Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Palmer, Louisiana Tech University; Hisham Hegab, Louisiana Tech University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

in the capstone experience. However, there is little transition between the highlydefined problems provided in lecture and laboratory courses versus the open-ended projectstudents are asked to solve in their capstone design course. The capstone design projects for theNanosystems Engineering program is provided by faculty across a variety of disciplines.Therefore, it became evident that rather than expecting each faculty mentor to provide certainbasic skills, a more effective approach would be to have all Nanosystems Engineering students towork on a smaller open-ended project in the last quarter of the Junior year to teach all theelements that they would need to apply more deeply in their capstone project the following year.The educational

Conference Session

Project-based Learning and Other Pedagogical Innovations

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josef Rojter, Victoria University of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

processes.Students are asked questions concerning classical engineering failures, dangers of materialsubstitutions, environmental and social impact on product design and also on o materials usedin the school’s laboratories by research students and staff. Instructional knowledge forms aplatform for further inquiry.The teaching, in this subject, is presented in grand narrative form. Students are required toundertake further reading of recommended and referenced texts. The course material is alsosupported by the course material l written and compiled by this author.Experimentation and ObservationIn a traditional schema this is normally referred to as to laboratory practical session. However,as important as traditional laboratory sessions are in developing

Conference Session

Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rupa Iyer, University of Houston

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

researchuniversities, 1998. State University of New York-Stonybrook, Stonybrook, NY. [6] Wyckoff, S. Changing the culture of undergraduate science teaching. J. Coll.sci.Teach.29:409-414, 2008 [7]Roppel, T. A., Hung, J. Y., Wentworth, S. W., and Hodel, A. S. An interdisciplinarylaboratory sequence in electrical and computer engineering: curriculum design and assessment results.IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 43, issue 2, 2000. pp. 143-152 [8] Biernacki, Joseph J, and Wilson, Christopher D. Interdisciplinary laboratory in advancedmaterials: A team-oriented inquiry-based approach. Journal of Engineering Education, 2001 [9] Iyer, Rupa S. and Fitzgibbon, William. Building the future biotechnology workforce: AUniversity of Houston Model. Journal of

Conference Session

Robotics Curriculum

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Michalson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Fred Looft, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2010-646: DESIGNING ROBOTIC SYSTEMS: PREPARATION FOR ANINTERDISCIPLINARY CAPSTONE EXPERIENCEWilliam Michalson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Dr. William R. Michalson is a Professor in the ECE Department at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute where he performs research and teaches in the areas of navigation, communications and computer system design. He supervises the WPI Center for Advanced Integrated Radio Navigation (CAIRN) where he is developing a Public Safety Integration Center focused on the integration of communications, navigation and information technologies for public safety applications. His research focuses on the development, test, and evaluation of systems for both

Conference Session

Understanding and Measuring the Impact of Multidisciplinarity

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2010-2388: ASSESSMENT OF INSTRUCTIONAL SYSTEMS DESIGNMysore Narayanan, Miami University DR. MYSORE NARAYANAN obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool, England in the area of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He joined Miami University in 1980 and teaches a wide variety of electrical, electronic and mechanical engineering courses. He has been invited to contribute articles to several encyclopedias and has published and presented dozens of papers at local, regional, national and international conferences. He has also designed, developed, organized and chaired several conferences for Miami University and conference sessions for a variety of organizations. He is a senior

Conference Session

History, Program Design, and even a Journal Club

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Blanchard, Florida Gulf Coast University; Robert O'Neill, Florida Gulf Coast University; James Sweeney, Florida Gulf Coast University; Lisa Zidek, Florida Gulf Coast University; Simeon Komisar, Florida Gulf Coast University; Diana Stoppiello, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

1 Reception areas 4 N/A 1@2. Studio Classrooms and Teaching Laboratories Studio classrooms 4 2050, 2073, 2052, 2073 48 Teaching labs 3 1273, 1285, 1288 24 Computer classrooms 2 1191, 1203 46 Student computer labs 2 742, 744 32 Computer hardware classroom 1 630 16 Hole Montes Lecture Hall 1 1698 84 Classroom

Conference Session

Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Bellinger, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Clark Hochgraf, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

explores the multi-disciplinary aspects and benefits of extracurricular team events.The primary audience for this paper is engineering and engineering technology teachers, teachersupervisors, teaching assistants and administrators.An Electric Bicycle club was formed comprised of students from multiple academic disciplines.The group included both deaf and hard of hearing participants adding diversity to thecommunications requirements and richness to the results. Team collaboration across disciplinesand between differing communication cultures was accomplished by providing students coachingand mentoring in project management skills. They were assigned specific tasks such as CADdrawings, part procurement, motor testing, performance monitoring

Conference Session

Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lily Laiho, California Polytechnic State University; Richard Savage, California Polytechnic State University; James Widmann, California Polytechnic State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Manufacturing Engineering. This course series provided students with anopportunity to work on an open-ended design project that required skill sets spanning numerousdepartments rather than just a single department. The teaching staff consisted of three professorsfrom three separate engineering departments. For the 2008-2009 Academic year, the facultycame from the departments of Biomedical Engineering Materials Engineering, and MechanicalEngineering. The faculty considered the importance having an interdisciplinary set of instructorsas well as a team-teaching approach to best model to the students the strength inherent in theseapproaches. Page

Conference Session

History, Program Design, and even a Journal Club

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Cramer, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Wendy Crone, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Moira Lafayette, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Jeffrey Russell, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Paul Peercy, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Darryl G. Thelen, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Daniel Klingenberg, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Amy Wendt, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

were tied to introducing a freshman introduction-to-engineering course that at the timewas novel and building a teaching improvement program with a particular emphasis on assistingteaching assistants and new faculty. Our efforts have developed in parallel with and have beenbuilt upon the work of others. For example, Froyd, Penberthy and Watson have drawn thedistinction on the differences between academic change processes and good educationalexperiments5. Fornier-Bonilla et al. articulated the organizational impacts and resistances tochange in their on-going efforts in engineering at Texas A&M University6. The CCSSI Phase Ireport provides a comprehensive list of more recent relevant literature3.While our college has always been intent on

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Rabb, United States Military Academy; Joseph Hitt, USMA; Robert Floersheim, US Military Academy

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

academic institutions feel that it is important tointegrate engineering because many modern systems are developed with integrated engineeringteams. In 2005 the National Academy of Engineering in “Educating the Engineer of 2020,”stated many benefits and merits of co-teaching, just in time teaching, and multi-disciplinaryteaching.1 Recent program outcomes criteria published by ABET have included in its list of a-kcriteria, a requirement for engineering programs to demonstrate that students have “an ability tofunction on multidisciplinary teams.”2 Even discipline specific organizations have identified theneed for their disciplines to cross boundaries. In the “2028 Vision for Mechanical Engineering,’ASME directs attention to the complexity of advanced

Conference Session

Project-based Learning and Other Pedagogical Innovations

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Huanmei Wu, IUPUI

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

. "Integrated Teaching of Experimental and Communication Skills toUndergraduate Aerospace Engineering Students," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 86, no. 3, 1997, pp. 255--262.9. Joe Linhoff , Amber Settle, Motivating and evaluating game development capstone projects, Proceedings of the4th International Conference on Foundations of Digital Games, April 26-30, 2009, Orlando, Florida10. Ian Parberry , Timothy Roden , Max B. Kazemzadeh, Experience with an industry-driven capstone course ongame programming: extended abstract, Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer scienceeducation, February 23-27, 2005, St. Louis, Missouri, USA11. Robert W. Sumner , Nils Thuerey , Markus Gross, The ETH game programming laboratory: a capstone

Conference Session

History, Program Design, and even a Journal Club

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Smitesh Bakrania, Rowan University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

forimprovement in the form of providing more guidance in terms of literature reviewing andpresentation skills. A number of students pointed out the benefit of this course towards a graduatecareer. Similarly, the graduate students expressed to the instructor how taking this course wouldhelp them with their research efforts for their master’s degree in engineering.ConclusionsJournal club activities are tremendously beneficial tools for teaching emerging science fieldssuch as nanotechnology, biotechnology, microfluidics, micro-electro-mechanical systems(MEMs), advanced alternative energy systems, etc. They allow the courses to remain current andfoster student-driven content leading to a more engaging environment for the students. With thecorrect format and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahmoud Quweider, University of Texas, Brownsville; Juan Iglesias, U of Texas at Brownsville; Katherine De La Vega, University of Texas at Brownsville

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2010-1558: WOMEN-CENTRIC SENIOR PROJECTS FOR FEMALES IN THECOMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES FIELDSMahmoud Quweider, University of Texas, BrownsvilleJuan Iglesias, U of Texas at BrownsvilleKatherine De La Vega, University of Texas at Brownsville Page 15.1379.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Women-Centric Senior Projects for Females in the Computational Sciences FieldsAbstractThis paper presents a novel and creative approach to teaching a Senior Project course inComputer Science in a way that allows women to educate themselves about health, politics, andother social and well-being issues while at the same time fulfilling the

Conference Session

Project-based Learning and Other Pedagogical Innovations

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Horacio Vasquez, University of Texas, Pan American; Arturo Fuentes, University of Texas, Pan American; Javier Macossay, The University of Texas-Pan American; Martin Knecht, South Texas College; Robert Freeman, University of Texas, Pan American

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

executechallenges. There is a variety of challenges and some extend beyond the classroom,requiring several assignments, steps, and days of work. CBI and the Star Legacy Cycle[17] take into account that student centered instruction is used to determine studentcurrent capabilities, while knowledge centered instruction is a form of traditional lecturesfocused on teaching to accomplish mastery of a subject. Assessment centered instructionis used to build opportunities for students and teachers to provide feedback throughoutthe learning/teaching progress; and community centered instruction promotes learning inan appropriate community context [17,18]. Pre-test, post-test, and follow-up evaluationsshould be used to determine student knowledge and understanding of