Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Multidisciplinary Instruction

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deborah Newberry, Dakota County Technical College; Marilyn Barger P.E., National Science Foundation ATE Centers

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

issues required to be addressed when developing new content in any format includinghow big or how much material the units/modules should cover; what level of subject matterexpertise is needed; level of the information to be covered; how to include activities for problem-based learning; and knowing the target audience or audiences.Typically, modular curricula contains content for anywhere between one and five days (1-5hours) of lessons and activities.The Audience and User Community:No longer is “educational content” restricted to the traditional classroom. Television, museumsand many social media are being used to convey educational material. As a result, the useraudience has expanded from teachers and { four year college}students to include

Conference Session

Robotics, Mechatronics, and Control Systems - Multidisciplinary Perspectives

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chad Eric Davis P.E., University of Oklahoma; Pakize S. Pulat, University of Oklahoma

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

the implementation of this robotics project and uses student surveysand course evaluations to assess its effectiveness. Additionally, assessments of common multi-disciplinary course problems of class size and student level disparity are also performed. I. Introduction:One of the most challenging tasks in engineering education is teaching courses to students thatare outside their major area. Majors other than electrical and computer engineering (ECE) arenot typically motivated about circuit theory and many educators have tried to address thischallenge.1, 2 With this lack of motivation in mind, the College of Engineering (CoE) at theUniversity of Oklahoma (OU) developed a unique curriculum for teaching circuits and

Conference Session

Intercollegiate and Cross-disciplinary Collaboration

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matt Olfat, University of Virginia; Kari Wold, University of Virginia; Roy Lee Hayes Jr, University of Virginia; Mark Endel Paddrik, University of Virginia

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

implementing machine learning techniques to Identify opponent strategies in game theoretical situations. Currently, Roy is applying Inverse Reinforcement Learning to uncover trading strategies in the commodity markets.Mr. Mark Endel Paddrik, University of Virginia Page 23.1047.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Revolutionizing Financial Engineering Education: Simulation-Based Strategies for LearningSection 1: Introduction to Microstructure Financial engineering is a critical aspect of contemporary markets, and itspedagogy of the utmost

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Robotics, Mechatronics, and Control Systems - Multidisciplinary Perspectives

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael A. Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Taskin Padir, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

accreditation, graduate placement in jobs and graduate school, and course andproject evaluations. The paper concludes with a summary of lessons learned and projections forthe future.1. INTRODUCTIONRobotics—the combination of sensing, computation and actuation in the real world—is Page 23.1049.2experiencing rapid growth. In academia, any issue of IEEE Spectrum, ACM TechNews, orASEE First Bell is likely to contain many robotics headlines. In industry, new companies andproducts appear at an accelerating rate. Bill Gates has famously predicted that there will soon bea robot in every home [5]. Growth in robotics is driven by both supply and demand. The

Conference Session

Robotics, Mechatronics, and Control Systems - Multidisciplinary Perspectives

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jose Antonio Riofrio, Western New England University; Steven G Northrup, Western New England University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

level.Introduction Mechatronics, a relatively new term – and field of study – deals with the set of practicalintersections between mechanics, electronics, computer science, and control theory. More Page 23.1154.2specifically, it focuses on engineering problem-solving via an integrated system approach ratherthan a sequential treatment by each isolated sub-field. Figure 1 shows one of many similar Venndiagrams which are commonly used to graphically represent the span of Mechatronics. Figure 1: Typical Mechatronics composition diagram1 The instruction of Mechatronics at the university level has seen a dramatic increase in the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Learning, Evaluation, and Assessment

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Narayanan M. Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

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students in upperdivision courses are asked to deal with mathematical logic and derivations.1. In our experience, tracing a continuous institutional memory over the past 27 years and over 2600 students, there has been a drastic increase in the percentage of students who will simply leave all questions blank where derivations are sought, even when those are straight from notes and homework. Of those who do derivations, a significant fraction will simply jump across several steps of logic and miraculously arrive at the (known) final result. This appears to stem from their experiences in high school and college, where they learn to look for a final “formula” to “plug in numbers” as the sum total of their expectation of engineering

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Learning, Evaluation, and Assessment

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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K.S. Krishnamoorthi, Bradley University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

meetthe Criterion 3b without incorporating any classes in statistics in their curriculums. See for examplethe excerpts from the rubrics created for the Criterion 3b by two programs, in the Table 1a and 1b.Neither of the programs makes any mention about education in statistics. The engineering educatorswho prepared these rubrics seem to miss the point: engineers need training in statistics to be able toplan efficient experiments, analyze data and interpret results.The result is, nearly 85% of graduates from a typical college of engineering (of course, with a fewexceptions) are not trained in statistics. Table 1a: Example 1 of a rubric created to evaluate student accomplishment against Criterion 3b Outcome

Conference Session

Micro-Technology and Nanotechnology

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.); Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.); Patrick Lee Kirby, Drexel University (Eng.); Justin Bryan Gillander

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

options such as EngineeringTechnology are open to them. Due to its straightforward conceptual basis, amenability to visualdemonstrations, accessibility of the prototyping technology to students, and its impressiveapplications in the biomedical area, micro-fluidics offers an excellent means for attractingstudents to science and engineering 1-7.Micro-fluidics has become an important commercial technology and engineering discipline in itsown right, with extensive applications in biotechnology, medicine, chemistry, materials science,nanotechnology, and energy conversion. Micro-fluidics also provides an outstanding vehicle toeducate and expose students to engineering subjects that are hallmarks of EngineeringTechnology curricula. Further, the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Multidisciplinary Instruction

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Darshita N. Shah, Teaching and Learning Laboratory at MIT; Jennifer E French, Teaching and Learning Laboratory at MIT; Janet Rankin, The Teaching & Learning Lab - MIT; Lori Breslow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

multidisciplinary themes, we used a “backward design”1process beginning with what instructors from the foundational courses in engineering (i.e.,chemistry, physics, mathematics) identified as their intended learning outcomes. From our ownbackground in STEM teaching and learning, we then isolated the pivotal concepts and criticalskills that supported these learning outcomes. We refined our list of those concepts and skillsthrough a literature search on student misconceptions and integrated curricula. In the end, aconcept or skill was identified as pivotal when it satisfied one of two criteria: (1) it was multidisciplinary; or (2) it was prerequisite for multiple concepts that would be taught in upper-level courses.By sorting the pivotal concepts and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering, Art and Society

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Cristián Eduardo Vargas-Ordóñez P.E., Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Morgan M. Hynes, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

undergraduate and graduateengineering education levels. In that sense, this pilot study focused on exploring how two of the STEAMareas, engineering and art, faculty members from a Large Midwestern University perceive engineering,art, and their integration. This study used Moscovici's and Abric's Social Representation theory, lookingfor the core and peripheric attitudes and information that faculty participants have regarding theintegration of engineering and arts. In total, seven faculty members, three from the College ofEngineering and four from the College of Liberal Arts, were interviewed as a way to "enter into the otherperson's perspective"[1, p. 426], making visible the components of their social representation in the formof feelings, intentions

Conference Session

Integrating Systems Engineering into the Capstone Project

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wagdy H Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia; Sasan Haghani, University of the District of Columbia; Roussel Kamaha

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Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

including real-time video processing systemshave compelled the Electronic System Level (ESL) community to switch over from RegisterTransfer Level (RTL) languages such as VHDL and Verilog to higher abstraction levellanguages such as C/C++ in order to reduce the overall design time and improve the productivityof system-level designers. Recent improvements in High Level Synthesis (HLS) tools hasallowed for the development of highly-optimized video processing systems [1-2].Real-time image and video processing applications employ computationally intensive algorithmsthat demand high computational power. High definition images or video frames contain anenormous number of pixels and large number of complex operations is usually performed oneach of these

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Development

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Richey, The Boeing Company; Fabian Zender, The Boeing Company; Charles J Camarda, NASA

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

and transformations as well as global business pressures.Traditional undergraduate programs are not equipping graduates with the skills needed for thecomplex challenges of the 21st century. 1 These pressures are leading industry to ask thequestions; a) how can we partner with academia and the government to advance personalizedlearning and b) how can we leverage our investment and intellectual capital to increase thequantity/quality and knowledge transfer of the current STEM workforce, education pipeline andlabor supply?Disruptive changes:  Ageing: Roughly a quarter of the nation's 637,000 aerospace workers could be eligible for retirement in 2015. 2  Globalization: Engineers work through global multidisciplinary and distributive

Conference Session

Novel Teaching Methods in a Multidisciplinary Context

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kelsey Joy Rodgers, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Yi Kong, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Framework for Evaluating Simulations: Analysis of Student Developed Interactive Computer ToolsAbstractComputer simulations are used in educational setting either to teach students targeted concepts or to teachstudents how to build them. This study focuses on the later use and investigates the nature of studentteams’ simulations that were developed through a design challenge that required them to create their ownnanotechnology-based simulation tools. In this study, 30 teams’ final simulation tools were analyzedthrough a grounded theory approach to categorize the nature of the simulations. The resulting frameworkconsisted of four levels. Level 1 involves only

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone Courses

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacqulyn Baughman, Iowa State University; Gretchen A. Mosher, Iowa State University; Ann M Gansemer-Topf, Iowa State University ; Tejas Dhadphale Ph.D., Iowa State University

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

benefits and challenges of creating a multidisciplinarysenior capstone course from the perspective of engineering faculty. From this study five overallthemes emerged: 1.) multidisciplinary courses reflect real world, 2.) students are primarybeneficiaries of multidisciplinary courses, 3.) current university structure and organization cancreate obstacles, 4.) senior capstone is a critical component in engineering education, and 5.)dedication of resources. The paper will conclude with recommendations for working with facultyto create a more multidisciplinary learning environment for students and initial thoughts on thenext steps in the development process.Capstone as Part of Engineering EducationThe requirements of a 21st-century engineer are

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Efforts in Introductory Courses

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Suresh Kumar Jayaraman, School of Chemical Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74074; Jennifer Robinson Glenn, School of Industrial Engineering and Management, Oklahoma State University; Karen A High, Clemson University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

way for students to interact with others and learn to work onreal-world problems as a team.1 Olsen et al., have elaborated on the evolution of interdisciplinarycurriculum strategies as a part of integrated design experience.2 Reeves et al., have discussedvarious student engagement techniques to multidisciplinary online engineering laboratories.3Interdisciplinary projects are important to develop communication and interpersonal skills instudents.4 ABET accreditation requires that students work in multidisciplinary teams.Online learning has received great visibility since its inception. It is an excellent way to providestudents with course content in multidiscipline classes. Online courses have experiencedincreased student enrollment from 10

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Efforts in Introductory Courses

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tiffany L. Hesser, University of New Haven; Stefanie R. Bunyea, MacDermid Enthone

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

toconduct research while integrating theory, knowledge and skills to develop a solution to adefined problem.1 Engineering instruction integrates well into problem based learning, allowingstudents real world problem solving experience in a classroom setting. It has been utilized inmaterials courses to examine material strengths and in mechanical engineering courses toexamine system behavior and fluid dynamics.2,3 It has been utilized in chemistry instrumentationlaboratories built around medical case analysis of drug analysis and quality controls inbreweries.4 With its increasing use, students have benefit from the engaging scenarios, wherelearning gains have been found to be twice that of a traditional classroom setting.5    In addition to problem

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Development

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jodi Reeves, National University; Brian Arnold, National University

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

. The goal was to engage online students as well as onsite students inthe multidisciplinary course content that included mechanical engineering, electrical engineering,and thermodynamics. Analysis showed that the multidisciplinary course was very successfulsince the average teaching assessment scores (on a scale of 1-5, where 1 is poor and 5 isexcellent) for both course modes were very high, 4.15/5 for onsite courses and 4.30/5 for onlinecourses.IntroductionAs the number of online courses increases1, student engagement remains critical to studentpersistence 2-6 especially in multidisciplinary classes where there are a variety of student majorswith a multitude of student learning goals. Student engagement increases when students are ableto

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Outreach and Early Transdisciplinary Courses

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pramod Rajan, Laboratory for Innovative Technology & Engineering Education (LITEE); P.K. Raju, Auburn University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Society of Mechanical Engineers, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India), and a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of India. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Engineering Grand Challenges Video Competition - A Project Learning Tool in a Cross-Disciplinary ClassAbstract In 2007, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) began working with a marketingcompany to rebrand engineering and better communicate the importance of engineering to thepublic and potential future engineers. The resulting messages were 1) Engineers are creativeproblem solvers, 2) Engineers make a world

Conference Session

Novel Teaching Methods in a Multidisciplinary Context

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ananda Mani Paudel, Colorado State University, Pueblo

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

professional endeavors. This Page 26.1309.2integration enabled the instructor to teach mechanical design in a single course starting frombasics of stress analysis to prototyping. 1. IntroductionDesign is one of the core competencies in the engineering curriculum and is an essential skill forany engineer. Translation of a design concept from paper to prototype is a crucial step inassessing the performance of a design, and use of prototyping as a part of design coursereinforces a student’s learning experience. This paper presents a study regarding the relevanceand effectiveness of the use of 3D printers1 in a junior level machine design course

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Efforts in Upper-level Courses

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aurenice Menezes Oliveira, Michigan Technological University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

: automotive communications network, intra-vehicle communications, controller areanetwork (CAN).1. IntroductionThe automotive industry is one of the largest economies in the world, producing millions of unitsa year, and employing a large number of engineers as well as graduates in a wide variety offields. Significant improvements in vehicles functionality, safety, performance, and comfort weremade in the past decades. As a result, modern automotive electronic systems contain a complexnetwork of electronic control units (ECU), sensors and actuators distributed and embedded inalmost any vehicle. Intra-vehicle communication describes the exchange of data within the ECUsinvolved in specific vehicular applications. The increase in the number of ECU (8-10

Conference Session

Novel Teaching Methods in a Multidisciplinary Context

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Willard W. Neel, Virginia Military Institute; Jon-michael Hardin P.E., Virginia Military Institute

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

archeology, since an attempt ismade to actually reconstruct historical artillery about which very little is known. The studentsthen fabricated and fully tested their Onager design.In the this paper, the authors present a detailed case study of the interdisciplinary Onager projectthat mirrors the interwoven historical and engineering pathways that the student team had totraverse to produce their final Onager design and fabrication. Through a detailed description ofthis interwoven engineering and history-based project the authors hope to illustrate the criticalthinking skills and appropriate engineering analysis and testing methods that the student teamwere required to identify and use in order 1) to determine the historical-based

Conference Session

Multidisiplinary Student Research Experiences

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tom A. Eppes, University of Hartford; Ivana Milanovic, University of Hartford

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

engineering and scientificconcepts, increases interaction with faculty and industry sponsors, and provides opportunities forwork in emerging technology areas. Benefits accrue both to students who pursue a researchcareer and to those who enter applied fields by strengthening their ability to propose innovativesolutions. Over the past nine years, we have sought to improve student research in apredominantly teaching institution. The two primary challenges were: (1) academic - how tointroduce and promote inquiry-based learning given the constraints, and (2) business - how toobtain and sustain funding for student-based research. Further complicating the effort was a lackof experience on the part of most students in identifying an appropriate research

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Development

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

State University and her M.S. and B.S. in manufacturing engineering and electrical engineering, respectively, from the Missouri University of Science and Technology. Dr. Nagel’s long-term goal is to drive engineering innovation by applying her multidisciplinary engineering expertise to instrumentation and manufacturing challenges. Page 26.531.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015   Development of an Innovative Multidisciplinary Course in Systems AnalysisAbstractThe Systems Analysis course is innovative in three aspects: 1) analysis applied to systems of multipledomains

Conference Session

Novel Teaching Methods in a Multidisciplinary Context

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer R. Amos, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Troy J. Vogel, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Princess Imoukhuede, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

), CHBE unidisciplinary (n=194). Table 1. Project Timeline Week BIOE CHBE BIOE CHBE Crossdisciplinary Crossdisciplinary Unidisciplinary Unidisciplinary 1 Receive project & begin Receive project Receive project & Phase I & begin Phase I begin Phase I 2 Complete Phase I, meet Meet with BIOE peers & Complete Phase I Complete Phase I with CHBE peers & share review Phase I write-up Phase I write-up 3 BIOEs support CHBE

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary First-year Experiences

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol S. Stwalley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Tasha Zephirin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Darryl Athos Dickerson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Virginia Lynn Booth Womack, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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26.34.2IntroductionProgram evaluation and knowledge sharing are key elements in programs targeting ethnicdiversity in STEM.1 Yet time and responsibility constraints in addition to a lack of familiaritywith evaluation methods and statistical techniques has been observed in the authors’ interactionwith staff from programs that support underrepresented minority (URM) students. For thepurpose of this paper and in alignment with the National Science Foundation (NSF), the URMdesignation is defined by the following race/ethnicities: American Indian or Alaska Native,Black or African American, Hispanic/Latino, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, or 2 ormore Races which includes a URM ethnicity. This designation is given since as a group they area minority because

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hua Li, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University-Kingsville

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with a solid foundation in analytical, writing,and presentation skills and to enhance interactions between REU students and faculty mentors.The research, educational, and career mentorship provided by the program is envisioned tostimulate the students to look at their academic work in a new light and to provide a spark forpossible careers in academic research or industrial innovation. Participating students will tacklevarious topics of energy research, interact with faculty mentors and students from differentengineering departments, and develop a holistic perspective of energy research.1. IntroductionThe importance of sustainable energy research, and the impact of the current continuing path ofutilizing fossil fuel on the environment, dominate

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Efforts in Upper-level Courses

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael S Thompson, Bucknell University; Andrew Ciotola, Stadler Center for Poetry, Bucknell University; Daniel Mancusi, Bucknell University; Mark Yerger, Bucknell University; Adam B Gegg

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reading series and related programmingcomplement Bucknell’s academic program and otherwise bring cultural enrichment to campusand the Lewisburg region. In the wider literary world, the Stadler Center serves the Americanliterary community by providing time, space, and financial assistance for writers through itsfellowships and residential programs. Major funding for the Center comes from the family ofalumnus Jack Stadler ’40, other alumni gifts, and an endowment established by Professor ofEnglish emerita Mildred Martin.The brainchild of Stadler Center director Shara McCallum, the Poetry Path is the StadlerCenter’s public art project in the community. Inspired by New York City’s “Poetry in Motion”program,1 which displays poetry in MTA subway cars

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Outreach and Early Transdisciplinary Courses

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paula Ann Monaco, Texas Tech University; Aimee Cloutier, Texas Tech University; Guo Zheng Yew, Texas Tech University; Maeghan Marie Brundrett, Texas Tech University; Dylan Christenson, Texas Tech University; Audra N. Morse, Texas Tech University

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

multidisciplinaryteam as key to their future careers.1 Most compellingly, quantitative results have revealed that allstudents who participated in the multidisciplinary course, compared to the monodisciplinarycourse, produced a better engineering solution as judged by external industry professionals.3,5Further, students in the multidisciplinary course performed better in utility, analysis, proof ofconcept, and communication skills. Multidisciplinary outreach efforts are less common but do exist in literature. One frequentlyused tool for multidisciplinary research is robotics, which is a topic that ordinarily requiresbackground in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, andcomputer science. In robotics, working in

Conference Session

Promoting Multidisciplinary Efforts

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harold R Underwood, Messiah College

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paperfocuses on WERCware as an extended duration example of multidisciplinary undergraduateproject work, highlighting lessons learned by both students and faculty from the experience.I. Introduction: Contribution of Work & Case Study History leading to Lessons LearnedAs an opportunity for rich multidisciplinary engineering applications, social service applicationsare often overlooked. While benefits of service learning have been widely addressed in literatureon engineering education, only a few recent papers have proposed assistive technology as a focusfor undergraduate engineering projects.1-4 None address the need for a system that delivers socialservices remotely, as suggested here. This paper draws lessons from ongoing

Conference Session

Promoting Multidisciplinary Efforts

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Priya Manohar, Robert Morris University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

meetings and the newinterdisciplinary curricula and presents the impact it has had on the development ofinterdisciplinary work culture at RMU.1. IntroductionIt has been recognized that the current generation of STEM graduates need the skills andknowledge that would enable them to deal with the complex, interdisciplinary problems theywould face as they graduate from college and enter the workforce 1. Broad-based andinterdisciplinary knowledge is not easy to come by and it is the most difficult to deliver in classrooms. In order to achieve these goals, the first key step would be to have faculty well-trainedand well-versed in the field of interdisciplinary work and collaboration. In addition, theinstitution could support a “teacher-scholar” model to