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Promoting Multidisciplinary Efforts

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Priya Manohar, Robert Morris University

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research teams as well as theconceptualization, design and development of interdisciplinary curricula. This type ofcollaboration and interaction is especially important for small and medium-sized schools anduniversities where undergraduate / graduate teaching accounts for a major portion of the facultyworkload. Thus the paper describes the interdisciplinary research collaborations as well as thedevelopment of interdisciplinary educational curricula and their role in reaching educationalobjectives of the department, the school and the institution.Following section gives brief information about ROC and the subsequent sections describe themechanisms implemented to trigger and sustain faculty development over a longer period oftime.2. Research and

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Integrating Systems Engineering into the Capstone Project

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Armand Joseph Chaput, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics University of Texas at Austin

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Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

- A Capstone Design Approach Armand J. Chaput (ajchaput@mail.utexas.edu), Senior Lecturer Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics The University of Texas at Austin1.0 OverviewA hands-on educational approach for teaching undergraduate aircraft design students aboutSystems Engineering (SE) has been developed which we believe is applicable to otherengineering disciplines. The impetus for the initiative is our conclusion that (1) fundamentalunderstanding of the principles of SE and their practical application is important for all engineersand (2) SE can be taught as a principle of design without displacing other course content

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Promoting Multidisciplinary Efforts

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chan Ham, Kennesaw State University; Jasmine Cherelle Washington; Steven Howell Sims, Hopewell Designs, Inc.; Kevin Stanley McFall, Kennesaw State University

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students for designing engineeringsystems in their post-graduation employment.References1. Ward, T. A. (2013). Common elements of capstone projects in the world's top-ranked engineering universities. European Journal of Engineering Education, 38(2), 211-218. doi:10.1080/03043797.2013.7666762. Systems Engineering Fundamentals., Ch. 11 Technical Reviews and Audits; App 16-a Schedules Defense Acquisition University Press, 20013. Agboola, O. P., Hashemipour, M., Egelioglu, F., Atikol, U., & Hacisevki, H. (2012). Assessing a Decade Old Capstone Senior Projects Through ABET Accreditation Program Outcomes. Procedia - Social And Behavioral Sciences,47(Cyprus International Conference on Educational Research (CY-ICER-2012)North

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Multidisciplinary Academic Programs

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kylie Goodell King, University of Maryland, College Park; Jessica Macklin, University of Maryland, College Park; Amanda Yard, University of Maryland, College Park

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. Prior to joining QUEST, Jessica was the Graduate Assistant in Columbia University’s Office of Student Engagement.Ms. Amanda Yard, University of Maryland, College Park Amanda Yard is a graduating senior from the University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Busi- ness. She is receiving a major in Supply Chain Management and a minor in Spanish Language and Cultures. She will be working for PepsiCo as an Integrated Supply Chain Associate in Schaumburg, IL. Amanda has been a member of the QUEST Honors Program since Spring 2013 where she has served as a mentor, as well as on the capstone project scoping team. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Impact of

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Multidisciplinary Outreach and Early Transdisciplinary Courses

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pramod Rajan, Laboratory for Innovative Technology & Engineering Education (LITEE); P.K. Raju, Auburn University

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develop hybrid educational modules linked to engineering grandchallenges to improve science and math concepts in k-12 curriculum.References 1. Ward, J. S., & Fontecchio, A. (2012, October). Work in progress: The NAE Grand Challenges, high school curricula and Graduate student research. In Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2012 (pp. 1-2). IEEE. 2. Davis, V., Raju, P. K., Lakin, J., Davis, E. (2016). Nanotechnology Solutions to Engineering Grand Challenges. American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference. 3. Mote Jr, C. D., Dowling, D. A., & Zhou, J. (2016). The Power of an Idea: The International Impacts of the Grand Challenges for Engineering. Engineering, 2(1), 4-7 4. Thomas, J. W. (2000). A

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Multidisciplinary Efforts in Introductory Courses

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Suresh Kumar Jayaraman, School of Chemical Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74074; Jennifer Robinson Glenn, School of Industrial Engineering and Management, Oklahoma State University; Karen A High, Clemson University

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. Prior to this Dr. Karen was at Oklahoma State University where she was a professor for 24 years and served as the Director of Student Services as well as the Women in Engineering Coordinator. She received her B.S. in chemical engineering from University of Michigan in 1985 and she received her M.S. in 1988 and her Ph.D. in 1991 in chemical engineering both from Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Karen’s educational emphasis includes: critical thinking, enhancing mathematics, engineering entrepreneurship in education, communication skills, K-12 engineering education, and promoting women in engineering. Her technical work and research focuses on sustainable chemical process design, computer aided design, mixed integer

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Multidisciplinary Effects on Student Learning

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Harper Ogle, Clemson University; Jeffery M Plumblee II, Clemson University; David E Vaughn, Clemson University; Aaron S. Gordon, Clemson University

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leveraged in a multi-semester undergraduate research course at ClemsonUniversity with focus on creating holistic and sustainable community impacts in developingcountries. Through a cycle of three stages (moving between basic research, field testing, andpractice ready implementation and cycling back), students from more than 30 disciplines acrossthe university and from all levels (freshman through graduate students) work in teams toinnovate solutions to the most critical problems facing humanity in the 21st century using newknowledge from basic research. Translational research is especially appropriate formultidisciplinary work, as it takes numerous expertise areas to move a solution from conceptualresearch to practical application. Minimal

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Promoting Multidisciplinary Efforts

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Harold R Underwood, Messiah College

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literature have addressed the development of assistivetechnologies as a focus for engineering project applications. Over the past eight years, theCollaboratory for Strategic Partnerships and Applied Research at Messiah College has fosteredseveral interdisciplinary undergraduate student and faculty projects, such as the assistivecommunication technology Wireless-Enabled Remote Co-presence (WERCware) described here.WERCware is designed for those who depend on job- or life-coaching, to ameliorate cognitiveand behavioral challenges that affect performance at home or in the workplace. It facilitatesremote communication between coach and consumer, for training and/or other support asneeded, to increase independence of the consumer. WERCware development

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Multidisciplinary Efforts in Upper-level Courses

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael S Thompson, Bucknell University; Andrew Ciotola, Stadler Center for Poetry, Bucknell University; Daniel Mancusi, Bucknell University; Mark Yerger, Bucknell University; Adam B Gegg

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Paper ID #14939The Bucknell Poetry Path App Experiment: A Collaboration Across CampusProf. Michael S Thompson, Bucknell University Prof. Thompson is an associate professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Bucknell University, in Lewisburg, PA. While his teaching responsibilities typically include digital design, computer engineering electives, and senior design, his focus in the classroom is to ignite passion in his students for engineering and design through his own enthusiasm, open-ended student-selected projects, and connecting engineering to the world around them. His research interests

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Multidisciplinary Teamwork

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ada Hurst, University of Waterloo; Erin Jobidon, University of Waterloo; Andrea Prier, University of Waterloo; Taghi Khaniyev, University of Waterloo; Christopher Rennick, University of Waterloo; Rania Al-Hammoud P.Eng., University of Waterloo; Carol Hulls P.Eng., University of Waterloo; Jason Andrew Grove, The University of Waterloo; Samar Mohamed, University of Waterloo; Stephanie Joan Johnson M.Ed, University of Waterloo; Sanjeev Bedi P.Eng., University of Waterloo

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Waterloo is developing a series of sixworkshops intended to be delivered to engineering students in all disciplines in their first threeyears of study. The first three workshops will provide an introduction to team-forming andbuilding, team communication, and conflict management. The last three workshops will providereinforcement and opportunities for application in the same areas and in multidisciplinary settings.This paper describes the first two workshops in this series. Their design is based on the principlethat teamwork skills are best learned by doing, i.e., by practicing in a context that approximatescommon team experiences in engineering. In the first workshop, students work in groups toconstruct a tower out of straws and connectors under

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Multidisciplinary Effects on Student Learning

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tela Favaloro, University of California, Santa Cruz; Tamara Ball, University of California, Santa Cruz; Zachary W Graham, University of California, Santa Cruz; Michael S. Isaacson, University of California, Santa Cruz

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designs and makesaccessible contextual technology education for learners traditionally underrepresented in theSTEM fields. The outcomes of this program can help to establish best practice and serve as aneducational training model that can be expanded upon and utilized by other learning institutions.This paper discusses results of one particular component of the larger pathway between thepartner institutions: the renewable energy summer research internship. Since its inception in2011, university researchers and graduate students have been collaborating with communitycollege staff to provide daily support and technical mentorship for community college and highschool interns over eight weeks in the summer. Students representing multiple disciplines

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Multidisciplinary Efforts in Upper-level Courses

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Timothy R McJunkin, Idaho National Laboratory; Craig G Rieger, Idaho National Laboratory; Aunshul Rege, Temple University; Saroj K Biswas, Temple University; Michael Haney, University of Idaho; Michael John Santora, University of Idaho; Brian K. Johnson, University of Idaho, Moscow; Ronald Laurids Boring; D. Subbaram Naidu P.E., University of Minnesota Duluth; John F. Gardner, Boise State University

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 they could have asked or observed. 2. Multidisciplinary Experiential Learning ECE students and CJ students rarely get to work on joint course projects. In fact, to the best of our knowledge, we are not aware of these two disciplines working together in the context of educational settings. Here, ECE and CJ students worked together in two ways. First, once the CJ students designed the interview questions, they practiced these questions on ECE graduate students to become more familiar with how the grid worked, whether their questions made sense, and used any feedback to revise their question set. Second, during the joint exercise, CJ and ECE students had conversations about strategies for securing the grid and maintaining operations. CJ students

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Multidisciplinary Efforts in Upper-level Courses

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Academic Advisory Board. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Project-based Learning in a Forensic Engineering CourseAbstractResearch and design experiences are important components of undergraduate engineeringeducation, each targeting specific skillset serving and different outcomes. While there are severalopportunities for learning engineering design process in engineering curricula, mostly notablythe capstone senior design series, the primary method to experience research is through faculty-directed research projects. The practice of forensic engineering has many aspects in commonwith the research process and as such a course based on this topic provides a unique opportunityfor students

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Multidisciplinary Capstone Courses

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacqulyn Baughman, Iowa State University; Gretchen A. Mosher, Iowa State University; Ann M Gansemer-Topf, Iowa State University ; Tejas Dhadphale Ph.D., Iowa State University

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. Research interests include human elements of safety and quality in food and agricultural systems and best practices for introducing new and complex information to learners.Dr. Ann M Gansemer-Topf, Iowa State University Ann Gansemer-Topf is an Assistant Professor in Higher Education and Student Affairs. She teaches courses in program evaluation and assessment, student affairs and higher education. Her research interests focus on examining the micro (student) and macro (institutional, state, federal) factors that impact student success and student learning. She has presented at several regional and national conferences and her research has been published in journals such as Research in Higher Education, Journal of the First

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Multidisciplinary Efforts in Introductory Courses

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicholas A Baine P.E., Grand Valley State University; Huihui Qi, Grand Valley State University

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Promote Multidisciplinary Skills in a Freshman Engineering ProgramIntroduction This paper addresses the lack of student interest in topics outside of their discipline; thisis even true for some students in all courses regardless of topic. However, all topics, especiallyfundamental ones are important in an engineering education because engineers are facingincreasingly complex challenges and opportunities; consequently, collaboration betweenengineers of multiple disciplines becomes very important. ABET goes as far as to list “an abilityto function on multidisciplinary teams” as a required student outcome for an undergraduateengineering program to be accredited. Engineering curriculums are somewhat designed toaddress

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Multidisciplinary Outreach and Early Transdisciplinary Courses

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paula Ann Monaco, Texas Tech University; Aimee Cloutier, Texas Tech University; Guo Zheng Yew, Texas Tech University; Maeghan Marie Brundrett, Texas Tech University; Dylan Christenson, Texas Tech University; Audra N. Morse, Texas Tech University

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passive treatment discharges.Aimee Cloutier, Texas Tech University Aimee Cloutier is a Ph.D. student studying Mechanical Engineering at Texas Tech University. She earned her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas Tech in 2012. Her research interests include biomechan- ics, rehabilitation engineering, prosthetic limb design, and STEM education.Mr. Guo Zheng Yew, Texas Tech University Guo Zheng Yew is currently pursuing his doctorate in civil engineering at Texas Tech University with a focus on finite element analysis and glass mechanics. Prior to his graduate work in the United States, he obtained his Bachelor’s degree from Malaysia and has participated in research projects involving offshore structures in