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Michael A. Rother

Industrially Supplied Design Projects at the University of Minnesota-Duluth Michael A. Rother Department of Chemical Engineering University of Minnesota-Duluth For the past three years, the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University ofMinnesota-Duluth has used industrially supplied projects in its senior capstone design sequence.The change was implemented from academic to industrial projects as a result of an ABETrecommendation to increase the multidisciplinary experiences of the students. By ABETdefinition, an industrially supplied project is considered

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Michele H. Miller; Kari L. Jordan

programinitiated community based senior design projects [57]. The primary benefit was that studentsrecognized they could positively impact the lives of others. In addition, the projects engaged at-risk students.Because design is process oriented, it is a natural place to include ethics education [58]. McLeannotes that two aspects of the design process invite ethical considerations: identification of criteriaand constraints and questioning related to the product life-cycle. Ethics goes beyond concernsfor public safety to include consideration of environmental impacts and sustainability.AssessmentBecause senior capstone design classes synthesize knowledge from the entire curriculum, theypresent an ideal opportunity for program assessment. These assessments

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Qingli (Barbara) Dai

their capstone senior design project sequence,and can also practice NX by taking technical electives in CAD and Finite ElementAnalysis.Elective course MEEM 4403 - Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Method [2] is to helpstudents practice the computer – aided design of mechanical system though theoreticallectures and laboratory assignments. NX integrated with this CAD method courseallowed students to learn the modern industrial design skills. PACE competition based onthe course final design projects judged the students’ teamwork from professional aspects.Objective of the Course and ActivitiesThe objectives of this elective course are to instruct students in both practical andtheoretical aspects of using computers to aid in the design of mechanical

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Abulkhair Masoom; Fahmida Masoom

different engineering disciplines to helpstudents decide on an engineering major. A one credit course is offered to students in theirsecond semester that requires students to work on at least four interdisciplinary projects puttogether by faculty from the degree granting departments. But until they reach their senior yearand work on their senior design capstone projects, there is little scope of ‘innovation’ and broadexposure to open-ended design problems.The GE Program is designed to prepare students for admission into one of seven professionalengineering programs available in the college. All new freshman engineering students andtransfer students who do not immediately qualify for a professional program must begin theirstudies in the GE

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2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

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Yue Li; Qiong Zhang

should be introduced in early stage of the curriculum. For instance, Introduction to Probability and Statistic is a required course in many university curriculums. The class is essential to understand performance-based design, which involves various sources of uncertainty. The class should also emphasize the probabilistic aspect of society and environmental impact. When construction material class is taught, material selection should be considered from both structural performance and sustainable built material perspectives. Second, design courses and capstone projects provide an opportunity for students to apply what they learn in classrooms about PBE and sustainability to “real world” examples. Working on

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Matthew Roberts; Philip Parker; Christina Curras; Michael Penn; Max Anderson

curricula. Students completebasic mathematics, science, and general engineering courses in the first two years followed bycivil and environmental engineering courses in the remainder of their studies. The CEE pro-gram includes a significant laboratory component and practical design projects in the upperlevel classes. The program culminates in a capstone design class that is taken in the last se-mester in school. Projects for this class are often solicited from communities and non-profitorganizations, and typically incorporate a service learning component.In reviewing the existing UWP CEE curriculum for this curriculum development project, itbecame clear that the curriculum had not changed significantly in over 20 years. To illustratethis, the

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Valerie J. Fuchs; James R. Mihelcic

criterionand outcomes are defined in this balanced manner. These objectives define the scope ofeducation that would fit into the Sustainable Futures model. The objectives are used to assesstwo MTU programs, Peace Corps Master’s International and International Senior Design. In thePeace Corps program, Master’s students spend 1 year taking credits at Michigan Tech, and 27months abroad in the Peace Corps, where they integrate with a community, implement projects,and research a sustainable development topic. International Senior Design is a senior designprogram where senior engineering students spend 2 weeks abroad in Bolivia or the DominicanRepublic, doing service-learning work and investigating a design project, then spend part of asemester back at

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Richard Smith

in which over 50% of the grade is based on written works. Theelementary computer security course may become one of these courses since much of thework involves assessment and argument.The point of this course is to provide students with a broad and useful understanding ofinformation security. It is not intended to be comprehensive, and it will not by itselffulfill Instruction 4011 curriculum requirements. This course will provide a structure forlearning about information security and a series of exercises in which the students willpractice what they learn.The Analysis CourseThis course has two goals: 1) give students more in-depth experience with informationsecurity concepts through more sophisticated labs and projects, and 2) cover