Page 25.848.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Introducing Systems Engineering Concepts in a Senior Capstone Design CourseAbstractSenior capstone design projects can often expand in complexity to include systems of systems,particularly in projects involving embedded systems to control a larger system. Principles ofSystems Engineering (SE) can be integrated into the capstone course to help students—who maynot have been exposed previously—manage this increased complexity.This paper presents an evolving framework of essential SE fundamental elements, including thetop-level processes of Requirements Analysis, Functional Analysis and Allocation, Design orSynthesis
applying it as a change agent.Students had to produce an integrating final project in one semester (around 18 weeks), andboth students and instructors pointed out that, at the end of the whole degree program,students were not ready to undertake a high caliber project which incorporated much learning,skills, and professional attitudes.Responding to that problem, the university introduced a Capstone Course in systemsengineering in the mid 1980s. It came in the next to last semester of the program, just beforethe student thesis and graduation. Lasting 17 weeks, the course required students to developan intervention for improvement in an administrative system, aimed at integrating andapplying methods and skills learned along the way. Thus students
fall apart. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Reality Gaps in Industrial Engineering Senior Design or Capstone ProjectsAbstract Undergraduate Senior Design or Capstone Projects (SDP) are intended to provide aculminating experience for undergraduate students. In SDP’s, students are expected to put intopractice their engineering competences to solve a realistic problem. Realism is pursued by settingup boundary conditions that mimic to some extent those found in the corporate world. For example,projects are defined by an external company that acts as a sponsor or client, last between one andtwo semesters, are carried out in teams, and, in some cases, are vaguely defined. Moreover,students are
AC 2012-4043: IMPLEMENTATION OF A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY SYS-TEMS ENGINEERING CAPSTONE DESIGN COURSE AT THREE PUERTORICAN UNIVERSITIESDr. Michele Miller, Michigan Technological University Michele Miller is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan Technological Univer- sity. She teaches classes on manufacturing and does research in engineering education with particular interest in hands-on ability, lifelong learning, and project-based learning.Dr. John K. Gershenson, Michigan Technological UniversityProf. Amilcar Alejandro Rincon-Charris, Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Bayamon Amilcar A. Rincon-Charris was born on Barranquilla, Colombia, 1976. He will receive a Ph.D. in con- trol and robotics
easilybe a subset of the definition used in this paper.Using systems engineering concepts for a project or component to a course in the education ofundergraduate as well as in pre-college education has been reported. A systems engineeringapproach was applied to a BSEE program3 that used a tailored systems engineering process in acapstone course to increase the possibility that students developed desired ABET-relatedoutcomes within their design experience. A systems engineering and management process4 was Page 25.12.3successful in achieving program goals by aligning capstone course assignments to a decisionmaking process and incorporating a real
AC 2007-2246: INDUSTRY-BASED CAPSTONE DESIGN PROJECTS: YOU CAN'TSELL THE SOLUTION IF YOU CAN'T COMMUNICATEJoseph Emanuel, Bradley University Joseph T. Emanuel hold a BS in Math from the University if New Mexico and MS and PhD degrees in Engineering Psychology from The Ohio State University. He is Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Associate Dean of the College of Engineering and Technology. He has coordinated the IMET Department capstone design course since 1975. Among his awards are both the Engineering College and the University awards for teaching and the University award for public service. He also has received the student senate award for academic advising.H. Dan
AC 2012-3821: INTEGRATING PROJECT MANAGEMENT, LEAN-SIXSIGMA, AND ASSESSMENT IN AN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING CAP-STONE COURSEDr. Ana Vila-Parrish, North Carolina State University Ana ”Anita” Vila-Parrish is a Teaching Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs in the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.Dr. Dianne Raubenheimer, Meredith College Page 25.803.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Integrating Project Management & Lean-Six Sigma Methodologies in an Industrial Engineering Capstone CourseAbstractThe ability to
in which capstone design courses differ between engineering programsis the type of design project students complete. There has been a recent trend for engineeringprograms to partner with industry to provide capstone design projects direct from the “realworld.” In 1994, industry projects accounted for approximately 59% of capstone design projectsin surveyed engineering programs, compared to 71% in 2005.4,8 Not only do these projectsenrich students’ appreciation of educational relevance, but they are also beneficial in establishingindustry ties to programs and encouraging faculty professional development.3 Industrysponsored projects present a number of drawbacks, however, including difficulty in findingprojects, determining an appropriate
skills has beenintegrated into the Stewart School of ISyE at Georgia Tech Capstone Design course since2002[15]. The course involves student teams working on real-life design projects with for-profitcorporations, non-profits, health care organizations and government agencies. Students give sixpresentations during the course. The proposal presentation, interim presentation, and finalpresentation are each given to the Faculty Committee and class and to the client.ApproachThe presentation instruction is unique in its stress on information about communication collecteddirectly from people in the workforce: practicing industrial engineers, managers, and seniorexecutives of organizations employing many IEs. The interview process is described in
curriculum previouslyand will serve them well as they enter the workforce as practicing engineers.The literature includes several studies on both online and capstone courses, but few are focusedon online capstone courses and make improvements in a short timeframe based on studentfeedback within an environment like the COVID-19 pandemic. Many authors discuss the processused to deliver a capstone course [5], align the capstone course with ABET criteria [6], andpropose alternative approaches to implement capstone courses [7]. Haslam and Beck [8] studiedthe preparedness for students to work in teams during capstone projects and recommendedinstruction to close the gaps of their findings. However, the authors did not address the challengeof navigating
AC 2011-1270: INTEGRATION OF SYSTEMS ENGINEERING TRAIN-ING MODULES INTO CAPSTONE COURSES ACROSS COLLEGE OFENGINEERING DEPARTMENTSDean Walton Pichette, Wayne State University DEAN PICHETTE Senior Lecturer Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering TEACHING INTERESTS Systems Engineering, Project/Program Management, Engineering Economics & Lifecycle Costing, Introduction to Design PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION 1995 MS Electronics and Computer Control Systems. Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 1990 MBA Business Administration, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 1972 BS Electrical Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2007 Present Wayne State University
AC 2009-169: THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ANEXPANDED CAPSTONE DESIGN EXPERIENCE BY REPLACING ANINTERNSHIP COURSEE. Delbert Horton, Texas A&M University, Commerce E.DELBERT HORTON, Ph.D., P.E., Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering. Dr. Horton teaches a variety of engineering courses, including: Industrial Operations Research courses, Industrial Capstone System Design, and a Project Management course. He has over 38 years experience in academia and in product development and manufacturing, and intelligence systems development and integration for U.S. Government agencies. His experience includes various engineering development and management, and consulting roles at
. Personal effectiveness skills will be developed throughan understanding of the concepts of professionalism, business and cultural etiquette, andother related topics [4].”The capstone class is a critical step in the professional career of the students. It is duringthis particular semester that they are given the opportunity to make the transition fromacademia to industry, and they are asked to demonstrate their ability to tackle open-endeddesign problems. The course is treated like a job, the students are treated as engineers,and the instructor is their supervisor. During the first day of the semester, teams of threeor four students are self-selected, taken through team-building activities, and then askedto rank-order their top six projects from
and tested with industrial and mechanicalengineering undergraduate students (in capstone courses) and industrial engineering graduatestudents (in a seminar) over a four year period. This workshop utilizes a relational Structure ofObserved Learning Outcomes (SOLO) approach, which intentionally encourages learners tobuild connections between parts and the whole, to explore the significance and meaning behindthese connections, and to connect theory and practice[3]. This understanding is critical tolearning project management, since project management involves building, and being aware of,relationships between people, purpose, goals, tasks, processes, procedures, environments,resources, settings, time, etc. These relationships are further
teaches a wide range of subjects from Engineering Economy to Facilities Planning and Design. She has developed good relation- ships with local industry and provides her students with opportunities to participate in real projects for real clients. Page 22.438.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Design projects with out-of town companiesAbstractThe capstone design class in the industrial engineering department at California PolytechnicState University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) includes projects with companies. The projects arelarge ambiguous facilities
solving is an important skill for engineers. Among the most common waysthat open-ended problem solving is incorporated in the curriculum is through capstone designexperiences. Although ubiquitous in undergraduate degree programs2,8, capstone design has alsobeen included in master’s degree programs, sometimes in place of the thesis4 or as a non-thesisoption for students on an industry-oriented career track6. Typically these capstone experiencesintegrate technical skills from multiple classes, and in some cases, they span multiple semesters.The literature on undergraduate capstone design offers insight into important factors for asuccessful industry-based project2. Attributes of effective client projects include the involvementof a company liaison
Entrepreneurial Leadership: A Project – Based Approach. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Conference, Savannah, GA.[2] Krishna, S. A., Kalkhoff, M., McGrath, G., Bragg, A., Joines, A., Rover, D., Mickelson, S. K. (2008). Work in Progress – Engineering Leadership Program: Tracking Leadership Development of Student using Personalized Portfolio. Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Conference, Saratoga-Springs, NY.[3] Chamillard, A. T., Braun, K. A., (2002). The Software Capstone: Structure and Tradeoffs. SIGCSE’02, Covington, KY, 2002.[4] Steiner, M. W., Kanani, J., Alben, R., Hsu, C., Gerhardt, L. (2010). A Holistic Approach for Student Assessment in Project – Based
limited to, setup reduction,ergonomics analyses, machine specification, process improvements, layout, information flow,quality analyses and mistake-proofing. Small weekly assignments are made which generallysupport the overall final project results.The capstone design course is typically assigned three to five outcome items for assessment eachsemester. These assignments are made by the IE Department’s Curriculum, Assessment, andStandard Committee (CASCOM) and are announced mid-semester. Assignments are largelybased on the need at the time and the available data at the time. For example, if the assessment ofa particular outcome item is ambiguous at the time of assignment decisions, that outcome itemcould be assigned to more courses for clarity and
their requiredmajor courses. In the junior year, disciplinary grounding in a student’s major continues whiledisciplinary grounding in the other major (ECE for SYS majors, SYS for ECE majors) tapers off.The tapering is due to an increased focus on integration in the junior year. The focus of thejunior year is two LEP classes (one each term) in which teams work to design and build actualsystems. Finally, in the senior year, students continue to concentrate on integration whilecompleting capstone projects designed specifically for LEP teams.Purpose/need and critical reflection are incorporated into the LEP curricula through the LEPLearning Community. The LEP Learning Community meets every two weeks for one hour withgoals of developing a sense of
MENG 4018, Thermo II ENGR 3500, PM survey Outcome assessed with student work samples Outcome assessed in capstone project evaluation Program Outcome a) …apply knowledge
Systems Engineering. His teaching and research is in the area of manufacturing operations and includes capstone design. Before coming to Georgia Tech, he worked as an engineer in the semiconductor industry for a dozen years and served as Partner and CEO for a small company that developed software for factory scheduling.Garlie Forehand, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Forehand was Director of Research Program Planning and Development at Education Testing Service until February 2000. Dr. Forehand teaches and consults in the areas of research design and workplace communication. His research emphasizes curriculum innovation and evaluation. As a consultant to Georgia Tech, he has assisted
(2credit hours), Financial Engineering (3 credit hours), Project Engineering and Work TeamDesign (3 credit hours), and Engineering Administration (3 credit hours). Additionally, studentswill complete the Engineering Leadership & Management Experimental Laboratory courses I-II/Capstone (7 credit hours total). It is anticipated that students will complete this program inthree semesters, earning a total of 18 hours.Administration: a. This program will be administered under the auspices of the Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Department in accordance with applicable policy and regulation. b. To avoid excess hour issues, students will be able to dual count student credit hours of
Management of Manufacturing andService Processes.The graduation project is supervised by a faculty member of the IE Department, and may befocused on either solving an engineering problem or contributing to a research project. Veryfrequently, engineering problems correspond to real life needs of Colombian companies. Thecompany involved supports the project by assigning an engineer who acts as a co-supervisor ofthe project. Graduation projects are developed through the courses 05174 – Graduation Project Iand 05175 – Graduation Project II, which are capstone projects focused on the development ofprofessional skills such as project management, problem solving, and communication. The co-opexperience is a professional internship that must last no less
architectures and solutions without due analysis of alternatives (AoA), a lack of multi-disciplined decision making, poor documentation and configuration control, et al. Furtheranalysis indicates these factors are symptomatic of a much larger competency issue traceable toengineering education - the lack of a Systems Engineering fundamentals course. Ideally, a coursetaught by seasoned instructors with in-depth industrial experience acquired from a diversity ofsmall to large, complex systems.To meet program accreditation requirements, industrial needs, and remain competitive, collegesand universities institute a Systems Engineering course or capstone project based on SEprinciples and practices. However, the outcomes of these projects tend to focus on
25.800.14Research ProjectsBenefitsStudent research projects involve students in empirical observation and the use of currenttechnologies and also motivate them to apply their learning to address topical questions. Kuh1(2008) notes that such projects based on investigation and research can be used to connectconcepts and questions that arise over the duration of a course. They need not be limited toupper-level or capstone courses.Such projects can be beneficial to faculty as they are assisted in their own research (Moore26,2008). Additionally, research by students stands them in good stead to help them to be admittedinto graduate school; the experience is useful in boosting their performance in graduateprograms. Russell et al27 (2007) note how undergraduate
Capstone Course Designs Used in Industrial Engineering Programs. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference.21. Cannon, A., Strawderman, L., & Heiselt, A. (2014). Service-Learning in the Industrial Engineering Classroom. Proceedings of the 2014 Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference, Montreal.22. Cannon, A., Strawderman, L., & Heiselt, A. (2014). Connecting Students to the Community through Ergonomics Projects. Proceedings of the HFES 2014 International Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
opportunities are helping to build stronger industrypartnerships with the university. This paper describes our approach for incorporatingexperiential learning opportunities into the undergrad IE curriculum. It discusses the courses,timing of the experiences, and the components of the experiences that provide application of thecourse materials in project-based problem solving that enhance the students’ critical thinking andadaptive problem solving skills.Senior Design Course:The Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems at the University of CentralFlorida offer their senior undergraduate students a unique capstone design educationalexperience. Teams composed of 3-5 senior Industrial Engineering students develop andimplement a plan to
Professor at the University of Texas, Arlington, where she teaches courses and conducts research related to air quality and sustainable energy. Her research has been spon- sored by the National Science Foundation, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Luminant Power, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. She has published more than 60 peer- reviewed papers and conference proceedings. In 2010, she received UT Arlington’s Lockheed Martin Excellence in Engineering Teaching Award. She is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Texas.Dr. Yvette Pearson Weatherton, University of Texas, Arlington Yvette Pearson Weatherton received her Ph.D. in engineering and applied science (environmental engi
25 new courses. He has supervised over 35 Industrial Design Projects. He is a returned Peace Corps Volunteer. He is dedicated in helping his students to succeed.Dr. Otsebele E Nare, Hampton University Otsebele Nare is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Hampton University, VA. He received his electrical engineering doctorate from Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, in 2005. His research interests include System Level Synthesis Techniques, Multi-Objective Optimization, Device Modeling and K-16 Integrative STEM education. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work in Progress: Engineering Economy Taught Across
engineering, including six sigma, benchmarking • Enterprise Resource Management, Customer Relationship Management • Statistical Methods for Industrial Engineering • Ergonomics, Human Integrated Systems / Usability, Human Computer Interface • Object Oriented Simulation • Performance Management • Financial Engineering • Leadership, Team Building & Facilitation, Organizational Behavior • Operations Research • Project Management • Service Enterprise • Knowledge Management • Design for Six Sigma, New Product DevelopmentC) Experiential Learning Capstone (6 hours)The senior design experience will be a two-semester, hands-on, project-based experienced withindustry that provides the students with an