tools, equipment, and laboratories which they use to build their projects. After describing the structure of the courses and the facilities available, we detail the procedures that are used, in context relative to the current literature and similar programs at other institutions. Specific aspects presented here include machine shop training, exercises on the mill and lathe, procedures for checkout of tools, safety plans, and approvals of both engineering drawings and manufacturing plans. We offer suggestions for procedures that could be adopted by other academic institutions. Introduction Yearly, about one thousand students are at some point in our DesignBuildTest curriculum as they work towards their Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical
(i.e., task interpretation, planning strategies, cognitive strategies,and monitoring and fix-up strategies). The findings suggest Team strategies require a high levelof student involvement and effort, while time strategies and resource management strategies areemployed to a lesser degree, on average. Small differences were seen between male and femalestudents in average strategy expression. Students may be benefitted by interventions designed toimprove self-regulation for specific team management strategies employed by engineeringstudents in relation to project management activities. Needed improvements touching on variousstrategic actions, as well as monitoring and fix-up strategies, are described in this paper.Keywords: self-regulation
Intelligent Systems, Control, and Robotics (CISCOR) at Florida State University. His research interests are primarily in the areas of dynamic system modeling, intelligent control, autonomous mobile wheeled and legged robotics, dynamic motion planning, and mechatronics.Dr. Matthew James Jensen, Florida Institute of Technology Dr. Matthew J. Jensen received his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 2006. Matthew received his doctorate from Clemson University in 2011 in Mechanical Engineering, focused primarily on automotive control systems and dynamics. During his graduate studies, Matthew was awarded the Department of Mechanical Engineering Endowed Teaching Fellowship
, credible) sources to enhance understanding of the problem ● Outcome D3: Frame a problem in engineering design terms o Indicator D3B: Document appropriate engineering design requirements using a suitable model (e.g. goals-functions-constraints or objectives-metrics-criteria- constraints) o Indicator D3D: Describe the intended engineering design process and provide a plan/timeline that anticipates the tasks and resources requiredIndicators D2B, D2C, and D3B were also tested in another session with four participants whoassessed sample design proposal assignments for a second year electrical and computerengineering (ECE) course. One of the purposes of this repetition of indicators with a
Intelligent Systems, Control, and Robotics (CISCOR) at Florida State University. His research interests are primarily in the areas of dynamic system modeling, intelligent control, autonomous mobile wheeled and legged robotics, dynamic motion planning, and mechatronics.Dr. Chiang Shih, Florida A&M University/Florida State University Dr. Chiang Shih is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering Department, FAMU-FSU College of Engineer- ing, Florida State University. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Southern California in 1988. He has served as the department Chair from 2002 until 2011 and is currently the Director of the Aeropropulsion, Mechatronics and Energy Center
, and blackparticipation rates (i.e. people employed or actively seeking employment) are low, as thefollowing statistics reveal7: In 1993, the participation rate for blacks was 9% In 2007, the participation rates for blacks increased to only 12%The reasons for the dichotomy between increased black enrollment in South African colleges andthe continuously low population of blacks in STEM fields, remains a source of continueddiscussion and analysis. However, illumination of these persistent struggles has resulted inacknowledgement by the South African government, although, perhaps, not enough proactiveefforts to improve the situation. The South African National Planning Commission’s DiagnosticReport8 identified nine primary
students on the path toskill development, it is critical to assess whether or not they intend to change their behaviorsbased on the feedback with which they have been provided. The theory of planned behavior16postulates that behavioral intentions are the most proximal construct to behavioral change, asthey represent one’s attitude towards that behavior. This then captures the effort they are willingto expend in order to engage in that behavior and their motivation to engage in that behavior andimprove upon it. However, the role of intentions in future behavior is qualified by individuals’volitional control over the behavior in question, which is the control the individual has over theirability to engage in that behavior16. Volitional control can
(Katerina) Bagiati, Ph.D.: After graduating with a Diploma in Electrical and Computers Engi- neering and a Masters degree in Advanced Digital Communication Systems from Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, Katerina Bagiati was in 2008 one of the first graduate students to join the pioneer School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. In 2011 she acquired her Doctorate in Engineering Education, followed by a post-doctoral associate appointment within the MIT-SUTD Collaboration at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and she is currently a research scientist working at the MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the MIT Of- fice of Digital
Paper ID #16102Fostering Learning Principles of Engineering DesignMr. Jackson Lyall Autrey, University of Oklahoma Jackson Autrey is a Master of Science student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma from Tulsa, Oklahoma. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and currently is involved with research into design-based engineering education. After completion of his Master’s degree, Jackson plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering.Prof. Farrokh Mistree, University of Oklahoma Farrokh’s passion is to have fun in providing an opportunity for highly
in their final academicyear. The multi-disciplinary course includes students from computer engineering, manufacturingengineering, mechanical engineering, plastics engineering, and engineering and technologyprograms. The elements of the system design process are emphasized in the capstone class.Students have the opportunity to obtain hands-on experiences from working in a team-orientedenvironment. Essential concepts such as project planning, designing, and scheduling areemphasized throughout the team project. In addition to the invaluable, practical technicalexperience, the capstone project enables students to develop their communication skills througha visual and oral presentation before an audience of peers, faculty, and invited experts
common reading program” for incomingfirst year students.1,2 Typically, a book is selected by a campus committee and introduced duringsummer orientation activities. Students are expected to read the book in early fall and participatein discussion groups and other activities during the fall and/or winter semesters. Our first yeardesign and communications course at The Schulich School of Engineering at the University ofCalgary participated in 2013 for the first time because the book – No Impact Man by ColinBeavan - addressed questions about sustainable living and added value to a planned designproject. Students were asked to read one chapter of the book, to critically discuss this chapter intheir ‘chapter’ groups, and assign a spokesperson to
recorded or included in this study.FindingsThe main findings for the instructors’ experiences are reported in 7 categories grouped accordingto timing: 1) Before DH session (interview), 2) During DH session (video recording), and 3)Reflection after DH session (interview) (Table 2).Table 2: Capturing the findings Time Category Description 1. Before DH A. Past experience Instructors’ experience before, during and session teaching DH further the DH session / Future plans for using them in their classrooms B. Preparations Meetings, planning, and discussions regarding
. Students 1. Students 1. Students 1. Students 1. Students 2. University 2. University 2. University affiliates affiliates affiliates 3. Outsiders Equipment Advanced Moderate Moderate Basic Advanced IP Depends Depends Depends No No Classes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Organizing Yes No Yes No Yes events Plans to Yes No
equipment are being used.The Woodshop consists of mostly low-level equipment, however there is a band-sawwhich requires support from faculty.The Outlet is slated to be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week to students who haveaccess through their student identification card. Access is given to students who sign auser agreement which contains the guidelines for use of the lab. Guests can be broughtinto the lab if they are accompanied by a Teslab user (someone who has ID card access)and sign in to a guest binder; the user has the ultimate responsibility for any guest theybring into the lab. Installation of a security camera is planned, due to the fact that the labwill be largely unsupervised.A different policy has been created for a student group
ofconstraints.”2 In essence, to design is to solve a problem. It is an inherently creative process thatis carried out every day, whether it’s for building a rocket ship or planning a date for Fridaynight. With the rise of technology and globalization, the engineering design environment has avariety of challenges including: increased complexity, shorter lifecycles, constrained budgets, anincreased demand for partnerships, in addition to other considerations such as environmentalimpacts, performance, regulations, and legal ramifications.The ways in which to approach the design process are varied. For instance, gate-based design(sometimes referred to as algorithmic design) is used on well-defined design processes like thoseseen in the pharmaceutical
Biomedical engineeringstudents follow the “Biodesign: The Process of Innovating Medical Technologies” by Paul Yocket. al.16 LTU requires 3 and 2 credits, while UDM requires 2 and 3 credits (respectively). Table 1: Approximate milestones and project timeline TABLE 1: COURSE MILESTONES Pre-Semester Nursing students self-select and register for directed study Week 1 Introduce all students to the program plan. BME students self-select Week 2 Form teams via CATME tool, conduct all-hands kick-off meeting Week 4 Introduction to clients, students plan project Week 6 Complete project plan Week 12 Complete product definition Week 16: Complete
made during each sub-phase were compared with the PFRs and MSRs, to ensure thatthe developed product family remained relevant to the RMS.The Preliminary Design sub-phase for the product family was very similar to that of traditionalproduct design17. It consisted of the definition of design objectives, development of a plan forachieving these objectives, and the definition of target design specifications and constraints,Fig. 2. As the research team was not familiar with the design of lamps, research was conductedin order to learn about the various types of lamps, their performance characteristics, and the lampmarket33. This need to determine the characteristics of the lamp market such as the varioussegments, annual demand for each segment and
and half engaging students as participants. As theaudience, students in a class might visit a clean room or engine lab to supplement theirtheoretical work in class with a visual or demonstration. As participants, they may be givenlimited access to use the facilities as part of a project or run experiments as part of a quiz orhomework.Currently, faculty are experimenting with including students as participants, from primarythrough higher education. At Georgia Tech, for example, the newly opened “Robotarium”, is runby robotics faculty on campus and plans to house over 100 aerial and swarm robots12. Thefacility is designed for faculty experiments as well as experiments and code submitted by bothexternal research groups and student groups from
the machine would be tested and a video recorded.Although a Build Day was specified, student teams were encouraged to work with the adjacentteams prior to that so that they could test and modify their segments.As the Build Day approached, we decided to require a few test runs, for several reasons: - Although student teams were strongly encouraged to build and test, it was evident they were not doing this. Requiring a test run meant that students would have to build and test their designs prior to the official run day, giving them extra time to make changes to their design, if needed. - We were interested in documenting this project and planned on recording the machine in action during the official run day
activity utilized the students’ newly gained knowledge ofthe campus and the GPS mapping tools (and their limitations), to develop a creative map graphic.Lab Period: • Submit project report, from activity in the first two weeks • Each team to hold a brainstorming session to discuss and select the route/graphic to be walked and recorded for presentation. Each team to also develop a safety plan, for approval before setting out. Particularly challenging for walking the route, was that the GPS signal would often be lost whilst indoors so that the mapped route would have jumps, and degrade the graphic quality. Another challenge for students was maintaining the correct path whilst walking. Both of these challenges
regular progress/status reports; schedules Plan/Manual 29 user manual or training manual; business plan; manufacturing plan General 17 varies; client determined deliverables; many deliverables; the usual Student peer evaluations; ethics assignments; individual reflections; classAccountability 16 attendance and participation Final report Interim reports Final recommendation Patent disclosure Conference or journal paper 0 50 100 150 200 250
begins, iteration through 12/201512/2015 first flightProject 3The Wheathawk project is one of the inter-university teams participating in the BoeingAerosPACE Design/Build/Fly competition. Competition and termination of the effortwill happen late April, when students will assemble at Paine Field, in Everett, WA, tocompete as one of five teams in a fly-off against well-specified mission plans that teamsdeveloped themselves and proposed to a review panel as part of the system developmentprocess. The team was assembled by the primary sponsoring university, though thatuniversity relied on recruitment of team members for the virtual teams on local facultyparticipants. All teams follow a two-semester long, gated design process that is a NASAprocess and
, though particular gains were in documenting the engineering design process, teamwork, and reflections where over 70% over the electronic notebooks had a ‘sufficient’ rating compared to 50% or less in the paper notebooks. We hypothesize that gains in these categories were due to student awareness, as students were more aware of these items from the beginning (offered as part of the template) and had plans to include and organize them. Furthermore, students had ‘examples’ of other electronic student notebooks serving as examples to consider in their own implementation. Figure 3: Percent of paper and eFolio notebooks with scores
/test/operate portions of engineering design. PrBL focuses on the ideacreation, evaluation, planning, and decision making portions of engineering design. By having atwo-semester sequence consisting of Introduction to Engineering with PrBL, followed byIntroduction to Engineering Design with PBL (where the projects are not the same betweensemesters), the freshman student acquires a complete introduction to engineering design. Theauthors are not proposing to replace PBL with PrBL. Rather, the authors propose PrBL as auseful addition to the toolbox of methods previously described.The resource requirements for PrBL can be met with library and web access from student-owneddevices, and are therefore minimal compared with the hardware and software
hours each week to discuss general student concerns, questions,and design issues. In addition, all the students were expected to meet with the course instructorfor 30-45 minutes at least once every week to discuss their progress and submit their individualassignments. On Friday classes the course instructor would provide structured lectures and assistall 12-20 enrolled students to create teams, find project ideas, and establish project plans. Undersuch course structure, each student team was expected to submit a detailed project proposal byWeek 5 of the semester. The students were asked to submit a detailed system design report byWeek 9, and finalize their prototype and documentations, including the final presentation, duringWeek 16.This
Segal Education Council. Stacy is the lead instructor of the Interdisciplinary Design Projects sequence where students work on real projects with real clients in a learn-by-doing format in an atmosphere similar to a small design firm. In addition to design methods, the teaching team also provides contextual training in professional communication and in effective team dynamic strategies and tools. Stacy’s consulting work is primarily focused on innovation strategy. She works with clients to identify new opportunities and to develop roadmaps and implementation plans to achieve them. She also works alongside client teams to build their capabilities and she designs and facilitates ideation workshops.Trevor Harty
product.Vehicles for administering focus groups are prototypes. Prototypes require feedback from targetusers to assist in subsequent design iterations. At Clemson University, the team used focusgroups to display Kim’s (the persona) wheelchair design. Data on the system was collected bothformally (through a serious of prepared questions) and informally (through observations). Figure4 shows a prototype of Kim’s wheelchair, which was used in a focus group to get designfeedback. Gaining feedback during the prototyping phase allows design changes to be made ifnecessary. Figure 4: Prototype Wheelchair HeadrestWhile the planning and hosting of a focus group for handicapped or elderly individuals may be achallenge, it is recommended
electronic content. We also encounter difficulty with insufficientenrollment of students from a specific major or skill to make an interdisciplinary design team.Several case studies illustrate our lessons learned, and plans to do more and bettermultidisciplinary senior capstone design projects for the future.IntroductionMixing students from different departments in the College of Engineering, and from differentcolleges such as Business and Law, into senior capstone design teams, has been a practice forsome years [1,2]. Many engineering educators have employed combining students fromEngineering and other academics disciplines in senior capstone design courses [3-6]. Someeducators believe engineering schools should not be divided into disciplines and
Paper ID #16951Teaching Engineering Design in an Academic Makerspace: Blending Theoryand Practice to Solve Client-based ProblemsDr. Vincent Wilczynski, Yale University Vincent Wilczynski is the Deputy Dean of the Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science and the James S. Tyler Director of the Yale Center for Engineering Innovation & Design. As the Deputy Dean, he helps plan and implement all academic initiatives at the School. In addition, he manages the School’s teaching and research resources and facilities. As the James S. Tyler Director of the Center for Engineer- ing Innovation & Design he leads the
identified? By appropriate means? Prob Descrip. Is the design plan comprehensive and well-conceived? EDS Do the engineering design specifications ensure the design will meet requirements? Ideation Are the alternatives reasonable and comprehensive? Are necessary design inputs for interfacing equipment, facilities, utilities and/or Parametric Dsgn organizations specified? Have suitable materials, parts, processes, and inspection and testing criteria been Parametric Dsgn specified? Dsgn Analysis Appropriate design methods and computer programs used? Were