Conference Session

Systems Engineering Education Research

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Systems Engineering

. Page 23.855.3The course final grade consists of five components, i.e., homework, the course projectpresentation, the course project report, the midterm exam, and the final exam. The instructormade the largest efforts to ensure that the course grades accurately reflected each student'sachievement level. The end-of-course grades assigned to these five components together with thetotal grades are intended to convey the level of achievement of each student. These grades areused as course outcomes and hypothesis tests have been conducted on the grades of the twoparties of students.Every world or national university ranking system bears some limitations10-12. Existingliterature13 has studied the impact of professors' behaviors on the ranking of the

Conference Session

Programs in Support of Systems Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chet Boncek Jr, Raytheon Company

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Systems Engineering

] Page 23.86.13Figure 6a SafelyAssembling The Prototype Figure 6b Wave Reflections and the Underlying Theory Figure 6c How It Measured Up Figures 6a- 6c Page 23.86.14 From the 2012 presentation by Walsh Middle School ‘Sound Cats’ Team Framingham, MA, [12]Figures 6c and 7a document the “Sound Cats” testing and results. Although Figure 6cstates that they did not have good performance in their testing, their design, in fact,delivered excellent performance. On competition day the Sound Cats’ design achievedthe highest voltage reading. The data also exhibits the correct shape for the voltage fall-off with distance. Theory states that the voltage should decrease by

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses and Tools in support of Systems Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Systems Engineering

. Learning outcomes in each area reflect the overall goals of theproject and include: (1) at the component level, students will demonstrate their ability to (a)select appropriate sensors to monitor physical phenomena and (b) design analog and digitalsignal conditioning circuits to connect them to microcontroller/computers; (2) at the systemlevel, students will be able to identify and use current technology practiced in monitoring andcontrol systems; (3) at the network level, students will be able to (a) understand fundamentalconcepts of WSN, and (b) design and develop such a system; and (4) at the capstone/projectlevel, students will be able to demonstrate their capability to design, develop, implement, and testa networked data acquisition system to

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

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Systems Engineering

Muller 2013)3, reflecting the industry attitude thatengineering professionals need a foundational background in one of the traditional engineeringdisciplines, with the addition of practical experience to be effective as systems engineers.Undergraduate university programs in systems engineering are still relatively rare, with mostprograms being at the graduate level.Since we have already been teaching Systems Engineering graduate students at UTEP during thepast 5 years, we anticipate our teaching of undergraduate LE students will in some key ways besimilar. As is the case with SE, our teaching in LE courses will be more focused on skills,entrepreneurial thinking, critical thinking, and problem solving, and less on transferable facts.Our goal will

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

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Systems Engineering

tosystems engineering in this paper. Planning for this new academic track took place in Fall, 2011;the pilot of the Introduction to Systems Engineering course occurred in Spring, 2012 and Fall,2012. The course is consciously structured after the introductory course at the University ofVirginia (UVa), the transfer target for a majority of PVCC students, to ensure that the transfercredit is accepted and students are prepared for success. Based on our experiences in the pilots,the syllabus became slightly modified to prepare students for study in other undergraduateprograms in systems engineering. Course goals, objectives, and content are described. Finally,we offer student reflections on their experiences and course utility as they prepare to

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

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Systems Engineering

teams do not actively use systems engineering processes, butinstead write their paper to match the rubric after the design and build of their lunabot. Suchbehavior completely misses the point of the paper as a required element of the competition. Infact, one student mentioned that she was responsible for writing the paper, and upon completion Page 23.203.12she realized that the systems engineering processes could have helped the team design a betterlunabot. Even worse, some teams completely ignore the rubric and submit a paper reflecting partof their course requirements or a paper written at the last minute.Table 8 shows the distribution of

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

includingthe application of agile methods to safety critical system development, the relationship of agiledevelopment with user experience design and how to measure flow in lean system development.Similar research is done by Gary et al.[13] on the basis of agile development process. Procter etal.[29] used a case study of a project to create a Web 2.0-based, Virtual Research Environment(VRE) for researchers to share digital resources in order to reflect on the principles and practicesfor embedding eResearch applications within user communities using agile development. Ferreiraet al.[11] reported in detail on one observational study of a mature Agile/Scrum team in a largeorganization, and their interactions with the user-experience designers working on