Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susannah Howe, Smith College; Ron Lasser, Tufts University; Katie Su, Smith College; Sarah Pedicini, Smith College

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Design in Engineering Education

and developmentand b) the disconnect between perceived and expected proficiency for capstone graduates. Thiseffort adds to a growing body of work to understand and ultimately improve capstone education.1. Introduction and MotivationCapstone engineering design course program instantiations are based upon academic institution,department, and instructor. Each brings a unique perspective to the course and the learningenvironment. Capstone engineering design projects are each unique in their own right sinceindividuals or teams may select a project that has never been done before. In this context ofvariations of uniqueness, if that can be used as a means to define an educational environment, isit possible to evaluate a capstone engineering design

Conference Session

Engineering Design in Pedagogy

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibrahim F. Zeid, Northeastern University; Sagar V. Kamarthi, Northeastern University; Claire Duggan, Northeastern University; Jessica Chin, Northeastern University

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Design in Engineering Education, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

capstone design project course that is typically required in the ABET-accredited college engineering curriculum. Students are motivated by the capstone experiencebecause it shows the elegance of the EDP and relates to how engineering is used in practice todesign and manufacture products.In order to teach the EDP and capstone experience effectively, high school teachers mustexperience, learn and use the EDP themselves. Our methodology begins by educating theteachers about the capstone experience and how to incorporate it in their classroom instructionswhen they return to their schools. We continue to work with and monitor the teachers duringtheir teaching activities over one academic year.We have implemented the capstone experience in the first

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg Kremer, Ohio University-Athens; David Burnette, Ohio University

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Design in Engineering Education

Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1998, and has five years of experience as a Mechanical Design Engineer at General Electric Aircraft Engines.David Burnette, Ohio University David Burnette was both an undergraduate student who participated in the OU ME Sr. capstone design project, and an OU ME graduate student who helped compile the student comments and complete the literature search for this study. He is currently an employee of the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory. Page 13.1349.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 USING PERFORMANCE REVIEWS IN CAPSTONE

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

. Page 23.941.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 On Teaching Capstone Design: The Role of Practitioners in the ClassroomAbstract: Teaching civil engineering design through senior projects or capstone design courses,with industry involvement and support, has increased in recent years. The general trend towardincreasing the design component in engineering curricula is part of an effort to better preparegraduates for engineering practice. While some design projects are still of the “made up” typecarried out by individual students, the vast majority of projects today deal with “real-worldproblems” and are usually conducted by student teams. The paper begins first

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Schar, Stanford University; Micah Lande, Arizona State University

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Design in Engineering Education

other factors. Two additional criteria,Passion for Technology and Clearly Communicates, also rated as relevant and important. Fourcriteria, Inspires Collaboration and Leadership Project Management Skills and Experience, werelower rated.4. ME310 Student Profile ME310 is a capstone course that has been taught at Stanford University since 1967. Theyear-long course is a mechanical engineering master’s-level sequence in which student teamswork on complex engineering projects sponsored by industry partners. Student teams completethe design process from defining design requirements to constructing functional prototypes thatare ready for consumer testing and technical evaluation.8 Students come to the course having earned undergraduate

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Abbott, University of Missouri; Katie Grantham Lough, University of Missouri

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Design in Engineering Education

instructors in theireffort to effectively teach this concept.The goal of the educational tool, component functional templates, is to not only aid classroominstructors in presenting the concept of functional modeling to students in a timely manner, butwill also aid the students through modern visual and interactive learning techniques that promoteproper form and assisted development. Ultimately, the templates will only be a first step, muchlike training wheels, in the process of learning how to functional model and will be an invaluabletool for the novice user with more in-depth engineering design problems to tackle.2.0 BackgroundThe educational foundation on which this project is based is the active learning process, whilethe primary method of

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James J. Pembridge, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech

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Design in Engineering Education

. Page 22.173.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 An Examination of Mentoring Functions in the Capstone CourseAbstractThroughout the literature detailing projects in engineering capstone courses, researchersfrequently refer to the faculty role as that of a mentor. As such studies make clear, the role ofmentoring in capstone projects is critical to support students in the progression of the course. Yetthe concept itself remains relatively ill-defined in the engineering education literature, making itmore challenging for researchers and educators alike to identify patterns and best practicesacross contexts. Using a framework developed by Kram to characterize a variety of mentoringfunctions

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susannah Howe, Smith College; Mary A. Moriarty, Smith College; Apurva Errabelli

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Design in Engineering Education

version ofthe activities with capstone alumnae to identify what alumni actually transfer in to theiremployment after graduation, and investigating whether and how to use these activities as anassessment tool for capstone courses and overall programs.1. IntroductionUndergraduate engineering programs commonly culminate in a capstone design course. Theseone- or two-semester courses meet the ABET requirement of a major design experience1 and areintended as an opportunity for students to synthesize their previous learning and apply theirknowledge/skills to a complex design problem. Typically these capstone projects involve teamsof three to six students who work collaboratively, thus emulating the current engineeringworkplace environment.2 A majority

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacqueline Ann Stagner P.Eng., University of Windsor; Jennifer L Johrendt, University of Windsor

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Design in Engineering Education

two-semester Capstone Design course for students in their senior year of anundergraduate engineering degree program affords the opportunity to assess many attributes asstudents ready themselves for graduation because of the comprehensive nature of the project-based course. This paper explores how graduate attributes (GrAtts), as defined by the CanadianEngineering Accreditation Board (CEAB), are assessed within a Mechanical EngineeringCapstone Design course. Assessment of GrAtts is necessary for CEAB accreditation, not onlyfor demonstrating that students have been exposed to and assessed on these attributes, but it alsoprovides valuable information necessary for continuous improvement activities within programs.The Mechanical Engineering

Conference Session

DEED Postcard Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Rogers, The Ohio State University; Denny C. Davis, The Ohio State University; Sarah Winfree, The Ohio State University ; Kaycee Ash, The Ohio State University; Lin Ding, The Ohio State University

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Design in Engineering Education

motivation in academia.Dr. Lin Ding, The Ohio State University Lin Ding, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Teaching and Learning The Ohio State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Work in Progress: Assessing Motivation in Capstone Design CoursesAbstractEffective assessment of student learning outcomes desired by industry is required to truly impactcurriculum change. As part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) project, several workshopsand advisor meetings have guided the selection of outcomes and creation of the first draft ofassessment instruments to measure selected outcomes. Over 1000 respondents to a variety ofindustry surveys, including those identified by industry

Conference Session

Impact of COVID-19 on Design Education 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mohamed E. El-Sayed, Eastern Michigan University; Jacqueline A. El-Sayed, American Society for Engineering Education

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Design in Engineering Education

product development, vehicle integra- tion, design optimization, lean design, integrated design and manufacturing, and theoretical and applied mechanics, Dr. El-Sayed has over thirty years of industrial, teaching, and research experience, several patents granted, and over a hundred publications in his fields of expertise. He is an award-winning edu- cator, especially in the areas of engineering capstone project courses and online education. Through his teaching and advising he has contributed to the education of hundreds of engineers now engaged in the field of automotive engineering and product development. He is an ABET Commissioner, Team Chair (TC), Program Evaluator (PEV), and IDEAL Scholar. Dr. El-Sayed has also

Conference Session

Research on Design Learning

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark W. Steiner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Junichi Kanai, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

Design Lab and enhancing the experience for students working on engineering design projects. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Using Capstone to Drive Continuous Improvement in the CurriculumAbstractCapstone is intended to be a proving ground for students to demonstrate that they are preparedfor professional practice. Accordingly, this paper addresses the problem of how capstone canprovide feedback and thereby continuously make improvements to the engineering curriculum.A progressive model for hierarchically prioritizing student outcomes and mapping them to directmetrics related to the curriculum is presented as a mechanism for generating feedback. Themodel is used to highlight areas of

Conference Session

Design Projects

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary; Bob Brennan, University of Calgary; Theodor Freiheit, University of Calgary

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Design in Engineering Education

online discussionbetween team members, and teams were required to use a common electronic submission formatfor these deliverables.Figure 1. A mindmap for a treadle pump designThe paper begins with background on the Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering DesignMethodology and Application capstone design course and its relationship to the proposed mini-project. Next, we describe our mini-project and identify how the mindmapping software gave thestudents an overall view of the design process. A comparison of first and fourth year studentdesign thinking as reflected in mindmaps will also be examined by contrasting the capstonedesign mini-project pilot against a first year design course mindmapping pilot project.References1. Buzan, T, B., The Mind

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed E. El-Sayed, Kettering University; Jacqueline A. El-Sayed, Kettering University; Timothy M. Cameron, Miami University

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Design in Engineering Education

on culminating learning in the academicmajor, and more than 70% require a major project or presentation.1 While a capstone course wasoriginally viewed as the "finishing touch" to provide students with the needed information orskills before graduation2,3, another view was developed considering a capstone course as anopportunity for students to demonstrate that they have achieved the goals for learning establishedby their educational institution and major department.4 Through careful examination of bothviews it is clear that the original view may lead to focusing on knowledge exchange and skillsdevelopment with no performance measures and the second view may cause no extra meaningfulknowledge and skills to be developed in the course.5

Conference Session

Capstone Design Practices

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jonathan Kralick P.E., United States Military Academy; Barbara A. Karanian, Stanford University

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Design in Engineering Education

Engineering EducationAbstractPersonas are fictional archetypal consumers that aid designers and engineers in more effectivelycreating products with a human interface. As more products shift from strict utilitarian functionto meeting additional physical and psychological needs, designers and engineers must implementemotional design in more domains. Learning to employ personas to explore elements ofemotional design is beneficial in an academic course and capstone project as these personasallow students to consider engineering requirements from the perspective of Donald Norman’sthree aspects of emotional design: visceral, behavioral, and reflective. In this paper, we presentan approach to evaluate the efficacy of using abbreviated personas, which are

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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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #30836From Cornerstone to Capstone: Students’ Design Thinking and ProblemSolvingKaylee A Dunnigan, NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering Kaylee Dunnigan is a fourth-year undergraduate student working towards her B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. They are the head of research and development for the Introduction to Engineering and Design at Tandon. In this position they de- velop semester long design projects for students, hands-on labs, as well as mentor students throughout these projects. They have worked previously at Sandia National Labs Advanced Materials Labs

Conference Session

Design Methodologies 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

James Righter, The Citadel; David S. Greenburg, The Citadel; Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel; Nathan John Washuta P.E., The Citadel

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Design in Engineering Education

toreturn to QFD throughout their projects in order to learn this cascading process. This paper willassess the use of QFD during the later stages of a Capstone project to amplify the voice of thecustomer and emphasize quality control.Mechanical Engineering students at The Citadel are historically required to develop a house ofquality as part of an assignment generating requirements and constraints. In the beginning of thecapstone project, students are introduced to the structured process of defining the customer’srequirements and the process for transforming them into specific product designs. Students arerequired to establish the voice of the customer (VOC) into the design of their capstone project bycreating, deploying, and analyzing a survey

Conference Session

Capstone Design Practices

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Valerie Vanessa Bracho Perez, Florida International University; Anilegna Nuñez Abreu, Florida International University; Ameen Anwar Khan, Florida International University; Indhira María Hasbún, Virginia Tech; Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University

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Design in Engineering Education

challenges.Designers are faced with the constant need for reiteration and reframing as they work towardsmeeting the often-evolving constraints and specifications of a project. One of the mostchallenging factors designers must account for is the consideration of stakeholders. Stakeholdersare defined as all individuals who affect and/or are affected by the design and design process [1];hence, they play a major role in contributing to the effectiveness of a design. Stakeholder needs,safety, behaviors, and preferences when interacting with a design will impact whatconsiderations engineers must consider when designing. Overlooking these needs not only canbe detrimental to the overall effectiveness of the final design, but more critically, can haveadverse social

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed El-Sayed, Kettering University; Steven Beyerlein, University of Idaho

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Design in Engineering Education

-based classroom practitioners at the University of Idaho Page 13.362.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 DESIGN AND INTEGRATION OF A CAPSTONE COURSE TO ACHIEVE PROGRAM OUTCOMESAbstractA capstone is the top and last stone in a building. Similarly, a capstone course is usually the peakand last experience for students in a higher education program. Depending on the discipline andinstitution capstone courses may take the form of group projects, senior seminars, research, orany other activity that successfully integrates and synthesizes what students have learned throughthe academic program

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brenda A. Haven, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott; Michael Kenneth Fabian, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Alexander James Herring, General Electric - Aviation; Marissa Pinnola, Purdue University; Devan DUPLICATE Berg, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Design in Engineering Education

a three-person crew in protective suits.The students were extremely motivated from the visit and had additional questions about castingtechniques.Initial Laboratory EffortsSince the capstone project is student based, the team determined an initial schedule for theproject and created a Gantt chart (named for Henry Gantt) which included project milestones andalso a critical design review, a final presentation and a final report. The students quicklydesigned a “work-horse” blade using readily available 6061-T6 aluminum that was a flat plate ofthe same length as their first stage compressor blade. It had the same average chord length andthe average thickness of their first-stage compressor blade. This simplified geometry could bequickly

Conference Session

Professional Skills development in Design

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Schmitt, Florida Institute of Technology; Elisabeth Kames, Florida Institute of Technology; Beshoy Morkos, Florida Institute of Technology; Ted A. Conway, Florida Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

Incorporating Designer Empathy in Senior Capstone Design CoursesAbstractThis paper will detail the challenges two groups of students, at two varying universities workingon two separate senior capstone design projects, experienced when designing for target usersthey lack empathy for. The projects presented in this paper support handicapped and/or disabledindividuals. As many engineers will gain employment in a healthcare related field, it isimportant that they are able to empathize with the target user – often handicapped and/or elderlyindividuals. This is further exacerbated by the increase in the number of handicapped andelderly individuals in the United States as medical care improves and life expectancy continuesto

Conference Session

Design Teamwork

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech; James J. Pembridge, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Cory Brozina, Virginia Tech; Benjamin David Lutz, Virginia Tech; Jintana Nina Phanthanousy, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Design in Engineering Education

Mentoring Team Conflicts in Capstone Design: Problems and SolutionsIntroductionTeaming is ubiquitous in design education, yet many project mentors have little or no formaltraining in teamwork or in mentoring teams, and have learned primarily through experience. As aresult, issues associated with teaching teamwork or addressing team dynamics are oftenchallenging for design faculty. Most capstone projects involve multi-person teams, andteamwork is often considered a critical outcome in design courses, but in a recent nationalsurvey, fewer than 50% of capstone faculty responding included instruction in teamwork as akey course component 1. Moreover, as the results from a recent Capstone Design Conferenceindicate, faculty

Conference Session

Design Across Disciplines

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brenda A. Haven, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott; Michael Kenneth Fabian, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Alexander James Herring, General Electric - Aviation; Marissa Pinnola, Purdue University; Devan DUPLICATE Berg, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Design in Engineering Education

, Arizona. In 2007, we began accepting freshmen into ourMechanical Engineering (ME) program. In the 2010-2011 academic year, we offered for thefirst time the new ME capstone design courses with concentrations in either air-breathingpropulsion or robotics. This paper describes the propulsion preliminary design course; a secondpaper will focus on the follow-on propulsion detail design course.The first graduating class of ME majors included three students in the propulsion track. Themutual dependence of the new propulsion track and well-established aircraft preliminary designcourse under our Aerospace Engineering (AE) program made the integration of the MEpropulsion and AE aircraft projects an attractive proposition. This paper discusses this

Conference Session

Multinational and International Design

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Somerton, Michigan State University

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2008-706: CREATING A SOLAR OVEN INDUSTRY IN TANZANIA: ACAPSTONE DESIGN EXPERIENCECraig Somerton, Michigan State University CRAIG W. SOMERTON Craig W. Somerton is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Undergraduate Program for Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University. He teaches in the area of thermal engineering including thermodynamics, heat transfer, and thermal design. He also teaches the capstone design course for the department. Dr. Somerton has research interests in computer design of thermal systems, transport phenomena in porous media, and application of continuous quality improvement principles to engineering education. He received his B.S. in 1976

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Walter W. Schilling Jr., Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Design in Engineering Education

Engineering Design in an Exam EnvironmentAbstractOne of the most difficult aspects of engineering is the effective teaching of engineering design.While it is paramount that every engineering student be exposed to engineering design, it can bedifficult to assess the design skills of individual students. Most design assessment is typicallyconducted at the project or team level, and many assessments of design effectiveness only usethe capstone experience. This is clearly inadequate. Instead, what is needed is an effectivemethod that can be used to partially assess the design capabilities of individual students in anexam setting.This article will discuss an approach to assessing design skills in the exam environment

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyu-Jung Kim, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

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Design in Engineering Education

the governing equations (Fig. 4), and to simultaneously solve multiple analysis problems for integrated design projects. Page 12.390.7 6 REVISION Figure 4 Interactive mouse-picking of spur gear geometry factor (J) directly from a graph in the AGMA tooth strength analysis module and nonlinear solution of an eccentric buckling problem in the column buckling analysis modulec. Flexibility: To solve more than one type of mechanics problem using the same tool, to solve mechanics problems in

Conference Session

Design Projects

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Gershenson, Michigan Technological University

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Design in Engineering Education

. Research sponsors include NSF, General Motors, Ford, Lucent Technologies, SME, and ALCOA. He has approximately 32 refereed publications and has been the PI on research projects with a total value of about $2.5 million. Page 11.698.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 How to Engineer a Winning Competition Project:Lessons Learned from the Human Powered Vehicle Challenge Page 11.698.2AbstractEngineering society competitions, such as the ASME Human Powered Vehicle Challenge, arecommonly used as projects in capstone engineering projects. At MTU, we

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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Design in Engineering Education

, structured approach is a great benefit to the development of complexsystems, both for large aerospace contractors and student projects. Systems engineeringdisciplines help provide the order necessary to the design and production processes. Common tothe aerospace industry, systems engineering processes are often discussed in engineeringcurriculum, but opportunities to participate in these processes are rare. Capstone engineeringcourses, such as the FalconLAUNCH courses, are perhaps the best way to provide a meaningfulexperience in these important disciplines.One of the important systems engineering disciplines is configuration control and managingchanges during the design and manufacturing processes. An example of this is the engineeringchange

Conference Session

Design Projects

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd Taylor, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Kurt Colella, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; William Simpson, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Design in Engineering Education

particularly in the areas such as ship design. It is sobering to recognize that ourgraduates will be responsible for billions of dollars worth of ship design and construction and formaritime safety and environmental protection around the world. We believe the lessons theylearn in our ship design sequence will help them do these jobs well.Wrap UpThe combination of a broad based, highly integrated subject area, and an extremely demandingmilitary academy setting require USCGA NA&ME faculty to work as a team in coordinating andmanaging an effective capstone design project. At USCGA, three faculty, teaching threedifferent courses, have developed a semester-long design project approach that incorporatesprinciples and practices from each subject area

Conference Session

Design Projects

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicole Giullian, Brigham Young University; C. Greg Jensen, Brigham Young University; Jason McCammon, Brigham Young University; Brad Brooks, Brigham Young University

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Design in Engineering Education

toinstitute international collaboration projects that prepare undergraduate students for engineeringwork in the twenty-first century.Participating in an international collaboration project is a daunting task for a school that hasnever worked globally before, and launching or hosting such a project likely seems almostimpossible because of the numerous obstacles. In 2005-2006, GM/PACE (Partners for theAdvancement of Collaborative Engineering Education) sponsored the first international vehiclecollaboration project, a senior capstone project that demonstrated how global-scale projectseffectively prepare students for future exposure to large-scale collaboration projects in industry.The most important results of this pioneering project were the lessons