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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Keith M. Gardiner

described. Students are introduced to the concept that the classroom can be used as an analog of the industrial workplace. Individual and team assignments and projects are structured with the required output as the product. To be successful in the process of product realization students must engage in project planning and management individually and in teams as may be appropriate. Output, or products, may range from brief ‘executive’ analyses or reports relevant to course objectives to comprehensive ‘publication ready’ technical papers or reviews prepared in response to initial requests for proposals (RFP). Research topics reported range from organizational planning and control, manufacturing

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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Christopher M. Korpela; William J. Adams

, the mentor considered their technical skill set and interests indeveloping the project. The planning and preparation for all three cultural experiences took morethan one year. Initial coordination consisted of contacting the International Affairs office at thehost universities as well as agreements between the Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceDepartments as to a mutual project. The project plan was similar for each team, varying onlywhere constraints on material or personnel required. The team in Tunisia broke into three groupsto build a leader robot, a follower robot and an autonomous robot. The group in France settled ona robot that would navigate a maze. The cadets in Chile worked on a robot that would map aroom. In all cases

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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Nathaniel Jensen; Philip Brach; Ahmet Zeytinci

-2007, we had a Civil Engineering student, Nathaniel Jensen, who was working in the bridge inspection unit of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Capstone design instructor, Ahmet Zeytinci, in conversation with Nathaniel about his work experience came upon the idea that his experience in bridge inspection might prove to be a very worthwhile capstone design project. This initiated formal discussion with Nathaniel’s supervisor at FHWA and the development of an academic work plan that would utilize Nathaniel’s work experience at FHWA as his senior capstone design project.The ProjectThe August 1, 2007 collapse of the eight-lane, 1907 foot span, steel truss bridge that carriedInterstate I-35W across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis

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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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JungHun Choi; Wes Grebski

structure Formulating the design. Calculating MET 210W the factor of safety. Double checking the structural integrity and etc. Learning the appropriate IET 101 manufacturing processes to build the prototype. Planning the appropriate IET 215 manufacturing

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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Chang-Hee Won

management of alarge engineering projects. The main concept in systems engineering is to design, build, and testwith documentations so others can track the project. In systems engineering process, the customergenerates the user requirement. Then concept of operations describes the overall design criteria.Trade Studies leads to the selection of system, subsystem, and components. Design document is acritical part to the systems engineering process. Here one lay outs the detailed design of thesubsystem and system. Design reviews are held after the design is completed. Interface ControlDocument details the layout of how all the subsystems will connect. Finally, the Test Plan validatesthe subsystem and system. After the user requirement and

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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Alfred A. Scalza

not, a student wishes to be moved toanother group because his team members are “not pulling their weight”. The good working groupsquickly learn to organize, plan, lead and control, and these are the basic foundations of a workingorganization.Organizational BehaviorOrganizational Behavior is an applied behavioral science that is built on contributions from otherbehavioral sciences and applied to the office and in this case to the classroom.The first of the contributing behavioral sciences is Psychology which is a science that seeks to measure,explain and sometimes change the behavior of humans. This is the first and most basic level and pertainsto the individual, in our case the student. Here we are interested in learning theories and how

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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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W. Riddell; E. Constans; J. Courtney; K. Dahm; R. Harvey; P. Jansson; M. Simone; P. von Lockette

replaced by a different project,which is not discussed in this paper. Brief descriptions of the four projects, extracted from thepapers referenced above, follow.The first design project in SEC I is the bottle rocket project. In the bottle rocket project, studentsuse 0.25 inch thick foam board, duct tape, a 2 liter soda bottle, modeling clay and water to designrockets that can be launched from a nozzle by using pressurized air. This concept has been usedat other universities to teach core engineering principles9, and NASA has proposed standards andlesson plans to use for grade 5-12 students10. Student teams design rockets in the first lab period, Proceedings of the 2007 Middle Atlantic Section Fall Conference

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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Paul Stanton; Duane Fairfax

refuse to cooperate. Peer assessments can be a valuable tool, but instructors must keep in mind that students will likelyhave very little experience working constructively in groups and they won’t know how to best employ thetool; instructors must provide considerable guidance. Students will probably lack sufficient social andleadership skills required for conflict management, so they will need help determining a plan for theirgroup interaction. A recommendation is to have the teams develop both a team policy document and anexpectations document at the beginning of the course that provide a foundation for handling futureproblems5. CS350 coaches students into this process. Proceedings of the 2007 Middle Atlantic Section Fall