An Application Driven Framework for Delivering System and Product Life-Cycle Management Concepts in Engineering Education

Vacharaporn Paradorn; Sunita Rajni Virk Singh Poma; Nathan Agyeman; Kavitha Chandra; Susan Thomson Tripathy; Tiana Robinson

Download Paper | Permalink

Conference: ASEE-NE 2022
Location: Wentworth Institute of Technology, Massachusetts
Publication Date: April 22, 2022
Start Date: April 22, 2022
End Date: April 23, 2022
Page Count: 13
DOI: 10.18260/1-2--42155
Permanent URL: https://peer.asee.org/42155
Download Count: 400

Request a correction

Paper Authors

biography

Vacharaporn Paradorn

visit author page

An Electrical Engineering graduate student at University of Massachusetts Lowell

visit author page

author page

Sunita Rajni Virk Singh Poma

biography

Nathan Agyeman

visit author page

Nathan is a fourth-year student at the University of Massachusetts Lowell's Francis College of Engineering, where he is pursuing a degree in Computer Engineering (BS). He's highly involved with various organizations on campus. He's currently working in two research groups where he's a lead facilitator in the Exclusive Teamwork project where he collects analyzes information, while being a lead contributor in the Product Life-Cycle Management group where he participates in making connections between computer security and Product Life-Cycle Management. The past summer, Nathan had an opportunity to intern within cybersecurity involving penetration testing and hopes to pursue a career in cyber security consulting.

visit author page

biography

Kavitha Chandra University of Massachusetts Lowell

visit author page

Kavitha Chandra is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Francis College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She directs the Research, Academics and Mentoring Pathways (RAMP) to Success program that aims to establish successful pathways to graduate school and interdisciplinary careers for new undergraduate students. Dr. Chandra’s research interests include design of data-driven stochastic models for applications in acoustics, communication networks and predictive analytics in education.

visit author page

biography

Susan Thomson Tripathy University of Massachusetts Lowell orcid.org/0000-0001-5359-6045

visit author page

Dr. Susan Thomson Tripathy received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University in 1989. Her doctoral research was funded by a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation grant, and utilized ethnographic fieldwork in rural Bihar, India, to analyze the politics and artistic development of a local dance form. From 1995-2007, Tripathy taught behavioral sciences at Middlesex Community College (MCC), where she was an active participant and researcher in MCC’s extensive community service-learning program. In 2007, she became the Director of Research at Germaine Lawrence, a residential treatment center for adolescent girls in Arlington MA, focusing on program evaluation and outcomes after discharge. Since 2011, Dr. Tripathy has been teaching in the Sociology department at University of Massachusetts Lowell. She received teaching awards for applied and experiential learning in 2013 and 2014, was promoted to Associate Teaching Professor in 2018, and received the UMass Lowell Teaching Excellence Award in Sociology in 2018. From 2016-2019, Dr. Tripathy was the Director of the Bachelor of Liberal Arts program, an interdisciplinary major with an enrollment of 250 undergraduate students. During 2018-2020, she collaborated with Dr. Kavitha Chandra to utilize participatory action research (PAR) as an evaluation approach for the Research, Academics, and Mentoring Pathways (RAMP) summer program for first-year female engineering students.

visit author page

author page

Tiana Robinson University of Massachusetts Lowell

Download Paper | Permalink

Abstract

Physical systems and products are being designed with information sensing capability and network connectivity to exchange data and decisions in real-time and across the life-time of the system or product (SoP). This architecture and capability provides engineers opportunity to integrate early in the design and development phase of the SoP, robust mechanisms to monitor and ensure that the SoP operates in expected ways and also be resilient to cyber-threats. The scale of the SoP is large ranging from electrical grid systems to a smart thermostat as an example. The field of product life-cycle management has a long history that has been developed for business management practices. The adaptation of these principles in the context of the emerging aforementioned cyber-physical systems (CPS) is presently being studied with particular focus on addressing the impact of SoPs on the environment and on ethical issues related to data collection and use. Two applications are considered in this work to highlight the relationship between CPS and Life-cycle Management (LCM). One relates to the design of a sensor network for monitoring air-pollution in various communities and the second addresses the LCM of a complex system, the aircraft engine. Graduate students are charged to co-create an educational module on how LCM concepts are being considered in these applications by interviewing experts in these two fields. To accomplish this, students are provided direction on posing questions and strategies for communicating in interdisciplinary groups with the goal of providing an engineering student audience an insightful introduction to life-cycle management and the need for careful consideration of this process in their future research, design and development roles. A particular focus is on designing the module such that it can be integrated in a subset of existing courses in the undergraduate engineering curriculum and techniques for LCM identified in the context of the course topic. This work investigates a novel model for curriculum enhancement that is student-centered and student-driven building on the techniques of project-based learning, co-creation and participatory action research in collecting and integrating information from experts implementing LCM of new and legacy technologies.

Citation
Format

Paradorn, V., & Singh Poma, S. R. V., & Agyeman, N., & Chandra, K., & Tripathy, S. T., & Robinson, T. (2022, April), An Application Driven Framework for Delivering System and Product Life-Cycle Management Concepts in Engineering Education Paper presented at ASEE-NE 2022, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Massachusetts. 10.18260/1-2--42155

TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Physical systems and products are being designed with information sensing capability and network connectivity to exchange data and decisions in real-time and across the life-time of the system or product (SoP).  This architecture and capability provides engineers opportunity to integrate early in the design and development phase of the SoP, robust mechanisms to monitor and ensure that the SoP operates in expected ways and also be resilient to cyber-threats.  The scale of the SoP is large ranging from electrical grid systems to a smart thermostat as an example. The field of product life-cycle management has a long history that has been developed for business management practices. The adaptation of these principles in the context of the emerging aforementioned cyber-physical systems (CPS) is presently being studied with particular focus on addressing the impact of SoPs on the environment and on ethical issues related to data collection and use.  Two applications are considered in this work to highlight the relationship between CPS and Life-cycle Management (LCM). One relates to the design of a sensor network for monitoring air-pollution in various communities and the second addresses the LCM of a complex system, the aircraft engine. Graduate students are charged to co-create an educational module on how LCM concepts are being considered in these applications by interviewing experts in these two fields.  To accomplish this, students are provided direction on posing questions and strategies for communicating in interdisciplinary groups with the goal of providing an engineering student audience an insightful introduction to life-cycle management and the need for careful consideration of this process in their future research, design and development roles. A particular focus is on designing the module such that it can be integrated in a subset of existing courses in the undergraduate engineering curriculum and techniques for LCM identified in the context of the course topic. This work investigates a novel model for curriculum enhancement that is student-centered and student-driven building on the techniques of project-based learning, co-creation and participatory action research in collecting and integrating information from experts implementing LCM of new and legacy technologies.
AU  - Vacharaporn Paradorn
AU  - Sunita Rajni Virk Singh Poma
AU  - Nathan Agyeman
AU  - Kavitha Chandra
AU  - Susan Thomson Tripathy
AU  - Tiana Robinson
CY  - Wentworth Institute of Technology, Massachusetts
DA  - 2022/04/22
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - An Application Driven Framework for Delivering System and Product Life-Cycle Management Concepts in Engineering Education
UR  - https://peer.asee.org/42155
DO  - 10.18260/1-2--42155
ER  -