Paper ID #34977Work in Progress: A Conceptual Design Project for Civil EngineeringFreshmen to Enhance Their Entrepreneurial MindsetDr. J. Chris Carroll, Saint Louis University Dr. Carroll is an Associate Professor and the Civil Engineering Program Coordinator in Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology at Saint Louis University. His experimental research interests focus on reinforced and prestressed concrete, while his engineering education research interests focus on experiential learning at both the university and K-12 levels. Dr. Carroll is also the chair of the American Concrete Institute’s
design, but only afterthe software controls have been verified with the Xbee sensors using the XCTU software and LabVIEW.The group also hopes to test different types of ZigBee operating modes, including star and mesh modes.As the project progresses, parts of the above proposal may be changed as necessary. EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES This capstone project led to various educational outcomes and student gained the fundamentalknowledge that are required to conduct this project through several junior and senior courses. The list isgiven in the following table.Courses Concepts gained by students conduct the Senior Design ProjectEE 321 – Electronics I 321. Electronics I. 3 credits. Prerequisite
AbstractEngineering students are being asked to work on real-world projects and need to access accurate costinformation for their design projects. In the case of chemical engineering and related disciplines,capstone courses often require designing industrial processes or a chemical plant involving bulkchemical prices for both feedstocks and products. A lot of chemical pricing information wasavailable in trade magazines; however, bulk chemical prices are increasingly difficult to locate asproducers of that information have reduced the availability and further monetized the informationover the last 15 years. The resulting information sources containing chemical prices often cannot beacquired by academic libraries due to cost or licensing terms. In cases where
, P. S., Jones, J. W., Vliet, G. C., & Jones, T. L., "A Project-Centered Approach to Teaching of Thermal-Fluid Systems Analysis and Design," ASEE Annual Conference 2003.7. Banerjee, S., "A group project based approach to induce learning in engineering thermodynamics," ASEE Annual Conference 2015.8. Roy, S., Nasr, K. J., & Berry, K. J., "Development of a Project-Based and Design-Driven Thermodynamics Course," ASEE Conference 2002.9. Bailey, M. & Chambers, J., "Using the Experiential Learning Model to Transform an Engineering Thermodynamics Course," ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2004.10. Dukhan, N. & Schumack, M., "Thermal Science Capstone Projects in Mechanical Engineering," ASEE
. Structuraldesign courses are typically taught in a longitudinal order. Students first take a structural analysiscourse followed by one or more design courses (e.g., reinforced concrete design or steel design).There is some repetition among the design course topics, but they primarily cover their ownunique material behavior. Students are often left to imagine or connect these topics on their own,in a capstone style course towards the end of their education or during their first years ofemployment. Unfortunately, some students graduate with a misunderstanding of the trueprocesses used in structural design. Time restrictions and civil engineering program limitationslead to this quandary. The goal of this project was to integrate the same design
Paper ID #30163Contextualized design projects in graphics and visualization course:Student perceptions and sustainability systems-thinking knowledgeDr. Raghu Pucha, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Raghu Pucha is a Senior Lecturer at the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Insti- tute of Technology, in the area of CAD/CAE and Manufacturing. Dr. Pucha teaches computer graphics and design courses at Georgia Tech., and conducts research in the area of developing computational tools for the design, analysis and manufacturing of advanced materials and systems. Dr. Pucha has three provisional U.S. patents and
education curriculum with a focus on laboratory courses for the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. His courses leverage project-based learning, experiential learning, and self-paced activities. David has over ten years of industry experience specializing in mixed-signal RF integrated circuit design, power systems, and power electronics.Prof. Kia Bazargan, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Prof. Kia Bazargan is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Has has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters related to FPGAs and VLSI computer-aided design. He received his Bachelors degree
2001, she joined the Spacecraft Technology Center as an Assistant Director where she was responsible for the structural and thermal analysis of pay- loads. She served as Director of the Space Engineering Institute and in 2010 she accepted a position with the Academic Affairs office of the Dwight Look College of Engineering where she oversaw outreach, recruiting, retention and enrichment programs for the college. Since 2013, she serves as the Executive Director for Industry and Nonprofit Partnerships with responsibilities to increase opportunities for under- graduates engineering students to engage in experiential learning multidisciplinary team projects. These include promoting capstone design projects sponsored by
eight was made to better simulate the experience studentswould have in their senior design capstone project. In discussion with industry leaders, the largerteam better simulates what students will experience in industry. However, from the first week ofclasses, once teams were formed, students were instructed to find a partner within the team withwhom to work on assignments. This provided a support system for students as the researchintensive process began. In a survey students commented that group studying had a positiveimpact on understanding the material and was carried over into other classes as well. Honken andRalston in their recommendations to improve retention in engineering programs found “sincestudents who studied together in high
Paper ID #12397A First-Year Project-Based Design Course with Management Simulation andGame-Based Learning ElementsMr. Daniel D. Anastasio, University of Connecticut Daniel Anastasio received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 2009. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Connecticut while acting as a co- instructor for the chemical engineering capstone laboratory and the first-year foundations of engineering course. His research interests include osmotically driven membrane separations and engineering peda- gogy.Ms. Malgorzata Chwatko, University of
. Eng. Design, 16(6), 2005, pp. 557-576.[12]. Glier, M. W., et al. 2011. "Distributed Ideation: Idea Generation in Distributed Capstone Engineering Design Teams." International Journal of Engineering Education 27.6 (2011): 1281.[13]. C. Dym, et al., 2005. “Engineering Design Thinking, Teaching, and Learning”, Journal of Engineering Education, 94(1), 2005, pp. 103-120.[14]. Alexander, M. (1985). The team effectiveness critique. The 1985 annual: Developing human resources, 101- 106.[15]. Lai, J., Honda, T., & Yang, M. C. (2010). A study of the role of user-centered design methods in design team projects. Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, 24(3), 303-316.[16]. Hirsch, P. L., &
, and evaluate any encountered task fit together as the team evolved their design?MethodThe purpose of this study was to examine learners’ self-management of cognition by observing agroup of four undergraduate engineering students (i.e., the Orange Team) exercising theirexecutive control over behavior during their work on their senior design project class (MIE 470).MIE 470 is one of the major capstone design courses prescribed by the mechanical engineeringdepartment’s curriculum at one of the large Midwestern University.Design Task and Context. This team’s task was to design and build a hydraulic bicycle. Unlike aregular bicycle, a hydraulic bike replaces a mechanical drive system with a hydraulictransmission and therefore, there is
, M. “Putting the utility of match-tracking in Fuzzy ARTMAP to thetest,” In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information (KES),London, England, 20032. Anagnostopoulos, G. C., Georgiopoulos, M., Ports, K., Richie, S., Cardinale, N., White, M., Kepuska, V., Chan,P.K., Wu, A., Kysilka, M., “Project EMD-MLR: Educational Materials Development and Research in MachineLearning for Undergraduate students,” Proceedings of the ASEE 2005 Annual Conference and Exposition, Session3232, Capstone & Educational Resource Developments, June 12-15, Portland, Oregon, 2005.3. Castro, J., Secretan, J.(*), Georgiopoulos, M., DeMara, R. F., Anagnostopoulos, G., and Gonzalez, A., “Pipeliningof Fuzzy ARTMAP (FAM
capstone courses. Thesuccess of introducing such an approach in a freshman-level course is indicated by the fact thatthe gear train of every team functioned, and met the minimum criteria stipulated in the projectassignment. All of the teams performed design modifications on one or more of their gears afterreceiving their first set of prototyped parts.IV. Team Dynamics A kick-off meeting, including all the students and instructors involved in this project, washeld at the Lexington location towards the middle of the Fall 2003 semester. At this session,which lasted about an hour, the instructors presented the project assignment, and provided thestudents with expectations for intra team communication and collaboration. The meeting alsoserved
Session 1526 Developing and Implementing Hands-on Laboratory Exercises and Design Projects for First Year Engineering Students Richard J. Freuler, Audeen W. Fentiman, John T. Demel, Robert J. Gustafson, John A. Merrill The Ohio State UniversityAbstractDuring the past ten years, The Ohio State University’s College of Engineering has moved from aseries of separate freshman courses for engineering orientation, engineering graphics, andengineering problem solving with computer programming to a dual offering of course sequencesin the Introduction to
solutions. This opened the possibility of the students to be moreinnovative and encouraged creativity in the design process.The freshman Introduction to Design course was used to teach a formal process for conductingengineering design with specified steps and documentation that was collected from students asthey worked on their projects. The previous project did little to encourage following this formalprocess, and many students ended up using a trial-and-error method to find a solution.Deliverables were included in the new project that required the students to follow the sameformal design process as their freshman course. Revisiting these design steps reinforces theprocess that they were taught and are expected to use again on their capstone
AC 2012-4587: THE INTEGRATION OF BUILDING INFORMATION MOD-ELING AND INTEGRATED PROJECT DELIVERY INTO THE CONSTRUC-TION MANAGEMENT CURRICULUMDr. Joseph A. Wright, University of Wisconsin, Stout Joseph A. Wright has 18 years as a university lecturer/professor in construction management with an em- phasis on contract administration. He has 15 years experience in industry as a Project Engineer/Manager on oil and gas and infrastructure projects. Current research interests include pathways for integrated project delivery and the use of software to enhance communication through the project process. Page 25.1317.1
Annual Conference & Exposition Page 6.890.7 Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationhistory of the measurement techniques. In addition, they designed and built the instrumentation,making sure the data were defensible. These tasks lent themselves well to independent EEprojects, capstone projects and honors theses.b) Power and Wiring (P&W)The P&W group designed the power systems and wiring harness for the payload. The level ofengineering challenge was accessible to students new to the discipline. This is meticulous work,however, since there are many single point failures in this area. These
effort from departments including Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and ComputerEngineering, and Biomedical, Industrial & Human Factors Engineering. One of our continuinggoals is to run dispersed projects in a classroom setting every semester. Our administrators andthe instructors of our capstone design experience are enthusiastic about the future of this activity.We are also planning to conduct a second project of greater challenge in the summer of 2001.The project is expected to include a larger team, a wider array of facilitating tools, a designproject with more technical challenges, and more direct input and participation from industrialand government partners
participants to recall events in different sequences, can unearth moreaccurate and detailed information.Now that the core details of the project have been developed, the instructors plan to gatherfeedback from future project groups to bolster the preliminary data presented here. Refinementof the survey and additional surveys will be needed to document how well the educationalobjectives are being met. Additionally, the instructors will study how the perception of thedesign process changes over the course of the project and how students perceive the newtechnology.List of References[1] J. Retherford, B. L. Hartmann, R. Al-Hammoud, and G. A. Hunt, “Civil engineering capstone inventory: Standards of practice & the ASCE body of knowledge,” ASEE
experiences with the Earned Value Management(EVM) simulator, understanding the team members' roles and agile development process to gainthe PM experiences. Gilbuena et al. [10] adopt the ethnographic approach to assess how final-year undergraduate students in chemical, biological, or environmental engineering gainprofessional skills through capstone projects, and they [10] found frequent faculty feedback isessential in enhancing their activities in technical training.The majority of research on PM skills has been focused at the undergraduate level [9], [10], [11],[12]. Research on PM training at the graduate level has been limited to Master’s level education[13], [14]. For example, Do Amaral et al. [13] highlighted Project Management (PM
Engineering Technology Minority: 0 for use in the MATE competition. & Public high school (Gr.9-12) Women: 2 NSF - ITEST Utica, MI 48317 Grades: 11-1217 Jackson Schools PLTW teacher Grades: 9-12 Project Lead the Way Capstone Michigan Tech Tech Center for Jackson project & schools with PLTW Self Funded Tech Center
AC 2010-581: INTEGRATING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH INTO K-12CLASSROOMS: A GK-12 FELLOWS PROJECTVikram Kapila, Polytechnic University VIKRAM KAPILA is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Brooklyn, NY, where he directs an NSF funded Web-Enabled Mechatronics and Process Control Remote Laboratory, an NSF funded Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics, and an NSF funded GK-12 Fellows project. He has held visiting positions with the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, OH. His research interests are in cooperative control; distributed spacecraft formation control; linear/nonlinear control with applications to robust control
AC 2011-2856: A MODEL FOR ENHANCING PROJECT LEAD THE WAYTEACHER KNOWLEDGE IN SOFTWARE APPLICATIONSLaura E. LeMire, The Community College of Baltimore County Laura LeMire, an alumna of the University of Maryland at College Park with a B.S. and Masters in Geotechnical Engineering, started her career at Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE). During her career there, she was responsible for substation and transmission construction projects, relocation and installa- tion of BGE facilities for Oriole Park at Camden Yards and for a new Light Rail system, and for im- proving service reliability. After obtaining her MBA, Laura became the Director of Corporate Purchasing and was also a financial analyst handling investor relations
Session 2220 Development of a Matlab-Based Graphical User Interface Environment for PIC Microcontroller Projects Sang-Hoon Lee, Yan-Fang Li, and Vikram Kapila Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Email: [slee05@utopia, yli14@utopia, vkapila@duke].poly.eduAbstract Peripheral Interface Controllers (PICs) are inexpensive microcontroller units with built-inserial communication functionality. Similarly, Matlab, a widely used technical computingsoftware, allows serial
integration of an entrepreneurial mindset (EM) into engineering education has become18 increasingly prevalent, reflecting a paradigm shift in how engineering problems are approached19 and solved. This project, serving as the capstone of an Introduction to Engineering course, was20 designed to instill EM in a diverse group of engineering students, equipping them to tackle21 multidisciplinary challenges innovatively. Historically, EM has been a staple in business education22 but has only recently begun to permeate engineering curricula globally over the past few decades23 (3). The Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN), established in 2005, has been pivotal24 in promoting EM within undergraduate engineering programs across the
University of Nigeria, Nigeria and the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Currently, His research focus is in the field of Computing and Engineering Education where he is involved with investigating team-based computational projects using qualitative, quantitative, and artificial intelligence-based tools. He is also involved with developing and redesigning a Team-Based transdisciplinary graduate course under the Purdue University EMBRIO Innovation Hub Grant project, where He has contributed by applying computational fluid dynamics methods in the development of partial differential equation (PDE) models to implement cell cytokinesis. His ongoing Ph.D. research broadly investigates teamwork interactions and
sample size andsampling strategy are limitations. However, we are not intending to provide generalizable data.Instead, we focus our qualitative efforts to afford transferable findings. Also, more than half ofthe students had previous experience in engineering internships or laboratory research positions.One coach provided feedback to all student teams. This coach has coached over 60 teams in thesame capstone course over several years and has many years of thin films processing experience.The coach has also published research papers and developed courses on the subject.Data Collection & AnalysisData sources include audio recordings and transcripts of student teams, researcher field notes,student work products, and post-project, semi
an ISI sustainability professional for certification.Envision as a sustainability tool in the classroom shows promise: a University of Utah studydemonstrated using Envision in their civil engineering capstone course helped improve thestudent’s sustainability literacy [12]; and at the University of Colorado – Boulder, an Envisionactive learning assignment for first-year engineering students scored an average grade 86%,indicating that most students had reached the knowledge and comprehension cognitive levels ofsustainability [13].MethodsDevelopment of PartnershipThe course director worked in partnership with the university SCP director to establish thecourse and non-profit developer partnership. The project scope included the course director
of motivation on performance and persistence in mechanical engineering design courses. Elisabeth is an active member of ASEE, ASME, and Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Neurocognitive Examination of the Impact of Design Project Representation on Student Motivation and PerformanceAbstractThe ASME Vision 2030 Project (V2030) outlined a set of goals to aid in the development ofengineering education to better face the current and future demands of the profession. Part of thisvision proposed the implementation of designed-based curricula throughout the degree program.These design courses are meant to introduce students to implementing