Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janice Miller-Young, Mount Royal College; Sean Maw, Mount Royal College

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Design in Engineering Education

course. Revision is also encouraged, forexample in an early assignment where groups of students write instructions for building a given Page 12.621.4Lego mechanism, which are then marked by another group who try to follow the instructions andgive feedback. The groups learn from their peers the importance of accuracy and clarity inwriting as well as drawing, then get a chance to revise their instructions before handing them into the instructor. We believe these activities not only help to improve the students’ performanceon subsequent projects, but to increase students’ awareness of the skills they have gained.Team evaluationsThe students work

Conference Session

Design Methodolgy

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

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Design in Engineering Education

team andassume they are a professional is to overlook the much needed education in basic professionalism.As with any pedagogical method we have identified perpetual problems with problem studentsand specifically address these through project team design. The general categories that weencounter with students at our institution are listed below in relative frequency/importance. Theyhave been developed using personal interactions during, and peer evaluations after studentprojects from a variety of courses and faculty. Each school will have a different list. For example,our list obviously excludes cultural differences. • Working - Students working outside school 20 or more hours per week often have schedules that do not fit with regular full

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Eduaction - Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Miskimins, Colorado School of Mines; Ramona Graves, Colorado School of Mines

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Design in Engineering Education

Skills in MultidisciplinaryTeams, ” (paper presented at the ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition, St. Louis, Missouri, June 18-21, 2000).7. Robert S. Thompson, “Reliability, Validity, and Bias in Peer Evaluations of Self-Directed Interdependent WorkTeams” (paper presented at the ASEE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Albuquerque, New Mexico,June 24-27, 2001).8. Jennifer L. Miskimins, “Peer Learning: Observation of the Cluster Effect in Multidisciplinary Team Settings,”(paper presented at the ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 16-19, 2002).9. Kirk H. Schulz and Douglas K. Ludlow, “Incorporating Group Writing Instruction in Engineering Courses,”Journal of Engineering Education, July 1996

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Wronecki, East Tennessee State University

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Design in Engineering Education

methods contained within. Therefore, the main goal of this research paper is tosimply communicate the author’s approach towards teaching design. The results of thisexperimental research are by no means conclusive. Therefore, this paper neither substantiates norvalidates the systematic methods contained within. However, some measure of assessing student Page 12.1372.2performance when using the following methods can be ascertained by empirically peer reviewingexamples of student design projects at the paper’s presentation session.Design ProcessA seven stage design process organizes design projects and structures this paper. The stages inthe process

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Orono, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis; Stephen Ekwaro-Osire, Texas Tech University

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Design in Engineering Education

projects, and projects for design competitions. A systematicmethodology, based on the students’ rankings of all the projects for assigning students to theirpreferred choice of projects, is also presented. Whereas the data presented shows that studentsgenerally read carefully the project description, the majority of students prefer the project clientsto make short presentations. To analyze the impact of project choice on team performance, fourcategories, based on the student project choice, were proposed. Teams whose majority did notget their first choice of project, showed the largest drop between the mid-semester peer ratingscompared to end-of-semester peer ratings. This study was performed at two universities.1. Introduction The teaching of

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nirmala Gnanapragasam, Seattle University

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Design in Engineering Education

. Describe the project to peers and faculty through oral presentations during the Page 12.1190.4 project development phase (g).3. Develop design alternatives and evaluate them using a decision matrix, as appropriate for the project (a, c, e, f, h, j, k)4. Apply scientific and engineering principles to the assigned project (a, c, e, k).5. Optimize the engineering design based on client expectations, design constraints, and constructability (a, c, e, f, h, j, k).6. Demonstrate effective written communication skills through the development of a written proposal, progress reports and final project report evaluated by faculty, liaison(s) and Civil Engineering

Conference Session

Design Projects

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frederick Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; William Eccles, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Bruce Ferguson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Daniel Moore, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Mihaela Radu, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Terry Schumacher, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; David Voltmer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Mark Yoder, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Edward Wheeler, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

Meaningful Writing Assignments into TechnicalCourses,” NCIIA Annual Conference, San Diego, 2005.[5] Calibrated Peer Review, http://cpr.molsci.ucla.edu/ (16 January 2007)[6] LEGO® Mindstorms®, http://mindstorms.lego.com/ (16 January 2007)[7] Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Indianapolis, IN, http://intra.isbrockets.org/public/ (16January 2007)[8] National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance, http://www.nciia.org/ , (16 January 2007) Page 12.235.11Appendix A: ECE361 SyllabusECE 361 Engineering Practice 1R-3L-2C F,W Pre: ECE 200. Creativity, project design specifications,team roles, effective conduct of team

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Eduaction - Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rahul Rai, Virginia Tech; Asli Sahin, Virginia Tech; Ashley Studd, Virginia Tech; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech

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Design in Engineering Education

participated in writing a conference paper based on the developed tool2.Figure 2. Graphical Modeling Tool snapshot Piggyback Product Research Page 12.1508.6 The second research project was to establish fundamental principles, teachable methods, and guidelines for designing product architectures that can evolve to cope up with the changingrequirements to enable proactive obsolescence management. Technology is advancing at a fasterrate everyday. In order to prevent a product from becoming outdated sometimes add-ons can bedeveloped to increase the lifetime or functionality of a product. These products are commonlycalled piggyback products.Four REUs

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Promiti Dutta, Columbia University; Alexander Haubold, Columbia University

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Design in Engineering Education

her team working experience in addition to rating their fellow peers. Students on teams withgood team dynamics indicate a level of satisfaction with respect to their completed projects andgroup, while the converse is true for students on teams with poor team dynamics. Communitypartners and course instructors also evaluate the teams’ effectiveness as a group. Our resultsindicate a direct correlation between team harmony and quality of project from a pedagogicview. Methods to facilitate evaluation of pre-course assessment surveys are underway. Page 12.1526.2Introduction:A team is defined as a group of people who aggregate to fulfill a common

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Eduaction - Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Pezeshki, Washington State University; Kelley Racicot, Washington State University

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Design in Engineering Education

. Aproject management tool, Basecamp, is used to manage everyday planning and communication.A knowledge management tool, WSU Wiki, is used for long-term knowledge sharing beyond thecourse of a single semester.2. BackgroundThe Design Clinic, as it is called by participants, is a project-based, ABET-certified program.Students work on industry-sponsored projects for one semester. They are responsible for everyaspect of project management, from specification writing to product delivery. In the fallsemester of 2005, two new technologies were made available to students, one for projectmanagement (PM) and the other for long-term knowledge sharing, or knowledge management(KM). From the beginning, students participated in a research project that analyzes

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Eduaction - Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University; Ronald Earley, Miami University

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Design in Engineering Education

is a senior member of IEEE and is a member of ASME, SIAM, ASEE and AGU. He is actively involved in CELT activities and regularly participates and presents at the Lilly Conference. He has been the recipient of several Faculty Learning Community awards. He is also very active in assessment activities and has presented more than a dozen papers at various Assessment Institutes. His posters in the areas of Bloom’s Taxonomy and Socratic Inquisition have received widespread acclaim from several scholars in the area of Cognitive Science and Educational Methodologies. He has received the Assessment of Critical Thinking Award twice and is currently working towards incorporating writing

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design in the Classroom

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rainer Seidel, The University of Auckland; Linda Haemmerle, Plume Ltd.; Chris Chambers, CPC Consulting Ltd.

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Design in Engineering Education

-disciplinarydomain of new product development4. Therefore the importance of a teamwork approach wasparticularly emphasised and practised in this course. However, potential downsides ofteamwork in an academic environment are that some students attempt to take advantage ofteam arrangements in order to get a ‘free ride’, or to avoid certain types of tasks such as CADmodelling or report writing7,8. To eliminate these problems as much as possible, a range oftools such as confidential peer assessment, oral interviews and specific work and submissioninstructions for students were used in the course. A confidential peer review process wasapplied as a tool to discourage students from freeloading and cheating. Another importanttool used to facilitate the teamwork was

Conference Session

Design for Special Services

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan McCahan, University of Toronto

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Design in Engineering Education

door may be physically equivalent but carries social meaning that stigmatizes the user.So in this example the very act of separating someone from their peers and requiring them toaccess the system differently creates an additional effort and a disparity that must be considereda design flaw. The system designer needs to be cognizant that such disparities can arise ifaccessibility, in its fullest form, is not explicitly recognized as one of the basic goals in thedesign process. If we intend our designs to be bought and used by the widest possible user setthen we must make each of our intended users feel that the system, product, or service wasdesigned with them in mind; to meet their physical, psychological, and social needs.Taken as a whole we

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olga Pierrakos, Virginia Tech; Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech; Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2007-849: ASSESSING LEARNING OUTCOMES OF SENIOR MECHANICALENGINEERS IN A CAPSTONE DESIGN EXPERIENCEOlga Pierrakos, Virginia Tech Olga Pierrakos is currently a National Academy of Engineering CASEE AGEP Postdoctoral Engineering Education Researcher (PEER) at Virginia Tech in the Department of Engineering Education. Dr. Pierrakos holds an M.S. in Engineering Mechanics and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Virginia Tech. Her Ph.D. work pertained to vortex dynamics in left ventricular flows. She has served as faculty advisor to over thirty mechanical engineering seniors involved in biomedical engineering design projects and taught several mechanical engineering fluid mechanics

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Kasarda, Virginia Tech; Brenda Brand, Virginia Tech; Eugene Brown, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

develop:1) mentorship and leadership skills, 2) skills and strategies for facilitating and monitoringgroup/team processes, 3) skills in planning, implementation and assessment, and 4) thebackground and specialty skills necessary for participation in the regional and national FIRSTcompetitions. The engineering students’ skills are actualized through field based applications inthe high-school robotics laboratory.Focusing and then building on others’ strengths and talents (both peer undergraduate studentsand the high-school students that they are working with) is the central responsibility of goodleadership and contributes to building positive, constructive and long-lasting relationships thatchange people and their institutions in positive

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oenardi Lawanto, Univ Of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

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Design in Engineering Education

need to get some basic organization details out of the way. We need to store ALL of our files in one place, and this should be the ONLY place these files are located. This will be very important as we amass more important files. This way we do not have 5 copies of the different revision levels of the same file floating about. This will mean that you should download the file before you start working on it and re- upload and over write it as soon as you finish working on it. Do not store any files that others will need on your computer always keep them in netfiles. I have seen the hassle that this can save especially when we get to

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mason Webster, Brigham Young University; Daniel Korth; Owen Carlson, Brigham Young University; C. Greg Jensen, Brigham Young University

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Design in Engineering Education

real engineering applications. Also, students are able to participate in professionalactivities such as writing technical papers, submitting patents, and holding design reviews. Allthese activities occur in a classroom atmosphere under instructor supervision. The companies thatare able to collaborate with these students on these projects also enjoy the ability to observepotential employees prior to actually hiring them. They typically also retain the rights to anyintellectual property produced by these students during the duration of their capstone courses.Traditional Capstone Design Course LimitationsCapstone design courses are not without their limitations, however. Typically, small businessesare most interested in participating in capstone

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Eduaction - Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramzi Bualuan, University of Notre Dame; David LeDonne, University of Notre Dame; Steven Kurtz, University of Notre Dame; Joseph Blakely, University of Notre Dame; Constance Slaboch, University of Notre Dame; Andrew Carter, University of Notre Dame; Elizabeth Barron, University of Notre Dame; Patrick Essien, University of Notre Dame; Megan Wysocki, University of Notre Dame; Elizabeth Ferro, University of Notre Dame

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Design in Engineering Education

college life, alook at career opportunities, and a chance to meet professional engineers as well asengineering faculty. Students work on several projects, attend lectures, write reports,code programs, give presentations, and do problem solving and design. The IEPcounselors assist the students in their projects during the sessions in the EngineeringLearning Center, and help enforce the rules in the residence halls.Seven of the nine IEP counselors were engineering students at Notre Dame (the other twowere a pre-med student and a business student), and eight of them had either previouslyattended the camp back when they were in high school, or had worked as IEP counselors