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Design in Engineering Education Division: Capstone Design Practices

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natascha Trellinger Buswell, University of California, Irvine; Mark E. Walter, University of California, Irvine

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, University of California, Irvine Dr. Walter received his PhD in Applied Mechanics from Caltech. He spent a year as a Fulbright Post- doctoral Fellow doing materials science research at the Universitaet Karlsruhe. He joined the Ohio State University in January of 1997 and spent 17 years there running a research group, teaching mechanics and design classes, and advising two US Department of Energy solar decathlon teams. Dr. Walter’s re- search was focused on understanding deformation and failure mechanisms at the micro-scale. In 1998 he received a NSF CAREER award to study thermal barrier coatings and was later active in studying dura- bility of solid oxide fuel cell materials. After one year at the Fraunhofer Institute for

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division: Capstone Design Practices

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Giselle Guanes Melgarejo, Ohio State University; Genevieve Thanh; Emily Dringenberg, Ohio State University

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; engineering design decisions are consequential for the design and how it performsupon implementation. To use a spoon, the person may need to like the color; and the material ofthe blade must be strong enough for an endurance task. Because design decisions areconsequential, undergraduate engineering programs have a responsibility to prepare students asdecision makers.Capstone design courses allow undergraduate engineering students to experience open-endeddesign projects before starting their professional careers. As such, capstone serves as anopportunity to develop students’ ability to make decisions in an ill-structured setting. Typically,explicit instruction related to decision making includes an introduction to rationalistic tools, suchas decision

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Pezeshki, Washington State University; Jacob William Leachman, Washington State University; Michael Richey, The Boeing Company

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Design Lessons in Education for Projects Demanding Cross-Disciplinary IntegrationIntroductionUAVs have been used for curricular development in a handful of pioneering instances[1]. Because of their external physical configuration, they are extremely interesting tostudents with hobbyist interests in radio-controlled aircraft, as well as to studentsinterested in careers in the aerospace industry. Though the reality of jobs in aerospace issuch that students will work on one small part of an airplane, UAVs offer the potential tointroduce students to all aspects of aerospace design, in a controllable microcosm [2], [3].However, UAVs offer different developmental opportunities outside the aerospacecommunity. Notably, they are an active

Conference Session

1st and 2nd Year Instruction in Design

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irene B. Mena, University of Pittsburgh; William W. Clark, University of Pittsburgh; Ellen M. Moe

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skills the project intended to develop. The skills they developed will be useful to them notonly in the context of design, but in their future engineering careers. As pointed out by theNational Academy of Engineering8, the engineer of 2020 will need creativity, teamwork, andcommunication skills. The students’ survey responses indicated that teamwork and creativity inparticular were developed as a result of this project.The student surveys also indicated that they learned about the need to test designs. In theircomments, they emphasized that they realized how difficult it is to take something from theconceptual stage to a final product, and that they would have liked more time to continue to testand iterate their designs. This indicates that

Conference Session

Research on Design Learning

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony F. Luscher, Ohio State University; Roger Forsgren, NASA Headquarters

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Principal Investigator John Mather learned thislesson early in his career. During his graduate studies, Mather designed a balloon payloadintended to measure cosmic background radiation. He and his team had grown tired of testingand forewent some of their planned tests. The payload failed. “Testing is tiresome, tedious,boring, and essential,” said Mather. “If you do not test it, it will not work.”27 Years later, afterMather set aside his involvement in research related to cosmic background radiation, NASAoffered him the opportunity to fly the experiment in space on the Cosmic Background Explorer(COBE). A mission fraught with challenges and multiple redesigns, he carried the lessons of hisfailed graduate experiment with him: test, test, test. The

Conference Session

Best of DEED

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica A. Kuczenski, Santa Clara University; Erin Susan Araj, Santa Clara University

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  ● inclusion of clearer visuals and better multimedia capabilities  Digication was chosen as the electronic notebook platform. Digication is a university sponsored and maintained tool which interacts well with Google collaborative software already implemented on campus. Digication allows students to create their own personal eFolios by forming websites which are collections of webpages and has many ‘modules’ available for the addition of artifacts on each page including rich text, images, video, audio, among others. Students can access and edit their eFolio at any time from anywhere (with internet access) and allow for access throughout their college career including after graduation. Additionally, team members and even ‘external’ community partners

Conference Session

Design as a Social Process: Teams and Organizations

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joy M. Adams, University of Michigan; Mical D. DeGraaff, University of Michigan; Gail S Hohner, University of Michigan

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on significant, open ended, team-based engineering design. The program’s educationalgoals are to produce students possessing deep technical skills and the ability to be systemsthinkers; (2) capable and skilled in bringing creativity and innovation to design and problem-solving; (3) who are independent learners, able to reinvest themselves throughout their careers;and (4) who are effective communicators and team players in their professional and personallives. The Multidisciplinary Design Program strives to bring multiple facets of professionalpractice into the academic setting engineering design instruction. A key message, and oneexplored further in this research, is that technical ability alone does not ensure success for

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ding Yuan, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Jane M. Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Ananda Mani Paudel, Colorado State University, Pueblo

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.” Proceedings of the 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Paper ID #9967.13. Mosborg, S., et al, “Conceptions of the engineering design process: an expert study of advanced practicing professionals,” Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2005.14. Landis, R. B., Studying Engineering: A Road Map to a Rewarding Career, 4th ed., Discovery Press, pp. 38-39, 2013.15. Gagnon, B., Leduc, R. and Savard, L., “From a conventional to a sustainable engineering design process: different shades of sustainability,” Journal of Engineering Design, Vol. 23, No.1, pp 49-74, 2012.16. Zhang, H., and Haapala, K. R., “Integrating sustainable manufacturing assessment into decision making for a production work

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Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jay B. Brockman, University of Notre Dame; Gina Navoa Svarovsky, University of Notre Dame; Matthew Kloser, University of Notre Dame

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early in their academic careers, especially Page 26.1123.16at the first-year level.Analyzing the process of developing Wild Sound using both Herbert Simon’s theory ofdesign presented in the Sciences of the Artificial, as well as current theories of DesignThinking helped significantly in making sense of the highly complex and interdependentdesign process. In particular, applying Simon’s theories of the “environment as mold”for a design led to the discovery of “non-obvious” artifacts that were invented during thedesign process, namely a timeline management scheme and a system of MIDI tonepatches that greatly improved the overall organization and

Conference Session

Research on Design Learning

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Sánchez-Parkinson, University of Michigan ; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; James Paul Holloway, University of Michigan; Amy J Conger, University of Michigan; Kathleen H. Sienko, University of Michigan; Lorelle A Meadows, Michigan Technological University

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Paper ID #11864 Laboratory for Innovation in Global Health Technology (LIGHT). SARL focuses on the design, develop- ment, and evaluation of medical devices, especially for balance-impaired populations such as individuals with vestibular loss or advanced age. LIGHT focuses on the co-creative design of frugal innovations to address healthcare challenges in resource-limited settings. Prof. Sienko has led efforts at the University of Michigan to incorporate the constraints of global health technologies within engineering design at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She is the recipient of a CAREER Award from the National Sci- ence Foundation, a Teaching Innovation Prize from the UM Provost, and a UM Undergraduate

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacqulyn Baughman, Iowa State University; Lesya M. Hassall, Iowa State University; Nadia V. Jaramillo Cherrez, Iowa State University; Mathew Hagge, Iowa State University

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-based learning. Her research interests lie upon the intricacies amongst the design of learning environments, human-computer interaction, online learning.Dr. Mathew Hagge, Iowa State University Matt Hagge is a Senior Lecturer at Iowa State University. He has spent his career talking to students to figure out how students think and learn. The result of these talks has been the development of a course-wide decision framework for a thermodynamics course that allows students to solve previously unseen problems while building their expertise. This pedagogy is called Decision Based Learning, and has received tremendous student feedback and results. Students are able to solve complex problems through understanding rather

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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Education Collaborative.10. Caprari, F., & Palmisano, R. (2011). Multidisciplinary collaboration for sustainable innovation. Medical News Today. Retrieved from http:// www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/227404.php11. Designing a Career in Biomedical Engineering, Engineering in Medicine & Biology. (n.d.). Retrieved January 27, 2016, from http://www.embs.org/docs/careerguide.pdf12. McClelland, M. & Kleinke, D. (2013). Improving lives using multidisciplinary education; Partnering to benefit community, innovation, health & technology. Journal of Nursing Education; 52(7): 406-9. doi:10.3928/01484834-2013. PMID 2375594013. McClelland, M. & Kleinke, D. (2011). Innovative Educational Collaboration between

Conference Session

Design Teams 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jeanne M. Homer, Oklahoma State University; James Beckstrom, Oklahoma State University; Tom Elliott Spector, Oklahoma State University; John J. Phillips, Oklahoma State University; Khaled Mansy, Oklahoma State University

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Mr. Beckstrom graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Oklahoma State University and M.S. in Environmental Policy and Management from the University of Denver. He is a registered Pro- fessional Engineer. The majority of his 40 year career has been in industry interdisciplinary projects as an engineer, as commercial business developer, program manager, project manager and as an executive managing numerous project and strategic business teams. His recent industry consulting focus as been training and developing fresh engineering graduates to be productive contributors in their workforce and workforce competency and skills assessment. His work experience has included the high arctic of Siberia and Alaska

Conference Session

Design Mental Frameworks

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kaylee A Dunnigan, NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering; Amy Dunford, New York University Tandon School of Engineering; Jack Bringardner, NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering

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differences in novelty and quality across students’ designs. This study also expandson current developments in methodology that has implications for expanding this study in orderto better relate students’ design experiences to their design ability.IntroductionEngineering students have a wide variety of educational experiences throughout theirundergraduate career within and outside of their required coursework. The goal of these variousengineering opportunities is to develop students into engineering professionals, that not onlysucceed but are also able to make a better, safer, more sustainable world [1]. There are essentialtopics in which students should become competent [2,3]. These key knowledge and skill areas areconsidered the most essential

Conference Session

Design Methodologies 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Arash Nourimand, University of Toronto; Alison Olechowski, University of Toronto

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respondents, and the types of CAD softwares used byindividuals in their product development workflow. ~85% of responses were taken fromindividuals from North America, with over 67% of them being mechanical engineers by rolecategorization. As well, the data is more skewed towards the respondents being in the start oftheir career (mid-late 20s). These were mostly as a consequence of the respondent recruitmentapproach. Implications of this bias are discussed below in section 5.1. Table 1: Summary Statistics of Demographic InformationYears Spent in RoleVariable Count Percentage of Total<1 year 2 7.14%1-4 years

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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before starting a career teaching engineering. Here industry experience includes field support for Navy Nuclear refueling with Westing- house, analysis and programming of pipeline flow solutions with Stoner Associates, and design of elevator structures and drive components with Schindler Elevator. Since 2002, Eileen has taught in the Mechanical Engineering Department at California Polytechnic State University. Her teaching experience includes Basic and Intermediate Fluids, Basic and Intermediate Dy- namics, Statics, Machine Design, and Thermal Measurements.Sarah Harding, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Sarah Harding is a member of the Mechanical Engineering faculty at California Polytechnic

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

Teams and Teamwork in Design II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ralph Sandfry, US Air Force Academy; michael bettner, US Air Force Academy; Tim Lawrence, US Air Force Academy; Michael Sobers, US Air Force Academy

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. With sponsorship from the Air Force Research Laboratory, he led the cadets in flying the Academy’s first successful supersonic rocket. He also teaches engineering courses in astrodynamics, attitude dynamics & control, rocket propulsion, linear systems analysis and controls. Lieutenant Colonel Sandfry is originally from Columbia, Missouri. He earned his commission from ROTC and the University of Kansas in 1989, graduating with a major in Aerospace Engineering. His Air Force career includes engineering and program management assignments with the Global Positioning System Joint Program Office in Los Angeles AFB, California and the Maverick Missile Program Office at Hill AFB, Utah. In 1995 he

Conference Session

Design Methodolgy

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rudolph Eggert, Boise State University

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“involved.” Could it be that our own community ofdesign educators has not been able to persuade our own departments, that a solid designcurriculum will not only meet minimum ABET standards, but more importantly, prepare ourstudents for careers in a global work environment?Unfortunately the answers to these questions will have to wait for the next study.5.0 What design topics should we be teaching?We can argue that the thermal sciences in mechanical engineering include a core of fundamentalsincluding thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer. We can suggest that for themotion/structures stem, mechanics of materials and machine design are brimming withfundamentals, too. And lastly, consider how engineering statics is important for both of

Conference Session

Design Methods and Concepts

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cari Bryant, University of Missouri-Rolla; Eric Pieper, University of Missouri-Rolla; Brandon Walther, University of Texas-Austin; Tolga Kurtoglu, University of Texas-Austin; Robert Stone, University of Missouri-Rolla; Daniel McAdams, University of Missouri-Rolla; Matthew Campbell, University of Texas-Austin

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2001. Dr. Campbell's research is focused on the area of computational design synthesis. Dr.© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 2001. Dr. Campbell's research is focused on the area of computational design synthesis. Dr. Campbell has been acknowledged with best paper awards at conferences sponsored by the ASME, the ASEE, and the Design Society. His research focuses on computational methods that aid the engineering designer earlier in the design process than traditional optimization would. To date, he has been awarded $1.57 million in research funding, including the CAREER award for research into a generic graph topology optimization method. This research represents a

Conference Session

Design Methodology and Evaluation 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Chong, University of Toronto; Jason A. Foster, University of Toronto; Patricia Kristine Sheridan, University of Toronto; Robert Irish, University of Toronto

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,because it enables a cognitive awareness of the profession that should inform a large part of theirlearning over their undergraduate career. Achieving such a goal at the freshman level presents asignificant challenge, but would produce significant benefit by allowing such an awareness toinform all of their future learning. While many studies have examined how students engage inengineering design, none have looked at how students understand engineering design, and howpersonal definitions can influence undergraduate students’ perspectives on their studies and theprofession.Typically, in defining engineering design, instructors rely on textbooks which arrive with rich,well thought out, and thorough definitions of engineering design. Such definitions

Conference Session

Design Teamwork

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Kristine Sheridan, University of Toronto; Lobna El Gammal, Institute For Leadership Education in Engineering at the University of Toronto; Jennie Phillips MA, University of Toronto; Greg Evans, University of Toronto; Doug Reeve P.Eng., University of Toronto

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engineering studies at the University of Toronto. She is pursuing a certificate of global engineering and working towards an optional fourth-year thesis with the Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (ILead) at the University of Toronto. Previously, she worked as a pilot analyst summer research student, with both ILead and Patricia Sheridan, to develop a team effectiveness inventory for guided reflection and feedback. Lobna was responsible for performing quantitative and qualitative analysis of the pilot project findings and for modifying the proposed inventory based on analysis. Lobna is passionate about engineering education and plans to pursue a career path in the field.Jennie Phillips MA, University of

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Dixon, East Carolina University

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“problem statement (or definition, scope, formulation and/orframing).” Notable comments provided further clarification and challenges to capstoneinstructors and coordinators. The examples provided below are unedited. “As a career design and development specialist for a large international corporation, I always try to establish a professional problem statement. I insist on a project planning exercise with for example a GantI[t] chart. Regular meetings with the design teams, ensures that they recognize the need for adherence to their project plan, and take unforeseen problems in stride. I strongly believe that lectures are not design, and few academics have the background and experience to appreciate the niceties of professional design

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David C. Che, Geneva College; David Allen Clark, Geneva College; David W. Shaw, Geneva College; James S. Gidley, Geneva College

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of students frommultiple disciplines on a SAE Baja project, and the unique challenges we faced in the context of asmall liberal arts college. More literature review will be conducted within the body of the paper whena specific topic is to be discussed.How it got startedWhat we found out through years of teaching mechanical engineering students is that manyrelate well to automotive examples because they had experience working with cars. That hands-on knowledge help facilitate a linkage between engineering theory and engineering practice. Thefirst author had many years of experience working in the automotive industry prior to the start ofhis full time teaching career at the college. Naturally, when he joined the faculty of the college infall

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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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Paper ID #8395Engineering Students’ Perception of Project Based Learning Activities at theSchool of Engineering, UBC Okanagan CampusDr. Claire Yu Yan P.Eng., University of British Columbia Dr. Claire Y. Yan is a senior instructor in the School of Engineering, UBC Okanagan campus. She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China and Ph.D. degree from the University of Strathclyde in the UK. Prior to joining UBC in 2008, she worked as a research scientist at Ryerson University in Toronto. Along her career, she has been involved in various research projects in the area of CFD, heat and mass

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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expertise in dealing withany intellectual property situations they may face as they work with their industrial sponsors ontheir respective projects.All Capstone project teams are provided an opportunity to present their project work at theconclusion of each of the two semesters with the inclusion of a project fair at the end of thesecond semester. The project fair provides Capstone project teams an opportunity to demonstratethe physical results of their project in a setting similar to a career fair. Capstone project teamsalso prepare presentations that highlight the results of their project work. Since the goal of BYUand other academic institutions is to faciliate and provide learning opportunities for students,these presentations are open to the

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sumedh Inamdar, University of Texas, Austin; Krystian Zimowski, University of Texas, Austin; Kevin A. Gibbons Ret., U.S. Air Force Academy, NexOne, Inc., and CAStLE; Brittany Rucker, U.S. Air Force Academy; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Kristin L. Wood, University of Texas, Austin; Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin

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Pilot School. Kevin spent most of his AF career performing flight test on advanced aircraft weapons systems. His interests include thermo-fluid sciences, teaching, experimentation, traveling, SCUBA, and botanical sciences.Miss Brittany Rucker, U.S. Air Force AcademyDr. Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy Dan Jensen is a professor of engineering mechanics at the U.S. Air Force Academy where he has been since 1997. He received his B.S. (mechanical engineering), M.S. (applied mechanics), and Ph.D. (aerospace engineering science) from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has worked for Texas Instruments, Lockheed Martin, NASA, University of the Pacific, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and MSC Software Corp. His

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yosef S. Allam, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Clifford A. Whitfield, Ohio State University; Jintana Nina Phanthanousy, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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and graduating, respectively, undergraduate engineering students thusact as bookend design experiences. The Cornerstone curricula serve multifaceted purposesincluding providing students with what is likely their first open-ended design and long-termproblem-solving challenge as well as transitioning incoming traditional engineering studentsfrom secondary college preparatory coursework to engineering coursework at the post-secondarylevel, not to mention satisfying various curriculum content-related and pedagogical objectives.The Capstone activities provide students with an opportunity to apply their coursework fromtheir program of study and experiences through their college careers in a final project often in thefield and involving industry

Conference Session

Design Tools & Methodology I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pedro Renato Acosta, University of Texas, El Paso; Rafael Gonzalez, University of Texas, El Paso; Noe Vargas Hernandez, University of Texas, El Paso

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promote the development ofcreativity skill in their students. Traditional engineering curricula is focused mostly in technicaldevelopment; 13 this practice has shown a decreasing level of creativity in students rather thanincrease while they are moving forward in their career. The teaching of idea generation(ideation) methods could enhance the student’s designer creative capacity; this has been shownby multiple research studies14,15,12 . Learning about ideation methods can tackle creativedeficiencies. Although various Ideation Methods exist (e.g. brainstorming, mind-mapping,synectics, lateral thinking or morphological analysis16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23 ), engineering educationinstitutions as well as industry tend to prefer quick and simple methods

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

at four important areas: the student’sexposure to engineering design throughout their undergraduate career, the student’s perception ofengineering design in verbal and visual form, the qualities of a good engineering designer, andthe important topics to be covered in an engineering design course.The purpose of the sources identified prior was to generate the overall list of qualities and topicsshown in the tables within the instrument. The first list was created using the interview results.This list was then expanded upon using curricular requirements. The combination of theinterview results and curricular requirements were identified as the most important of the listsince they would reveal that the students were meeting the course