Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Efforts in Upper-level Courses

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mansoor Nasir, Lawrence Technological University; Eric G Meyer, Lawrence Technological University; Brian Thomas Weaver PE, Explico Engineering Co.

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

instrumentation available to properlysupport their opinions. Each group was required to write a report, give a presentation, and give amock deposition.Figure 5: Images show the reconstructed skull of the infant as well as the sketch of the kitchenwhere the incident occurred. This information was provided to the students.An interesting aspect of the implementation was that the groups presented only to the faculty for10 minutes followed by 10 minutes of Questions and Answers (Q&A). This was instituted toprevent from later groups learning from the questioning of the previous ones. Simple rubricswere used for grading, which were broken down as 40%, 40% & 20% for facts, Q&A andconduct respectively. Performance was incentivized by 10 extra points