Conference Session

Engineering in a Societal Context

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Edward Niemi, Tulsa Community College

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Science and Mathematics, Engineering, and Technical EducationAbstractSTEM students face general education requirements in humanities as a part of theirdegree programs. Many students believe these courses are of little value to theireducation and career goals. Policy discussions at all levels of government has politicizedhistory education. History curriculum focusing on societal and political developmentsseems obscure to the high school or undergraduate STEM student. STEMstory focuses onengaging STEM students by examining history general education courses through thelens of history of technology. The study proposes curriculum for a U.S. history surveycourse focusing on progress in science and technology incorporating best practices

Conference Session

Merging Disciplines: Practice and Benefits

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald S. Harichandran, University of New Haven; Brian T. Kench, University of New Haven; Summer J. McGee, University of New Haven; Michael A. Collura P.E., University of New Haven; Jean Nocito-Gobel, University of New Haven; Charles David Skipton, University of New Haven

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

play akey role in the curriculum. Furthermore, it is important to link the curriculum to research andscholarship in engineering and applied science education to foster the use of the best pedagogicalpractices and to create visibility for the curriculum model. Over the last several years, a few institutions in the country have established separateDepartments of Engineering Education to spearhead innovative teaching practices and conductresearch in engineering education. However, a separate Department of Engineering Educationcan become yet another “silo” within the engineering college with its own values that do notpermeate into disciplinary departments. Faculty in this separate department can be viewed as“second class citizens” by faculty

Conference Session

Teaching Problem Solving in a Multidisciplinary Context

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kerrie A Douglas, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Tanya Faltens, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

for educational purposes, a pragmatic pedagogical approach is needed to assistin the integration of simulations, based on best practices in education, to ensure that thesimulations are utilized effectively as part of a well-designed curriculum.To answer the question, “How can computational simulations be effectively used as apedagogical tool?” we draw from Bransford’s framework of How People Learn (HPL) 11, basedon a synthesis of and our experiences with a sophomore materials science course. The NRCreport, How People Learn (HPL)11, synthesized the research literature concerning the ways thatnew information is learned and conceptual change occurs in a format that is easily digestible fora wide audience. In addition, Wankat15 discussed direct

Conference Session

Engaging Faculty Across Disciplines, Colleges, and Institutions

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Andrew Wilkerson P.E., York College PA; Jason Forsyth, York College of Pennsylvania; Christopher Michael Korpela, United States Military Academy

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

research.While ROS is a staple of most graduate robotics programs, it is only now starting to be used inundergraduate programs. Additionally, ROS is widely used for computer science programs andexposes students to best practice with a number of computer programming paradigms. In thisstudy, we take advantage of these features while using the basic ROS framework to exposestudents to hardware and software integration techniques that are usually reserved for graduateprograms. Furthermore, we use ROS with PBL to expose students to practical problems found inrobotics while expanding their knowledge in control methods, vision algorithms, and electronicintegration of components needed for our project. Our overall goal of this study was to expose students to

Conference Session

SE Capstone Design Projects, Part I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elisabeth W. McGrath, Stevens Institute of Technology; Susan Lowes, Institute for Learning Technologies, Teachers College/Columbia University; Chris Jurado, Stevens Institute of Technology; Alice F. Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

made a number of specificrecommendations, including adding an introductory course in SE in all undergraduateengineering and technical management degree programs; and working with major universities torecommend SE curricula to improve consistency across programs in order to achievestandardization of skill sets for graduates3.Research Objectives and Program GoalsResearch on Building Education & Workforce Capacity in Systems Engineering, (referred to asthe SE Capstone Project), aims to understand the methods through which SE learning and careerinterest may be increased among undergraduate and graduate engineering students. The keyresearch question this program is designed to address is:What organization of course work (course sequence, course

Conference Session

SE Capstone Design Projects, Part I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith G. Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology; John A Nastasi, Stevens Institute of Technology; Eirik Hole, Stevens Institute of Technology; Peter L. Russell, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

the component level. The SE team will follow up on issues with a system level impact. 4. Integration Testing: The SE team will lead and coordinate the effort. 5. Demonstration: A series of live demonstrations will be conducted to demonstrate the capabilities and suitability for the operational scenarios given.The educational elements planned were as follows, with the primary vehicle being intensive just-in-time workshops placed at the key points in the project timeline to be most effective. Theyhave used a common day/time that aligns with the discipline capstone schedules for all sub-teams:  Lectures on critical SE principles and best practices to address the learning

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Experiences

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jacob Murray, Washington State University, Everett; Lucrezia Cuen Paxson, Washington State University, Everett; Soobin Seo, Washington State University, Everett; Mark Beattie, Washington State University, Everett

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

hospitality coursework, including managed services and event planning. Nearly all of his courses are designed using hybrid and online course delivery with experience in designing over 20 courses. He has taught and researched internationally in Switzerland, Malawi, and Tanzania. Dr. Beattie has over 15 publications and conference proceedings to his credit including publications in Jesuit Higher Education, The International Journal of Higher Education and Democracy, and The International Journal of Servant-Leadership. Dr. Beattie is a reviewer for the Hospitality and Tourism Graduate Student Edu- cation and Research Conference and is an Assistant Editor for Narrative Magazine. Dr. Beattie has over 30 years of experience in

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Learning Experiences

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lynn Albers, Hofstra University; Edward H. Currie, Hofstra University; David M. Rooney, Hofstra University; Robyn Alma, Hofstra University; Travis Chen Shen, Hofstra University

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

10-weeksummer program where students are paired with faculty to engage in a research or design project.The student is paid a weekly stipend of $400 while being mentored one-to-one by a full-timefaculty member. Approximately 29 students took part in this program during the summer of 2019,culminating in a presentation to their peers and faculty mentors, and members of the Dean’sAdvisory Board for the school.It is hypothesized that the process and completion of the research or design project through theprogram positively impacted the students’ confidence and self-efficacy. To determine if thehypothesis is true, the students were assessed through a simple survey, the results of which arepresented. In addition, two of the 29 students were asked

Conference Session

Investigating Instructional Strategies

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ada Hurst, University of Waterloo; Mehrnaz Mostafapour, University of Waterloo; Rania Al-Hammoud P.Eng., University of Waterloo; Andrea Prier, University of Waterloo; Erin Jobidon, University of Waterloo; Carol Hulls P.Eng., University of Waterloo; Christopher Rennick, University of Waterloo; Jason Grove P.E., University of Waterloo; Eugene Li, University of Waterloo; Sanjeev Bedi P.Eng., University of Waterloo

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Waterloo. Ada’s research and teaching interests include decision making under uncertainty, subjective probability, gender issues in STEM disciplines, design teaching, experiential and online learning, team processes, and peer review.Mehrnaz Mostafapour, University of WaterlooDr. Rania Al-Hammoud P.Eng., University of Waterloo Dr. Al-Hammoud is a Faculty lecturer (Graduate Attributes) in the department of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Al-Hammoud has a passion for teaching where she con- tinuously seeks new technologies to involve students in their learning process. She is actively involved in the Ideas Clinic, a major experiential learning initiative at the University of Waterloo. She

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Academic Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kylie Goodell King, University of Maryland, College Park; Jessica Macklin, University of Maryland, College Park; Amanda Yard, University of Maryland, College Park

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

. Prior to joining QUEST, Jessica was the Graduate Assistant in Columbia University’s Office of Student Engagement.Ms. Amanda Yard, University of Maryland, College Park Amanda Yard is a graduating senior from the University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Busi- ness. She is receiving a major in Supply Chain Management and a minor in Spanish Language and Cultures. She will be working for PepsiCo as an Integrated Supply Chain Associate in Schaumburg, IL. Amanda has been a member of the QUEST Honors Program since Spring 2013 where she has served as a mentor, as well as on the capstone project scoping team. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Impact of

Conference Session

Multidisiplinary Student Research Experiences

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeanne R. Garland, New Mexico State University; Michele A. Auzenne, New Mexico State University; Ricardo B. Jacquez, New Mexico State University

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

for community college students at the four-year institution.Although a majority of the programs seemed to have more of a focus on the development ofskills to help students with coursework upon transition to the four-year institution, there areprograms that have the research focus similar to SCCORE’s. The following programs offer aresearch focus or a research component, serving as models of best practices for the SCCOREprogram and pointing to ways our alliance can improve SCCORE.Two programs that offer research in the biomedical field to underrepresented students includethe Bridge Summer Research Program at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) thatprovides students at eight (8) community colleges training in lab techniques

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Experiences: Teaching in a Pandemic

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Abigail E. Heinz, Rowan University; Matthew Strauss; Kaitlin Mallouk, Rowan University; Mary Staehle, Rowan University

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

dailyquestionnaire about their personal well-being and were placed into breakout rooms to completean activity through a web-based service. This course was an interdisciplinary introductoryengineering course. The course is traditionally taken in the first semester of the first year, so thisis one of the first experiences the students have at the college level.Literature ReviewOnline learning has consistently received limited attention from researchers in comparison totraditional classroom environments [1]. This lack of research on various virtual classroomengagement methods has made it difficult for instructors to decide how to best cater to theirstudents and how to maintain a classroom community despite changes in delivery modality.Some studies prior to the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone Design

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael P. Frank, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering; Kamal E. Amin, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Okenwa I. Okoli, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Sungmoon Jung Ph.D., FAMU-FSU College of Engineering; Robert A. Van Engelen, Florida State University; Chiang Shih, Florida A&M University/Florida State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

capacity of transmission lines, six- sigma, Design for Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma, QFD, Statistics, project management, consulting, and holding workshops on team building, leadership, and creativity and innovation. Presently teaching en- gineering design methods, and coordinating/ co supervising, and instructing senor design classes and projects.Dr. Okenwa I Okoli, Florida A&M University/Florida State UniversitySungmoon Jung Ph.D., FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Dr. Jung joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering in August 2008, after working at Caterpillar Champaign Simulation Center as a staff engineer for two and half years. Dr. Jung’s research interests

Conference Session

Engineering in Societal Context

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

workingtogether, Florence Nightingale’s Environmental Theory served as the organizingprinciple for teaching practice to the environmental engineers as facilitated throughcoaching and interaction with community health nurses. This paper provides a side-by-side comparison of the professions of engineering and nursing, and includes the results ofassessments using mixed methods to document the impacts of exposure to nursingpractice on the formation of emergent engineers.IntroductionEngineering education emphasizes exposure to real-world application often throughexperiential learning. Mentored, student design experiences, including programs such asEngineers Without Borders-USA, provide opportunities for engineering students fromdiverse disciplines to learn

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering in the First-Year

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University; David Jacob Taylor, Arizona State University; Ian Derk

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First-Year Programs, Multidisciplinary Engineering

environment. Thereare many opportunities for students to participate in team-based work in various courses andcapstone projects to help them practice teamwork skills. However, in many cases, students are ontheir own to make their teams work and these team-based activities do not necessarily allowstudents to develop effective teamwork abilities. At Arizona State University, two cohorts of firstyear engineering students took Introduction to Engineering and Small Group Communicationtogether during Fall 2018 semester with cohered schedule, content, and assignments, around asmall design challenge and a large design project.The impact of this model on team dynamics in the design projects was assessed using the CAREmodel and assessment tool developed by the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone Design

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Kaplan, California State University, Northridge; James Flynn, California State University, Northridge; Sharlene Katz P.E., California State University, Northridge

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

and construction of a CubeSat to be launched in 2015. Her other areas of research interest have been in engineering education techniques, software defined radio, and neural networks. Dr. Katz is a licensed professional engineer in the state of California. Page 24.343.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 CubeSat: A Multidisciplinary Senior Design ProjectAbstractEngineering and computer science programs often require a culminating senior design project.Several of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accreditationoutcomes are best

Conference Session

Sustainability and Environmental Issues

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Achintya Bezbaruah, North Dakota State University; Wei Lin, North Dakota State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

engineers and scientists is becoming increasingly importantand popular throughout the world. There is a need to develop courses which introduce students tointerdisciplinary environmental management principles and tools, and expose them to variousreal world problems. To promote interdisciplinary environmental education and research, NorthDakota State University (NDSU) has introduced a graduate program in Environmental andConservation Sciences (ECS) in 2003. As part of this interdisciplinary program, a course inenvironmental management for ECS and civil engineering students was introduced. The coursewas designed as a graduate level course and was made available to civil engineeringundergraduates as a technical elective. The challenge was to address a

Conference Session

SE Capstone Design Projects, Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radu F. Babiceanu, University of Arkansas, Little Rock; Daniel Rucker, University of Arkansas, Little Rock; Hussain M Al-Rizzo, University of Arkansas, Little Rock; Seshadri Mohan, University of Arkansas, Little Rock

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Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

academic achievements he won the nomination by the University of New Brunswick as the best doctoral graduate in science and engineering. Since 2000, he joined the Systems Engineering Department, Uni- versity Arkansas at Little Rock where he is currently a tenured Professor. He has published over 35 peer- reviewed journal papers, 70 conference presentations, and two patents. He won the UALR’ excellence awards in teaching and research in 2007 and 2009, respectively. His research areas include implantable antennass and wireless systems, smart antennas, WLAN deployment and load balancing, electromagnetic wave scattering by complex objects, design, modeling and testing of high-power microwave applicators, design and analysis

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Outreach and Early Transdisciplinary Courses

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

develop hybrid educational modules linked to engineering grandchallenges to improve science and math concepts in k-12 curriculum.References 1. Ward, J. S., & Fontecchio, A. (2012, October). Work in progress: The NAE Grand Challenges, high school curricula and Graduate student research. In Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2012 (pp. 1-2). IEEE. 2. Davis, V., Raju, P. K., Lakin, J., Davis, E. (2016). Nanotechnology Solutions to Engineering Grand Challenges. American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference. 3. Mote Jr, C. D., Dowling, D. A., & Zhou, J. (2016). The Power of an Idea: The International Impacts of the Grand Challenges for Engineering. Engineering, 2(1), 4-7 4. Thomas, J. W. (2000). A

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design Constituents

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phillip Wankat, Purdue University; Kamyar Haghighi, Purdue University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

inEngineering Programs: Evolving Best Practices, Association to Institutional Research, Tallahassee, FL, Chapt. 8,2008.5. McCaulley, M. H., “The MBTI and Individual Pathways in Engineering Design,” Engineering Education, 80 (5),537-542 (July/August 1990).6. Wankat, P. C. and F. S. Oreovicz, Teaching Engineering, McGraw-Hill, New York, Chapt. 13, 1993. Availablefree as pdf files on the web at https://engineering.purdue.edu/ChE/AboutUs/Publications/TeachingEng/index.html7. Montgomery, D. C. and G. C. Runger, Applied Statistics and Probability for Engineers, Wiley, New York, pp.436-441, 1994.8. Watson, K., “Guest Editor’s Page. Change in Engineering Education: Where Does Research Fit?” J. Engr. Educ.,98 (1), 3-4 (Jan. 2009).Table 1. Concentrations in

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design II

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ralf Oliver Schneider, Syracuse University

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

environment.Project PathThe semester-long project was organized according to the user-centered design thinking process[4], navigating from the understanding phase to the ideation phase and concluding in the refiningphase. At the beginning of the project students researched the topic mixed reality, learned aboutits origin about 50 years ago [5] and explored MR capabilities with the Microsoft HoloLens, astate of the art MR device.Student teams were asked to respond the question “How could mixed reality impact machinerysolutions for industrial process automation and integration”. Over the course of the semester,students were expected to respond to these important issues: • Explore and identify a design opportunity around a specific theme in which mixed

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design II

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tela Favaloro, University of California, Santa Cruz; Patrick E. Mantey, University of California, Santa Cruz; Stephen C. Petersen P.E., University of California, Santa Cruz; John F Vesecky, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

responsibility, develop and implement complex systems,communicate and function within multidisciplinary groups, and understand impacts of theirdesigns in different societal and environmental contexts.Achieving these outcomes requires a pedagogy that not only holistically broadens non-technicalaspects of engineering design, but provides a conducive learning environment that is responsiveto the changing professional industry landscape. At our University, we have endeavored tofacilitate innovation and professional efficacy by closely tying our capstone course with currentindustry practice. The course begins with as a traditional lecture course in parallel with theproblem-based learning format during the first five weeks to rapidly prepare learners for

Conference Session

Capstone Projects, Design Projects, and Teamwork

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tomas Enrique Estrada, Elizabethtown College

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

member with a valuable opportunity for professional growth.-Finally, incorporating topics of interest which may not be in the curriculum could provide thestudents with a more tangible sense of how the theory learned in the classroom carries over tosolving problems in practical applications.In addition to the above opportunities, there were a number of unique characteristics to a smalldepartment and a liberal arts college which we considered to be advantages. Amongst them werethe following:-Lack of graduate projects for instructors to mentor: Because the instructors did not also directgraduate research, all project-oriented time is devoted to undergraduate students

Conference Session

Design in Multidisciplinary Learning Environment

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lina Zheng, Tsinghua University; Dexin Hu, Tianjin University; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

alsorevealing evidence of increasing efforts to promote and institutionalize multidisciplinary engineering education,including courses, capstone design experiences, and entire degree programs. Yet while lots of attention has beenpaid to multidisciplinary engineering education, few if any efforts have been made to survey the overalllandscape of multidisciplinary efforts in engineering education, including to identify effective approaches andpractices. Due to this lacking and even ill-defined picture of multidisciplinary engineering education, effectiveefforts and best practices might be overlooked by both researchers and educators. To address this gap in theliterature, a comprehensive review of multidisciplinary engineering education is needed to make

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curricular Design and Assessment

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael A. Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Craig B. Putnam, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

undergraduate degree program inrobotics. At that time, there were only a handful of universities worldwide offeringundergraduate Robotics programs, none in the United States, although many universitiesincluded robotics within a discipline such as Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, orMechanical Engineering. WPI took a decidedly different approach. We introduced Robotics as amulti-disciplinary engineering discipline to meet the needs of 21st century engineering. Thecurriculum, designed top-down, incorporates a number of best practices, including spiralcurriculum, a unified set of core courses, multiple pathways, inclusion of social issues andentrepreneurship, an emphasis on project-based learning, and capstone design projects. Thispaper provides a

Conference Session

Integrating Art, Humanities, and Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy W. Simpson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Marcus Shaffer, Penn State Architecture; Elisha Clark Halpin, Penn State University, School of Theatre, Dance Program; Amy Dupain Vashaw, Center for the Performing Arts @ Penn State; Dorothy H. Evensen, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

bothsurprised and delighted by the impact of the event and their project.Finally, one thing that all of the students suffered from on this capstone project was a lack offoresight. The design project was structured so that faculty research and pre-project prep wouldguide/facilitate the work, not dictate the final results. This working method allowed for a greatdegree of student input (far greater than any other capstone deign project), but it also meant thatstudents were operating with reserved confidence and expectations. In the end, there was a gooddegree of original/inventive design, but stereotypes of engineers and artists prevailed. Theengineering students craved structure and focus, and the architecture and dance students sawstructure and focus as

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design Projects

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia H. Carlson PE, PhD, Merrimack College; Anne Pfitzner Gatling, Merrimack College; John G. Adams, Merrimack College; Jocelyn Fraga Muller, Merrimack College

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Paper ID #19732”Hiring Other Classes”: Working across Departmental Boundaries in Inter-disciplinary Projects for Senior EngineersDr. Cynthia H. Carlson PE, PhD, Merrimack College Dr. Carlson worked as a water resources engineer for 10 years prior to earning her doctorate, contributing to improved water management in communities within the United States, Middle East, and Singapore. She has been a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) since 2002. Dr. Carlson’s research interests are broadly characterized as ’how civil engineering impacts public health’, and include storm water man- agement, modeling environment/engineering

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Learning, Evaluation, and Assessment

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew E. McFarland, University of Virginia; Reid Bailey, University of Virginia

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

University to assessthe impact of the Collaborative Engineering Program on its cohort of students.1.1 Research QuestionsThe long-term goal of this research is to improve understanding of how students become proficient atinterdisciplinary design for the purpose of creating better curricula to develop graduates with those skills.To facilitate this goal, the primary research method used was to observe engineering students from boththe Collaborative Engineering Program and not in the program working on interdisciplinary design teamson an engineering design activity. It uses a mixed-methods approach to address two main objectives,interdisciplinary collaboration and engineering design, by addressing two high level research questions.Research Question 1

Conference Session

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehmet Vurkaç, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

graduates need a broaderperspective of the role they and their activities play in the world at large.In addition to the practical purpose of strengthening our graduates’ engineering careers, theliterature also has much to say about the role of engineers in society, and the societal value ofHSS in preparing engineering graduates (who may function as engineers, managers,entrepreneurs, lawmakers, etc.) for that role. “The liberal arts help equip us for citizenship,”states Unfinished Design [2, p. 7]. “They can sharpen our critical powers and help us examineour preconceptions.” (Ibid.) Arms writes about “the development of the student as a person” [4,p. 141], and emphasizes Drexel’s E4 program’s selection of “[m]eritorious texts … to

Conference Session

Integration of Engineering and Other Disciplines (Including Liberal Arts)

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arthur Felse, Northwestern University; Igor Kourkine

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

PhD in Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology from the Indian Institute of Technology. Arthur is a recipient of the EPA’s Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award and has served as a faculty in the Chemical Engineering Summer School. Arthur is actively involved in engineering education research with particular emphasis on teaching engineering to non-engineers, and including industry practices in university education. Arthur is a member of American Society for Engineering Education.Dr. Igor Kourkine Page 24.103.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014A Sequence