Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrian Ieta, State University of New York at Oswego; Rachid Manseur, Oswego State University College; Thomas E. Doyle, McMaster University

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New Engineering Educators

software engineering faculty.During the first two weeks, students are directed to seek and research a suitable project topic byquerying faculty members, employers, or any other source available to them. The caliber of theproject and its suitability as a capstone experience are subject to faculty approval. In the currentcase, the three students made two important decisions: they decided to work as a team and,among the few topic choices that were offered to them, they selected a project in robotics.The ECE department owns two Cyton V2 7-dof robotic arms29 in need of a simple intuitive userinterface that allows easy programming of manipulation tasks. Figure 5 shows a picture of onerobotic arm.Multidisciplinary project experience in SEIn regards to

Conference Session

Best Methods for NEEs

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James C. Squire, Virginia Military Institute; Turk McCleskey, Virginia Military Institute; Elizabeth White Baker, Wake Forest University; Anthony Evan English, Western New England University

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New Engineering Educators

interdisciplinary papers the authors have published with faculty from clinicalmedicine, bioengineering, finance, educational psychology, colonial history, business, sportsmedicine, and seismology. The paper includes five reasons to seek opportunities to applynumerical analysis to interdisciplinary problems, three common pitfalls of work in suchinterdisciplinary projects, and ten best practices for conducting numerical analysis ofinterdisciplinary problems.I. Reasons to seek interdisciplinary numerical analysis opportunities Interdisciplinary research often reveals low-hanging fruitAs a graduate student, one of the authors was the lone electrical engineer in a biomedical centerthat had a predominantly molecular chemistry emphasis. His specialty was analog