Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses and Tools in support of Systems Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

states the outcomes that a student is expected to achieveimmediately upon graduation.SACS Long-Term Objectives for MSSE GraduatesThese are goals for career and lifetime achievement for graduates to attain 5 to 20 yearsafter graduation, by applying the Program Learning Outcomes.1. IMSE Graduates will assume enterprise leadership responsibilities in Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering environments.2. IMSE Graduates will develop innovative systems and processes for the design, development and deployment of products and services, for the benefit of society.3. IMSE Graduates will discover new knowledge, and develop new tools for the practice of Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering.4. IMSE Graduates will earn

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses and Tools in support of Systems Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

Lunabotics competitionrequires a paper to be submitted prior to the actual mining event. The systems engineeringscoring rubric requires that students demonstrate a variety of processes and practices—fromrequirements development to design reviews to trade studies, with professional engineers judgingthe submissions. University teams vie for the best systems engineering paper award, and theirpaper scores contribute to the grand prize score.This paper highlights the qualities of the winning systems engineering papers from the threeyears of the Lunabotics design challenge. Emphasis is placed on the understanding of systemsengineering demonstrated by the university teams, as well as compliance with the statedchallenge requirements. The paper also compares

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses and Tools in support of Systems Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

23.710.3 Researchers found a positive correlation between homework activities and the class drop rate. Leone and Richards[20] found that homework plays a critical long-term role in the developmentof students’ achievement motivation in instructive practice. Homework provides students withtime and experience to develop positive beliefs about achievement, as well as strategies forcoping with mistakes, difficulties, and setbacks. The authors also argued that homework is a vitalmeans by which students can receive the training they need to become mature learners. Keith andCool[15] tested the influence of ability, time, quality of instruction, motivation, and academiccoursework on students' achievement, controlling for relevant background variables

Conference Session

Programs in Support of Systems Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chet Boncek Jr, Raytheon Company

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

phones,GPS devices, and the wireless devices regularly used today. The non-existent or casualtreatment of these topics positioned students only to be avid consumers or perhaps savvyend-users, but, fell short by failing to impart at least some understanding of what is takesto design, manufacture and bring such items to market. These topics have begun toappear in curricula driven by the demand for a technically competent work force at a timewhen a large population of the current work force prepares to retire. 1A simulation developed by Raytheon in partnership with the Business Higher EducationForum (BHEF) permits trade-off studies and analyses of hypotheses and parameterswhich are supposed to impact the strength of the projected STEM

Conference Session

Programs in Support of Systems Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

its share of controversy. There is no argument that traffic volume on US 29, a main north-south artery, is far beyond capacity; the arguments revolve around proposed solutions, their impacts, and costs. We research the main problem and related issues and perform an analysis similar to the one for the Community Water Plan.Because of the writing-intensive nature of the course, second-year standing became a pre-requisite for the second offering of the course. This change ensured that students would havehad the PVCC English Composition sequence before the class. Students who had not completedthis sequence had some issues completing the case studies, and we wanted to support studentsuccess in this course as well as

Conference Session

Programs in Support of Systems Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

, professional skills are tantamount.Leadership Engineering - Naming the Degree ProgramThe premise for typical “Engineering Leadership” programs is that you start with an engineerand then make a leader out of him or her. Thus Leadership training is the primary focus, withEngineering as the qualifier for the type of leaders being trained. The premise of our LeadershipEngineering program is that the profession will attract future leaders (as is the case of many otherprofessions that require post-graduate professional training, such as medicine and law), and theprogram is designed to produce engineers out of those future leaders. Thus it is a broad-based,liberal engineering program for future leaders in the public and private sectors.Therefore we have