Reflections on 10 years of sponsored senior design projects: Students win–clients win!

Fornaro, Robert J.; Heil, M.R.; Tharp, Alan L.

doi:10.1016/j.jss.2006.09.052

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“…The design and structure of capstone project course has been considered from two aspects: (1) how the course could help the academic program in fulfilling the ABET requirements [22,26,30] and 2what are the components necessary to fulfill the learning outcomes [4][5][6][7][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]. The capstone project implementation could significantly vary based on the course objectives.…”

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“…(i) The best source for an open-ended design problem suitable for the capstone project is collaboration with local industry, local community organization, and research facilities [12][13][14][15][23][24][25][26][27]. University sponsored projects could be used in developing needed lab equipment or sponsoring national and international design competition teams.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Schmidt et al [6] discussed the implementation of an open source course management system to provide a centralized virtual community for students, faculty and external participants. The implementation and necessary innovations and lessons learned were discussed and presented as a framework that could be replicated [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]. The above mentioned proposed frameworks were designed to train the students on solving specific industrial problems without any replication of the industrial process or procedures.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Design and Implementation of a Capstone Course to Satisfy the Industry Needs of Virtual Product Development and ABET Engineering Criteria

Omar

2014

Education Research International

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Over the past two decades, computer aided engineering (CAE) processes and procedures became an integral part of the product development cycle. Virtual product development (VPD) refers to procedures that integrate the CAE tools in a unified approach that spans all the product development phases. Current industrial trends utilize VPD tools and procedures to reduce the product development time without jeopardizing the product quality. These trends led to an increasing demand for engineers with computer skills, multidisciplinary engineering knowledge, and acquaintance with VPD tools. ABET program outcomes emphasize providing courses with an accumulated background of curricular components to solve realistic open-ended engineering problems. Capstone design project (CDP) course has been regarded as important learning activity that could be designed to provide senior engineering student an opportunity to solve such problems. A major objective of the CDP course is to simulate industrial setting and allow students to experience real-life engineering practice. This paper presents an implementation of the VPD procedures in a mechanical engineering CDP course. This integration simulates the industrial environment through multidisciplinary teams working together in subsystems to produce one product using standard commercial VPD tools. This course implementation is demonstrated using a case study of teams working to design and build a solar car.

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Design and Implementation of a Capstone Course to Satisfy the Industry Needs of Virtual Product Development and ABET Engineering Criteria

Omar

2014

Education Research International

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“…Senior design projects are essential to demonstrate engineering graduates' industry-readiness [5]. The Engineering Technology program at UTRGV offers a wide range of options from which the students will develop engineering skills to address engineering and technological challenges.…”

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Development of a Senior Design and Internship Integrated University-Industry Collaborative Program to Address the Skills Gap in Advanced Manufacturing

Edinbarough

Rios-Santiago

Gonzalez-Rodriguez

2019 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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, where he served as the director of the Computer Vision Laboratory and National Cadet Corps-Engineering Division Director. With over 29 years of teaching and research experience in manufacturing/mechanical engineering and engineering technology, he currently teaches in the areas of CAD/CAM/CIM, robotics and automation, product and process design, materials and manufacturing processes, machine design, renewable energy and micro-manufacturing. His current research interests include robotics, CIM, sustainable manufacturing, micro machining and engineering and technology education. He has published several papers in these areas in various national and international conferences and journals. He has worked in heavy and light manufacturing industries, manufacturing pumps, motors, and CNC machine tools in the areas of system design, production planning, and control and manufacturing. Edinbarough also served in paramilitary forces and in the Air Force. He is a Life Member of the ISTE, a senior life member of the IE (India), a member of ASEE and SME, and a licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.

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“…Perhaps the most popular model for student projects is having students collaborate with an outside industry partner who proposes a project and acts as the customer for that project [11][12][13][14] . Many of these projects involve making an enhancement or modification to an existing project of size and are very successful at teaching students software engineering skills.…”

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Student Software Engineering Learning via Participation in Humanitarian FOSS Projects

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Hislop

Rodriguez

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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is Chair and Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Information Technology Department at Western New England College. She has a long-time interest in software engineering education and most recently has received NSF funding to investigate the use of humanitarian free and open source software to educate computing students. She is also currently participating in an NIH grant for developing database-driven software for biological NMR analysis.

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Reflections on 10 years of sponsored senior design projects: Students win–clients win!

Cited by 11 publications

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Design and Implementation of a Capstone Course to Satisfy the Industry Needs of Virtual Product Development and ABET Engineering Criteria

Design and Implementation of a Capstone Course to Satisfy the Industry Needs of Virtual Product Development and ABET Engineering Criteria

Development of a Senior Design and Internship Integrated University-Industry Collaborative Program to Address the Skills Gap in Advanced Manufacturing

Student Software Engineering Learning via Participation in Humanitarian FOSS Projects

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