development

Paper ID #11009Project Based Learning (PBL) - Across Disciplines and Across CulturesDr. Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, Pune Innovation Centre Page 20.32.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Project Based Learning (PBL) - Across Disciplines and Across CulturesAbstractThere is a critical requirement for today’s engineering education to transcend the barriers ofglobal cultures and universal disciplines. The paper presents an experiment where the essentialswere packaged in a joint Indo

Conference Session

Controls, Mechatronics

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Pennell; Peter Avitabile; John White

Session 1166AN INTERWOVEN MULTISEMESTER DYNAMIC SYSTEMS PROJECT TO INTEGRATE STEM MATERIAL Dr. Peter Avitabile, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department Dr. Stephen Pennell, Professor, Mathematics Department Dr. John R. White, Professor, Chemical Engineering Department University of Massachusetts Lowell One University Avenue Lowell, Massachusetts USA Peter_Avitabile@uml.eduAbstractStudents generally do not understand how basic STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca A. Atadero, Colorado State University; Meena M. Balgopal, Colorado State University; Karen E Rambo-Hernandez, Colorado State University; Anne Marie Aramati Casper, Colorado State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

motivation to learn1, 2, 7.While project-based learning has been widely adopted for senior design capstone courses and isbecoming more common in freshman level courses8, the use of projects in intermediate coursesin engineering science is still rare. The National Science Board9 has identified three keychallenges facing engineering education including the need to retain more engineering majorsand the need to teach these students the professional skills needed to practice in the 21st century.Projects can be an important instructional strategy that engineering educators can implement toaddress these challenges; however, in-depth evaluations of the effect that project-based learninghas on a variety of student outcomes are difficult to find3. Without

Conference Session

DEED Melange

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara A. Atwood, Elizabethtown College; Matthew T. Siniawski, Loyola Marymount University; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University

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Design in Engineering Education

Marymount University Dr. Matthew T. Siniawski is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. He teaches the senior capstone design project courses and has recently begun mentoring students on the design of assistive devices for children with disabilities. One of his research interests lies in understanding how these Learning Through Service projects impact participating engineering students and community partners. He is also interested in researching classroom-based peda- gogies of engagement and developing a standards-based grading system for engineering project courses.Dr. Adam R Carberry, Arizona State University Adam R. Carberry, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division (EP2D) Technical Session 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tooran Emami Ph. D., United States Coast Guard Academy

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division (EP2D)

explain how they measured the rectifying responses in the oscilloscope, compared theimpact of loads on each circuit and analyzed the difference between the output response of bothcircuits. Their grades were excellent. Some of the practical applications of diodes in the EEMcourse are in AC to DC converter and DC to DC boost converter; the knowledge gained fromstudying diodes, rectifier circuits, and DC motors would apply in their capstone project, wherethey will design, build, and test a hybrid power plant. They will analyze the system's power bymeasuring the voltage and current.ConclusionsThis paper presented an application of project-based learning in a laboratory. Through hands-onexperiments, students demonstrated an understanding of the

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Lorin P. Maletsky; Charles E. Gabel

, hands-on projects wherestudents are asked to proceed from concept to production are invaluable. Frequently this type ofexperience may be an integral part of a senior capstone design project that may last a semester oryear. Shorter projects are a common part of semester-long courses and usually focus on basicdesign concepts and practices that may result in production of a single item, if fabrication isrequired at all beyond the design analysis. At the University of Kansas the senior-level courseDesign for Manufacturability taught students design techniques that were important for massproduction. Course topics included subjects such as reliability, quality control, robust design, andcommon mass production fabrication methods. A project was

Collection

2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Thomas Mertz

experience helped me in this class.” Two ofthese courses are capstone courses in which completion of a real-world project is the onlyactivity. The third is an advanced database course in which the team project is a majorcomponent. A breakdown of team dynamics or a dysfunctional team has a tremendous effect inthese courses. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section ConferenceConclusionThe effectiveness of cooperative learning techniques is firmly established and need not berepeated here. The more important result concerns the goal of providing freshmen with a teamexperience so that they will be better prepared and more successful when they reach the capstonecourses

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 20

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Buten, University of Michigan; Jack Boomer Perry, University of Michigan; Cindy Wheaton, University of Michigan; Aaron W. Johnson, University of Michigan

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

Proceedings, New Orleans, Louisiana: ASEE Conferences, Jun. 2016, p. 26629. doi: 10.18260/p.26629.[2] H. Chaibate, A. Hadek, S. Ajana, S. Bakkali, and K. Faraj, “A Comparative Study of the Engineering Soft Skills Required by Moroccan Job Market,” Int. J. High. Educ., vol. 9, no. 1, p. 142, Dec. 2019, doi: 10.5430/ijhe.v9n1p142.[3] M. S. Rao, “Enhancing employability in engineering and management students through soft skills,” Ind. Commer. Train., vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 42–48, Jan. 2014, doi: 10.1108/ICT-04-2013-0023.[4] J. Dawson and S. Kuchnicki, “Experiences Of Using Formula Sae As A Capstone Design Project,” in 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings, Louisville, Kentucky: ASEE Conferences, Jun. 2010, p. 15.555.1

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Holly T. Frederick

hypothesis through their own work. The junior yearlaboratory work. Students are assigned a topic which may placement allow it to serve as a good foundation to their seniorinclude elements of the work of all the students in the team or project capstone work. Students have the have the opportunitymay focus more closely on a facet of their work. The work to design and execute a larger project with fewer boundaries.carries students to the peak of the updated verision or Bloom’s

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2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Dani Fadda, University of Texas at Dallas; Wooram Park, University of Texas at Dallas; P.l.stephan Thamban; Oziel Rios, University of Texas at Dallas

Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Texas at Dallas. He is interested in education of engineering students with the emphasis on robotics and control systems. His research mainly concerDr. P.l.stephan Thamban, Dr. Thamban is an associate professor of instruction in the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Texas at Dallas who contributes to the teaching mission of the department. He brings with him more than a decade long teaching experience and teaches foundational, introductory ME undergraduate courses and advanced mathematics courses for undergraduate and graduate students. He values and incorporates project-based learning components in undergraduate courses.Dr. Oziel Rios

Conference Session

Case Studies, Engineering Education and Outcome Assessment Around the Globe

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Baker, The University of Vermont; John Merrill, The Ohio State University; David Munoz, Colorado School of Mines

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International

capstone engineering course chose the water project as their semester-long senior projectand used the data collected in Honduras to evaluate alternative technologies that could addressthe e. coli contamination. The students concluded that a slow sand filter would be the mostappropriate technology given the nature of the contamination and community resources.Funding for the project was obtained through a non-profit contacted by CDAE faculty.One of the first challenges was to select which village to use for the pilot test of the slow sandfilter. A team comprised of a senior engineering student who had worked on the sand filterdesign, a CDAE graduate student who had done socio-economic surveying in the area, andCDAE faculty selected the village of

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Technical Session 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tugba Ozdemir, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Jillian Irene Linder, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Erdal Şenocak, Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa University

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Engineering Design Integrated Tissue Engineering Course Module: Scleraxis Tendon Bioreactor Project Abstract Increased exposure to engineering design projects during undergraduate engineeringeducation has gained attraction over the past years. In addition to the capstone senior design courseofferings, Biomedical Engineering programs increasingly incorporate standalone engineeringdesign courses into the curriculum as early as freshman year. These promising attempts emphasizethe importance of reinforcing engineering design practices. However, it is still a challenge toaccommodate engineering design projects into field-specific courses

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Royce Francis, The George Washington University; Marie Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Rachel Riedner

teaching in capstone design courses, and she is PI or co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring communication, teamwork, design, identity, and inclusion in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her research explores examines the ways in which engineering education supports students’ professional development in a range of contexts across multiple dimensions of identity.Rachel Claire Riedner (Professor) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com The WRI2TES Project: Writing Research Initiating Identity Transformation in Engineering StudentsAbstractThe NSF Research

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lufan Wang, Florida International University; Ruoying Chu; Fangzhou Xia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Zhuoxuan Li, Stanford University; Yan Wei, Southern University of Science and Technology; Yiming Rong, Southern University of Science & Tech

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Diversity

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College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP)

of Educational Research, 102, 101586. DOI:10.1016/j.ijer.2020.101586.[11] Chen, J., Kolmos, A., & Du, X. (2020). Forms of implementation and challenges of pbl in engineering education: a review of literature. European Journal of Engineering Education, 4, 1-26. DOI: 10.1080/03043797.2020.1718615.[12] Stoicoiu, C., & Cain, K. (2015). Industrial Projects in a Project-Based Learning Environment. Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA). https://doi.org/10.24908/pceea.v0i0.5903.[13] Kline, A., & Aller, B. (2002, June). Involving Industry in Capstone Design Courses: Enhancing Projects, Addressing Abet Issues, and Supporting Undergraduate Engineering Practice. Paper presented at

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohsen Azizi, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

).Activity Progress Summary (i) • Offered the new course at NJIT and CCM in Fall 2022 and Spring 2023. • Planned, developed materials, and offered K-12 summer workshop (in- (ii) person), July 19, 2022. (iii) • N/A • Advised undergraduate research including one student. (iv) • Advised two capstone senior design projects (one in progress) including nine students. • Attended and demonstrated at ATE-PI Conference (Virtual), Oct. 20-21 and 26-28, 2022. • Published and presented the paper [7] at ASEE Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration (CIEC), North Charleston, South Carolina, Feb

Conference Session

Working Against Unjust Social Forces

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lauren Anne Cooper, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ; Jennifer Mott, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Diversity

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Culture & Social Justice in Education, Equity

Paper ID #32638Implementing Social Justice Projects in Thermal System and MechanicalDesign CoursesDr. Lauren Anne Cooper, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Lauren Cooper earned her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a research emphasis in Engineering Education from University of Colorado Boulder. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Her research interests include project-based learning, student motivation, human-centered design, and the role of empathy in engineering teaching and learning.Dr. Jennifer Mott

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2023 Fall Mid Atlantic Conference: Meeting our students where they are and getting them where they need to be

Authors

Sakhi Aggrawal, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Kevin C. Dittman, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Diversity

management, stakeholder management, and risk management among others. • Experiential Learning: Encourage project-based learning experiences that allow students to apply project management principles in real-world scenarios. These experiences can include capstone projects, internships, or industry collaborations. • Ethical Training: Given the ethical considerations in generative AI projects, educators should incorporate ethical discussions and training into project management courses, emphasizing the importance of responsible AI development. • Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Promote interdisciplinary collaboration within the engineering curriculum. Encourage students to work with data scientists

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2011 North Midwest Section

Authors

M. S. Stachowicz; L. B. Kofoed

. In particular for the robotics, andintelligent systems topics, the reviewed material includes: the MC68HC12 architecture andassembly language, introduction to robotics, sensors for robotic applications, motors and drivers,and fuzzy logic. Several papers and references are given, and students are encouraged to read thematerial, analyze the complicated problem area, and define the final problem statement theywant to solve which means that students are exercising their self-leaning skills. Furthermorestudents have to consider their own detailed project plan according to the overall plan for theworkshop. It is important to have in mind that since this is a capstone design, students should beable to apply the knowledge and skills that they have

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

Authors

Scott Matthew Boskovich, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Chris Burns, Boys Republic

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Diversity

executingtheir capstone project are unable to fully realize the breadth of the “situation” particularly in thedesign and deployment of robotic and automation designs. Often it is impractical forengineering students to create a real-world equivalent problem to address full breadth thatimplementing a robotic system for automation requires. To address this challenge, a relationshipbetween Boys Republic and Cal Poly Pomona was established which benefit both Cal PolyPomona engineering students while providing a solution for Boys Republic in the assembly ofChristmas wreaths.Cal Poly Pomona’s approach to its engineering curriculum, specifically the Department ofElectromechanical Engineering Technology, focuses on teaching engineering students therelationship

Conference Session

FPD12 -- Novel Approaches to First Year Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cecelia Wigal, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga; Ignatius Fomunung, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga; Edwin Foster, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga; Ronald Goulet, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga

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First-Year Programs

design. At the sophomore level the students usedesign concepts to design, build, and test small structural and mechanical projects (such astrusses). The students also emphasize testing of the devices. At the junior and senior level thestudents use design concepts to solve real-life and open-ended interdisciplinary industry-basedproblems. The student project teams work with the sponsors and faculty advisors to develop, test,and prototype a solution. In addition, students apply design concepts in a three credit hourdiscipline-based capstone course during their senior year. The structure of the design curriculumis shown in Figure 1.0. Engineering Design Texts Interdiscipline cont’d