) Nathan Delson is a Teaching Professor at the University of California at San Diego. His research interests include robotics, biomedical devices, and engineering education. He teaches introductory design, mechanics, mechatronics, capstone design, medical devices, and product design & entrepreneurship. His interests in design education includes increasing student motivation, teamwork, hands-on projects, and integration of theory into design projects. In 1999 he co- founded Coactive Drive Corporation (currently General Vibration), a company that provides haptic solutions. In 2016 Nate co-founded eGrove Education, Inc. an educational software company focused on teaching sketching and spatial visualization skills
AC 2009-1195: THE INTEGRATION OF COGNITIVE INSTRUCTIONS ANDPROBLEM/PROJECT-BASED LEARNING INTO THE CIVIL ENGINEERINGCURRICULUM TO CULTIVATE CREATIVITY AND SELF-DIRECTEDLEARNING SKILLSWei Zheng, Jackson State University Dr. Wei Zheng is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Jackson State University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001 and has over10-year industrial experience. Since becoming a faculty member at JSU in 2005, he has made continuous efforts to integrate emerging technologies and cognitive skill development into civil engineering curriculum. He currently is the Principle Investigator for Nanotechnology Undergraduate
integrated study cycles; in Textile Engineering and Engineering and Industrial Management; in the 1st cycle courses of Design and Fashion Marketing; and in the 2nd cycle courses of Fashion Design and Communication, Textile Chemistry, Advanced Textiles and Design and Marketing. Head research and research member of several R&D projects, Vasconcelos has presented many dozens of scientific journal papers and communications in international conferences as either main author or co-author. Vasconcelos is the president of the Pedagogical Council of the School of Engineering and vice-dean of School of Engineering since 2011.Prof. Luis Alfredo Martins Amaral, University of Minho Born in 1960, Amaral holds a Ph.D. in Information
with a variation of approximately ±0.5 µs, which is less than ±3%. The fourth source ofnoise can result from distortion caused by sampled signals with square-top pulses, which arecommon in digital storage or communication systems, rather than signals that conform to naturalsampling, where the tops of the pulses “follow” the sampled signal. Further, note that thedigitization noise caused by the limited 8-bit resolution used in this system was negligible. Conclusion This paper describes the design and operation of low-cost, programmable arbitrary functiongenerator suitable for use in undergraduate laboratories as an analytical tool or as a studentdesign project. Using custom software and a personal
experience in a variety of STEM fields including robotics, biotechnology, and renewableenergy. Qualified graduates of the Academy are guaranteed admission into the engineeringcollege at the University of Colorado Boulder. Currently, there are 400 students enrolled. TheSTEM Academy is connected to the IC through the Academy’s Capstone Design Projects. Theseinvolve projects in engineering and computer programming which are accomplished with ICsupport. This allows for strong alignment of the Academy’s curriculum with IC resources. Page 24.755.3The Innovation CenterThe St Vrain Valley School District’s Innovation Center (IC) seeks to invent a pipeline
Evaluating the Outcomes of a Service-Learning Based Course in an Engineering Education Program: Preliminary Results of the Assessment of the Engineering Projects in Community Service - EPICS. Jason C. Immekus, Susan J. Maller, Sara Tracy, & William C. Oakes Purdue UniversityAbstract Design courses embedded in service-learning are rapidly emerging within the curricula ofmany engineering programs. The learning outcomes service-learning courses seek to promote arewell aligned with the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology criteria 2000 (EC2000)1. The Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program
Paper ID #33054Transforming an Engineering Design Course into an Engaging LearningExperience Using a Series of Self-Directed Mini-Projects andePortfolios: Face-to-Face Versus Online-only InstructionMiss Taylor Tucker, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Taylor Tucker graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor’s degree in engineering mechanics. She is now pursuing a master’s degree at UIUC through the Digital Environments for Learning, Teaching, and Agency program in the department of Curriculum and Instruction. She is interested in design thinking as it applies to engineering
Education, Vol.10(2), pp. 184-199, 2009.6. P.C. Blumenfeld, E. Soloway, R.W. Marx, J.S. Krajcik, M. Guzdial, and A. Palinscar, Motivating Project-Based Learning: Sustaining the Doing, Supporting the Learning, Educ. Psychologist, Vol. 26, 1991, pp. 369-398.7. R.G. Belu, A Project-based Power Electronics Course with an Increased Content of Renewable EnergyApplications, June 14-17, 2009 Annual ASEE Conference and Exposition, Austin, Texas (CD Proceedings).8. R. Belu, Renewable Energy Based Capstone Senior Design Projects for an Undergraduate EngineeringTechnology Curriculum, 2011 ASEEE Conference & Exposition, June 26 - 29, Vancouver, BC, Canada (CDProceedings).9. ABET, “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs”, ABET, Inc., 2010.10. R.M
) that gained 11university recognition. With the newly hired student support staff, the student leadership team hasbeen helping with the outreach to students, co-organizing and co-hosting student oriented events inthe college. Figure 4.3 Annual Leadership Development Retreat: SETS Cohort 2016, 2017, and 2018 Figure 4.4 SETS Annual Leadership Development Retreat Programs 2016 and 2017*iv The Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium (URS) has been a long-established tradition forthe last decade in the Computer ET and Electrical Power ET programs to allow their senior projectclasses present and demonstrate their capstone projects to
TwoAbstractIn this paper, we aim to summarize our efforts to understand how the identities of civil andmechanical engineering students engaged in capstone projects relate to their engagement indesign activity. Building upon our previous introductory study, we share insights from thecontent analysis of interviews with civil and mechanical engineering students engaged incapstone design courses and report initial findings related to how students’ self-perception asengineers impacts their role within the capstone team.IntroductionIn this paper, we summarize the initial results from a wider study funded through the NSF RFE(awards No. 2138019 and No. 2138106) program exploring engineering students' engagementand motivation in capstone design
served in the military for 23 years as an Engineer Officer with assignments around the world to include Afghanistan, Egypt, and Bosnia- Herzegovina. He is a licensed professional engineer in Virginia and a Project Management Professional. Aaron’s primary areas of research are engineering education, the behavior of steel structures, and blast. Aaron mentors students by serving as an advisor for capstone projects and through service as an Officer Representative for Women’s Volleyball and Men’s Basketball. His passion for teaching and developing tomorrow’s leaders resulted in his selection in 2009 for the American Society of Civil Engineers New Fac- ulty Excellence in Teaching Award and the 2013 Outstanding Young Alumni
paper, a small-scaleunderwater robot developed for underwater archaeological applications through an EngineeringTechnology Capstone project is presented. This underwater vehicle can measure temperature,pH, dissolved oxygen, pressure, and salinity levels. Moreover, it can collect water samples forfurther lab testing during the conservation process.I. IntroductionNautical archaeologists explore waters around the world to survey for wrecks and artifacts.When worthy sites are discovered, they dive in them and proceed to extract the artifacts. Divinginto unfamiliar conditions introduces potential risks especially if environmental factors gounchecked, and currently no method to conveniently track the chemical composition of the waterin dive sites
, built, tested, and documented by each student atthe end of the semester. For the past decade this experience has enriched and prepared thestudents to embark in more challenging projects at the senior capstone design experience.
improve water-use efficiency and watershedmanagement around the world. Moreover, providing clean water and restoring the nitrogen cycleare two of the fourteen National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges that futureengineers will need to act upon. Therefore, treating once-used water on-site to safe effluent-reusestandards—rather than using the water just once and flushing it back to an expensive, high-maintenance centralized treatment plant—has the potential to help address these challenges byrestoring the local water-nutrient cycle.With these considerations, during the spring of 2016 a capstone project at NortheasternUniversity was designed to task civil and environmental engineering students to providesolutions to those Engineering Grand
Design Curriculum. He holds a B.S. degree in Mathematics from Furman University and M.Sc. and D.Phil. degrees in Mathematics–Computation from the University of Oxford, where his studies were supported by a Rhodes Scholarship. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work in Progress: A Vertically Integrated Design Program Using Peer EducationIntroduction A yearlong capstone project for fourth year undergraduate biomedical engineering studentsis often put forward as the model for engaged, experiential learning [2, 3]. However, preparingstudents to undertake the breadth of such a project is often overlooked. In most undergraduateengineering curricula, there
laboratoryrequires industry insight and expertise to ensure that applications, technologies, configurations,and use cases align with standards and industry trajectory.Purdue University and Endress+Hauser USA have a well-established history of partnering toincrease awareness of the process sector and deliver improved learning experiences capable ofpresenting real-world challenges in the classroom and laboratory [3]. The first collaboration wasin 2014 with a capstone project, the Purdue Integrated Process Education System (PIPES). Thefully operational system was designed and constructed during a yearlong capstone projectundertaken by senior students in Purdue’s Manufacturing Engineering Technology degreeprogram, later serving as a teaching and learning tool
. This paper discusses the suite of virtual toolsutilized to support senior capstone design courses to manage logistics. We report on studentsatisfaction associated with team formation, project selection, and project presentation aspects.For each of these aspects, an interactive, virtual conferencing platform is utilized in whichparticipants can freely move between small informal groups at any time. This platform'sstructure is designed to mimic a traditional in-person exhibition. Participants can listen topresentations at tables, ask questions, talk individually, and move to a different location at theirdiscretion. The platform relieves the logistical burden of gathering people from geographicallyseparate locations in the same space while
students apply design methods, they rarely practice needs finding.All Canadian undergraduate engineering students participate in a capstone project in their fourthyear. Engineering instructors at the University of Waterloo have identified a lack of opportunitiesfor students to practice their need finding skills prior to fourth year. As a result, a set of needfinding instructional activities were conducted in-class for one term. The objective of thisresearch is to conduct evidence-based program improvement by identifying the teachingpractices that improve need finding competencies in engineering graduates. More specifically, inthis ongoing study, the authors explore how students identify, select, and justify their capstoneproject problem; and
› Uniqueness: Two-Semester Capstone Design Course Jointly between CS, Fine Arts and Cinematic Arts » 80 to 100 CS students, 30 SCA gameplay design students and 140 artists› Demo Day Twice Each SemesterUSC GAMES Joint Capstone Project Cinematic Arts Final Games Project Fine Arts Engineering (CS)4 4Advanced Games Course - The Maestros Placement, Demo Day Attendance• EA • Zynga• LucasArts • Blizzard• Microsoft & MGS • Seven Studios• Activision • Applied Minds• Google • Qualcomm• Akamai • Pricegrabber• Sony Computer
) students/lab students/bench Fall 2020 (COVID) 8-12 3 - 50-minute 12 physically 1 student per students/lab labs + 10 min spaced benches bench sanitizationTable 1: ECE Capstone Physical distancing occupancy changes to meet COVID restrictions 2) Modify types of projectsSenior electrical engineers and computer engineers within the Department of Electrical andComputer Engineering are required to complete a two-semester capstone sequence. Capstone isteam-based design on the same project for both semesters. To accommodate the skills of bothelectrical and computer engineers, traditionally, 10-20% of capstone
University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1993. His research and teaching interests are in power electronics, electric machines and drives, electrical power systems, and analog/mixed signal electronics. He has taught senior capstone design since 1985 at several universities.Dr. Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow Dr. Beyerlein has taught at the University of Idaho for the last 27 years. He is coordinator of the college of engineering inter-disciplinary capstone design course. He is also a co-PI on a DOE sponsored Industrial Assessment Center program in which several of the student authors have been involved. Dr. Beyerlein has been active in research projects involving engine testing, engine heat release modeling, design
nuclear materials to fight terrorism,recent development of nuclear medicines and the need for medical imaging have generatedstrong interest in the development of radiation detection and monitoring devices [2,3]. However,only 21 ABET accredited programs exist for nuclear engineering. Additionally, although manynew certificate programs and minors have emerged to serve these needs and train engineers toperform specific tasks in industry, there is a lack of opportunity for the students in theseprograms to develop substantive experience in the nuclear engineering field through participationin multidisciplinary, collaborative senior design or capstone project work.Paper OrganizationThe paper begins with a review of the literature on interdisciplinary
courses are typically included in the EngineeringTechnology Curriculum for an electronics system program. At Texas A&M University, the ElectronicSystems Engineering Technology (ESET) program is offered. For the embedded systems courses thatthe author has been teaching, students learn about microcontroller architecture and microcontrollerapplications. For the class projects, students can be given comprehensive programming and projectdemo assignments as a class project toward the end of the course. And, some of the students wouldtake the Capstone project courses in the following semesters. In this paper, the author presented theskills and knowledge that can be used from underwater robots and boat platforms to benefit embeddedsystems courses and
ETD 525 Building a Strong Foundation for Senior Design Courses Joseph A. Untener, Philip Appiah-Kubi University of Dayton1. IntroductionThe inclusion of a capstone project course is one of the most universal elements of curriculathroughout the widely diverse Engineering Technology programs in the country, Yet at the sametime, probably no single course in those curricula has more variation in approach, structure,assumptions, and resources than the capstone design course.The University of Dayton’s approach to senior capstone projects is just one of many usedthroughout
, problem-based learning, and impacts of the learning environment. To improvestudent teamwork experiences in any course, faculty have an opportunity to apply a wealth ofknowledge from fields such as organizational or industrial psychology 5. Some argue thateffective team-based learning in capstone courses require that teams be heterogeneous and haveshared goals, meaningful activities, timely internal feedback, and external comparisons andfeedback 6. Thus, for faculty to facilitate an effective team-based learning experience, they mustbe very deliberate in the planning of team projects, milestones, activities, feedback methods, andtiming.Other research has focused on problem-based learning approaches. One study, focusing on astructural engineering
learning were implemented in a senior capstonedesign class where student learning is assessed. The capstone students are required to identify aneducational need within the mechanical engineering technology program. This need is discussedwith the faculty for the development of a hands-on laboratory instrument that will facilitatelearning in the program. The results from these discussions determine the design requirementsfor the capstone project. These capstone students must also learn the design process that hasmilestones with deliverables associated with a Gantt chart and work breakdown structure. Theymust also develop an instructional lab with a series of questions that helps reinforce the theorytaught in the classroom. And finally, they are
Initiatives SYNCHRONIZED ENGINEERING COLLABORATIONS: THE BUCKNELL – GEISINGER INITIATIVES Syncronicity?Curricular & Capstone Collaborative Research BME Initiatives ME Interdisciplinary Projects BU-GHS Research Initiative ECE Medical Device Ciffolillo Heathcare Innovation Development Program Funds CHEG IDEAS Senior Design Costa Healthcare Research Partnering withClinical Mentors Administrative Professionals General surgery Clinical Innovation & Process
such short visits and recommendations for pursuing a similar sabbatical experience. Introduction Sabbatical experiences provide an opportunity for faculty to immerse themselves in current scholarship, to explore new areas of research, and/or to pursue professional development. For capstone design instructors, many of whom coordinate projects with industry sponsors, a logical option for sabbatical is to spend it in industry. This option is particularly attractive and useful for faculty members who have followed the standard academic pathway and have not previously worked as practicing engineers. The engineering literature is surprisingly sparse on faculty sabbaticals, and what literature exists focuses more on the use of sabbaticals for
requirements, use extensive team-based activities, and culminate in afinal project that often originates from industry or faculty research [1]. Capstone courses presentinstructors with a variety of challenges, including how to effectively mentor teams through thecapstone design process. This problem is compounded when operating at scale, in large R1universities like the one where the study took place, where it is difficult to find adequatenumbers of highly qualified mentors for the nearly 400 capstone students completing projectseach academic year. Despite the challenge, instructors recognize the value of providing qualitymentorship in the capstone design process and research has shown that quality mentoring iscrucial to student success [2-3].It is
University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Work in Progress: Self-Guided Professional Development as an Enabler for Multidisciplinary ProgramsAbstractThe capstone design program at Colorado School of Mines serves three departments and fourdegree programs, each having their own demands, distinctive industry-specific languages, anddepartmental expectations. Each discipline is looking to the capstone design program to provideABET required capstone projects and assessment, professional practice training, and instructionin multiple discipline specific design tools and techniques to their students. This paper describesthe use of student-specific professional development plans, in