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Dr. B. Hur received his B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from Yonsei University, in Seoul, Korea, in 2000, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA, in 2007 and 2011, respectively. In 2016, he joined the faculty of Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. USA, where he is currently an Assistant Professor. He worked as a postdoctoral associate from 2011 to 2016 at the University Florida previously. His research interests include Mixed-signal/RF circuit design and testing, measurement automation, environmental & biomedical data measurement, and educational robotics development.
Dr. Wei Zhan is a Professor of Electronic Systems Engineering Technology at Texas A&M University. Dr. Zhan earned his D.Sc. in Systems Science and Mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis in 1991. From 1991 to 1995, he worked at University of California, San Diego and Wayne State University as a postdoctoral researcher and visiting assistant professor, respectively. From 1995 to 2006, he worked in the automotive industry as a system engineer. In 2006 he joined the Electronic Systems Engineering Technology faculty at Texas A&M. He was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 2012 and full professor in 2020. Dr. Zhan holds a joint appointment position in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. He is an American Society for Quality certified Six Sigma Black Belt. His research activities include control system theory and applications to industry, fault prognosis, system engineering, robust design, modeling, simulation, quality control, and optimization.
Research and teaching are two crucial aspects of faculty responsibilities for some Engineering Technology and Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs. It would be worth discussing how faculty can manage a research project and engage with students through capstone projects. As a case study, a building structural analysis project is presented in this paper. This building structural analysis project can be broken down to several components. One of the sub-components is a quadcopter platform, and the other one is an underwater robot platform for a building analysis. These two components were managed as two capstone projects. Two capstone projects were carried out as a part of this building structural analysis research project at Texas A&M University. The first capstone team designed and built a custom quadcopter that could fly close to the building to find potential damage to the building. The second capstone team designed and built an underwater robot to inspect the portion of a building structures that are submerged such as bridges. For this multidisciplinary project, three faculty members from two departments of Engineering Technology and Construction Science formed a team and advised the students. The Engineering Technology department at Texas A&M University has an Electronics Systems Engineering Technology (ESET) program and Multidisciplinary Engineering Technology (MXET) program. For the second capstone project team, students have created an underwater robot for a building analysis. These four students are from the Multidisciplinary Engineering Technology (MXET) program. This capstone started in Fall 2020, and it was concluded in Spring 2021. In this paper, the details of the second capstone project will be provided. Moreover, the details of the integration of the two capstone projects will be introduced and discussed in this paper.
Hur, B., & Zhan, W., & Ryoo, B. Y., & Perea, A., & Davila, C., & Burciaga, C., & Domki, S., & Bustos, C., & Orozco, L., & Consuelo, G., & Vazquez, R. (2022, August), Integrated multidisciplinary capstone projects of an underwater robot and a quadcopter for building structural analysis Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41726
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