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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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Paper ID #6210Using Video to Tie Engineering Themes to Foundational ConceptsDr. Darshita N. Shah, Teaching and Learning Laboratory at MIT Darshita (Dipa) Shah is the Associate Director for Teaching and Learning in MIT’s Teaching and Learning Lab (TLL). Dipa’s primary role is to assist in the development of curricular innovations on campus and to provide professional development around teaching and learning for graduate students and faculty. Before joining TLL, Dipa played an integral role in developing instructional materials for the Engineering is Elementary (EiE) project at the Museum of Science in Boston. Used by more

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Micro-Technology and Nanotechnology

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Zhiyong Gu, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Bridgette Maria Budhlall, University of Massachusetts; Hongwei Sun, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Carol Forance Barry, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Alfred A. Donatelli, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Jill Hendrickson Lohmeier, University of Massachusetts Lowell

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2011 fall semester and again in the 2012 fall semester. The course forstudents in the three engineering departments included lectures, hands-on laboratory exercises,demonstration experiments, and a final design project. In this paper, we discuss the lecturetopics and eight hands-on laboratory experiments that were developed into modules tocomplement lectures in fluid mechanics, heat transfer, mixing, reaction engineering,electroosmosis, electophoresis, and manufacturing methods for micro and nanoscale devices. Wealso show the final project designs for the nanodevices or nanosystems that were proposed bystudent teams at the end of the course. Finally, we present the assessment results from the pre-post student surveys as well as faculty

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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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opportunities that cannot be taught in a class or laboratory. Cost andspace issues can be addressed by the current trend in engineering for miniaturization and micro-scale systems, systems that can be readily designed and prototyped by students.This paper discusses the development and implementation and educational outcome assessmentof two student projects using micro fluidic devices, involving a number of junior and seniorundergraduate students at our engineering technology program. The goal of the design projects isto explore and enhance students understanding of the fundamental engineering principles, andhands-on demonstration of system prototyping. Here we report two micro-fluidic projects whichexplore the principles of heat transfer as well as

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Micro-Technology and Nanotechnology

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Harold T. Evensen, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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NanomaterialsWe have recently developed a one-credit course designed for first-year students considering thenew major in Microsystems and Nanomaterials Engineering. It is based on a successful“Engineering Projects” course offered through our General Engineering department, which hassubsequently been made into a popular summer program for prospective students. The goal ofthis new course, which meets two laboratory hours per week, is to expose students to several ofthe important ideas and concepts in microsystems and nanotechnology, and to give them hands-on projects that will help them learn these multidisciplinary ideas. Further, the “ulterior motive”of this course is to inspire students to stay in engineering, and to give them a flavor of

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Robotics, Mechatronics, and Control Systems - Multidisciplinary Perspectives

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Li Tan, Purdue University, North Central; Jean Jiang, Purdue University, North Central

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: A Multidisciplinary Course in Mechanical Engineering Electrical EngineeringAbstractThis paper presents pedagogy and experiences in teaching system modeling and analysis as wellas feedback control systems in the engineering curriculum. The course is a requiredmultidisciplinary course to be offered at the junior level for both electrical and mechanicalengineering students. In addition, electrical engineering (EE) students and mechanicalengineering (ME) students who pursue an electrical engineering (EE) minor are required toconcurrently complete a laboratory course. But regular ME students who do not pursue an EEminor are not required to take the laboratory course. The motivation for offering thismultidisciplinary

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Micro-Technology and Nanotechnology

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maher E. Rizkalla, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Mangilal Agarwal, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Sudhir Shrestha, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis; Hazim A El-Mounayri, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Kody Varahramyan, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis

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Paper ID #5817Impacts of New Modes of Instructions for Nanotechnology Education withinEngineering and Science ProgramsDr. Maher E. Rizkalla, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis Maher Rizkalla received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 1985. From January 1985 to September 1986, he was employed as a Research Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, and an Assistant Professor at Purdue University Calumet until September 1986. Then, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at IUPUI where he is now Professor and Associate

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Micro-Technology and Nanotechnology

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hisham Hegab P.E., Louisiana Tech University; James D Palmer, Louisiana Tech University

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Paper ID #7847Assessment and Accreditation of a Nanosystems Engineering Degree at LouisianaTech UniversityDr. Hisham Hegab P.E., Louisiana Tech University Dr. Hegab is Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies and professor of Mechanical Engineering at Louisiana Tech University. He has previously served as the program chair of Microsystems and Nanosys- tems Engineering and provided leadership in developing the B.S. in Nanosystems Engineering program. He has taught lecture courses and laboratories at the undergraduate and graduate level in areas of thermal design, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, microsystems

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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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faculty as the expertise needed to teach each course was developed.  Active learning is used in many of the core robotics courses [14].  Progressive increase in level of autonomy in each course. The robots developed in each course progress from tele-operation to line-following to total autonomy. FIGURE 2. Robotics Engineering laboratory late at night  Tight integration of laboratory before a term project is due. assignments with lecture material [12].  Community-building. Many activities serve to build a sense of community amongst Robotics Engineering majors. These include

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Robotics, Mechatronics, and Control Systems - Multidisciplinary Perspectives

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Devdas Shetty, University of District of Columbia, DC; Arunkumar Chandrashekarappa Giriyapur, B.V.Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering & Technology

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. Because of the integrated multidisciplinaryapproach, the scope for innovation in product engineering is ever increasing. With rapidchanges in technology and more applications becoming real-time and embedded, teaching themechatronics course only through laboratories or course projects is not sufficient. The leapfrom the traditional sequential design approach to the mechatronics philosophy is very big.Added to this are the various definitions that have evolved and the various methodologiesdeveloped for the mechatronics system design. Mechatronics is at a stage of evolutionaryprocess of modern engineering design and involves systems thinking. “V-cycle” is aprescribed industrial process for mechatronics. It is a graphical construct used tocommunicate

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Capstone Projects, Design Projects, and Teamwork

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tomas Enrique Estrada, Elizabethtown College

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focus onmultidisciplinary work and hands-on learning.1 The topics of student interest have evolved aswell. Studies show that an increasing percentage of students are drawn towards topics related tosustainability.2 Regardless of these changes, one thing that remains true is that small engineeringdepartments, particularly departments housed in small liberal arts colleges, are faced withadditional challenges. These challenges include working with limited resources (budget,laboratory space, equipment) and the necessity for the instructor to supervise projects outside ofhis or her area of expertise. Thus, it can be difficult to develop capstone project ideas that arerealizable in this setting. We believe the Hybrid Solar Tracker project was an

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Curriculum Development and Multidisciplinary Instruction

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Catherine Skokan, Colorado School of Mines; Ravel F. Ammerman, Colorado School of Mines; William Hoff, Colorado School of Mines

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portion is on-line and theremainder is face-to-face is growing in popularity. Aycock1, et al, of the University ofWisconsin – Milwaukee, studied numerous hybrid courses and reported that the integration ofon-line with face-to-face learning facilitates interaction among students and between studentsand their instructors. McFarlin2 of University of Houston, found an increase by one letter gradein student performance from standard lecture to hybrid instruction. Riffell3 of Michigan StateUniversity found that minorities, in particular, increased their laboratory performance in a hybridenvironment. Perhaps the most compelling argument can be made by Landers4 in his doctoralthesis where a large number and variations of hybrid courses were analyzed. He

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Intercollegiate and Cross-disciplinary Collaboration

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barbara Burks Fasse PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology; James William Schwoebel, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ethan James Craig, Georgia Institute of Technology; Anish Joseph, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ajit Vakharia, Georgia Institute of Technology; Steve M. Potter PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kim Dooley, Texas A&M University; James DUPE Linder, Texas A&M University

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Education) Grant, is to establish a collaborative relationshipbetween research labs that do not have a link in physical space yet have interests and work thatare similar enough in nature to be reason for collaboration—or, certainly, conversation. Thebenefit to the undergraduate LINCR Fellows, beyond participation in laboratory research itself,is the opportunity to experience the two labs and their idiosyncratic ways of working,communicating, using their physical environments and resources while exploring the ways inwhich they are similarly connected through the projects, literature, theory, and practice. The first LINCR Fellow cohort—Summer 2012— enrolled three undergraduate studentsfrom two departments linking six labs, Principle

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Intercollegiate and Cross-disciplinary Collaboration

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eng Keng Soh, Engineering Design and Innovation Centre, National University of Singapore; Ameek Kaur, National University of Singapore; Ming Po Tham, National UNiversity of SIngapore; Desmond Y.R. Chong, National University of Singapore

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of topics coveredduring the lectures are: introduction to physiotherapy, stroke and spinal cord injury and therelated rehabilitation equipments. For the purpose of patient interviews, patients were pre-selected and their consent was sought by the doctors through the hospital’s procedure of consentseeking, such as explaining to the patients the objectives of the students’ interviews, and thesigning of consent forms by the patients who agreed to be interviewed. Students were allowed tointerview the patients in groups of five, for 15-20 minutes per session. Page 23.527.11To facilitate the administration, arrangement of laboratory tours and

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Intercollegiate and Cross-disciplinary Collaboration

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University; James M Widmann, California Polytechnic State University; Lynne A Slivovsky, California Polytechnic State University; J.Kevin Taylor; David W. Hey, California Polytechnic State University

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Paper ID #7433Adapted Physical Activity Design Projects: A Collaboration Between Kinesi-ology and EngineeringDr. Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University Dr Self has taught in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo since 2006. Prior to that, he worked in the Air Force Research Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy for seven years. During the 2011-2012 academic year he participated in a professor exchange, teaching at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. His engineering education activities include collaborating on the Dynamics Concept Inventory

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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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://www.usfirst.org/aboutus/gracious-professionalism Accessed: 5/17/2012.12. Williams, A. B., 2003, "The qualitative impact of using LEGO MINDSTORMS robots to teach computer engineering," IEEE Transactions on Education, v. 46, n. 1, Feb. 2003, p. 206.13. J. Hatfield, D. Scott, D. Szmyd, “A freshman electrical engineering course and laboratory for all engineering majors,” ASEE- IEEE Frontier in Education Conference Proceedings, pp. 4c2.1-4c2.4, Vol.2, 1995.14. Makarov, S., Ludwig, R., Win, K.M., “Basic Class Materials and Laboratory Projects With DC Motors in an Introductory Undergraduate ECE Class for Non-Majors,” ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings, AC 2011-1184, 2011

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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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of mathematics andengineering science, accompanied by laboratory and workshop experiences. The formative yearsshould be devoted to individual learning, followed by team activities and peer group interactions,and then immersion in creativity and innovation in the workplace, e.g. research participation.Some global trends are evident in engineering education over the past two decades: Page 23.1174.31. Global adoption6,7,8,9 of the ABET2000 model of self-assessment processes as the basis for accreditation of undergraduate programs, where showing “improvement” replaces standards.2. Uncritical adoption of the US K-12 model of teaching

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Capstone Projects, Design Projects, and Teamwork

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacob T Allenstein, The Ohio State University; Bob Rhoads, Ohio State University; Peter Rogers, The Ohio State University; Clifford A Whitfield, Ohio State University

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committee for the 2012 Capstone Design Conference and is a member of the CDHub web development team. He holds the position of Professor of Practice at The Ohio State University.Dr. Clifford A Whitfield, Ohio State University Received his Ph.D. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Ohio State University in 2009, and is currently working as Lecturer and Senior Researcher for the Engineering Education Innovation Center and the Aeronautical and Astronautical Research Laboratories at Ohio State. Page 23.560.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013Examining the Impacts

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Capstone Projects, Design Projects, and Teamwork

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael W. Prairie, Norwich University; Gregory Wight P.E., Norwich University; Peter Kjeer, Harvard University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Engineering (CEE) and Electrical andComputer Engineering (ECE) students together for the first semester, and they are separated intotheir disciplines during the second semester. A final project in the second semester was desiredthat could bring the students back together to make discipline-specific contributions to a multi-disciplinary project. The chosen project was a hydroelectric generation project in which the MEstudents designed a water wheel to work in a laboratory flume, the ECE students designed apermanent-magnet generator with wireless monitoring, and the CEE students designed astructure to support the wheel and generator. In addition to designing their respectivecomponents, the students had to communicate between disciplines to define

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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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b.1 Observe good laboratory safety procedures have an ability to b.2 Formulates an experimental plan of data gathering conduct experiments, as b.3 Carefully documents data collected well as to analyze and b.4 Develops and implements logical experimental procedures3b interpret data related to b.5 Selects appropriate equipment and instruments to perform manufacturing the experiment processes, materials b.6 Is able to operate instrumentation and process equipment evaluation, and manufacturing systems.2. Why do engineers need education in statistics?Study of statistics creates in an engineer the ability for

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Integrating Art, Humanities, and Engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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partnership with Sandia National Laboratories.5 Winner of the 2006 NationalAcademy of Engineering’s Gordon Prize for Engineering Education,6 the partners developedshared curriculum materials and degree options in product realization or manufacturing to helpbring real-world experiences into the engineering classroom. For capstone design in particular,the Learning Factory fosters university-industry partnerships whereby industrial sponsors andclients interact with students and faculty through hands-on capstone design projects. Initially,these projects primarily engaged mechanical engineering, industrial engineering (manufacturingtrack), and electrical engineering students at Penn State; however, the program has expandedsignificantly over the past five

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Integrating Art, Humanities, and Engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John J. Marshall PhD, University of Michigan

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

answer. However, they doless well when learning is required to be tacit; enacted as skill; context-specific; and thereforedifficult to articulate1. The professors wanted to create an opportunity where students couldcome together in a learning environment that was more like a working studio or laboratory than atypical classroom.The Multidisciplinary Learning and Team Teaching Initiative (MLTT) from the Office of theProvost funded all of the design-build-test activities. In launching this initiative, the Universityof Michigan dedicated $2.5 million dollars to support fourteen team-teaching efforts and cross-disciplinary degree programs at the undergraduate level, 2005-2009. In launching the initiative,the University of Michigan asserted that

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Capstone Projects, Design Projects, and Teamwork

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emil H Salib, James Madison University; Joshua Alfred Erney, James Madison University; Matthew Edwin Schumaker

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

consultants the significance of theircontributions to the success of the project.AcknowledgmentThe authors wish to acknowledge the ISAT 306 Section 1 students who participated in thiscourse case study, ISAT Department for providing laboratory and funding support. In addition,we would like to thank the two TAs, John Catron and Hunter Grenfell, Dr. Benton (the unofficialadvisor), Mr. Joe Rudmin (Lab Technician) and numerous online community sites. The entireclass would like to recognize the unique and crucial contributions of “the glue” (Adam Maas)without his drive and willingness to help other sub-teams beyond his, the project would not havebeen as successful. In addition, the authors would like to acknowledge Sarah Osorio‟scontributions to initial