teaching and productivepractice teaching with the practical ability training as the main line in the professional coursesetting. Generally, it is arranged for engineering undergraduates in the summer holiday at theend of the 6th semester, taking about 2-3 weeks (1 month for individual major) inprofessional-related factories or enterprises. During the practice, students are organized intorelevant units to visit workshops, laboratories and other sites. They listen to special lectures,and participate in alumni exchange meetings as well. For some non-confidential industries,short-term hands-on links may be arranged for the students, in which factory workers directlyteach students on actual operation and production processes.Colleges and universities
, Electrical and Mechanicalengineering degree programs have historically required their students to complete a coordinatedMultidisciplinary Engineering Laboratory sequence.2 Finally, multidisciplinary capstone courseshave been experimented with at CSM since the early nineteen nineties.3 Even with this strongfoundation, there are significant challenges to running a successful, multidisciplinary capstoneprogram.Capstone programs differ from other multidisciplinary courses in several ways. Freshmanexperiences don’t have the same expectations to deliver discipline specific technical content thatare required at the senior level. For that reason, a closer parallel to multidisciplinary capstonemight be found in multidisciplinary laboratory sequences
, whose background is in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design, teaches a Fundamentals ofProduct Design Engineering Laboratory course at Ohio State University in the Department of Mechanical& Aerospace Engineering. The course student body is primarily made up of senior- and graduate-levelstudents who are studying in Mechanical Engineering or Industrial & Systems Engineering, howeverstudents from other various engineering majors also enroll in the course. Enrollment in this course hashistorically been around 100 students each semester. As many readers will know, Ohio State University isa large, public, institution in Columbus, Ohio. OSU’s Department of Mechanical & AerospaceEngineering is a large department within a large school
engineering disciplines. Thisprovides students with opportunity to gain experience working in multidisciplinary teams asencountered in industry and national laboratories. Although it did not appear in the internetsearch, the authors are aware of one specific project where the U.S. Department of Energy’sArgonne National Laboratory requested a team of University-of-Idaho students working on theirSenior Design Project to design, fabricate, and test a station capable of disassembling high-efficiency particulate arrestance (HEPA) filters. The HEPA filters are radioactivelycontaminated; consequently, the HEPA station must be located in a hot cell to minimizeradiation exposures to staff and students participating in the project. The potential of this
increased lecture time are (e) reduced team forming due to less project work time, (f)reduced motivation/enthusiasm for the designette, (g) reduced familiarity with the laboratory andprototyping techniques, and (h) more time spent outside of class, possibly impacting othercourses.Advantages and disadvantages of the increased depth of design content instruction wereobserved from two main data sources. First, all students and faculty advisors were invited toprovide feedback on the designette immediately following its completion by way of a feedbackform. The form included 26 subjective questions from which respondents could indicateagreement through a Likert seven position response scale. Section 4.1 lists the 23 questionsrelevant to this research and
curricula, and the role of non-cognitive and affective factors in student academic outcomes and overall success.Prof. Bedrich Benes Ph.D., Purdue University, West Lafayette Bedrich Benes is a professor of Computer Graphics Technology at Purdue University and a director of the High Performance Computer Graphics Laboratory. His area of research is in computer graphics, geometric modeling, procedural and inverse procedural modeling and simulation of natural phenomena. He has published over 100 research papers in the field. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Identifying Affordances of Physical Manipulatives Tools for the Design of Visuo-haptic
of Health Science and Technology, and holds an S.M. in Aeronautics & As- tronautics from MIT and a B.S. in Materials Engineering from the University of Kentucky. She co-directs the UM Center for Socially Engaged Design and directs the Sensory Augmentation and Rehabilitation Laboratory, Laboratory for Innovation in Global Health Technology, and Global Health Design Initiative.Madeline A. Gilleran, University of Michigan Madeline Gilleran is an senior undergraduate student at the University of Michigan, majoring in Mechan- ical Engineering and completing International Minor for Engineers. She is involved in the Engineering Global Leadership Honors Program, a specialization within the Honors Program that integrates
students in their third (i.e., junior) year. The project was sponsored by an officefurniture company looking to bring a new line of “impromptu” seating options to market.Students worked individually on their designs and met informally with the instructor (Gary)during a 6-hour studio session each week. Students could also use a fabrication laboratory tobuild prototypes. Most design reviews occurred in the student workspace – a busy classroomspace with two back-to-back rows of tables with multiple computer displays and workspace foreach student (often cluttered with sketches, foam models, and other objects). There were fivedesign reviews: (1) a one-on-one review at the front of the room where students laid outpreliminary concept sketches to discuss
a bachelor’s in communications from the University of Cali- fornia at Santa Barbara. Prior to joining UTD in 2013, I worked in corporate communications, marketing communications and public relations.Dr. Jeanne SluderDr. Robert Hart P.E., University of Texas, DallasDr. Joe Pacheco Jr., University of Texas, Dallas Dr. Joe Pacheco Jr is a member of the teaching faculty in the Bioengineering Department at The University of Texas at Dallas (2014 to present) where his teaching includes freshman-level introductory bioengineer- ing courses, upper-division circuits and microcontroller programming courses, and senior level capstone courses. Previously, he was a member of the technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory (2004-2013
TechniquesTwo common methods used to explore neural processes of decision-making and problem solvingunder laboratory conditions are electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magneticresonance imaging (fMRI). EEG involves a head cover (e.g., cap or net) which places electrodeson the scalp and measures electrical changes in the brain. Temporal resolution is very good(detects quick changes) though spatial resolution (where the change occurs) is poor becausesignals often interfere with one another and make it difficult to pinpoint specific brain regionsinvolved in the processing. EEG methods are mainly of value when stimuli are simple and thetask involves basic processes (e.g., target detection) triggered by task stimuli (Eysenck & Keane,2015
Paper ID #20290A Case Study Approach for Understanding the Impact of Team Selection onthe Effectiveness of Multidisciplinary Capstone TeamsDr. Mark W. Steiner, University of Central Florida Mark Steiner is Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) at the University of Central Florida (UCF). He currently serves as Director of Engineering Design in the MAE Department. Mark previously served as Director of the O.T. Swanson Multidisciplinary Design Laboratory in the School of Engineering at Rens- selaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and
and manufacturing activities at Yale’s academic makerspace. His professional interests in Mechanical Engi- neering are in the areas of data acquisition/analysis and mechanical design. He is the Co-Chair of the Executive Advisory Board of the FIRST Foundation and is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechan- ical Engineering. Previously, he was the Dean of Engineering at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and has had fellowships at the MIT Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, the Harvard School of Public Health and with the American Council on Education. He has also served as the Vice President of Public Awareness for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and was the 2001 Baccalaureate College Professor of the
, manufacture, assembly, and evaluation of a fairly complexproduct. The project also requires students to work in teams, plan a long-term project, andcommunicate their product development plan, preliminary design, and final designs through aseries of presentations and reports. The course has a final competition where teams demonstratetheir designed products. In an earlier paper, Calabro, Gupta, and Lopez Roschwalb23 discussedmore details about the design and implementation of this Design Course.Each section is staffed by an instructor and an undergraduate teaching assistant (UTA).Additionally, there are laboratory teaching fellows who manage the laboratory/fabrication spaceand assist teams in fabrication and/or programming as needed. The staffing for
industry sponsored capstone from at his school and is the advisor of OU’s FSAE team.Prof. Farrokh Mistree, University of Oklahoma Farrokh’s passion is to have fun in providing an opportunity for highly motivated and talented people to learn how to define and achieve their dreams. Farrokh Mistree holds the L. A. Comp Chair in the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. Prior to this position, he was the Associate Chair of the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech – Savannah. He was also the Founding Director of the Systems Realization Laboratory at Georgia Tech. Farrokh’s current research focus is model-based realization of complex systems
School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. Prior to this position, he was the Associate Chair of the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech – Savannah. He was also the Founding Director of the Systems Realization Laboratory at Georgia Tech. Farrokh’s current research focus is model-based realization of complex systems by managing uncertainty and complexity. The key question he is investigating is what are the principles underlying rapid and robust concept exploration when the analysis models are incomplete and possibly inaccurate? His quest for answers to the key question are anchored in three projects, namely, Integrated Realization of
differences between BEand MAE groups. First, the BE groups’ flows suggest an increase of reported engagement nearthe end the project. We suspect that this increase is due to the impending deadlines. The BEexperts commented that they usually saw a similar pattern among the undergraduate students intheir laboratory. Second, the MAE groups’ design process flow pattern suggests an incrementalreported engagement from the problem definition phase to the conceptual design phase and thento the preliminary design phase. A similar trend was not found in the BE groups’ flows. Oneinterpretation of this pattern is that the MAE groups’ design process was design-phase-drivenwhile the BE groups were design-activity-driven [13]. We suspect the discipline principles
across allengineering students. However, as a qualitative study, generalizability is not the goal, but ratherunderstanding individual interpretations of experiences and what meaning individuals areattributing to those experiences.DiscussionIf this is the information age—an age driven by empowered individuals better able to connect toothers, access knowledge, and tailor an environment best suited for her or him—then it is nosurprise that makerspaces are appearing in multiple contexts all over the world. With theknowledge at their fingertips, a handful of creative, imaginative, and motivated individuals aredesigning and producing devices and ideas that were once limited to the selectively trained,operating in industrial oriented laboratories or