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2019 CIEC

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Thomas Dobrowski

Session ETD 315 Utilizing Industry Professionals in a Senior Capstone Project Thomas J. Dobrowski, Purdue NorthwestAbstractStarting in the academic year of 2016, two regional campuses of Purdue University unified. Indoing so, degree programs that were the same on each campus had to align themselves to offeridentical courses to allow students to seamlessly move between the two campuses. In general,this did not pose much of a problem for the Construction Engineering and ManagementTechnology (CEMT) degree program as all but two of the courses in the degree program werealready being offered on both campuses.The one course

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Design in Engineering Education Division: Design Teams

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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B. Matthew Michaelis, Eastern Washington University; Heechang (alex) Bae, Eastern Washington University

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Design in Engineering Education

Washington University Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering Technology Program Department of Engineering & Design c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Optimizing Capstone Team FormationAbstractFor senior capstone teams, team composition is one of the primary factors in student satisfactionand project success. Previous team formation were done manually after students submitted theirtop five choices from the available projects and were time consuming and ineffective. Toimprove team composition and reduce formation time, mixed-integer linear programming isutilized to optimize the team formation process. The presented approach allows control of

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Architectural Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ryan Solnosky P.E., Pennsylvania State University, University Park; John J. Phillips, Oklahoma State University

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professionals and leadersin the AEC industry are in high demand regionally, nationally and internationally. From a globalperspective, AE programs are unique and sparse compared to civil engineering and architectureprograms. In total there are 22 ABET accredited AE programs in the United States that offerdegrees. These programs must be adaptable to the industry to remain current with, and ahead of,leading industry practices. To remain most relevant to industry, AE programs regularly evolvetheir senior capstone project experience. Since the building industry is so diverse, and the AEprograms themselves are often diverse from one another, the composition of capstone coursesacross programs has not been heavily studied in looking for critical trends. Thus

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Design in Engineering Education Division: Capstone Design Projects

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yupeng Luo, California State University, Fresno; Silvana Polgar, California State University, Fresno; Wei Wu, California State University, Fresno

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

Design for Homeless (DfH): A capstone experienceAbstractCapstone projects are usually designed to promote critical thinking, problem-solving, andcreativity using the knowledge and skills students acquire in their coursework. This paperpresents the initial findings of a two-semester-long, industry-facilitated, and collaborativecapstone project in Spring and Fall 2018. A team of construction management and interiordesign students at California State University, Fresno was tasked to design and build a temporaryhome prototype for a local homeless shelter to raise awareness of an urgent social and economicissue in the community. The new design aims to create a more comfortable and upliftingenvironment for the homeless. The project provides an

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Design in Engineering Education Division: Capstone Design Projects

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kaela M. Martin, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott; Richard T. Mangum, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Dina M. Battaglia, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Design in Engineering Education

the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Prescott campus in northern Arizona. She earned both her M.S. and Ph.D. in so- cial psychology from Texas Christian University and has over 16 years of collegiate teaching experience. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Giving Students Choice in their Capstone ExperienceAbstractMaintaining motivation over an open-ended senior design or capstone project is an ongoingchallenge. We apply self-determination theory which links intrinsic motivation to competence,relatedness, and autonomy (or choice) to motivation in the classroom. Our goal is to see howchoice or perceived choice affects the outcome of students in capstone. We deployed a

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Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 11

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Raghu Echempati P.E., Kettering University

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Mechanical Engineering

Paper ID #24850Senior Mechanical Systems Design Capstone Projects: Experiences and As-sessmentProf. Raghu Echempati P.E., Kettering University Professor Echempati is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kettering University, (Flint, Mich.). He is a member of ASME, ASEE, and SAE. He has won several academic and technical awards. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Senior Mechanical Systems Design Capstone Projects: Experiences and AssessmentAbstractOrganizing and completing an undergraduate senior design capstone project course that lastsonly ten to

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Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter D. Huerter, Purdue University Northwest

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Instrumentation

laboratory experiments.However, troubleshooting of equipment and complex machines are not given sufficient attentionfor a typical industrial setting during regular engineering coursework. Purdue UniversityNorthwest’s Outcome Based Education allows students to gain hands-on experiencetroubleshooting complex circuits, machines, and their subsystems.In order to familiarize students with troubleshooting and identifying equipment failures, theresurrection of a relatively complex and non-functional NovaMill 3-Axis CNC Milling Machineis selected as a Capstone Senior Design project. The objectives of this project include identifyingthe different sub-systems of the machine, isolating each sub-system, testing and documentationof initial status, identification

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A Technology Potpourri III

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mustafa Shraim, Ohio University; Neil Littell, Ohio University

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Engineering Technology

organization’s activities and growth. His most recent position was as the Engineering Program Manager and CAD/PLM Administrator at Viking Range LLC, located in Greenwood, Mississippi from 2008 to May 2014. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Tolerance Stack-up Analysis in Manufacturing-Based Capstone Projects AbstractMost manufactured products typically consist of multiple components assembled in specifiedconfigurations. Such components have specifications for important dimensional characteristics toensure adequate performance once assembled. The specifications are typically given astolerances within which components must be produced. Consequently

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Embedded Systems & Cybersecurity for ECE

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maddumage Karunaratne, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown

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Electrical and Computer

take two programming courses andan electronics course. This embedded course is designed to teach data acquisition techniques, detailhardware operations in data processing, and how to drive peripheral components. While there aremany choices of microcontroller development boards such as Raspberry Pi and Arduino, thisembedded course and associated labs use hardware development boards based on Freescale (NXP)devices due to their simplicity and legacy. The same EE and COE students take a mandatory capstone design project course spanningtwo semesters in their senior year. Students, individually or in groups of two, propose a fewengineering problems to the faculty at the start of the first semester. After several iterations

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Engineering Management Division Technical Session 1

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ben D. Radhakrishnan, National University; Timothy J. Pettit, National University

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Engineering Management

addition, he is a member of his field’s premier professional organiza- tion, the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals. He is a world-wide lecturer and researcher on Supply Chain Risk and Resilience. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Assimilating Sustainability Concepts in Engineering Management Graduate Program’s Capstone Projects Ben D Radhakrishnan, M.Tech., M.S., M.B.A., Instructor, Program Director, Applied Engineering Department, Shekar Viswanathan, Ph.D., M.B.A., Professor, Program Director, Applied Engineering Department

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Design in Engineering Education Division: Capstone Design Projects

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark David Bedillion, Carnegie Mellon University; Marsha Lovett, Carnegie Mellon University; Karim Heinz Muci-Kuchler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Cassandra M. Degen, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

Mechatronics Stakeholder research / customer needs Software architecture Target specifications Communication protocols Concept generation and selection Power Prototyping Measurement systems Design for manufacturing Noise and groundingLike the conventional capstone course, the EMSD course revolves around a semester-longproject. The projects are student initiated and must contain sensing, actuation, and computationelements. While many students in the conventional design course opt for projects that featuresimilar components, EMSD students are required to include those features and are expected todemonstrate superior performance on the

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Design in Engineering Education Division: Design Methodology

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa A. Shay PE, U.S. Military Academy; Tanya Thais Estes, United States Military Academy; David Paul Harvie, United States Military Academy

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Design in Engineering Education

encouraged to work on projects, papers,or other academic exercises that require extended periods of deep and sustained thought.The next section describes our capstone design course, followed by an explanation of eachreflection experience in the context of the design process. We then present a quantitative andqualitative summary of the results of these changes. Our conclusions are offered in the finalsection. Appendices contain rubrics of the reflection exercises.Capstone Design Course StructureThe authors have designed and offered a two-semester multidisciplinary engineering designcourse within the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department at WestPoint. EECS includes three ABET-accredited majors: Electrical Engineering, Computer

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Design I

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Benjamin Goldschneider, Virginia Tech; Nicole P. Pitterson, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

projects in a collaborative environment. Yet, anoverwhelming majority of programs do not provide students with the chance to workcooperatively across disciplinary lines. Those that do typically only allow for interactionbetween groups within the same overarching discipline such as Mechanical or ElectricalEngineering. Ideally, the capstone experience is meant to foreshadow the type of interaction andwork that a student will engage in, easing their transition into the work environment followinggraduation. In industry, engineers are expected to work collaboratively with experts in severaltechnical and non-technical domains. Subsequently, capstone classes are lacking the ability toprepare undergraduate students for membership on the interdisciplinary

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2019 CIEC

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Sean Tavares; Shawn Banker; Christopher LeBlanc; Jonathan Ferguson

Session ETD 545 Collaboration on Engineering Technology Capstone Projects with the UNH University Instrumentation Center T. Sean Tavares, Shawn C. Banker, Christopher D. LeBlanc, Jonathan Ferguson, University of New HampshireAbstractCollaboration with partners located in industry and at research centers has been the source ofmany high quality Engineering Technology senior capstone projects. A recent capstone projecthosted by the University of New Hampshire (UNH) University Instrumentation Center (UIC)was focused on improving the efficiency of the process involved in producing large scale 3Dprinted

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Best In DEED

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert P. Loweth, University of Michigan; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Kathleen H. Sienko, University of Michigan; Amy Hortop, University of Michigan; Elizabeth Ann Strehl, University of Michigan

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #25209Student Designers’ Interactions with Users in Capstone Design Projects: AComparison Across TeamsMr. Robert P. Loweth, University of Michigan Robert P. Loweth is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. He earned a B.S. in Engineering Sciences from Yale University (2016), with a double major in East Asian Studies. He also holds a Graduate Certificate in Chinese and American Studies, jointly awarded by Johns Hopkins University and Nanjing University in China. His current research focuses on how undergraduate engineering students approach front-end design

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Engineering Management Division Technical Session 3

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hilda Cecilia Martinez Leon, Clarkson University; Michelle Crimi, Clarkson University

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Engineering Management

processes from the electronic and automobile industry when she was with Honeywell, Siemens VDO Guadalajara, and Cummins, Inc. She has worked as a consultant in Lean Six Sigma across industry sectors, more recently in Healthcare, where she has coached students and industry employees to get their lean six sigma green belt certification. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Engineering and Management at the David D. Reh School of Business at Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, where she teaches Quality Management and Lean Enterprise, Engineering Design Capstone courses, Operations and Supply Chain Management-related courses. Her research interests include lean product development, six sigma, project management, systems

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Design in Engineering Education Division: Student Empathy & Human-centered Design

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Devanshi Shah, Florida Institute of Technology; Elisabeth Kames, Florida Institute of Technology ; McKenzie Carol Clark, Florida Institute of Technology; Beshoy Morkos, Florida Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #27601Examining the Differences in Student Motivation for Industry Projects andNon-Industry Projects in Senior Capstone DesignDevanshi Shah, Florida Institute of Technology I am a graduate student pursuing M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology with specialization in Structures, Solid Mechanics and Materials. I graduated with B.E. in Mechanical Engineering in India in May 2016. My research is focused on Student’s Motivation in Engineering under the advisement of Dr. Beshoy Morkos.Elisabeth Kames, Florida Institute of Technology Elisabeth Kames is a graduate student working on her Ph.D. in

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Design in Engineering Education Division: Capstone Design Practices

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kimberly B. Demoret P.E., Florida Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

]. Social loafing tends to increase withteam size [3].At the Florida Institute of Technology (Florida Tech), aerospace engineering majors take a three-semester Capstone Design sequence- a one-credit Junior Design class in the spring, then twothree-credit Senior Design 1 and Senior Design 2 classes. Aerospace projects are complex andcostly, and teams tend to be large, averaging eight students per team. Teams are self-organizedand pick their own project managers after being assigned to a team. One instructor is responsiblefor grading the entire class (a typical class size is ~70 students), though other faculty may act astechnical advisors to individual teams. Student grading is based on team products (60%), peerfeedback (20%), and individual

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Design in Engineering Education Division: Capstone Design Practices

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Natascha Trellinger Buswell, University of California, Irvine; Mark E. Walter, University of California, Irvine

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Design in Engineering Education

. The senior designor “capstone” project course became MAE189 Senior Projects, and students were required totake 3 units of MAE189 for graduation. With only 3 “decentralized units,” the ambitions of thestudents were limited and projects were also, unsurprisingly, of low quality. Around 2005, theunit limit on MAE189 was removed; the 3 unit requirement was maintained, but up to 8additional MAE189 units could be used for technical elective credit. This was done both toplease students who were increasingly finding that project involvement was the easiest way toget an engineering job, and the projects were getting larger, needing students to be active formultiple quarters. In fact, students were starting to get involved in projects prior to their

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Design in Engineering Education Division: Capstone Design Practices

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jonathan Elliot Gaines, University of South Florida; Olukemi Akintewe, University of South Florida; Schinnel Kylan Small, University of South Florida; Terreonn Henry

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #25238Engineering Design Instruction Using Slack for Project Support and Team-workDr. Jonathan Elliot Gaines, University of South Florida Jonathan E. Gaines is faculty in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of South Florida. He is the Director of First Year Experiential Education and Learning. Through this position, he develops and implements the curriculum for USF’s Foundations of Engineering Lab course. He is also the Principle Investigator for Bulls Engineering Youth Experience (Bulls-EYE Mentoring) a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math based outreach program that uses undergraduate

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College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 1

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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George Stefanek, Purdue University Northwest

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College Industry Partnerships

client, the transition to the client, post transition status, and any lessonslearned. A survey of client experiences with Capstone projects is summarized in Table 1.BackgroundThe development of mobile apps in Capstone projects using student teams has been studied byseveral researchers. Pinchot (2018) had focused on the incorporation of user-centered design,communications skills and teamwork for mobile development as a project model. It was foundthat focusing on these areas helped the teams complete the project with a working mobile app.User-centered design was included as a requirement. Using a pair programming model helped indevelopment with the emphasis of having each team member contribute as equally as possible tothe work. The split in work

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Design in Engineering Education Division: Capstone Design Projects

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gail Baura, Loyola University Chicago; Vincent Chen, Loyola University Chicago; Leanne Kallemeyn, Loyola University Chicago

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #26485Building a Functional Cardiograph Over Four Semesters: Part 2 – Program-ming a MicrocontrollerDr. Gail Baura, Loyola University Chicago Dr. Gail Baura is a Professor and Director of Engineering Science at Loyola University Chicago. While creating the curriculum for this new program, she embedded multi-semester projects to increase student engagement and performance. Previously, she was a Professor of Medical Devices at Keck Graduate In- stitute of Applied Life Sciences, which is one of the Claremont Colleges. She received her BS Electrical Engineering degree from Loyola Marymount University, her MS

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Design in Engineering Education Division: Capstone Design Projects

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Geoffrey Recktenwald, Michigan State University; William F. Resh, Michigan State University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

experientially, on timelines typically longer than available for capstone experiences.As a result, students often lack the time to test or iterate on their design. Because the capstoneexperience is at the end of the undergraduate education, students taking analysis based coursesdo not connect their coursework to design, the key engineering discipline. Additionally, at someuniversities, capstone projects are department specific and projects do not build on anunderstanding of the inter-relationship of different disciplines.In this paper the authors discuss their experience and lessons learned from creating a multi-yearintegrated system design (ISD) project. The experience seeks to mediate the above concerns bybeing multi-disciplinary and engaging all

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Manufacturing Division Technical Session 7

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University; M. Eric Carr, Drexel University

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Manufacturing

Paper ID #26691Senior Capstone Project in Green Technologies: Study of ElectromagneticBraking as Prospective Enhancement of Friction-based Automotive BrakingSystemDr. Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University Irina Ciobanescu Husanu, Ph. D. is Assistant Clinical Professor with Drexel University, Engineer- ing Technology program. Her area of expertise is in thermo-fluid sciences with applications in micro- combustion, fuel cells, green fuels and plasma assisted combustion. She has prior industrial experience in aerospace engineering that encompasses both theoretical analysis and experimental investigations such

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Educational Research and Methods Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joshua M. Cruz, Texas Tech University; Noa Bruhis, Arizona State University; Nadia N. Kellam, Arizona State University; Suren Jayasuriya, Arizona State University

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Educational Research and Methods

engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 WIP: Epistemologies and Discourse Analysis for Transdisciplinary Capstone Projects in a Digital Media ProgramAbstract: This work in progress explores the epistemologies and discourse used byundergraduate students at the transdisciplinary intersection of engineering and the arts. Ourresearch questions are focused on the kinds of knowledge that students value, use, and identifywithin the context of an interdisciplinary digital media program, and exploring how theirlanguage reflects this. Our theoretical framework for analyzing epistemology draws uponqualitative work in STEM epistemology [1]–[3], domain specificity [4], [5

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PSW Section Meeting Papers - Disregard start and end time - for online paper access only

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2019 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Zhen Yu, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Ha Thu Le, California State Polytechnic University Pomona

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Diversity, Pacific Southwest Section Meeting Paper Submissions

Paper ID #27861Bringing students to real-world training environment through service-learningsenior capstone projects with K-12 outreach activitiesDr. Zhen Yu, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Dr. Jenny Zhen Yu received her Ph.D. (2006) from University of California, Irvine (with Prof. Peter Burke). In 2006 she became a Lead Nanofabrication Engineer at RF Nano Corporation. She was one of the First Employees for this leading carbon nanotube company, which was co-founded by doctoral advisor Peter Burke, to commercialize her Ph.D. thesis work, this thesis formed the core basis of the company technology. She

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2019 ASEE PNW Section Conference

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Rachael E Cate, Oregon State University; Donald Heer, Oregon State University

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Embedded Systems & Cybersecurity for ECE

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aaron Carpenter, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Raymond A. Hansen, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

Carpenter and Raymond Hansen* {carpentera1, hansenr2}@wit.edu Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering *Dept. of Computer Science and Networking Wentworth Institute of TechnologyAs cybersecurity grows as a specialty within electrical and computer engineering and computerscience, students increasingly choose to pursue projects in the area. These projects come in theform of class projects, senior design/capstone projects, and extracurricular research of varyingdegrees of difficulty and sub-genres of cybersecurity. However, it is easy for these cybersecurityprojects to put students in danger of violating laws or compromising equipment; thus, it is

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ConstDiv Technical Session 1 - Capstone & Case Study

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William P. Manion, University of Maine; Philip A. Dunn Jr. P.E., University of Maine

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Construction Engineering

-ended qualitative questions. The survey results are presented, with some examples,qualitative responses, and discussion from the authors. By presenting and publishing this paper,the authors hope to learn from similar programs in practice, share our experiences, and perhapsinspire others to try such ventures.Literature reviewMany construction educators understand that learning through service can be very effective,providing students with opportunities to practice professional and independent learning skills inthe context of “real world” problems which they all seem to enjoy. According to Scott Stanfordet al. [1], service learning is one of the four emerging trends in engineering capstone courses,along with technology, multidisciplinary projects

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PSW Section Meeting Papers - Disregard start and end time - for online paper access only

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2019 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Matthew J Haslam, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott; Mary Angela Beck, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Pacific Southwest Section Meeting Paper Submissions

to a panelof industry experts. At these briefings, the team members and DTL publicly defend both theirtechnical work and their collaborative work as a team.The primary objective of this paper is to report the preliminary results of a study conducted inFall 2018 to determine whether senior students were prepared to work collaboratively in largeteams over extended periods of time, to identify any gaps in preparation, and to pinpoint thesources of such gaps. To this end, the study’s methodology included capstone team membersand collecting follow-up written surveys; team composition and team projects in all requiredAE and ME courses were also documented and patterns identified.The research revealed a clear gap between what was required from