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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Bryndol Sones

. This development culminates with (3) student research and project design in the capstone experience during the second year. Students enter the process as novices, and faculty use MCNP5/X to demonstrate fundamental interactions and to explore different scenarios that would be difficult to build experimentally. Later in the curriculum, students become licensed MCNP5/X users, and they make modifications to faculty-prepared MCNP5/X input files that support activities in the laboratory. This first year builds student confidence and demonstrates the merits and limitations of MCNP5/X. The next year begins with a two-week intensive MCNP5/X training program which includes

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Andy S. Zhang; Ali Harb; Iem Heng; Farrukh Zia; Alex Wong

true for many small companies on which an engineer maybe required toperform many tasks that go beyond his/her originally field of study. To help college students tolearn the latest multidisciplinary approach to product design, in the fall 2010, the departments ofmechanical engineering technology and computer engineering technology introduced a hands-ondesign project in their respective capstone courses as well as in extracurricular undergraduateresearch projects. These hands-on design projects contained mechanical design,electrical/electronic design as well as software design components.In previous studies, various embedded systems such as Compact real-time controller (cRIO)from National Instruments, NXT brick from Lego Mindstorm, and Arduino

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

David A. Vaccari

require that capstone design projects actually be multidisciplinary.Although that would be desirable, it would be impracticable to make this a requirement. Thisserves the need for an interpretation that could apply to all projects.Direct assessment of this capability could be done by requiring students to include a section intheir capstone design report that lists engineering disciplines other than their own that they wouldinteract with, and what kinds of information would be exchanged. Specifically, they would haveto describe the information that they need from other disciplines, and what information wouldother disciplines need from them. A grade on that specific section of the report would then serveto provide data for assessment of this

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Fangyang Shen; Bing Qi; Hong Li; Arvid Friberg

often through casestudies published by both Harvard University and Yale University. More recently ElectronicsEngineering programs have espoused similar project based learning. The findings show that thebest educational methods force students to cooperate using their knowledge of interdisciplinarysubjects to solve problems within an environment using “incomplete or imprecise information”[1].For decades the instruction of Engineering and other disciplines have used “Capstone”, wherefinal projects are used to reinforce skills and foster design[2]. Since 1990 the NationalInformation Assurance Education and Training Partnership Program (NEITP) has beenresponsible for information assurance, awareness and training. They issue the IT

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Shahryar Darayan; David Olowokere; Xuemin Chen

85 ASSESSMENT AND CURRICULUM MODIFICATION INELECTRONICS ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM Shahryar Darayan David Olowokere Xuemin Chen Darayan_sx@tsu.edu Olowokeredo@tsu.edu Chenxm@tsu.edu Department of Engineering Technology 3100 Cleburne, Houston, Texas 77004 Abstract: The Electronics Engineering Technology at Texas Southern University has been actively involved with course embedded assessment techniques for more than nine years. The assessment project has spanned the engineering technologies programs, the