Conference Session

SE Capstone Design Projects, Part I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith G. Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology; John A Nastasi, Stevens Institute of Technology; Eirik Hole, Stevens Institute of Technology; Peter L. Russell, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

thatfunction. The team went through all the major subsystems and their key components andassessed their performance as well as overall systems performance. Two DoD stakeholderrepresentatives were present.The expectation is that the project will be taken through to the prototyping stage and testing,including with the performance modeling.Experience with Implementation of the SE Capstone Pilot ProjectThe project is ongoing but there are a number of preliminary outcomes and lessons learned thatcan be taken from the experiences to date. These are summarized below. Page 22.1278.9Concrete planning should start early to mid spring semester (of Junior year

Conference Session

SE Capstone Design Projects, Part I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elisabeth W. McGrath, Stevens Institute of Technology; Susan Lowes, Institute for Learning Technologies, Teachers College/Columbia University; Chris Jurado, Stevens Institute of Technology; Alice F. Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

technologies.These 14 piloting universities are implementing methods and approaches hypothesized to lead toincreased student interest in SE education and careers, particularly in DoD and related industrycontexts. This pilot program is being conducted in order to inform the development of a nationalscale-up effort that would substantially expand the number and capabilities of universities thatcould produce SE graduates needed for the DoD and related defense industry workforce. It isanticipated that the implementation of the pilot courses will lead to the discovery of exemplarycourse materials, assessment instruments, and other lessons that will be deployed to acceleratethe adoption of effective practices and materials in a national scale up. An analysis of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pratibha Varma-Nelson, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis; Stephen Hundley, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis; Terri Tarr, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

workshops that are based on something that faculty bring to work Page 22.1498.6on and leave with a tangible project; and mentor work with several people. Examples of formalcollaborations include: interventions designed and implemented at the program level using datafrom student evaluations and learning outcomes to inform professional development activities;CTL working with faculty to engage in systemic educational research on promising pedagogicpractices; CTL generalizing professional development to a variety of disciplines, includingengineering; and when CTLs partner with engineering faculty on grant proposal development forteaching-learning

Conference Session

Computer Science and Information Technology in K-12 Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meltem Alemdar, Georgia Institute of Technology; Tony Docal, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2011-2082: ENGAGING K-12 TEACHERS IN TECHNOLOGY TOOLSTO SUPPORT ELECTRONIC AND MOBILE LEARNING THROUGH ANONLINE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSEMeltem Alemdar, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Meltem Alemdar is a Research Scientist in the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Alemdar has experience evaluat- ing programs that fall under the umbrella of educational evaluation, including K-12 educational curricula, after-school programs, and comprehensive school reform initiatives. Across these evaluations, she has used a variety of evaluation methods, ranging from multi-level evaluation plans designed to assess pro- gram impact to

Conference Session

Embedded System Design

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph A. Morgan, Texas A&M University; Jay R. Porter, Texas A&M University; Wei Zhan P.E., Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

with their peers in a fun atmosphere, and afford the opportunity for them to demonstrate and experience success. Opportunities for Learning, Analysis and Creativity – Finally, the new tool needed to emphasize engineering through short lessons on engineering topics, opportunities to analyze and explain the technical aspects of their robots, and a chance to be creative in design and presentation. Page 22.991.4From these requirements was born what theprograms now know as Krisys. The Krisysplatform (see Figure XX for examples) is a low-cost, small form factor robotic platform that can bedesigned, implemented completely, programmedand

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eckehard Doerry, Northern Arizona University; Bridget N. Bero, Northern Arizona University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

. Also the inclusion of the business(particularly market research) exacerbated the serial dependencies that can exist ininterdisciplinary design projects, i.e., one team’s progress on hold until it receives the workproducts of another. Specific lessons learned from analyzing the difficulties encountered in thisarea include: Page 22.1037.12 • Plan projects with no more than four disciplines. Although a single project involving all disciplines is resource-efficient and may mirror the real world, the potential for serial dependencies between subteams grows exponentially with the number disciplines. The central pedagogical

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia C. Pendley, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joseph Homer Saleh, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

22.1363.6respectively, and some 347, 25, and 17 peer-reviewed articles using Web of Science® [retrievedAugust 16, 2010].It should be noted that memory of past accidents and their lessons learned are not only encodedin education, but they are often “institutionalized”, in building codes for example orOccupational Health and Safety regulations. As a result, instilling the memory of past accidentsand their lessons learned in engineering students can be seen as serving the function of diversityin redundancy (where memory resides and who recalls and exercises it) to help to avoid a repeatof similar accidents. Teaching engineering students about accident causation and system safetycan serve to complement and reinforce institutionalized safety requirements, and it