Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum and Course Development

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Edward F. Crawley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Mark Bathe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rea Lavi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Amitava "Babi" Mitra, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Institute of MIT & Harvard, Co-Chair of the MIT New Engineering Education Transformation, and Chair of the MIT Committee on Student Life. Professor Bathe obtained his Doctoral Degree from MIT working in the Departments of Mechanical, Chemical, and Biological Engineering before moving to the University of Munich to carry out his postdoctoral research. He returned to MIT in 2009 to join the faculty in the Department of Biological Engineering, where he runs an interdisciplinary research group focused on the targeted delivery of therapeutic nucleic acids and vaccines, phenotypic profiling of neuronal circuits involved in psychiatric disease, and engineering nucleic acid materials for highly parallel molecular computing

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs and Curricula

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert W. Fletcher, Lawrence Technological University

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waswell aware of the need to develop a program around an engineering science and not around aspecific given technology.The exploratory committee felt that these opportunities available to a student graduating with aBS in robotics engineering needed to be in two areas. The first required area of opportunity forgraduating students must be with industry. Does industry see the need, and does it also value anddesire to hire students who possess such a bachelor degree? Lawrence Tech found that inconsulting with its industry advisory board members, and also with numerous representativesfrom industry who were not on the school’s industry advisory board that there was anoverwhelming interest in graduates with such a degree. These industry contacts were

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa R. Lattuca, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Lois Calian Trautvetter, Northwestern University; Sarah L. Codd, Montana State University; David B. Knight, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Carla M. Cortes, Northwestern University

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engineers with superior design and problem-solving skills.Data Collection and AnalysisIn 2007–08, the research team divided into three smaller teams, each comprised of four to fivefaculty and graduate research assistants from the fields of engineering and education. Each teamwas responsible for data collection and reporting for two case studies. Data collection relied onmultiple sources of evidence: personal and group (or focus) interviews with faculty,administrators, students, and professional staff (e.g., student support services); observations ofclasses and events (e.g., Projects Day), archival records (e.g., meeting minutes), and otherartifacts (websites, documents). Triangulation of these data sources enabled corroboration offacts and events

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering, Art and Society

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Olgha Bassam Qaqish, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Andrew Greenberg, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering University of Wisconsin-Madison; Christine S. Grant, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Ashley Brown

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careers. For graduate students and postdoctoral associates who are alsolearning to be effective researchers and professionals, the importance of proper mentoring is vitalto their success and long-term career choices.Studies of the impact of mentorship have shown that students who receive strong mentoring duringresearch experiences have enhanced self-efficacy toward their research experiences [3-7]; greaterpersistence while engaged in research [8-10], increased research productivity [11-12], overallhigher career satisfaction [13-14], and enhanced recruitment of underrepresented students [15].However, as noted above, faculty members are often not well prepared to provide effectivementoring. Often first year faculty are mentoring for the first time

Conference Session

Program-Level Assessments for Multidisciplinary Areas

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Elise Barrella P.E., James Madison University

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Paper ID #19291A Systematic Review of Sustainability Assessments in ASEE ProceedingsDr. Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel Dr. Mary Katherine Watson is currently an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Citadel. Prior to joining the faculty at The Citadel, Dr. Watson earned her PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from The Georgia Institute of Technology. She also has BS and MS degrees in Biosystems Engineering from Clemson University. Dr. Watson’s research interests are in the areas of engineering education and biological waste treatment.Dr. Elise Barrella, James Madison University

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering, Art and Society

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Brianna Benedict McIntyre, Purdue University

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positionality in terms of how I relate to my participants and the research topicsI choose to pursue.Who am I?I am a twenty-nine-year-old, cisgender Black woman who grew up in a blended middle-classChristian family in a rural community in North Carolina. I graduated from the number one publicHistorically Black College/ University with two degrees in Industrial and Systems Engineering.However, since I had the privilege of attending a Historically Black Institution, theunderrepresentation of Black engineers (at large) did not resonate with me until I began my firstinternship as an undergraduate engineering student. Even more so, I never felt undermined bymale peers or faculty. Instead, I felt recognized as a competent engineer. As a Black woman whohas two

Conference Session

Program-Level Assessments for Multidisciplinary Areas

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ming Li, Tsinghua University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Program AccreditationIn the United States, the development of professional accreditation of engineering educationhas been continuously implemented for 80 years. ABET has been committed to optimize andimplement the accreditation process which is regarded as the most efficient and innovativemethod of quality assurance in higher education. By 2013, 3278 programs of 671 collegesand universities in the United States have been accredited, which clearly illustrates that“despite the changes and new trends in education, institutions, faculty, and students in theUnited States see ABET accreditation as the gold standard in technical educationaccreditation, much as they did 80 years ago.”32 Meanwhile, ABET aimed to be moreresponsive to the needs of an

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen High, Oklahoma State University; Charlene Yauch, Oklahoma State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

2006-1932: YOU’VE BEEN SLIMED!: PROCESS AND PRODUCT DESIGNEXPERIENCES FOR RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION OF CHEMICAL ANDINDUSTRIAL ENGINEERSKaren High, Oklahoma State University KAREN HIGH earned her B.S. from the University of Michigan in 1985 and her M.S. in 1988 and Ph.D. in 1991 from the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. High is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma State University where she has been since 1991. Her main research interests are Sustainable Process Design, Industrial Catalysis, and Multicriteria Decision Making. Other scholarly activities include enhancing creativity in engineering practice and teaching science to education students and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary First-year Experiences

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Malinda S. Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jaclyn L. Cunitz, University of Colorado Boulder; Marissa H. Forbes, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado-Boulder

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focusing on humanitarian engineer- ing. In addition, she teaches STEP 1 and STEP 2 education courses through CU Teach Engineering, a new General Engineering Plus program specifically designed to prepare students to earn a secondary math or science teacher licensure through engineering. She manages and mentors graduate and undergraduate engineering Fellows who teach in local K-12 classrooms through the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program’s TEAMS initiative, is on the development team for the TeachEngineering digital library, and is faculty advisor for CU-Boulder’s Society of Women Engineers (SWE).Jaclyn L. Cunitz, University of Colorado Boulder Jaclyn L. Cunitz is an undergraduate student in the department of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curricular Design and Assessment

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward F. Crawley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Anette "Peko" Hosoi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Amitava "Babi" Mitra, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

“machines” generally to describe all of the things that engineers build, including infrastructural,informational, molecular, mechanical and biological constructs. What are the new machines?Simply put, these are the things that we must prepare our graduating students to build in themiddle of their careers, 20 to 30 years from now, to address societal needs. Here is an example ofwhat we have termed as “old machine” and “new machine”.The airplane on the left is a 1950’s era Boeing 707; it is designed based on aerodynamics. Theflying machine on the right is NASA’s X-57 Maxwell, an aircraft that looks like the one on theleft but is being developed based on electric propulsion using lithium-ion batteries; they estimatethat it will reduce fuel use by a

Conference Session

Capstone Design & Project Courses

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne Walter, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jeffrey Webb, Rochester Institute of Technology; Mark Smith, Rochester Institute of Technology; Elizabeth DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology; Margaret Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; George Slack, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Page 12.1231.4scramble to get the necessary documentation in place before the fall start-up. Faculty membersengaged in research activities were also able to propose projects to advance their research efforts.Graduate students were able to work at a high level with an MSD team to leverage their thesisefforts. It was sometimes a challenge to get the attention of faculty members and grad students inthe summer months, as well. Once project proposals were submitted, the faculty coordinatorteam reviewed them for feasibility and modifications were made to fit the sponsor’srequirements and the college’s educational objectives. This required meetings by the coordinatorteam throughout the summer months. A change in process was needed to give the MSD

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design Projects

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alireza Yazdanshenas, University of Texas, Tyler ; Caleb Nathaniel Nehls, The University of Texas, Tyler; Chung-Hyun Goh, University of Texas, Tyler

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Paper ID #19648Multidisciplinary Design Projects in Engineering EducationAlireza Yazdanshenas, University of Texas, Tyler Alireza Yazdanshenas Mechanical Engineering student form the University of Texas at Tyler (Undergrad) Will continue my education to my last days. Born in Iran and Lived in Germany for an extended amount of time. Dual College athlete yet in love with Engineering. Hoping to compete in the 2020 Olympics in the Hammer throw.Mr. Caleb Nathaniel Nehls, The University of Texas, Tyler Caleb Nehls was born and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana. He graduated from Southwood Highschool in 2005. After

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

approach into the existing curriculum by creating aframework of educational and organizational components that integrates discipline-specificsenior design and special projects courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Byincluding graduate students as well as external advisors, we anticipate providing a level ofprofessionalism, experience and knowledge that would not be possible on an undergraduate-onlyproject, also giving context to the career aspects of Systems Engineering for all studentsinvolved.Project DescriptionThe Stevens project, which is design/build, has been conducted over two semesters and involved4 undergraduate sub-teams from Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Management, Electrical& Computer Engineering and Civil

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gisele Ragusa, Ph.D., University of Southern California

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

. Specifically, the NAE charges universities and colleges to prepareengineers that are leaders with strong globally focused communication, leadership andinterdisciplinary research and professional skills in diverse in engineering environments. This paper describes six universities’ response to this important NAE challenge. Thepaper will describe both curricular and pedagogical research and a measure of engineering globalpreparedness. In this study, engineering students received interdisciplinary globally focusedengineering education and then were assessed as to their preparedness to work in globalworkforces and research environments. An Engineering Global Preparedness Index wasadministered to assess this educational and research experience with a

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum and Course Development

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Karl D. Schubert FIET, University of Arkansas; Manuel D. Rossetti P.E., University of Arkansas

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Institute of Engineering & Technology (IET) in 2015 and inducted as a charter member of the University of Arkansas Academy of Computer Sci- ence and Computer Engineering in 2017. He established an endowed faculty award in Computer Science, an endowed undergraduate scholarship in Chemical Engineering and an endowed undergraduate scholar- ship to attract under-represented students to Engineering to help establish the College of Engineering’s Early Career Awareness Program (ECAP). Dr. Schubert lives in Tontitown, AR, USA with his wife Kathryn, and son Tucker.Dr. Manuel D. Rossetti P.E., University of Arkansas MANUEL D. ROSSETTI is a Professor in the Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Arkansas. He

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward F. Crawley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Anette Hosoi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Gregory L. Long Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Timothy Kassis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; William Dickson, General Motors; Amitava 'Babi' Mitra, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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begun planning inter-threadevents for the upcoming semester.5.4 MIT levelEvents organized included lab tours, graduate student and postdoc presentations from variousparticipating labs, individual mentoring by the faculty co-leads and most notably a Lunch & Learn serieswhere interested students got to have lunch and chat in an informal setting with faculty members fromthe seven majors currently in the thread. We organized a panel-based information session addressingtopics surrounding the graduate school application process for the broader MIT undergraduatecommunity. Attendance of thread students was much lower than we had anticipated; the main reasonturned out to be conflicts with the classes they were taking. Going forward, we will

Conference Session

Design in Multidisciplinary Learning Environment

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Amy Dunford, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Edwing A. Medina, New York University Tandon School of Engineering; Jack Bringardner, New York University Tandon School of Engineering

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

,will interim-level Team Roles that were neither high nor low (i.e., Coordinator, Team Worker,Completer-Finisher) in this analysis move into one of these high or low categories as the workand needs of the team progresses over time (and as the roles’ descriptions suggest)?When students’ self-perceptions were disaggregated by their leadership role on the team, theleaders ranked the Implementer Team Role highest on average. The Implementer (IM) TeamRole is characterized by an organizing ability, practical common sense, being hard-working andself-disciplined. These skills and mindsets are important for a leader of a VIP DesignCompetition Team, which can be a demanding activity. VIP team members’ self-perceptions oftheir Team Role were, on average

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Learning and Teaching Experiences

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ann-Perry Witmer P.E., University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; José G. Andino Martínez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Olivia C. Coiado, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jessica Marie Mingee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Flavia Andrade, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Tim Pollack-Lagushenko, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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to facultymembers who had expressed an interest in becoming more involved. Of the initial round of 36invited faculty members, 22 enthusiastically joined the Working Group. Those faculty comefrom multiple engineering disciplines and programs as diverse as music, political science,medicine, physics, sociology, engineering, classics, and information sciences. At the same time,the Working Group’s student representative began to recruit volunteers to create a GlobalSTEAM blog on the Working Group’s website and rapidly assembled a half dozenundergraduate and graduate students from across the campus to act as advisors and curators to arunning blog feature.A third initiative emerging from the roundtable was the establishment of a graduate

Conference Session

Innovations for Multidisciplinary Programs

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Michaela E. Amoo, Howard University; Jack Bringardner, New York University; Jen-Yeu Chen, National Dong Hwa University; Edward J. Coyle, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jillana Finnegan, Boise State University ; Charles J. Kim, Howard University; Patricia D. Koman, University of Michigan; Magdalini Z. Lagoudas, Texas A&M University; Donna C. Llewellyn, Boise State University; Louise Logan, University of Strathclyde; Julie Sonnenberg-Klein, Georgia Institute of Technology; Nadia Millis Trent, University of Pretoria; Scott Munro Strachan, University of Strathclyde; Bennett C. Ward, Virginia Commonwealth University College of Engineering

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, fault detection and anticipation, embedded computing, safety-critical computer systems, and statistical and machine reasoning. Dr. Kim is active in faculty-student team project through the Vertically Integrated Projects program. Also for years he’s been in practicing experiential learning through the Inclusive Engineering Consortium in engineering education with personal instrumentation such as mobile studio.Dr. Patricia D Koman, University of Michigan College of Engineering Trish Koman is the faculty research program manager at the University of Michigan College of Engineer- ing Multidisciplinary Design Program. She supports over a dozen research teams engaging an average of 200 students and conducts educational

Conference Session

Edifying Engineering Education through Multidisciplinary Efforts

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Behnaam Aazhang, Rice University; Randal T. Abler, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jan P. Allebach, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); L. Franklin Bost, Virginia Commonwealth University; Joseph R. Cavallaro, Rice University; Edwin K. P. Chong Ph.D., Colorado State University; Edward J. Coyle, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jocelyn B. S. Cullers, Boise State University; Sonya M. Dennis, Morehouse College; Yingfei Dong, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa; Prasad N. Enjeti, Texas A&M University; Afroditi V. Filippas, Virginia Commonwealth University; Jeffrey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University; David Garmire, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa; Jay George; Brian E. Gilchrist, University of Michigan; Gail S. Hohner, University of Michigan; William L. Hughes, Boise State University; Amos Johnson, Morehouse College; Charles Kim, Howard University; Hale Kim, INHA University; Robert H. Klenke, Virginia Commonwealth University; Magdalini Z. Lagoudas, Texas A&M University; Donna C. Llewellyn, Boise State University; Yung-Hsiang Lu, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Kevin James Lybarger, University of Washington; Stephen Marshall P.E., University of Strathclyde; Subra Muralidharan, University of California, Davis; Aaron T. Ohta, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa; Francisco Raul Ortega, Florida International University; Eve A. Riskin, University of Washington; David M. Rizzo; Candace Renee Ryder, Colorado State Univerisity; Wayne A. Shiroma, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa; Thomas J. Siller, Colorado State University; J. Sonnenberg-Klein, Georgia Institute of Technology; Seyed Masoud Sadjadi, Florida International University; Scott Munro Strachan, University of Strathclyde; Mohsen Taheri, Florida International University; Gary L. Woods, Rice University Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Brian C. Fabien, University of Washington; Phiilp Johnson, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Robert Collins, Univesrity of Strathclyde at Georgia Tech; Paul Murray

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, scholar and researcher. He currently holds the TI-Professorship in Analog Engineering and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering. His re- search emphasis on industry-based issues, solved within an academic context, has attracted significant external funding. Up until now, he has graduated 31 PhD students and 11 of them hold academic posi- tions in leading Universities in the world. He along with his students have received numerous best paper awards from the IEEE Industry Applications and Power Electronics Society. His primary research inter- ests are in advancing power electronic converter designs to address complex power management issues such as: active harmonic filtering, adjustable speed

Conference Session

Experiential and Service Learning

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Ejiwale, Jackson State University; Della Posey, Jackson State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Department of Technology is to provide a nationally accredited program,which serves the technical, managerial, and communication needs of persons desiring to enter or Page 13.546.2advance professionally in an industrial technology related career. The Division of Student Life atJackson Student University supports the intellectual, career, personal, social and culturaldevelopment of students. As a partner in the educational process at Jackson State University, thedivision support the academic programs of Jackson State University by providing efficient andeffective services for the holistic development of students. Through its programs and services

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Sustainability and Grand Challenges

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Magdalini Z. Lagoudas, Texas A&M University; Jeffrey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

multidisciplinary contexts and develop theirprofessional knowledge and skills. The intent was to engage over 100 undergraduateengineering students each year in a serious pursuit of ways in which progress can bemade on these challenges.Each semester, the program begins with engineering faculty members. A solicitationis sent to all engineering faculty members inviting proposals to support teams ofstudents. The incentive is that the College provides support for up to one graduatestudent who will work with an undergraduate student team, usually ten or moreundergraduate students. The graduate student will help the team with their technicalknowledge and often greater experience about the subject matter. Combiningundergraduate students, and graduate student, and

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

premedicalengineering or prelaw engineering. The non-ABET accredited program was a good fit for thesestudents. The other group of students was interested in pursuing an engineering career inprograms such as acoustical engineering, biomedical engineering, and engineering management.Graduates who followed careers that did not require them to become registered professionalengineers had few complaints about their educational preparation. On the other hand, graduateswho wanted to become professional engineers often had considerable difficulty in being allowedto take the professional engineering examination because they had not graduated from an ABET Page

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Development

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Muhittin Yilmaz, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

supervisors, school counselors, communitycollege advisors, and faculty members in community colleges will yield the best results. It is alsoimportant to ask previous participants to advertise for the proposed program and recommend it tocolleagues and peers.Challenges for the Faculty Mentors and Graduate StudentsThe mentors and graduate students are an essential part of any research experience program.Their roles vary according to the model used from actively leading the program and controllingall aspects of it to acting as facilitators in the SPI model.Communication Gap: As one of the project directors interviewed noted, some mentors treat highschool student participants in a summer camp as if they are graduate students. Proper training ofand

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary First-year Experiences

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lizabeth T. Schlemer, California Polytechnic State University; Kylie Hensley, SUSTAIN SLO; Rachel Pittman; Jada Golland, SUSTAIN SLO

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

challenge of representing the transformational learning that occurswhen students participate in high impact practices such as project-based, multi-disciplinaryactivities, or first year experiences. This paper illustrates the context and components of one suchmulti-disciplinary, first year experience called SUSTAIN SLO, at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, anddescribes the use of qualitative narrative analysis done to gain insight into learning outcomesbeyond typical institutional measures like retention and grades. To research these lessquantifiable outcomes, 22 students were interviewed one year after their experience in SUSTAINSLO. A team of one faculty member, a recent graduate, and four undergraduate students usedqualitative analysis techniques to see

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Design II

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara Gusmao Brissi, Purdue University; Luciana Debs, Purdue University; Mariana Watanabe, Purdue University

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proposed solutions [20].Research ContextThe U.S. Department of Energy Race to Zero Student Design Competition is an annualcompetition that challenges students to create zero energy buildings (ZEB). In the 2018 Race toZero, teams could choose between two different types of ZEB: residential (single or multi-unit)or institutional (elementary school) buildings. The 2018 RTZ Purdue team comprised sevenstudent team members, one student team leader (STL), two faculty advisors and one facultyleader. Six student team members were selected jointly by the faculty leader and STL. Theseventh member (landscape architect) was chosen after the development of the project hadalready been initiated. The team also counted on the collaboration of industry advisors

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

reinforce many important aspects of atraditional computer science education. The software team was provided with hands-onexperience programming and debugging a large project. In the course of programming a low-level embedded development platform, students gained valuable practice with bitwise operations,bit-masks, and number system conversion. The limited bandwidth of the communication linkbetween the CubeSat and the ground gave the team an opportunity to explore networking andpacket-switching beyond the domain of internet protocols. Naturally, this led to issues ofcomputer security, such as the ability to authenticate transmissions from Mission Control, andthe decision of whether or not transmissions should be digitally signed by each side. For

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Experiential Learning

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University; Jack V. Matson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Darrell Velegol, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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delivered in September/October 2013 over an 8-week period (with a 2-week extension for final assignment submissions). Our team wascomposed of three core faculty in different engineering fields (chemical, environmental, andmechanical/design), a faculty member from theater (who also served as an acting coach), a teamprocess coach (psychology), an instructional designer, several university technical staff wholiaised with Coursera and managed contractual issues, and a mix of graduate and undergraduatestudents from engineering and education who assisted as staff with many tasks along the way.3.1 Levels of Student EngagementStudent engagement and retention are major issues in the current MOOC context4. In particular,the low percentages of enrolled

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Teams

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Dong, California Polytechnic State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

provide a well rounded exposure to a subject, enhancing student learning by exposingstudents to multiple view points, etc.In my experience, which is based on personal observations and student feed back, this model issuccessful when the two instructors have been working together for a long time and havecompatible goals and pedagogy or if team teaching is proposed as a benefit to the students ratherthan to accommodate the needs of the faculty members. In the latter case, the team must committo regular meetings to coordinate lecture and homework assignments in order to minimizeoverlap in material and provide a smooth transition from one instructor to the next. In reflection,the requirements of team teaching are no different than the team building

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Ciaraldi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Eben Cobb, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; David Cyganski, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Michael Demetriou; Greg Fischer; Michael Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Fred Looft, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; William Michalson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Bradley Miller, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Taskin Padir, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Yiming Rong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kenneth Stafford, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Gretar Tryggvason, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; James Van de Ven, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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-level project in their major field of study. For RBE students, this constitutes a capstonedesign experience in Robotics Engineering. Students typically work in teams of two to fourstudents, although single-person projects and larger teams are also possible. A faculty member inthe major advises the work. The project work itself typically starts with a formal projectproposal, including literature review, clearly defined approach, and schedule with milestones.Projects conclude with a report and presentation to faculty and students. In some cases projectreports become conference papers. Project ideas come from several sources: faculty may havetopics that relate to their research or other interests, industry often sponsors projects (and ischarged a