Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank Liou, University of Missouri-Rolla

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

: Capstone Courses:In order to take advantage of the interdisciplinary program structure, an interdisciplinarycapstone design project course was created with the support of distributed and integratedmanufacturing processes. Funded by SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers), thisproject course provides students with the experience of integrating the technicalknowledge they have learned from other courses. The project highlights include 1)Integration of business and engineering skills through a two-semester, team-basedcapstone manufacturing project course; 2) Development of a distributed product designand manufacturing environment including a realistic supply-chain network; 3)Development of modular courseware to support the capstone design project; 4

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Northrup, Western New England College

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

developed to obtain longitudinal data on the effects of theimprovements.IntroductionWestern New England College has a long history of incorporating engineering design into itslaboratories and courses. 2006 marks the college’s 44th annual capstone design effort. Inaddition, interdisciplinary team efforts are initiated in the freshman year and continue for all fouryears1. This paper describes improvements to one such interdisciplinary lab exercise, performed Page 11.766.2in the fall of the student’s senior year. The design project brings together students fromMechanical (ME), Electrical (EE) and Computer Engineering (CPE). In the past two years