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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Capstone Design"”.
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Investigating Shared Leadership in Undergraduate Capstone Design Teams
… of how engineering students lead in team-based design project environments, an example of the collaborative environment that is commonplace in engineering practice. This quantitative study used a combination of round-robin (360-degree) survey data and course grades to examine the Full Range of …
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Mentoring in Engineering Capstone Design Courses: Beliefs and Practices across Disciplines
Capstone courses provide senior students in engineering with a culminating experiential learning environment, allowing them to apply the knowledge they have developed throughout their undergraduate education. Through anecdotal descriptions of the course, faculty roles have been classified as …
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An analysis of early stage prototypes using implementation, look and feel, and role
… prototypes according to their purpose and the design questions they answer. Since this model was created for user interaction design, it has never been applied to physical prototypes on a large scale or to a progression of prototypes through the product development cycle. Ten physical …
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Handling hovercrafts : designing a project curriculum to introduce girls to mechanical engineering
… The objective of this research was to create a capstone design project for the WTP-ME curriculum that sparks high school girls' interest in design and manufacturing. A hovercraft design contest was chosen as the basis for the project because of the range of concepts it encompasses and because …
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The association between tolerance for ambiguity and fear of negative evaluation: A study of engineering technology capstone courses
… technology programs in the US, senior capstone design courses require students to form a team, define a problem, and find a feasible technical solution to address this problem. Students must integrate the knowledge and skills acquired during their studies at the college or university …
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Sierra Nevada Brewery Design Project
The Sierra Nevada Brewery senior design group, throughout this semester, completed a capstone design project for ChE 482. The project encompassed design of two chemical processes, one to produce beer and another to process brewery waste. To fulfill this assignment, research and calculations were …
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Commercialization of a masonry tool designed in a senior-capstone class through a licensing agreement
Many seemingly viable products are designed and built in MIT Mechanical Engineering's senior capstone design class, 2.009, but a small fraction make it to real markets. The 2017 2.009 Orange Team is commercializing their product through the company Rhino Tools and Equipment (RTE). The product, a …
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Development of an in-line putter for handicap friendly tabletop golf games
… course 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes, a capstone design project course in the Mechanical Engineering Department) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology attempted to produce a tabletop golf game that would even the playing field between handicapped and able-bodied individuals. This …
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The Impact of Simulation-Based Learning in Aircraft Design on Aerospace Student Preparedness for Engineering Practice: A Mixed Methods Approach
… for student preparation centering on engineering design called the Live Simulation Based Learning (LSBL) approach is proposed based upon the theories of situated learning, game-based learning, epistemic frames, and accidental competencies. This dissertation discusses the results of a study of the …
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Architectural framework to support integrated concurrent engineering in an academic institution
… architecture for the next generation of design centers for integrated concurrent engineering in an academic environment and identifying and implementing an enabling sub-system for the architecture. During the development of this architecture a systems engineering process was used to …
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From classroom to showroom : developing a classroom alpha prototype into a marketable product by Ming Leong [and] Geoffrey T. Tsai.
… of senior mechanical engineers enrolled in MIT's capstone design course, 2.009 The Product Engineering Process, designed and prototyped a high-end, spiral-folding coffee table named Elika, a product borne out of months of idea generation, brainstorming, market research, machining, testing, …
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Design and Construction of a 1/3-Scale, 1986 Cessna 172P Flight-Test Aircraft
… very limiting factor in the optimization of new designs as they proceed from the drawing board to the flight line. The use of low-cost scaled models to predict full-scale prototype performance is the focus of this project. It will be shown that by strictly following geometric and dynamic scaling …
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Investigation of International Service Learning in Engineering Education
… he responses by type of ISL experience: capstone, work, or co-curricular. The survey instruments were used to measure the individual learning outcomes: engineering ethics contained 5 items, engineering identity contained 14 items, and engineering agency contained 12 original items. Each …