Experiences Of Using Formula Sae As A Capstone Design Project

Dawson, Jennifer; Kuchnicki, S. N.

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“…At the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), in the past, the Baja SAE program has been conducted solely as a senior design program. The use of SAE competition teams as senior design projects is common, however there are concerns regarding the necessary timelines to meet and the technical rigor of the project [7]. In some instances, the technical rigor of the project can be reduced by having multiple classes of students working on the team.…”

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The Benefits of a Course for 2nd and 3rd Year Students in Design Competition Teams

Altmann,

Hardin

2022 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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During the 2021-2022 academic year, the Mechanical Engineering department at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) is offering a half credit hour course for second and third year mechanical engineering students participating on the Baja Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) team. The purpose of the course is to: 1) provide students with access to a faculty mentor that can provide automotive engineering expertise, 2) compensate students participating on the team with GPA hours, and 3) motivate students to participate on a competition team early in their academic career. Throughout the semester, students are educated on common design, analysis, and testing procedures used to build the Baja SAE car. In addition, connections between the theory and homework assignments students are currently completing in their courses (e.g., Statics, Solid Mechanics, Instrumentation, Dynamics, and Machine Design) and the physical application of the material in a hands-on project are made. Presently, the integration of this course into the curriculum is a work in progress and this paper will detail the implementation of this course and the immediate benefits of the course to the students. The paper will detail the course structure, mini-projects and tasks the students completed along with a discussion of lessons learned and recommended improvements for future years. Finally, the results of a formal end of semester evaluations are discussed to expression how students perceive their knowledge of course material and their ability to apply it in a hands-on project.

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The Benefits of a Course for 2nd and 3rd Year Students in Design Competition Teams

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Integrating Engineering and Arts through Capstone Design: Creative Campus Meets the Learning Factory

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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As the Director of the Learning Factory, he coordinated 150 industry-sponsored senior design projects each year for over 700 students in the College of Engineering. He also serves as the Director of the Product Realization Minor. His research interests include product family and product platform design, trade space exploration and multi-dimensional data visualization, and multidisciplinary design optimization, and he has co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers to date. He is the recipient of the 2011 ASEE Fred Merryfield Design Award and has received numerous awards for outstanding teaching and research, including the 2007 Penn State University President's Award for Excellence in Academic Integration. He is a Fellow in ASME and an Associate Fellow in AIAA. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech, and his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University. Mr. Marcus Shaffer, Penn State Architecture Marcus Shaffer's research focuses on works, theories, and practices that engage the Machine as an architectural extension of our impulse to examine and re-make the natural world. This work includes building machines, automatons, and spiritual mechanisms that represent our earliest technological expression; the mechano-pagan influence of the Machine on modern/visionary architecture; and attempts to embody architectural knolwedge and craft in construction/fabrication technologies. As a designer and studio critic experienced with industrial and handcrafted means of making, he addresses architecture not only as the manifestation of our physical needs and cultural desires, but also as constructed form directly resultant from the combination of mind, machinery, materials, and process/labor. While Marcus studies and contributes to a critical discourse probing and defining the Machine in an architectural context, his historical/theoretical search is informed by, and applied to the design and fabrication of various Tectonic Machines. The agenda for these machines is a synthesis of our powerfully rationalized technologies with the potency of meaning found in our ritual practices-which includes building. Prof. Shaffer has a BFA in Industrial Design from the

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Experiences Of Using Formula Sae As A Capstone Design Project

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The Benefits of a Course for 2nd and 3rd Year Students in Design Competition Teams

The Benefits of a Course for 2nd and 3rd Year Students in Design Competition Teams

Integrating Engineering and Arts through Capstone Design: Creative Campus Meets the Learning Factory

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