Conference Session

Making in Design

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vincent Wilczynski, Yale University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

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 Year by the Carnegie

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Trevelyan, University of Western Australia

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

Page 26.951.2support research activity at an internationally competitive level for a top 100 university.Coordinating two courses for 300 or more students is normal, with support from teachingassistants for tutorials and laboratory classes. (In Australian universities, each course isnormally 25% of a full-time student’s study load for a semester.) In view of its importance,the capstone design course has a slightly higher level of teaching resources than most othercourses.The second challenge is students’ lack of practical knowledge. Practical knowledge amongstudents entering our engineering courses is usually limited to basic domestic repairs andassembling flat-packed furniture. Almost all the prior courses completed by students focuson

Conference Session

Making in Design

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chrissy Hobson Foster, Arizona State University; Matthew Dickens, Arizona State University; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Micah Lande, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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engineering science and towards design-centeredactivities. The restructuring of how we educate aspiring engineers has taken place at theclassroom, departmental, and institutional levels. Laboratory and design courses have beenparticularly instrumental in this shift. Engaging learners within engineering courses has beenwidely studied and can occur through active and cooperative learning, experiences inside andoutside the classroom, interaction and support from experts, and the creation of supportivelearning environments that promotes challenge, effort, and social interaction.2 Across thesestrategies for engagement, design education is central to the engineering classroom. As design isa distinguishing activity done by engineers, design education

Conference Session

Design Pedagogy

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Asly Artiles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Katherine E LeVine, Wellesley College

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Design in Engineering Education

ParticipantIdea Pitches to rally to teams, for Workshops by EdExperts wherein students could learn moreabout a specific organization’s tools, and for a lab safety training to use the shop tools.Three topic categories enticed participants: Hands-On Learning, Digital Learning, and SystemsRe-Thinking. There were four key design parameters of the event— i) Three topic categorieswere framed: Hands-On Learning, Digital Learning, and Systems Re-Thinking, ii) EducationExperts were brought in to pitch Challenge Presentations, lead workshops, and serve as ad hocmentors, iii) A laboratory equipped with prototyping materials and a spending budget for eachstudent enabled physical project developments, and iv) Award categories were not matched to thethree topic

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Dixon, East Carolina University

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Design in Engineering Education

Practical Experience: Students will let you do thismaterials and expenses will be normally covered by project if you take charge. Resist the urge to useexisting laboratory sources. Some projects require your knowledge and experience to give themmore extensive (what is not normally in our labs) short-cuts and a path to a quick finish. You shouldmaterials and fabrications. Students are directed in use little of your brain on this. It is their project,the Capstone handbook to provide a bill of materials their design. If they do something stupid, theyand an assembly drawing with their requests for learn. If they continue to generate stupid design,purchases. Additional instrumentation and or special they

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mansoor Nasir, Lawrence Technological University; Darrell K. Kleinke P.E., University of Detroit Mercy; Molly McClelland, University of Detroit Mercy

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #15433Multidisciplinary Patient-Centered Capstone Senior Design ProjectsDr. Mansoor Nasir, Lawrence Technological University Dr. Mansoor Nasir received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of California-Berkeley. He worked as a research scientist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. before joining the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Lawrence Technological University. He has several publications in the areas of microflu- idics, chemical and biological sensors, and MEMS technology. He is also passionate

Conference Session

Professional Skills and Teaming in Design

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark W. Steiner, University of Central Florida; Kurt Stephen Stresau, University of Central Florida

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Design in Engineering Education

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

Conference Session

Making, Hacking, and Extracurricular Design

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vincent Wilczynski, Yale University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

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

Conference Session

Design Methodologies 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Andrea M. Ragonese, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Elizabeth Marie Starkey, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Design in Engineering Education

longer wanted to spend the money to trainnew engineers; they expect the inherent training to come from students’ engineering education[15]. As a result, one such manner students received the training was through the use of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in conjunction with computer simulation packages that students may utilizein a laboratory to solve realistic problems [1].For example, if a student wanted to reverse engineer a bicycle, you may be able to do this by noteven taking it apart. Many of the parts are visible just by looking at them for different angles [16],[17]. However, if you wanted to reverse engineer, or dissect, a motorcycle (including its engine),there were too many moving parts. It would be impossible to dissect, or disassemble

Conference Session

Design Teams 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Peter Schuster, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Lauren Anne Cooper, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Eltahry Elghandour, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Eileen W. Rossman P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Sarah Harding, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

State Uni- versity, San Luis Obispo, teaching a variety of design related courses. Previous to joining Cal Poly, Sarah worked in the automotive industry as a chassis engineer and quality manager.Dr. Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Brian Self obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech, and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Utah. He worked in the Air Force Research Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy for seven years. Brian has taught in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo since 2006. During the 2011-2012 academic year he participated in a professor exchange, teaching at the

Conference Session

Design Across Curriculum 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Robert P. Loweth, University of Michigan; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Jiangqiong Liu; Kathleen H. Sienko, University of Michigan

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Research Group is a multidisciplinary laboratory developing novel methodologies to create technological solutions that address pressing societal needs at the intersection of health care and engineering. Dr. Sienko is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award and several teaching awards including the ASME Engineering Education Donald N. Zwiep Innova- tion in Education Award, UM Teaching Innovation Prize, UM Undergraduate Teaching Award, and UM Distinguished Professor Award. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Student Practices Developing Needs Statements for Design ProblemsAbstractNeeds statements are concise articulations of design problems that indicate what changes arenecessary

Conference Session

Design Methodolgy

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rudolph Eggert, Boise State University

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Design in Engineering Education

presentations, written reporting, graphics, technicaldrawings, and presentation of engineering mathematics and numerical data. How we teachcommunication is also important such as having the appropriate mixture of lectures, activelearning, homework, projects and laboratories. Similarly, a series of progressive reinforcementsover the four year curriculum is ideal.This paper, however, will primarily focus on efforts to determine which design topics should betaught.2.0 Before ABET 2000In 1991, Dixon2 wrote a seminal article discussing the state of engineering design. He suggestedthat we broaden the scope of engineering design to include the entire product realization process(PRP) to include design and manufacturing processes that convert information

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paris von Lockette, Rowan University; Eric Constans, Rowan University; Jennifer Courtney, Rowan University; Kevin Dahm, Rowan University; William Riddell, Rowan University; Roberta Harvey, Rowan University

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recover from errors – Error messages should be expressed in plain language (no codes), precisely indicate the problem, and constructively suggest a solution.Help and documentation – Even though it is better if the system can be used without documentation, it may be necessary to provide help and documentation. Any such information should be easy to search, focused on the user's task, list concrete steps to be carried out, and not be too large. Page 12.406.16References1 J. A. Newell, D. K. Ludlow, and S. P. K. Sternberg, "Progressive development of oral and written communicationskills across and integrated laboratory

Conference Session

Best of DEED

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Wang, University of California, Berkeley

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Design in Engineering Education

, 26(3), 27-39.25. Committee on K-12 Engineering Education. (2009). Summary. In L. Katehi, G. Pearson, and M. Feder (Eds.), Engineering in K-12 Education: Understanding the Status and Improving the Prospects (pp. 1-14). Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press.26. Bamberger, Jeanne. 1991. The laboratory for making things. In D. Schon, ed., The Reflective Turn: Case Studies in and on Educational Practice. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.27. Kumar, S. and Hsiao, J.K. (2007). Engineers learn “soft skills the hard way”: Planting a seed of leadership in engineering classes. Leadership and Management in Engineering, 7(1), 18-23.28. Tsang, E., Van Haneghan, J., Johnson, B., Newman, E. J., & Van Eck, S. (2001). A report on

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael S. Trevisan, Washington State University; Denny C. Davis, Washington State University; Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow; Jay Patrick McCormack, University of Idaho; Phillip L. Thompson, Seattle University; Paul R. Leiffer, LeTourneau University; Howard P. Davis, Washington State University; Susannah Howe, Smith College; Jennifer E. LeBeau, Washington State University; Robert E. Gerlick, Pittsburg State University; Patricia Brackin, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; M. Javed Khan, Tuskegee University

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design.Dr. Patricia Brackin, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Patricia Brackin is a professor of M.E. at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, where she teaches a vari- ety of design courses including capstone design. Her B.S. and M.S. are from the University of Tennessee in nuclear engineering and her Ph.D. is from Georgia Institute of Technology in M.E. Her industrial ex- perience includes Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Chicago Bridge and Iron, and Eli Lilly. She is a registered P.E.Dr. M. Javed Khan, Tuskegee University Javed Khan is professor and Head of the Aerospace Science Engineering Department at Tuskegee Uni- versity. He received his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from Texas A&M, M.S. in aeronautical

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University; Eric C Pappas, James Madison University

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Design in Engineering Education

similarly developed a three course sequence providing an immersive, laboratory-basedexperience; the third course in this sequence focuses on the engineering design process andfollows the IDEO design process.13 At Rowan University, an engineering clinic course sequence(which is comprised of one course per term for all four academic years) provides immersivelaboratory based experiences for students across all engineering majors.14 The sophomore clinicbegins during the fall term with a disciplinary design experience and culminating during thespring term with multidisciplinary design experiences.14 Compared to the first four programsmentioned, the last four programs mentioned are smaller and offer an immersive, moreintegrated engineering design

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Ekwaro-Osire, Texas Tech University; Fisseha Meresa Alemayehu, Texas Tech University; Haileyesus Belay Endeshaw, Texas Tech University; Ricardo Cruz Lozano, Texas Tech University

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Design in Engineering Education

, Page 24.468.18 complimenting what was already being done in the context of reliability.” • R8.13: “The required laboratory courses (Sophomore, Junior, Senior) emphasize statistics and uncertainty analysis in Design of Experiments. Students in the Junior level Machine Design course are taught to consider the variability of materials, manufacturing processes, and unpredictable factors of products in service such as variable loading, and the necessity for a factor of Safety. They analyze the empirical nature of fatigue analysis, and apply fundamental concepts of uncertainty in designing components.” • R8.14: “We focus on teaching them how to deal with uncertainty through prototyping and

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claire Yu Yan P.Eng., University of British Columbia; Vladan Prodanovic P.Eng., University of British Columbia, Okanagan; Ray Taheri

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me an opportunity to further develop my interpersonal andcommunication skills essential in a team environmentAll of these design projects involve group exercises, discussion and presentations. For example,the capstone course requires students to make four oral presentations (including a posterpresentation and a final presentation) and to submit three reports and a professional logbook.APSC 170 and APSC 258 projects include interactive tutorials, laboratory work and designcompetitions. All of these factors contribute to the development of students’ interpersonal andcommunication skills. The majority of students generally agreed to this, as can be seen in Table 8and Figure 9. From students’ comments, we realize that some groups faced

Conference Session

Developing the Design Skillset

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Paul D. Mathis, Engineering Education

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Leader Senior Design, High School Engineering Design ProjectsRusty Male Civil Engineering Technical Problem- Global Engineering, Senior Solver DesignStan Male Chemical Engineering Lab Specialist/Solo Laboratory Research, Senior Worker DesignZachery Male Aeronautical Engineering “Operations Guy” Internship, High School Competition

Conference Session

Design Communications & Cognition II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caleb DeValve, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Richard M. Goff, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Department Head of the Department of Engi- neering Education at Virginia Tech. He is the Director of the Multi-University NSF I/UCRC Center for e-Design, the Director of the Frith Freshman Design Laboratory and the Co-Director of the Engineering First-year Program. His research areas are design and design education. Dr. Goff has won numerous University teaching awards for his innovative and interactive teaching. He is passionately committed to bringing research and industry projects into the class room as well as spreading fun and creating engage- ment in all levels of Engineering Education. Page 22.904.1

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregg M. Warnick, Brigham Young University; Robert H. Todd, Brigham Young University

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Design in Engineering Education

facilities including significant analysis, CAD, rapid prototyping,machining, and engineering laboratories. Capstone student teams take real-life design projectsfrom concept generation and modeling to a working prototype including documentation.Companies that sponsor Capstone projects provide BYU an educational grant of $20,000 whichprovides an initial budget for each team of $1,500. Approved costs that exceed the initial budgetare the responsibility of the sponsoring company. All documentation, drawings, and prototypescreated by the student teams are provided to the sponsoring company. In addition, BYU grantsall intellectual property that may be developed by the team to the sponsoring company. Thispractice is similar to what occurs in industry as

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen W. Laguette, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Design in Engineering Education

. Students have an opportunity to work with leading international researchers, graduate students, and research laboratories. 3) Student Organizations and Design Competitions include Engineers Without Borders and SAE design competitions. 4) Student and Faculty Created Projects include creative and challenging projects with an entrepreneurial perspective.A variety of challenging projects are created each year to appeal to varied student academic andcareer interests. Student project selection and team formation can be a challenging and timeconsuming process that is critical to the success of the design project and course experience.Successful student teams should include enthusiastic, motivated and engaged students3,4. Thispaper will

Conference Session

Design Spine

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Frank, Queen's University; David S. Strong, Queen's University; Rick Sellens, Queen's University

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Design in Engineering Education

. Eng. Ed, Vo l. 18, No. 6, p. 644, 200219. Sheppard, K. and Gallois, B., The Design Spine: Revision of the Engineering Curricu lu m to Include a Design Experience each Semester, A merican Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings, Charlotte, North Carolina, June 1999, Session 322520. Sheppard, S. et al. (2008), “Educating Engineers: Designing for the Future of the Field”, Jossey -Bass.21. Stiver, W., “Sustainable Design in a second year engineering design course, I. J. Eng. Ed., vol 26, no 2., pp. 1-6, 201022. Topper, A., and Clapham, L., Fro m Experiments to Experimentation; A New Philosophy for First Year Laboratories, C2E2 2001, Victoria23. Wolf, P. and Christensen Hughes, J. (eds.) (2007), Curriculu m

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bridget M. Smyser, Northeastern University; Gregory J. Kowalski, Northeastern University

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. In contrast, the consecutive cohort gets an uninterrupted period of two terms to devote totheir project. The students are all on campus, so there are no barriers to meeting, and 24 houraccess to computer modeling laboratories is provided. The consecutive cohort in theory has moreaccess to faculty advisors as well.Despite the potential benefits of two consecutive terms on campus, it seems that there is somebenefit to going on co-op after the first term of Capstone. Many groups do manage to continueworking on their problems, despite the distance between group members. Groups have also beenknown to take advantage of subject matter experts at their co-op company to get information tohelp them solve their design problems. During co-op, students

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter L. Schmidt, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Janusz Zalewski, Florida Gulf Coast University; Gloria A. Murphy, NASA; Thomas H. Morris, Mississippi State University; Christina L. Carmen, University of Alabama, Huntsville; Paul J. Van Susante, Colorado School of Mines

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Group of Superconducting Super Collider and Computer Safety and Reliability Center at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He also worked on projects and consulted for a number of private companies, including Lockheed Martin, Harris, and Boeing. Zalewski served as a chairman of the International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 5.4 on Industrial Software Quality, and of the International Federation of Automatic Con- trol Technical Committee on Safety of Computer Control Systems. His major research interests include safety-related, real-time computer systems.Gloria A. Murphy, NASA Gloria A. Murphy is currently the Project Manager of the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) Space

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Facciol, University of Toronto; Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto; Jason Foster, University of Toronto

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Design in Engineering Education

, similar to practices they would encounter in engineering industry. The learningobjectives of this course are process-oriented; the professor examines the process the studentshave followed and how they got to their end point. The professor believes that the process of thedesign is even more important than whether or not the final product works. In this particularproject, the professor encourages students to break down a problem, test it incrementally, andeventually put it back together once these individual components are functional.The course allows for frequent engagement with students in a studio session that promotesdiscussion of the progression of their work. Laboratory time is used to introduce students to thetask of system debugging, which

Conference Session

Creativity and Innovation in Engineering Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christina White, Columbia University; Austin Talley, University of Texas, Austin; Daniel Jensen, United States Air Force Academy; Kristin Wood, George Washington University; Andy Szmerekovsky, US Air Force Academy; Richard Crawford, University of Texas at Austin

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factors, management) were distributed as evenly as possible, considering other factors such as student desire, and the project’s unique requirements. Each team had at least one management major (USAFA) and usually one or more other students from other technical degree programs.At USAFA, design teams worked on a variety of projects ranging from the Society ofAutomotive Engineers Formula Car Intercollegiate Competition to various smaller projectssponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratories (AFRL). Team sizes ranged from 12 (for theformula team) to 6 (for the smallest AFRL team). Half of these groups served as a “control”group, only using 6-3-5 for concept generation. These three teams included the SAE

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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Design in Engineering Education

and experimentation: Unfortunately, the advent of the computer and itsimpact on teaching engineering has made it easy to produce computer-based models at theexpense of physical models. This fact is behind a general trend of teaching applied engineeringsubjects with minimal students’ involvement with physical set-ups including laboratoryexperiments. Carrying out laboratory experiments and generating experimental data, visiting aproject site, and using pencil and paper to produce a schematic, are gradually fading away. Thesetraditional tools were instrumental in developing an engineering common sense. It is argued herethat generating data from physical models is potentially a great learning tool, particularly whenthe model is built by the

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Briana Lucero, Colorado School of Mines; Cameron J Turner P.E., Colorado School of Mines

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Design in Engineering Education

launches.Dr. Cameron J Turner P.E., Colorado School of Mines Dr. Cameron Turner is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering with a research interest in the foundations of design across multiple disciplines. Dr. Turner earned his Ph.D. at the University at Texas in 2005, focusing on Surrogate Model Optimization for Engineering Design. He also holds an MSE from the University of Texas at Austin, with a focus on robotics, and a BSME from the University of Wyoming. He has more than 13 years of experience at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and in 2009 accepted a position at the Colorado School of Mines. From 2009-13, he directed the Engineering Design Program at CSM, covering the departments of Civil and Environmental

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education (DEED) Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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Design in Engineering Education

and thus may underemphasize approximationskills(13).Attempts to rectify the situation would require research and development and eventuallyinstigating potential changes in curricula and teaching methods.4) Physical modeling and experimentation: Unfortunately, the advent of the computer and itsimpact on teaching engineering has made it easy to produce computer-based models at theexpense of physical models. This fact is behind a general trend of teaching applied engineeringsubjects with minimal students’ involvement with physical set-ups including laboratoryexperiments. Carrying out laboratory experiments and generating experimental data, visiting aproject site, and using pencil and paper to produce a schematic, are gradually fading away