Conference Session

Design Methods and Concepts

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Voltmer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Bruce Ferguson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

demonstrations of team communication skills and written assignments such as meetingminutes and agendas, project presentations in the form of a design review and test plan, and ateam final report. The students are seen applying course-supplied techniques in their teamprocess and design and test of their robotic solutions. The course is structured to allow for peer-reviewed writing assignments, professional development, and team skills coaching. The coursealso provides a convenient opportunity to discuss relevant professional issues such asprofessionalism, ethics, registration, and engineering societies. Student feedback on the coursehas been positive, and students carry enthusiasm into subsequent design sequence courses.IntroductionEngineering is a

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Goff, Virginia Tech; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

, students are exposed to such topics as ethics in the workplace, global issues inengineering practice, engineering economy review, proposal and report writing, presentationcoaching, sustainable design, kinematics and suspension highlights as well as other topics ofgeneral interest to seniors working on any design team. The course also includes two 1-hour and Page 11.306.3fifteen minute “laboratory” meetings. In these meetings the individual project teams meet andwork through project business that include design group formation and design sessions, designissues, progress presentations, purchase requests, publicity and fund raising, etc.This

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; Juliet Hurtig, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

2006-853: USING RUBRICS FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF SENIOR DESIGNPROJECTSJohn K. Estell, Ohio Northern University JOHN K. ESTELL is Chair of the Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department at Ohio Northern University. He received his doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His areas of research include simplifying the outcomes assessment process, user interface design, and the pedagogical aspects of writing computer games. Dr. Estell is a Senior Member of IEEE, and a member of ACM, ASEE, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Upsilon Pi Epsilon.Juliet Hurtig, Ohio Northern University JULIET K. HURTIG is an Associate Professor of Electrical

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Miskimins, Colorado School of Mines; Ramona Graves, Colorado School of Mines; Craig Van Kirk, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Program’s capstone design course. The capstone design course for the PE Departmentis multi-disciplinary and is taught along with CSM’s Geophysical Engineering and Geology andGeological Engineering Departments.2-4 Data for this criterion were collected from four sourcesincluding rubric assessments for oral and written communication (Tables 5 and 6), interviews,peer evaluations, and end-of-course surveys. The peer evaluations demonstrated statisticallysignificant increases in team skills over semester-long periods.5-7 The second interview questionused in Criterion 3b was also used for this criterion, along with two additional questions asfollows: What are some of the benefits of working on a multidisciplinary team? What are some of the

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Trevisan, Washington State University; Denny Davis, Washington State University; Steven Beyerlein, University of Idaho; Phillip Thompson, Seattle University; Olakunle Harrison, Tuskegee University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

discussion among theauthors, 32 papers were retained for the review. Fifteen of the articles were classified ashigh priority, eight priority, and nine low priority. Fifteen articles were obtained fromengineering education conference proceedings, 12 from engineering education-orientedjournals, four from design-oriented journals, and one from a communications journal.The complete set of articles retained for this review is identified in the bibliography.Most articles described techniques in assessment and their use in the classroom. A sampleof these purposes includes the use of standardized measures to assess content knowledgein design4; peer reviews, self assessments, and oral reports, all used to evaluate studentperformance as team members and

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Bannerot, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

related to developing ways to transport lunar regolith(the fine particles covering the lunar surface) for processing; the sophomore teams chose fromamong 14 provided projects. However, it appears that none of projects required the fabricatingand testing of a “design”. The only product of the projects was a final report which was gradedusing a rubric. It appears that at least 80% of the grading related to technical writing skills andnot “design”. The remaining 20% was evaluated on the basis of the team’s ability to “developand justify a feasible solution.” The grades for the freshman projects were essentiallyindependent of team makeup for three of the four team categories (Overall grading and thegrading of the “solution” portion varied by less

Conference Session

Design Projects

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cesar Luongo, Florida A&M/Florida State University; Chiang Shih, Florida A&M/Florida State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

(design reviews). The rationale behind the lectures wasto introduce, “just-in-time”, material relevant to the phase in which the projects were at the timeof the lecture. For instance, early in the first semester, most lectures would deal with subjectssuch as team dynamics, the design cycle, or concept generation and selection. As projects madeprogress, the lectures would attempt to follow the design cycle as best as possible. When theteams were ready to produce the first major design report, the lectures would feature a module ontechnical writing or graphics in engineering.This approach of “just-in-time” lectures worked well early during the early weeks of the course,however it is not possible to cram all project-relevant material in the first

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Soda, U.S. Air Force Academy; Gregory Toussaint, U.S. Air Force Academy; Albert Batten, U.S. Air Force Academy

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

consequence on the other, the teams were able to roughly identify how high arisk was posed by a particular item. The difficult part of this exercise was getting theteams to realize that not every aspect of a design project will always be 100% successful.Students, like inexperienced engineers, assume that every design challenge can be solvedin a matter of hours if they work hard enough, and that everything will be available whenthey need it. Each team was tasked to develop a test plan and write a technical report for theproject. The test plan was to identify the specific verification methods and proceduralsteps to certify that their final product satisfied the requirements of the problemstatement. The technical report was to document the design

Conference Session

Design Projects

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Schultz, University of North Dakota; William Semke, University of North Dakota; Douglas Olsen, University of North Dakota; Arnold Johnson, University of North Dakota; Ofer Beeri, University of North Dakota; George Seielstad, University of North Dakota

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

application of remote sensing in agriculture, rangeland, and wetlands. He uses evapo-transpiration estimations from satellite images to predict sugar beet yield and quality, develops remote sensing algorithms to assess rangeland productivity, and writes Geographical Information Systems (GIS) models to map water dynamics in the Missouri Cateau wetlands. Page 11.1103.1George Seielstad, University of North Dakota Dr. George A. Seielstad is Associate Dean for Research and Innovative Projects at the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences of the University of North Dakota. In this position, he