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

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

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