Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone and Collaborative Projects

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karl Olsen, Washington State University; Todd Beyreuther, Washington State University; Michael Wolcott, Washington State University; Tamara Laninga, University of Idaho

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

 decisions made by one faculty member.    Lessons Learned Through the 6 years of the course, solutions to the barriers mentioned above have been brainstormed and approached with some trial and error. Below are the methods that have been successful in improving the program and building it to its current state.  Page 26.1011.8    Identify Team Problems through Peer Evaluations Peer evaluations have been implemented in an attempt to identify potential conflicts in student groups and address them directly before they expand and propagate. After each group assignment an online peer evaluation form is distributed to students to complete

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

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

thatfunction. The team went through all the major subsystems and their key components andassessed their performance as well as overall systems performance. Two DoD stakeholderrepresentatives were present.The expectation is that the project will be taken through to the prototyping stage and testing,including with the performance modeling.Experience with Implementation of the SE Capstone Pilot ProjectThe project is ongoing but there are a number of preliminary outcomes and lessons learned thatcan be taken from the experiences to date. These are summarized below. Page 22.1278.9Concrete planning should start early to mid spring semester (of Junior year

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

inMechanical Engineering, students in the Sustainable Design Minor, or taking the public policyminor from the College of Liberal Arts, etc. Projects include small and large scale energyproduction and utilization systems including alternate energy systems, projects for third worldapplication, and projects which are focused on product stewardship issues such as recycling, re-use, and re-manufacturing. Students in the following programs will likely be interested in thisproject track: Electrical Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, MechanicalEngineering, Mechanical Engineering / Energy & the Environment Option, Minor in SustainableDesign.Printing and Imaging Systems Technologies TrackThese projects should be of interest to students doing a

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

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

technologies.These 14 piloting universities are implementing methods and approaches hypothesized to lead toincreased student interest in SE education and careers, particularly in DoD and related industrycontexts. This pilot program is being conducted in order to inform the development of a nationalscale-up effort that would substantially expand the number and capabilities of universities thatcould produce SE graduates needed for the DoD and related defense industry workforce. It isanticipated that the implementation of the pilot courses will lead to the discovery of exemplarycourse materials, assessment instruments, and other lessons that will be deployed to acceleratethe adoption of effective practices and materials in a national scale up. An analysis of

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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Multidisciplinary Engineering

,supported by the Helmsley Charitable Trust. The meeting was attended by fourteen institutions,including four with existing programs. Meeting attendees identified elements key to the VIPmodel [6]: 1. Projects are based on faculty mentor’s scholarship and exploration. 2. Projects are long-term and large-scale, continuing for many years, even decades. 3. Program is curricular and all participating students are graded (A-F; not P/F or S/U). 4. Students can participate and earn credits toward their degrees for at least two years. 5. Learning outcomes focus on the development of both disciplinary and professional skills. 6. Multi-disciplinary teams are encouraged but not required. 7. Dedicated classroom

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Teamwork

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

A Zachary Trimble, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Wayne A. Shiroma, University of Hawaii at Manoa; David Garmire, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Aaron T. Ohta, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

sameproject over multiple years and with a familiar group of students. One of the challenges inrunning a VIP team is the multidisciplinary aspect. This paper discusses the challenges associatedwith transitioning traditionally discipline-siloed projects to multidisciplinary projects using VIPas the catalyst. Said another way, we describe the ongoing lessons learned of changing themindset of students (and faculty) from “you’re electrical engineering, I’m mechanicalengineering” to “we’re engineering”.In Fall 2015, the VIP Program at the University of Hawai‘i consisted of six VIP teams: threecomposed primarily of EE students, one composed of ME students, and two with a mix ofengineering students. The latter two teams are used as case studies to test our

Conference Session

Sustainability

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin L. Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sarah Aileen Brownell, Rochester Institute of Technology; Alexander T. Dale, Engineers for a Sustainable World

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

Page 24.1257.2profession, especially those covering sustainability topics, contain several of the 10 aspects ofwickedness.3 The National Academy of Engineering’s Grand Challenges for Engineeringprovides one relevant large-scale list4 but more regional issues such as urban transportation orwater infrastructure pose similarly complex challenges due to local variations. These issues mayhave a variety of clear technical responses, but implementation requires social and politicalagreement that engineers have rarely addressed. With the added contemporary need forconsideration of depleting resources and global crises such as climate change – which has beendefined as a “super” wicked problem5 – novel approaches to engineering education that

Conference Session

Capstone and International Experiences

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard S. Stansbury, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; William C. Barott, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Salamah Salamah, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Cockburn2,3.The course has involved requirements, preliminary design, and then a sequence of two weekiterations in which detailed design, implementation, integration, and testing were all performed.During the 2010-2011 academic year, the computer and software engineering capstone designproject included a pair of mini-projects to introduce students to the agile process. The first mini-project involved creating a client-server software system in which data could be written on onecomputer and displayed on another. For the second mini-project, the students had to program amicrocontroller to communicate remotely with a computer terminal. A graphical user interfaceon the terminal allowed the user to send commands to the microcontroller to enable/disable

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia C. Pendley, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joseph Homer Saleh, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

22.1363.6respectively, and some 347, 25, and 17 peer-reviewed articles using Web of Science® [retrievedAugust 16, 2010].It should be noted that memory of past accidents and their lessons learned are not only encodedin education, but they are often “institutionalized”, in building codes for example orOccupational Health and Safety regulations. As a result, instilling the memory of past accidentsand their lessons learned in engineering students can be seen as serving the function of diversityin redundancy (where memory resides and who recalls and exercises it) to help to avoid a repeatof similar accidents. Teaching engineering students about accident causation and system safetycan serve to complement and reinforce institutionalized safety requirements, and it