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Programs in Support of Systems Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Saeed D. Foroudastan, Middle Tennessee State University; brigette elizabeth prater thompson, Middle Tennessee State University

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Foroudastan’s teaching experi- ence, he also has performed extensive research and published numerous technical papers. He has secured more than $1 million in the form of both internal and external grants and research funding. Foroudastan is the faculty advisor, coordinator, and primary fundraiser for EVP teams entering national research project competitions such as the Formula SAE Collegiate Competition, the Baja SAE Race, the SolarBike Rayce, the Great Moonbuggy Race, and the Solar Boat Collegiate Competition. For his concern for and ded- ication to his students, Foroudastan received MTSU awards such as the 2002-03 Outstanding Teaching Award, the 2005-06 Outstanding Public Service Award, and the 2007 Faculty Advisor of the

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Programs in Support of Systems Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan K Donohue, University of Virginia; Ali Bouabid, Khalifa University of Science and Technology

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, Richmond; and Virginia Polytechnic Institute andState University, Blacksburg. At this time, only two schools in the Commonwealth – UVa andGeorge Mason – offer baccalaureate studies in systems engineering. Virginia Tech and ODUoffer graduate degrees in systems engineering.PVCC students are residents of an incorporated city and five surrounding counties; attendingUVa would allow them to remain in their communities. Figure 1 shows the general location ofPVCC and UVa. To support student transfer to these universities, engineering course offerings Page 23.545.3and sequences are deliberately set to provide a seamless transition to third year/junior

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses and Tools in support of Systems Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pablo Biswas, Texas A&M International University; Runchang Lin, Texas A&M International University

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Systems Engineering

,interactive, and incremental development, where requirements and solutions evolve throughcollaboration between self-organizing and cross-functional teams.IntroductionA Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP) in a Hispanic servinginstitution, such as Texas A&M International University (TAMIU), intends to reduce the classdrop rate for early college education in engineering, mathematics, and physics curriculums.According to the enrollment in fall 2012 the university has more than 7,213 students who arestudying in various degree programs of science, engineering, education, nursing and business.The enrollment data presented in Table 1, indicates that the majority of the students are Hispanicand among them almost 50% are first

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Capstone Design Courses and Tools in support of Systems Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ertunga C Ozelkan, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Peter L Schmidt P.E., University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Devin Hatley, UNC Charlotte; Kathleen Ann Boutin-Pasterz, UNC Charlotte

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borrow it from our children.” This quote,often referred to as an ancient Native American Indian proverb, summarizes the principle ofsustainability: meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of futuregenerations to meet their own needs[1]. The importance of sustainability becomes clear as we tryto meet the constantly increasing needs of our society with limited resources on Earth. Engineerscan play a very important role in this, which is why, at the College of Engineering of UNCCharlotte, ways for incorporating sustainability into the curriculum are being sought.In 2009, a UNC Charlotte “green fee” was established via a vote from university students. Themandate says that each student will pay $1 in student fees that will

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Education Research

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lin Li, University of Illinois at Chicago; Yong Wang, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Systems Engineering

findings have been discussed as well.1. IntroductionThis paper presents a recent effort of the authors in comparing learning performance of studentsbetween two universities using course outcomes. One of the authors taught a graduate-levelcourse at both University A (UA) (in 2010) and University B (UB) (in 2011). The course taughtis Time Series Analysis, which is a typical course in many engineering programs acrossAmerican universities1-6. The course intends to give students an opportunity to apply the timeseries techniques to the modeling, analysis and forecasting of real-world physical systems. Onlygraduate students were allowed to enroll in the course at the two universities. The Colleges ofEngineering of these two universities have different

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Capstone Design Courses and Tools in support of Systems Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xiaojing Yuan, University of Houston (CoT); Heidar Malki, University of Houston (CoT); Xiaohui Yuan, University of North Texas

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Systems Engineering

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Developing System-Thinking Oriented Learning Modules of Networked Measurement Systems for Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum Xiaojing Yuan1, Heidar Malki1, Gangbing Song2, Xiaohui Yuan3 1. Engineering Technology Department, University of Houston 2. Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Houston 3. Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of North TexasAbstractThis paper describes the design of a set of system-thinking oriented learning modules of networkmeasurement systems for data acquisition and instrumentation courses. The courseware wasdesigned based entirely on open source components

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Capstone Design Courses and Tools in support of Systems Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aditya Akundi, RIMES, University of Texas at El Paso; Eric D Smith, University of Texas, El Paso

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Systems Engineering

participants. The plan consisted of four (4) different phases: Discovery, Strategic, Deployment,and the Operations phase. The different activities and objective of each of the phases isexpressed below. During the discovery phase the committee concentrated on a commonunderstanding of the needs and importance of having a program to train engineers whowould be not only technically competent but also be capable as leaders, innovators, andentrepreneurs. Goals were formed with an understanding of the currently availablecapabilities at UTEP and in the region, regarding: (1) Industry needs, (2) ProgramsOffered, (3) Financial Models, and (4) Course Inventory. We also carried out research to understand current programs and

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Programs in Support of Systems Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chet Boncek Jr, Raytheon Company

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2Graph 1: Declines in Student Math Proficiency by Grade Page 23.86.3Changing the Image of STEM In The Eyes of Students“Survey data collected as part of Raytheon’s MathMovesU program indicates that only1/3 of middle school (6th to 8th grade) students like math a great deal, and, that by eighthgrade, 45% are turned off to math, describing it as “boring”” . 2Attempts to popularize and create a positive image of the scholastic endeavors of thosewith interests in math, science and technology include modifying the vernacular toinclude words like ‘math-lete’. Or, in holding events billed as academic ‘-athlons’ or‘olympiads’. These events build on the example

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Capstone Design Courses and Tools in support of Systems Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ravi T. Shankar, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL; Jonathan Paul Dickson, FAU; Carlo A Mazoleny, Florida Atlantic University

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Systems Engineering

, thus ensuring that we are graduating our seniors with the bestchance of success in the real world.Approach:We used the object oriented analysis and design approach in combination with techniques for Page 23.124.2auto code and GUI (graphical user interface) generation. The former involves the following,chronologically and iteratively: (1) Identify the use cases; (2) Develop the user requirements;and (3) Design UML class diagrams. The latter uses EMF (Eclipse Modeling Framework) whichtakes the UML class diagram as the input and generates GUI-based code automatically2. Thisauto code generation covers the communication and interfacing aspects, the

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Education Research

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna C. Llewellyn, Boise State University; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology; Douglas Edwards, Georgia Institute of Technology; Roxanne A Moore, Georgia Institute of Technology; Pratik Mital, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Systems Engineering

): Affective, Cognitive, Conative, Intra-group Relationships, Inter-group RelationshipsThese are the dimensions that we use to describe each of the agent populations. As mentionedabove, this is a collective description rather than a large set of individual descriptions. The firstthree attributes are common ways to divide up the parts of the mind and how people react to newsituations. The affective domain refers to emotions, cognitive ability refers to intelligence inmultiple dimensions, and conative is related to drive and striving. Intra-group Relationships isused to describe how the population works and acts together, while Inter-group Relationshipdescribes how the particular population works and acts with the other agent populations.Figure 1

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Capstone Design Courses and Tools in support of Systems Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Guerra, NASA Headquarters; Gloria A. Murphy, NASA; Lisa D. May, NASA Headquarters

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Systems Engineering

, technology, engineering and mathematics(STEM). NASA benefits from the competition by encouraging the development of lunarexcavation concepts that may result in clever ideas and solutions with practical application toactual lunar excavation devices or payloads. The challenge is for students to design and build alunabot that can mine and deposit a minimum of 10 kilograms of lunar simulant within 10minutes. The lunar simulant used in the competition is Black Point 1 (BP-1)1, which has verysimilar physical properties to those of lunar soil. The complexities of the challenge include theabrasive characteristics of BP-1, weight and size limitations on the lunabot, and the requirementto only operate the lunabot—either telerobotically —from a remote mission

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Systems Engineering Education Research

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Agnes Galambosi, UNCC; Ertunga C Ozelkan, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Systems Engineering

addition to flexibility and accessibility, it also offers no capacity constraints for theclassroom in the traditional sense such as class size. As it has been previously discussed inOzelkan and Galambosi[1, 2], distance education can also have a significant effect on increasingnot only enrollment but the number of degrees completed as well, so it can be a very importantstrategy to grow a degree program.Colleges at the UNC Charlotte, such as College of Arts and Architecture, Computing andInformatics, Education, Engineering, Health and Human Services and Liberal Arts and Sciencesall are offering now online courses and online programs that started in recent years. The SystemsEngineering and Engineering Management (SEEM) Program has also started its

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Programs in Support of Systems Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Roger V. Gonzalez P.E., The University of Texas at El Paso; Elsa Q. Villa, University of Texas, El Paso; Peter Golding, University of Texas, El Paso; Joseph A Ramos, The University of Texas at El Paso

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Systems Engineering

engineering science courses for all engineering degrees.ABET also allows degree programs to add additional outcomes to further describe the particular Page 23.982.8attributes students will obtain by graduation. We have added two additional outcomes – “l” and“m” – which are:(l) A knowledge of leadership issues and ability to apply leadership principles(m) An understanding that engineers who are leaders build Character, Competence, and Capacityin themselves and others.The degree program course listing is seen in Table 1. The Leadership Course Series (I, II, III)covers foundational leadership skills and progresses through an in-depth understanding

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Systems Engineering Education Research

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Howard Eisner, George Washington University

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Systems Engineering

applieddirectly to current and future curricula in the fields of systems and software engineering andarchitecting.Systems Engineering ArchitectingAn extraordinary technical leader who set the stage for architecting large-scale systems was E.Rechtin. His book on architecting established the fundamentals, which included his articulationof the four basic approaches, namely1: 1. The normative (pronouncement) methodology 2. The rational (procedural) method Page 23.1126.2 3. The argumentative approach, and 4. The heuristic approachA few years after Dr. Rechtin’s book appeared, the Department of Defense came out with itsC4ISR Architectural Framework

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Programs in Support of Systems Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Valerie Maier-Speredelozzi, University of Rhode Island; Colleen Grinham; manbir sodhi, University of Rhode Island

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Systems Engineering

students to pursue engineering as a career.1 Many efforts havefocused on developing improved curricular materials for K-12 engineering education,2, 3 andsome of these studies have specifically looked at systems engineering and systems thinking inthe K-12 classroom.4, 5 Many K-12 educators encourage certain students to pursue engineeringdegrees, but do not necessarily incorporate engineering concepts into their normal classroomlessons and do not always include different types of engineering, such as industrial and systemsengineering.A two-day workshop was planned, including a plant trip and several activities that explained anddemonstrated systems engineering. The funding was provided through a grant from NASA, sothroughout the workshop the

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Programs in Support of Systems Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael C Smith, University of Virginia; Barry Horowitz, University of Virginia; Thomas S. Brett, Dept of Systems Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science

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Systems Engineering

)#sponsored#a#workshop#in#April,#2009#in#which#participants#identified#needs#and#opportunities#and#laid#out#principles#and#strategies#for#assisting#eligible#veterans#to#obtain#the#education#needed#to#transition#into#advanced#technology#careers#in#government#and#industry.###The#workshop#findings#are#available#in#the#report#“Veterans’#Education#for#Engineering#and#Science”#posted#on#NSF’s#web#site#at#www.nsf.gov/eng/eec/VeteranEducation.pdf.1####The#University#of#Virginia#offers#a#customized#pilot#Accelerated#Masters#Program#in#Systems#Engineering#for#Veterans#(AMPFV);#a#program#based#upon#an#existing#program,#but#modified#along#the#lines#of#the#principles#established#at#the#NSF#workshop#for#tailoring#educational#programs#toward#the#career#development

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Systems Engineering Education Research

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert J. Albright P.E., University of Portland

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Systems Engineering

23.1290.2intuitive to most students. The MATLAB® numeric computation software package, as used inthis paper, can readily perform the simple calculations and construct plots of the results todemonstrate the origin and nature of steady-state errors for various values of system parametersand types of input signals. The graphical example of a car race analogy presented in Section III of this paper is designedto match the preferred learning style of most engineering students which is visual, sensing,inductive, and active; and it provides balance to the traditional lecture presentation which isusually auditory, intuitive, deductive, and passive.1 As preparatory background to the car raceanalogy, the author’s pedagogy in engineering courses makes extensive use