Conference Session

Innovations in Freshman Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Lamont; John Merrill; Richard Freuler

to prepare and load materials by the administrative staff, and occasionalproblems with the server or computer equipment. Overall, the online environment provides theFreshman Programs with a means to keep a large-scale program organized and to achieve itsgoals.This paper will describe the key features used by the instructional team and by the students, withan analysis of the lessons learned for implementing, maintaining, and improving an onlineenvironment that supports a large-scale and dynamic program. Page 7.1171.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David W. Miller; Doris Brodeur

required aconsiderable amount of faculty time. Fortunately, faculty time supported not only the academicgoals of the course, but also faculty research through development of the product.Sustainability of this type of learning experience, given its scale and associated funding, is animportant concern. There is no guarantee that such large-scale research projects will be availableon a regular basis for undergraduate capstone experiences. Fortunately, this concern wasaddressed by coupling the project with the experimental research program being conducted withinthe Space Systems Laboratory at MIT. This allowed the project to tie strongly to the researchside of the Department thereby providing motivating, cutting-edge projects; augmented funding;as

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Loc Vu-quoc; David Mikolaitis; Norman Fitz-Coy; R. Keith Stanfill

-02). Below, we record some of theexperience by one of the authors (L. Vu-Quoc) in coaching LMCO IPPD projects.Typically, each year, the LMCO Engineering Director, who has been a strong proponent of theIPPD program, would contact the leaders of on-going large-scale projects inside LMCO toinform these project leaders about, and to encourage them to support, the IPPD program bydefining a portion of the work in their projects that would fit the IPPD project scope. The successof the previous IPPD projects funded by LMCO has been the key persuading argument that theLMCO Engineering Director used to convince the project leaders to subcontract a small portionof their project to the IPPD program. To this end, the LMCO Engineering Director kept in