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Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven Shooter, Bucknell University

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of a company’snew product is a competitor who will completely tear apart, scrutinize, analyze and test in orderto benchmark against their own offering. A Bucknell University Alumnus (class of 98) has donejust that for his company that has catapulted their product to $40 million in annual sales in justtwo years. This paper will describe a three week module that is incorporated into aninterdisciplinary Introduction to Engineering course. The module uses product dissection andreverse engineering as the guiding principle to establish improved design requirements and makesuggestions for better designs. Nine fifty-minute lectures and three two-hour laboratories areused to show how a simple, every-day product like a stapler has many opportunities

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Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Shaw, Geneva College; Murat Tanyel, Geneva College

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AC 2008-2386: LESSONS LEARNED FROM A MULTI-FACETED FRESHMANDESIGN PROJECT: SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT, ELECTRONICS,MECHANICAL CONSTRUCTION, SOFTWARE-HARDWARE INTERFACE ANDECONOMICSDavid Shaw, Geneva College David W. Shaw is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Geneva College. He received his B.S.M.E. in 1983 from Geneva College and his M.S. (1986) and Ph.D. (1988) from the Ohio State University. His research interests include measurement and modeling of thermal properties of materials and teaching the design process in undergraduate engineering classes. He has developed courses and laboratories in heat transfer, fluid mechanics, instrumentation, and freshman design. He has been active in sponsoring

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DEED Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Don Dekker, University of South Florida; Stephen Sundarrao, University of South Florida; Rajiv Dubey, University of South Florida

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AC 2008-426: IT TAKES TWO TO TEACH CAPSTONE DESIGNDon Dekker, University of South Florida Don Dekker is currently an Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Florida. He is currently teaching three of his favorite courses Mechanical Engineering Laboratory I, Internal Combustion Engines, and Capstone Design. Before his retirement in 2001, Don taught at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He first joined ASEE in 1974 and some of his ASEE activities include Zone II Chairman (86-88), Chairman of DEED (89-90), and General Chair of FIE ‘87. His degrees are: PhD, Stanford University, 1973; MSME, University of New Mexico, 1963; and BSME, Rose Polytechnic Institute

Conference Session

Design Communications

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Riddell, Rowan University; Maria Simone, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Peter Mark Jansson, Rowan University

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an Assistant Professor in the Communication Studies Department at Rowan University. Her research and teaching interests focus on deliberative democracy and a participatory civic culture. In her capacity as Director of the Public Speaking course, Simone has become increasingly involved in the scholarship of teaching and learning, with a focus on learning outcomes assessment.Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University Stephanie Farrell is Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. She received her Ph.D. from NJIT, M.S. from Stevens Institute of Technology, and B.S.E. from the University of Pennsylvania. Stephanie has developed innovative classroom and laboratory

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Teams and Teamwork in Design I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Schrage, Georgia Institute of Technology; Michael Richey, The Boeing Company; Kenneth McPherson, The Boeing Company; Xavier Fouger, Dassault Systemes; Cedric Simard, Dassault Systemes

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program in Aerospace Systems Design based on the generic IPPD methodology he defined. This graduate program is supported by the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL), which Dr. Schrage helped to initiate in 1992. In 1995, the Space Systems Design Laboratory (SSDL) was formed and now both ASDL and SSDL are overseen by the Center for Aerospace Systems Analysis (CASA), which Dr. Schrage co-directs. This unique graduate program consists of five required graduate courses for a master’s degree and has attracted over 200 graduate students into the program. Most of these students were outstanding undergraduate students either at Georgia Tech or other leading engineering schools around the

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Capstone Design II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Widmann, California Polytechnic State University

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work on their project and meet with their advisor weekly.The first quarter of Senior Design project is dedicated to design activities, including problemdefinition, conceptualization, decision making, detail design and analysis. The second quarterfocuses on construction and testing of the design. Topics covered in lecture or labs are listed inTable 1. For a survey of typical capstone content see Eggert.2 More detailed information on thiscourse structure and organization is provided by Widmann and Mello3.Table 1. Lecture and Laboratory ContentLecture Laboratory DeliverablesDesign Process and Methodology Requirements/Specifications Design LogbooksProject Management

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Multinational and International Design

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Mehalik, University of Pittsburgh

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Design in Engineering Education

videoconferencing and online forums when the UNICAMP term began in lateFebruary. Each of the five teams created a preliminary design concept from these activities.Students kept design logs for all of their design activities. They also maintained electronicdesign logs of their electronic communications, drawings, and design ideas. These electronicartifacts were the main avenues of communication between UNICAMP and Pitt students. Inaddition, students conducted their design activities in a special design laboratory, which recordedthe design processes in video and audio format (with the students’ consent and according to IRBguidelines).The teams then refined their designs during a weeklong visit to Brazil in early March. Studentsshared detailed design plans

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Design for Society and the Environment

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Pappas; Ronald Kander, James Madison University

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Design in Engineering Education

economic development, but alsowith respect to quality of life as it pertains to conditions that promote sustainable humanprosperity and growth (e.g. opportunity, economy, privacy, community, education, andhealth). In August 2008, James Madison University (JMU) will enroll its first engineeringstudents into a unique engineering product and process design program focused onsustainable societies. A significant component of this integrated program is the sixsemester 10-credit design laboratory sequence that stretches from the sophomore year tograduation. We present a divergence from the generally accepted approach tosustainability (normally referred to as “sustainable engineering” or “environmentalsustainability”) and include instruction in

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robb Larson, Montana State University

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Design in Engineering Education

of hand tools, manually-operated machine tools,and CNC machines. An adjacent instructional welding laboratory provides metal joiningcapability. Access to these facilities was granted to the student SAE groups forfabrication, but finding a suitable location for the large frame jig and the long-termassembly process was not an easy matter. After several false starts in various locationsthroughout the engineering complex at MSU, it came down to intervention by the facultyadvisor and ‘squatter’s rights’ to claim and maintain sufficient floor space in the weldinglab. The facilities and space concerns added even more realism to the project as studentsrealized that they were not the only game in town.Educational Component and OutcomesFrom the

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Willis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; James Conrad, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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, explicitly mentioned as part of strategic goal3 of NASA’s overall strategic goals10,p.8. For Mars exploration alone, the Phoenix Mars landerwill be launched in August of this year and includes the Surface Stereo Imager (SSI) built by theUniversity of Arizona and the approved Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission is to includeanother stereoscopic imaging system, MastCam, which is in the design phase at Malin SpaceScience Systems11. Design specifications for the MSL Mastcam include stereoscopic 3Dreconstruction of 1200x1200 images at 10 frames per second (fps) with zoom cameras capable ofup to 10x magnification11.In addition to the lander and rover missions, the computer vision instrumentation proposed is alsoappropriate for any short-range

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Capstone Design III

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Don Dekker, University of South Florida; Stephen Sundarrao, University of South Florida; Rajiv Dubey, University of South Florida

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AC 2008-2013: CAPSTONE DESIGN COURSES: CONTENT RECOGNITIONDon Dekker, University of South Florida Don Dekker is currently an Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Florida. He is currently teaching three of his favorite courses Mechanical Engineering Laboratory I, Internal Combustion Engines, and Capstone Design. Before his retirement in 2001, Don taught at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He first joined ASEE in 1974 and some of his ASEE activities include Zone II Chairman (86-88), Chairman of DEED (89-90), and General Chair of FIE ‘87. His degrees are: PhD, Stanford University, 1973; MSME, University of New Mexico, 1963; and BSME, Rose Polytechnic

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Plumley, US Coast Guard Academy; Vincent Wilczynski, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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previously served as a national officer of the American Society for Engineering Education, as an evaluator for the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, and as a member of the State of Connecticut Department of Higher Education Board of Governor’s Advisory Committee on Accreditation. CAPT Wilczynski has had fellowships at MIT’s Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and the Harvard School of Public Health, and served as the National Director of the FIRST Robotics Competition. Before beginning his teaching career, he served as a shipboard engineer, and as a Staff Engineer and Staff Naval Architect at the U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety Center. CAPT Wilczynski was named the 2001 Baccalaureate

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Potpourri

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vukica Jovanovic, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mileta Tomovic, Purdue University

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. In the summer of 2002, she had an internship in the company Gamesa Aeronautica, section Moasa Montajes, Spain where she worked in product distributed environment at manufacturing of aircraft wings and nacelles. After graduating with a Master of Science (M. S.) degree, in area of Industrial Engineering, specialization in Production Systems in 2006, M.S. Jovanovic subsequently continued to work towards her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at Purdue University, department of Mechanical Engineering Technology. She is currently working as a Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant in Product Lifecycle Management Center of Excellence Laboratory at Purdue University. As a graduate student

Conference Session

Design Communications

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Jonassen, University of Missouri; Tamara Knott, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Richard Goff, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Page 13.1062.2text [4]. In that model, the design process includes problem definition based on clientstatement, conceptual design, preliminary design, detailed design, and designcommunication.In our research, we are attempting to scaffold meaningful conversations among designteams in order to improve the quality of their designs. While the construction of sharedknowledge occurs naturally in authentic work groups (project teams, scientificcommunities, etc.), the structure and methods employed in most university courses do notsupport these processes. Most instructional activities, such as laboratories and writingassignments, are individualistic. However, trends toward the integration of active andcollaborative learning methods in large

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Conrad, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; William Heybruck, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Daniel Hoch, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Martin Kane, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Peter Schmidt, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Frank Skinner, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Linda Thurman, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Charlotte College of Engineering Industrial Solutions Laboratory he was a Senior Engineer for Hitachi Global Storage Technologies specializing in the Microdrive and automotive hard disk drives. Prior to Hitachi, he was Product Development Manager for the Wireless products at IBM. He has three patents in the field of test technology.Daniel Hoch, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Dan Hoch is a faculty associate in the Engineering Technology Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He teaches courses in the Mechanical Engineering Technology department such as machining practices, senior design, and thermodynamics. Dan’s areas of interest are related to thermal

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Capstone Design III

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Greg Kremer, Ohio University-Athens; David Burnette, Ohio University

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Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1998, and has five years of experience as a Mechanical Design Engineer at General Electric Aircraft Engines.David Burnette, Ohio University David Burnette was both an undergraduate student who participated in the OU ME Sr. capstone design project, and an OU ME graduate student who helped compile the student comments and complete the literature search for this study. He is currently an employee of the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory. Page 13.1349.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 USING PERFORMANCE REVIEWS IN CAPSTONE

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Teams and Teamwork in Design II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vukica Jovanovic, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mileta Tomovic, Purdue University; Richard Mark French, Purdue University

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national competition in robotics. In the summer of 2002, she had an internship in an aircraft manufacturing company Embraer, in the part of the company Gamesa Aeronautica, section Moasa Montajes, Spain where she worked in product distributed environment. After graduating with a Master of Science (M. S.) degree, in area of Industrial Engineering, specialization in Production Systems in 2006, M.S. Jovanovic subsequently continued to work towards her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at Purdue University, department of Mechanical Engineering Technology. She is currently working as a Graduate Research Assistant in Product Lifecycle Management Centre of Excellence Laboratory at Purdue

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Capstone Design III

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohamed El-Sayed, Kettering University; Steven Beyerlein, University of Idaho

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2008-2629: DESIGN AND INTEGRATION OF A CAPSTONE COURSE TOACHIEVE PROGRAM OUTCOMESMohamed El-Sayed, Kettering University Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Hybrid Vehicles Integration Laboratory. He has been teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level for over 30 years. He teaches Machine Design, Automotive Design, Machine Design Capstone, Automotive Design Capstone, Design Optimization, Advanced Mechanics of Materials, linear and Nonlinear Finite Element analysis, and Design for manufacturability. He has been a PI and Co-PI on several research grants and a consultant to several engineering corporations. He has over seventy research papers in addition to several

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Laguette, University of California-Santa Barbara

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Design in Engineering Education

to interact with outside engineers. 2) Research Partner projects are supported by research or University funding to support current University research projects. Students have an opportunity to work with leading international researchers, graduate students, and research laboratories. 3) Student Organizations and Design Competitions include the SAMPE and SAE design competitions. Our student teams have successfully competed and have won several prestigious awards. 4) Student and Faculty Created Projects include creative and challenging projects with an entrepreneurial perspective.This paper is intended to address the development and integration of an Industry Partnerprogram into the Capstone Design

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Multinational and International Design

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ryan Norton, LeTourneau University; Matthew Green, LeTourneau University; Paul Leiffer

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thecontextual needs assessment method as published, followed by section 3.2 describing how theteam customized the method for the micro-hydro project. Section 3.3 provides results includingsamples of an interview transcript, customer needs, and specifications.3.1 The Contextual Needs Assessment Method (as Published)The Contextual Needs Assessment Method17,18 summarized in Figure 3 improves taskclarification through a new focus on context. The contextual focus is especially critical for needswhich are “frontier” or foreign to the designer. Testing under both laboratory and normalclassroom conditions shows the new method is extremely effective, easy to use, and wellreceived by students19.The contextual needs assessment method incorporates traditional

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Assessing Design Coursework

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Bannerot, University of Houston

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Design in Engineering Education

manufacture and contact information ‚ Place of manufacture ‚ Any patenting information, e.g., a patent number ‚ Any evidence of standards satisfied, e.g., UL (Underwriter’s Laboratory) plus the identification (number) of the standardAt least two appliances should have patent information and at least two should haveevidence of standards satisfied. For the two (or more) with patent information lookup the patent on the PTO website or on the Google Patent website. (If the claim is“patent pending” (pat. pend.) look up the final patent number (if it exists) usingGoogle Patent Search). Copy the first page of the patent for your report and thendescribe what part of the patent claim seems to apply to your particular appliance.For the ones

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Teams and Teamwork in Design I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rudolph Eggert, Boise State University

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Design in Engineering Education

performance verbally & graphically 3. Integrate prior coursework & university resources: 3.1. apply concepts, models, formulas and methods learned in prior courses, 3.2. develop and conduct physical and/or numerical experiments, tests or simulations, 3.3. implement available computer, laboratory and library resources, 3.4. develop expertise relationships with faculty mentors, and 3.5. communicate engineering information verbally & graphically. Page 13.141.8Teamwork Evaluation SystemA teamwork evaluation system, using an Excel spreadsheet, has been developed over the lastyear and a half in the Sr. Design sequence

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Capstone Design III

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Chang, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Jessica Townsend, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Design in Engineering Education

, fabricate, and test devices. Some needs were modest and could be accommodated in theteam rooms or existing laboratories. However, the handbook had no guidelines for requestingrooms or other types of spaces, nor did the program have any significant predefined spaceallocated in advance. As is with most other colleges, excess space is rarely available. The processwas therefore ad-hoc and required the involvement of many college administrators to help “find”space. This lack of immediate space influenced the student team’s ability to develop anappropriate statement of work in partnership with the sponsor liaison as they could not make anassumptions about having dedicated facilities.A lesson learned here is that if at all possible, the program and

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Multidisciplinary Design in the Classroom

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dominic Halsmer, Oral Roberts University; Nicholas Halsmer, Oral Roberts University; Robert Johnson, Oral Roberts University; James Wanjiku, Oral Roberts University

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subject from a uniquely pragmatic “top-down” engineering point of view as opposed to the laboratory “bottom-up” mentality of biochemists. Engineers, by nature, are pragmatic problem solvers. Engineering traditionally employs the fruits of scientific research to address and solve practical problems and create the technology that ultimately serves the needs of mankind… In the pursuit of these goals, engineers are often called upon to combine the findings of a number of diverse scientific disciplines in order to arrive at practical solutions and to achieve specific goals. This is the traditional application of engineering principles. But those same principles are eminently suitable for the study