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Technology and Equipment to Improve IE Instruction

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard A. Pitts Jr., Morgan State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

AC 2012-5066: IMPACT OF AN UPDATED ROBOTICS LABORATORY INAN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING PROGRAMDr. Richard A. Pitts Jr., Morgan State University Richard Pitts, Jr. is currently an Associate Professor in the Industrial & Systems Engineering Department at Morgan State University (MSU). He received his B.S.I.E. degree from MSU in 1991. Later, he received both his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in industrial engineering from yhe Pennsylvania State University in 1995 and 2006, respectively. Page 25.715.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Impact of an Updated

Conference Session

Capstone Design Projects and Courses

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tim L. Brower, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

AC 2012-3136: USING A SYSTEMS ENGINEERING APPROACH FORSTUDENTS TO DESIGN AND BUILD LABORATORY EQUIPMENTDr. Tim L. Brower, University of Colorado, Boulder Tim L. Brower is currently the Director of the CU, Boulder, and Colorado Mesa University Mechanical Engineering Partnership program. Before becoming the Director of the partnership three years ago, he was a professor and Chair of the Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering and Technology Department at Oregon Institute of Technology. While in Oregon, he served as the Affiliate Director for Project Lead the Way - Oregon. In another life, he worked as an Aerospace Engineer with the Lockheed Martin Corporation in Denver, Colo. He is an active member of ASEE, ASME, and

Conference Session

Technology and Equipment to Improve IE Instruction

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas H. Timmer, University of Texas, Pan American; Miguel Gonzalez, University of Texas, Pan American; Connie M. Borror, Arizona State University, West; Douglas C. Montgomery, Arizona State University

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

control chart signals but returns to the process at a later random time. The web-basedmodule was written in Netbeans and utilizes the Glassfish application server. A MySQLdatabase maintains the Mouse Factory information and student records. A major advantage ofthis approach is that Netbeans, Glassfish and MySQL are all open-source software packages. Page 25.1244.4Figure 2. Bill of Materials Page 25.1244.5Figure 3. Critical Point - CoverSPC Lab FourThe fourth SPC laboratory allows students to design, implement and evaluate the impact ofimplementing a c control chart within the Mouse Factory. In the first SPC

Conference Session

Technology and Equipment to Improve IE Instruction

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dave Yearwood, University of North Dakota; Alex Johnson, University of North Dakota

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

current state of industrial education in institutions ofhigher learning in America. The influence of earlier apprentice programs, which provided youngpeople with an education that prepared them to become gainfully employed in a trade, seems tobe evident in the values and views of modern day industrial education programs, particularlythose in community colleges. Indeed, it may not be a stretch to suggest that many programs incolleges and universities still see value in “hands-on” or “experiential learning,” a desired featureof the modern curriculum.Current Challenges Facing Technology ProgramsGiven the high cost associated with using and maintaining industrial equipment, 8 many schoolshave begun replacing existing laboratories with newer modular

Conference Session

Assessment and Accreditation in Engineering Management

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy K. Zander, Clarkson University

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

sciences is required. One year is defined as 32 semester credits or one-fourth of the creditsrequired for graduation in the program. Basic sciences are defined as biological, chemical, andphysical sciences. Most of the engineering management programs meet this criterion through acombination of math, physics and chemistry courses, some with laboratory experiences.Figure 2 3,4,5,6,7,8,9 displays the most commonly required math and basic science courses and thepercentage of the engineering management programs that require these specific courses. It canbe seen that all programs require some calculus, some calculus-based physics and some statistics.Most also require some chemistry, differential equations and a second calculus-based physicscourse

Conference Session

Assessment and Accreditation in Engineering Management

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pawel Pawlewski, Poznan University of Technology; Zbigniew J. Pasek, University of Windsor

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

Main process designPPL Process Develop practical base for process Logistics process Level 1 –Design design using simulation software design sem. V (lectures & laboratory)PPL Industrial Prepare project proposal for Models, Level 1 –project industry. Form consulting Proposal for sem. VI company (8 students). Project industry realization in industry. industrial projectPSPL Process Base for process management and Proposal for Level 2Management & optimization using specialized factory

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Education and K-12

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fernando Garcia Gonzalez, Texas A&M International University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

AC 2012-4343: SYSTEMS ENGINEERING EDUCATION THROUGH PAR-TICIPATION IN ENGINEERING COMPETITIONSDr. Fernando Garcia Gonzalez, Texas A&M International University Fernando Gonzalez is an Assistant Professor of engineering at Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas. Previously, he was a technical staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory and an Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Fla. Gonzalez holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include intelligent control of autonomous systems, robotics, and modeling and simulation

Conference Session

Pedagogical Advancements in Engineering Management

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ralph Ocon, Purdue University, Calumet

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

future roles engineering and technology students will undertake, instructors can use PBL to help students develop ideas for dealing with specific problems they will likely encounter in the workplace. Case Studies: Instructors can use PBL with individual students or student teams when discussing case studies on engineering/technology concerns. Laboratory Work: For courses involving laboratory work, instructors can use PBL when discussing appropriate laboratory behavior and relate that behavior to appropriate workplace behavior. The instructor can relate lab problems to similar problems encountered in the workplace. Employed Students: If there are students who are currently employed, PBL can be

Conference Session

Pedagogical Advancements in Engineering Management

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

course curriculum content. The author has previously used a similar approach in other research projects to obtain meaningful results. 1. What should be counted as appropriate goals and accomplishments in an undergraduate engineering course that has a significant laboratory component? 2. Does the discovery approach practices utilized by the instructor providing reasonably acceptable paths toward accomplishing the specified learning goals in the chosen course? 3. What do students actually accomplish in the designed course and the laboratory exercises? How has discovery approach helped them in meeting their learning goals? 4. How has the instructor’s organizational techniques contributed towards students

Conference Session

Student Development and Assessment in IE Programs

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mahesh C. Aggarwal, Gannon University; Karinna M. Vernaza, Gannon University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

publications.ConclusionsThis paper describes the various ways universities and industries can collaborate tostrengthen relationships between industries and universities. Gannon University hasemployed many of these collaborations for mutual benefits. As a result of thesecollaborations, faculty has obtained numerous patents, furnished laboratories withmodern equipment either through loan or purchased using industrial funding. Studentsparticipating in these programs are able to gain valuable work experience and themajority of the students receive full-time employment offers as a result of theseinteractions.References 1. Joos, G., Marceau, R.J., Scoot, G., Peloquin, D., An innovative industry- university partnership to enhance university training and industry

Conference Session

Methods, Cases, and Directions

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph C. Hartman, University of Florida

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

consuming. Furthermore,breaking risk analysis down to these fundamental steps clouds the overall goal and point to riskanalysis: making a good decision. To overcome this, case studies or projects may be assigned tohelp instill these skillsets and allow for practice in their application. However, as these aregenerally completed in teams, there may also be a need to devise individualized testing of thissubject matter in an appropriate context.For the past several years, the author5,6 has employed a “one question” final exam in which thestudents are provided an investment scenario and background information from which they havetwo hours to make a compelling argument of whether the investment should be pursued or not.A university computer laboratory is

Conference Session

Methods, Cases, and Directions

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bidhan C. Roy, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Osama M. Jadaan, University of Mount Union; Mitchell Dean Cornelius, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

labs in industry, university, and government laboratories. Some of the equipments deal with metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) for LED’s and solar cells, and molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) products. The financial health of the company (all number in 1000’s) as described in its income statement is as follows5 -Year 12/2007 12/2008 12/2009 12/2010Total Revenue $402,475 $442,809 $380,149

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Pedagogical Advancements in Engineering Management

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Jimmy Gandhi, Stevens Institute of Technology; Brian Sauser, Stevens Institute of Technology; Brian E. White, Complexity Are Us - Systems Engineering Strategies; Alex Gorod, Visiting Fellow, University of Adelaide; Vernon Ireland, University of Adelaide

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

the the Systems Development and Maturity Laboratory (http://www.SysDML.com/), which seeks to advance the state of knowledge and practice in how we manage system lifecycles. He teaches courses in Project Manage- ment of Complex Systems, Designing and Managing the Development Enterprise, Advances in System of Systems Engineering, and Systems Thinking. In addition, he is a National Aeronautics and Space Ad- ministration Faculty Fellow, Editor-in-Chief of the Systems Research Forum, and Associate Editor of the IEEE Systems Journal.Dr. Brian Emery White, Complexity Are Us - Systems Engineering Strategies Brian E. White received Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in computer sciences from the University of Wisconsin, and S.M

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Systems Engineering Curriculum and Programs

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Regina Ruby Clewlow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Afreen Siddiqi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Joseph M. Sussman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

, “Developing a Systems Approach to Engineering Problem Solvingand Design of Experiments in a Racecar-Based Laboratory Course,” Journal of EngineeringEducation, January 2011, pp. 109-112.7 Dym, C.L., “Design, Systems, and Engineering Education,” International Journal ofEngineering Education, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 305-312, 2004.8 “The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century”, The National AcademiesPress, USA, 2004. Available: http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10999&page=389 Prince, M.J. and R.M. Felder, “Inductive Teaching and Learning Methods: Definitions,Comparisons, and Research Bases,” Journal of Engineering Education, April 2006, pp. 123-138.10 Mills, J.E., and Treagust, D.F., “Engineering Education—Is Problem

Conference Session

Improving IE Course Content

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hung-da Wan, University of Texas, San Antonio; Yi-Ching Liao, University of Texas, San Antonio; Glenn Kuriger, University of Texas, San Antonio

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

Yi-Ching Liao, University of Texas, San Antonio Yi-Ching Liao is a master’s student in advanced manufacturing and enterprise engineering at the Univer- sity of Texas, San Antonio (UTSA). She is also a Graduate Research Assistant at the Sustainable Manufac- turing System Laboratory at UTSA. She received her B.S. in system and naval mechatronic wngineering from National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Taiwan. Her research interests include lean systems design and implementation, simulation and gaming, and engineering education.Dr. Glenn Kuriger, University of Texas, San Antonio Glenn Kuriger is a Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Lean Sys- tems (CAMLS) and the Department of

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Curriculum and Programs

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adeel Khalid, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

normally presented in the class and a written report is submitted.Students are required to summarize the procedure used to produce the product and represent theoutput. There are usually two projects given in the class. The first project is defined by theinstructor, which helps maintain a focus on course and curriculum objectives. In the secondproject, students are allowed to pick their own topic, which gives them the autonomy to choosetheir own project formulations and strategies, which in turn increases their motivation.Project based learning at the individual course level is familiar in engineering education. It isused almost universally in capstone design and laboratory courses. There has been growingfrequency of project based learning approach

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Education and K-12

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pablo Biswas, Texas A&M International University; Runchang Lin, Texas A&M International University; Ramesh Hanumanthgari, Texas A&M International University; Sri Bala Vojjala

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

regarding the necessity of ViTAS application is discussed in previoussections.Iteration -1: initial planning of ViTASIn the initial planning of the ViTAS application development, few important aspects isconsidered such as set up the development environment (research laboratory), hire theappropriate personnel (graduate assistants), buy the necessary equipments (computers, servers,printers, etc.), use of software packages (MS Visual Studio 2010, SQL server 2008 R2, MSTeam Foundation Server, etc.), and network connections to the servers. The workstations andserver connection network is designed and setup to initialize the development process shown inFigure 3. After the work stations are setup, all the necessary tools are installed in the workstations

Conference Session

Assessment and Accreditation in Engineering Management

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David S. Cochran, Southern Methodist University and Meijo University; Makoto Kawada, Meijo University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

AC 2012-4481: EDUCATION APPROACH IN JAPAN FOR MANAGEMENTAND ENGINEERING OF SYSTEMSProf. David S. Cochran, Southern Methodist University and Meijo University David Cochran is a professor of industrial and systems engineering management. He is Founder and Prin- cipal of System Design, LLC, Visiting Professor with the School of Business, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan and faculty of systems engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Cochran devel- oped the Manufacturing System Design Decomposition (MSDD) to determine the underlying design of the Toyota Production System (and ”lean”) from a systems engineering viewpoint and was Founder and Director of the Production System Design Laboratory in the

Conference Session

Improving IE Course Content

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yosef S. Allam, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Scott Sink, Ohio State University; Joseph M. Cerrato, Ohio State University; John A. Merrill, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

Program in the Engineering Education Innovation Center has anumber of physical simulation laboratories that have been designed to provide first yearengineering students with a hands-on experience with a variety of engineering principles andmethods. One such lab was casually called the ‘Camera Lab’ as it involved the assembly of adisposable Kodak Camera.The learning constructs in this lab primarily revolved around push versus pull type productionand inventory management systems with a single product variant. In short the learningconstructs were somewhat narrow and limited albeit useful. The leadership of the First-yearEngineering Program desired to update and expand this lab.An Integrated Systems Engineering faculty member intimately knowledgeable

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Education and K-12

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles S. Wasson, Wasson Strategics, LLC

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

Paradigmlaboratory exercises. Let’s examine each of these further.The Plug & Chug ParadigmThe Plug & Chug Paradigm represents an instructional teaching model for engineering students.Solutions to the classical boundary condition engineering problems require students to considerinputs, initial states and dynamic boundary conditions, constraints, and assumptions to arrive atsolution / results.The Educational Design-Build-Test-Fix ParadigmThe educational Design-Build-Test-Fix Paradigm has origins in scientific inquiry methods and isoften acquired informally and experientially through laboratory exercises. The paradigm evolvesfrom students having a requirement to design a widget, verify, and validate the design solution. Ifthe test fails, they enter an

Conference Session

Instructional Design

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Naveen Seth, New Community College at CUNY; Donald P. O'Keefe, Farmingdale State College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

typically at an individual level, whether throughhome assignments or class exercises.As noted by Williams12 (2009), following Dewey’s Laboratory School, classrooms can berestructured to accommodate non-individual learning as well, to mirror practices of theworkplace. Assignments can be made collaborative so that students are working together andlearning from one another. For example, time could be set aside in Engineering Economicsclasses every week for collaborative problem-solving exercises.IACBE4 (2011) accreditation requirements include teamwork and engineering economicscourses can help students progress toward meeting outcomes in this area. ABET’s Criterion 3also encourages teamwork (3Ad, 3Bc) in engineering technology programs (ABET5, 2011