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Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

John Alexander Mendoza-Garcia, University of Florida; Andrea Goncher, University of Florida; Mengyu Li, University of Florida

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Systems Engineering

].However, the teaching methods and assessments for such an approach have not been well studied inengineering education comparing to some other disciplines of science education [11], [14], [15]. Thisrecognition of the inadequacy of current educational methods in helping engineering students learnsystems thinking skills is a focal point of this research, which aims to assess a student's ability to developa systematic and integrated understanding of complex systems and to take into considerations of non-engineering perspectives (such as economic, social, organizational and others, etc.).Assessment of Systems ThinkingThere is no agreement among researchers on what an assessment tool is needed for effectively assesssystems thinking. Researchers

Conference Session

Assessment and Accreditation in Engineering Management

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maxwell Reid, Auckland University of Technology

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

facilitate the development of moral, ethical and sustainableintegrity, together with an understanding of management issues. Students are made aware ofvarious aspects of management that are important to the practising engineer and how sociallyresponsible management is an integral part of engineering. The programme also provides abase from which students may continue their management education. In these two papers thestudents are encouraged to explore possible alternatives beyond the knowledge andconstraints of the actual situation within their level of competence, as the beginning of a life-long learning process in their engineering careers.The new BE curriculum is designed to interest and challenge undergraduate engineeringstudents, and prepare them

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Capstone Design Courses and Tools in support of Systems Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aditya Akundi, RIMES, University of Texas at El Paso; Eric D Smith, University of Texas, El Paso

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Systems Engineering

programs nationally andinternationally would at some point begin to coalesce toward a uniformly demanded andstandardized core curriculum. A reference curriculum was soon provided by the GRCSE. The needs of the U.S. are embodied by the following quotation. The DeputyAssistant Secretary of the Air Force for Science, Technology and Engineeringcommissioned the National Research Council of the National Academies to examine therole that Systems Engineering can play during the defense acquisition life cycle andaddress the root cause of program failure during the early phase of the program. In someof its findings, the National Research council states: “There is a need for an appropriate level of SE talent and leadership early in the

Conference Session

Research Projects, Course Development, and Industry Issues

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Travis P, Dunn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Joseph M. Sussman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Naomi E. G. Stein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; David Louis Uniman, Steer Davies Gleave

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Systems Engineering

transportation and engineering systems research for teaching andassignment content.On the research side, MIT has been engaged with partner universities and agencies in Portugalon a variety of topics related to high-speed rail (HSR). These varied efforts demand a unifyingengineering systems framework to ensure that the research delivered provides maximal valueboth individually and as part of a broader program. The integrating engineering systemsframework chosen (Complex, Large-Scale, Interconnected, Open, Socio-technical, or CLIOSProcess) was taught in Engineering System Design and applied using an active research programas the case study context.After presenting the MPP and HSR research contexts, this paper summarizes the methodologyused to implement

Conference Session

SE Capstone Design Projects, Part II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Corns, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Cihan H. Dagli, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Ivan G. Guardiola, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

The instruction of systems engineering is a difficult task, as this new yet prevalent area ofengineering requires knowledge within a practitioner that encompasses breadth and depth acrossvarious fields of engineering1. It is a requirement that any systems engineer have both breadthand depth in various niches of engineering poses an interesting problem in the development ofany pedagogy relative to the instruction of key systems engineering fundamentals. Thesefundamentals include design alternative identification, cost assessments, interface integration,risk identification, and many others2. It is through the instruction of systems engineering that keyskill sets necessary for completing the complex engineering tasks of today can be attained

Conference Session

Pedagogical Advancements in Engineering Management

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn D. Abel, Stevens Institute of Technology; Anirban Ganguly, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

, therefore making it important to both academicians, as well as, practitioners. EM as aformal degree has been present since the mid 1940s 3 and currently, there are more than 100universities in the US offering an undergraduate and / or graduate program in EM. EM programswere historically embedded within the departments of industrial engineering, depending upon theuniversities 4. However, in order to reflect the gradual shift from manufacturing to turn-keysystems integrators in a global economic environment, many more universities are aligning theirEM programs with their systems engineering program 5.Importance of Analyzing FailuresFailure analysis is the process of collecting and analyzing data to determine the cause of afailure. It relies on

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Programs in Support of Systems Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roger V. Gonzalez P.E., The University of Texas at El Paso; Elsa Q. Villa, University of Texas, El Paso; Peter Golding, University of Texas, El Paso; Joseph A Ramos, The University of Texas at El Paso

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Systems Engineering

curriculum, proved challenging butattainable given the strong administrative support and leadership for this program, and UTEP’sdesire to provide innovative undergraduate engineering education that leads toward increasedretention and advancing opportunities for serving underrepresented populations.BackgroundLeadership Engineering (LE) is defined as an emerging engineering sub-field that integratesdisciplinary knowledge and practice with communication, business, and leadership skills. Thisinnovative approach to engineering has emerged as a direct result of industry’s immediate andlong-term need for a new kind of engineer: one with a new skill set to work in complex 21st

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Ian Smith, Penn State Harrisburg; Fares S. Alromithy, Wayne State University; Aldo Morales, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg; Nate Archibald

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Systems Engineering

University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), Indian (2009). His current research interest includes smart sensors and integrated microsystems, microelectronic and microelectromechanical systems, Nanoelectronics, and Smart Devices.Dr. Aldo Morales, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg Dr. Aldo Morales was born in Tacna, Peru. Dr. Morales earned his B.S. in Electronic Engineering, with distinction, from Northern University (now University of Tarapaca), Arica, Chile. He has an M.Sc. Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from University of Buffalo, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. Currently, he is a professor of electrical Engineering at Penn State Harrisburg. Dr. Morales was the PI

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Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Marsha Lovett, Carnegie Mellon University; Mark David Bedillion, Carnegie Mellon University; Cassandra M. Birrenkott, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Karim Heinz Muci-Kuchler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Laura Ochs Pottmeyer, Carnegie Mellon University

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Systems Engineering

Paper ID #33304Building and Revising an Assessment to Measure Students’ Self-Efficacyin Systems ThinkingDr. Marsha Lovett, Carnegie Mellon University Dr. Marsha Lovett is Associate Vice Provost of Teaching Innovation, Director of the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation, and Teaching Professor of Psychology – all at Carnegie Mellon University. She applies theoretical and empirical principles from learning science research to improve teaching and learning. She has published more than fifty articles in this area, co-authored the book How Learning Works: 7 Research-Based Principles for Smart

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Systems Engineering Curriculum and Programs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adeel Khalid, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

,’ ASQ Higher Education Brief, 2(4), August 20094. Reichner, R., Bernold, L., Burniston, E., Dail, P., Felder, R., Gastineau, J., Gjertsen, M., Risley, J., ‘Case Study of the Physics Component of an Integrated Curriculum,’ Physics Education Journal, 67 (7), July 19995. Prince, M., ‘Does Active Learning Work? A Review of the Research,’ Journal of Engineering Education, 93(3), 223-231 (2004)6. Prince, M. J., Felder, R. M., ‘Inductive Teaching and Learning Methods: Definitions, Comparisons, and Research Bases,’ Journal of Engineering Education, 95(2), 123-138 (2006)7. Novak, G. M., Patterson, E. T., Gavrin, A. D., Christian, W., ‘Just in Time Teaching,’ American Journal of Physics, October 1999, Volume 67, Issue 10, pp. 9378

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Systems Engineering Curriculum and Programs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Regina Ruby Clewlow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Afreen Siddiqi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Joseph M. Sussman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

revise and coordinate the curriculum for ESD.00 in order to provide awell integrated learning experience to our students.Our long-term goal is to make valuable and essential additions to an engineering curriculum,including the possibility of a minor in engineering systems, for undergraduate students of a newgeneration – a generation that becomes well prepared for successfully meeting the grandchallenges of its times.References1 Vest, C.M., “Context and Challenge for Twenty-First Century Engineering Education,” SpecialGuest Editorial, Journal of Engineering Education, July 2008, pp. 235-236.2 National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, And Institute of Medicineof The National Academies. Rising Above the Gathering Storm

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Curriculum and Programs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kahina Lasfer, Stevens Institute of Technology; Arthur Pyster, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

in embedded systems. She held other positions related to project management.Dr. Arthur Pyster, Stevens Institute of Technology Art Pyster is a distinguished Research Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology and the Deputy Ex- ecutive Director of the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) sponsored by the Department of Defense. During Pyster’s 35-year career, he held several senior positions, including being the Senior Vice President and Director of Systems Engineering and Integration for SAIC and the Deputy Chief Informa- tion Officer for the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. He is an INCOSE Fellow and a member of their Board of Directors. He currently runs BKCASE, a project that is establishing the

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 4 – Systems Thinking Integration and Systems Engineering Skills Evaluation

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane Constance Aloisio, Purdue University; Karen Marais, Purdue University; Hanxi Sun, Purdue University

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Systems Engineering

-guided study on how systems engineers develop their expertise. Additionally,many systems engineers have an integrative role, “requiring a deeper understanding of a widerange of areas than provided by a focused education” [Ross et al., 2014]. Anecdotally, manyuniversity faculty agree that successful systems engineers can only be made through experience,as evidenced in part by the relatively few programs in systems engineering, especially at theundergraduate level1. As Adcock et al. [2015] note: “current undergraduate engineering education1 A brief note on terminology is appropriate here. While there are many graduate engineering programs that addressthe problems posed by complex engineering systems, these programs tend to focus on the science of

Conference Session

Developing Systems Engineering Curriculum, Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice F. Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology; David H. Olwell, Naval Postgraduate School ; Timothy L.J. Ferris, University of South Australia; Nicole A.C. Hutchison; Arthur Pyster, Stevens Institute of Technology; Stephanie Enck, Naval Postgraduate School

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Systems Engineering

AC 2011-958: DEVELOPING SYSTEMS ENGINEERING GRADUATE PRO-GRAMS ALIGNED TO THE BODY OF KNOWLEDGE AND CURRICU-LUM TO ADVANCE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING (BKCASE(TM)) GUIDE-LINESAlice F Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology Alice Squires has nearly 30 years of professional experience and is an industry and research professor in Systems Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology in the School of Systems and Enterprises. She is a Primary Researcher for the Body of Knowledge and Curriculum to Advance Systems Engineering (BKCASE) and Systems Engineering Experience Accelerator projects. She has served as a Senior Sys- tems Engineer consultant to Lockheed Martin, IBM, and EDO Ceramics, for Advanced Systems Support- ability

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Developing Systems Engineering Curriculum, Part I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard E Fairley, Software and Systems Engineering Associates

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Systems Engineering

, role in differentiating competing systems in the marketplace. Software engineering (SwE) is not just an allied discipline to systems engineering (SE). SwE and SE are intimately entangled. Software is usually prominent in modern systems architectures and is often the glue for integrating complex system components.”Many systems engineering students are never exposed to software engineering otherthan, perhaps, through an introductory programming class. The role of a systemsengineer is to orchestrate and coordinate the diverse disciplines that may be requiredto develop a complex system. Thus, systems engineers do not need to know how towrite computer programs (i.e., the details of software construction) any more thanthey

Conference Session

Developing Systems Engineering Curriculum, Part I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Guerra, NASA Headquarters; Wallace T. Fowler, University of Texas, Austin; Martin James Brennan, University of Texas, Austin, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

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Systems Engineering

AC 2011-1009: SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND SPACECRAFT SUBSYS-TEMS MODELING AS PREREQUISITES FOR CAPSTONE DESIGNLisa Guerra, NASA Headquarters Ms. Lisa A. Guerra Research Fellow NASA / Exploration Systems Mission Directorate Lisa Guerra has 25 years experience in the NASA aerospace community. Ms. Guerra is currently working with the UTeach Engineering Program. She recently completed a 4-year assignment from NASA Head- quarters to establish a systems engineering curriculum at The University of Texas at Austin, as a pilot for national dissemination. Ms. Guerra’s most recent position at NASA Headquarters was Director of the Directorate Integration Office in the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate. In that position, her

Conference Session

Developing Systems Engineering Curriculum and Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron W. Johnson, Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Sara Willner-Giwerc , Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Paul T Grogan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Systems Engineering

emphasizes teamworkand communication skills and a takes broad perspective on engineering to integrate knowledgeacross multiple disciplines.5,6SE academic programs have traditionally focused on master's degrees and continuing educationprograms to meet industry and government needs.7 Undergraduate SE education is somewhatcontroversial because of the beliefs of some practitioners that engineers must develop expertisein a single domain before addressing systems topics.8 This perspective is linked to the currentmodel where a bachelor's degree in engineering signals an individual to be ready for theworkplace, in contrast to other professional degrees such as law, medicine, or business.9Broader calls for transformation in engineering education promote

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Developing Systems Engineering Curriculum and Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Harmon, Colorado Technical University; John M Santiago Jr, Colorado Technical University

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Diversity

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Systems Engineering

, mechanical, optical, aerospace, computer, and software engineering. Studentsentering the program should have a bachelor’s of science degree in one of the disciplines above, thoughsoftware engineering graduates may need additional preparation in mathematics. This program isunique in its extensive use of modeling and simulation.The MSSE was subsequently extended to the online modality and later taught out for that modalitywhile continuing to thrive at the main campus. It will be re-introduced for online in 2016. This programis rooted in mathematics and is substantially hands-on, making much use of simulation and analysistools. In this article we describe its initial rationale and curriculum, our discovery about studentretention and our response

Conference Session

Developing Systems Engineering Curriculum, Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael C Smith, University of Virginia; Reid Bailey, University of Virginia

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Systems Engineering

challenge, the faculty of theDepartment of Systems and Information Engineering at the University of Virginia launched aninnovative approach to systems engineering education for working professionals. The program,first labeled “Executive Master’s Program” and, in 2003, renamed “Accelerated Master’sProgram” or AMP, was designed with following concepts in mind:1) A solid, well-conceived, well-integrated, and rigorous academic curriculum centered on systems analysis, problem solving, information technology, and decision analytics.2) Well-qualified full-time systems engineering faculty who know how to teach working professionals and can bring the same intellectual capacity to the program as is found in the research-oriented graduate program.3) A

Conference Session

SED Technical Session: Systems Thinking

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karim Heinz Muci-Kuchler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Cassandra M. Degen, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Mark David Bedillion, Carnegie Mellon University; Marsha Lovett, Carnegie Mellon University

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Diversity

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Systems Engineering

integrating selected ST and SE topics in a sophomore-level design course [14-17], thispaper outlined a possible approach to translate that effort to other stages within an undergraduatemechanical engineering program, specifically at the freshman-level.The baseline STSS results reported here highlight the potential of the proposed intervention tosignificantly improve students’ abilities in ST and SE. For example, average post-testperformance on technical questions was only 53%, indicating plenty of room for learning andimprovement. In addition, the difference in results between the two sections of the STSS –namely, significant change in students’ self-efficacy (perception) vs. no significant change instudents’ performance (direct measure) – emphasizes

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 1: Course Design & SE Competencies

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kuan-Yu Chou, National Chiao Tung University; Yon-Ping Chen, National Chiao Tung University; Sunny S. J. Lin, National Chiao Tung University; Chao-Yang Cheng, National Chiao Tung University

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Diversity

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Systems Engineering

applications. Several EE professors had agreedupon a System Engineering curriculum scheme (See Figure 2). At the yearend of2013, the capstone DCS then was renamed as“Dynamic System Simulation andImplementation (DSSI).”DSSI aimed to help students synthesize and integrate skillsand knowledge acquired throughout the SE course.Figure 2: An illustration (at round 0) of System Engineering curriculum scheme that categorizes 100-300 courses into cornerstone, keystone and capstone, respectively.Self-improvement from round 0 to round 1From round 0 to round 1, the DCS professor decided to do self-reflection on previousSC syllabus and examination of System Engineering course structure. Figure 3 listsfour standard steps in system engineering design shown in

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Ardis, Stevens Institute of Technology; Christina L. Carmen, University of Alabama in Huntsville; Michael Delorme, Stevens Institute of Technology; Eirik Hole, Stevens Institute of Technology (SSE)

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Systems Engineering

. Page 24.1318.16 8. E. Keenan and A. Steele, Developing a Pedagogical Infrastructure for Teaching Globally Distributed Software Development, In Collaborative Teaching of Globally Distributed Software Development - Community Building Workshop (CTGDSD), May 23, 2011.9. P. Gloor, M. Paasivaara, C. Lassenius, D. Schoder, K. Fischbach and C. Miller, Teaching a Global Project Course: Experiences and Lessons Learned, In Collaborative Teaching of Globally Distributed Software Development - Community Building Workshop (CTGDSD), May 23, 2011.10. M. Richey, F. Zender, D.P. Schrage, G. Jensen, B. McPherson, J. Fehr, M.M. Symmonds and D.E. French, An Innovative Approach to an Integrated Design and Manufacturing Multi- Site “Cloud

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 3 – Course and Program Outcomes

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Devanandham Henry, Regent University; Charles Daniel Turnitsa, Regent University; Cheryl Beauchamp, Regent University

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Diversity

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Systems Engineering

Paper ID #24082Establishing an Engineering Core – What Does Every Engineer Need to Know,Particularly About Systems Engineering?Dr. Devanandham Henry, Regent University Dr. Devanandham (Deva) Henry is an assistant professor at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia where he leads the systems engineering program. Previously, he was a research engineer with the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) at Stevens Institute of Technology. He has supported the develop- ment of Systems Readiness Levels, Graduate Software Engineering Reference Curriculum, the GUide to the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK), and

Conference Session

SED Technical Session: Systems Thinking

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raed Jaradat, Mississippi State University; Michael Andre Hamilton, Mississippi State University; Vidanelage Lakshika Dayarathna, Mississippi State University; Sofia Karam, Mississippi State University; Parker Jones, Mississippi State University; Emily S. Wall , Mississippi State University; Safae El Amrani; Ginnie Shih En Hsu, Mississippi State University

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Systems Engineering

, interconnectivity and integration [1]. SystemsThinking (ST) is considered an active framework to better manage complex system problemdomains. It focuses on how the constituent parts of a system pertain to the whole system and theway the systems work within larger systems over time. This holistic approach contrasts with thetraditional analysis whose aim is to study the individual pieces of a system separately. Bloom etal. [2] and Anderson et al. [3] established a taxonomy whose aim is to classify educationalobjectives in a hierarchy from less to more complex. Bloom’s taxonomy was revised later byAnderson and his colleagues to fit modern education objectives. Stave and Hopper [4] and Hopperand Stave [5] offered a system parallel to Bloom’s taxonomy of

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ruben D. Lopez-Parra, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Tamara J. Moore, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Diversity

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Systems Engineering

within engineering systems thinking when designing biological systems. Mainly,we explored the students' systems thinking when participating in the International GeneticallyEngineered Machine (iGEM) Competition. This competition is an international event whereparticipants design biological systems to address societal needs [13]. A better comprehension ofthese cognitive competencies may help faculty and curriculum designers to prepare learningenvironments that help students foster their engineering systems thinking in the context ofbiological design. The specific research question is: What evidence of cognitive competencieswithin engineering systems thinking exists when multidisciplinary teams design a biologicalsystem to address a societal need

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Education and K-12

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fernando Garcia Gonzalez, Texas A&M International University

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Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

: Calculon’s AutoCAD design. Page 25.1231.12The Systems Engineering ExperienceThe complexity of the vehicle system necessitates the use of systems engineering to integrate allthe individual components, to design the overall system, to consider the complete life cycle, andto coordinate and oversee the project and its team members. The experience gained is self-regulated in that if the team fails the systems engineering, the complexity of the vehicle is suchthat they will most likely perform poorly at the competition. Winning or performing well at thecompletion is what motivates the students to implement solid systems engineering principles. Forexample an inconsistency between the units used in two

Conference Session

SE Capstone Design Projects, Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Skokan, Colorado School of Mines

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Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

AC 2011-579: HYBRID LESSONS IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY SENIOR DE-SIGN: A STUDYCatherine Skokan, Colorado School of Mines Catherine Skokan is an Associate Professor of Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. She received her BSc, MSc, and PhD from the Colorado School of Mines in Geophysical Engineering and was the first woman to receive a graduate degree from that institution. Her educational research interests include multidisciplinary engineering, humanitarian engineering, and curriculum devel- opment and design. Page 22.790.1 c American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James A. Mynderse, Lawrence Technological University; Jeffrey N. Shelton, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Systems Engineering

emphasis of the Purdue course is that students must construct an automated device,integrating prior knowledge regarding mechatronic systems components. In the past, the Purdueprojects have not been based on real-world problems. Thus, the authors have experienceinstructing mechatronics in the absence of a PBL activity. This article describes student reactionsto incorporating PBL into the Lawrence Tech course. Future work will incorporate PBL intoPurdue’s course to generate additional data, albeit from public research university rather than aprivate teaching university.During the first half of the mechatronics course, students are exposed to traditional lectures andlab experiments. In the second half of the course, students work collaboratively to

Conference Session

Methods, Cases, and Directions

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph C. Hartman, University of Florida

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

common cash flow analysis calculations. However, as this isunlikely in the near future, it is suggested that this type of information be relegated to review orprep sessions for the test. The author runs these types of sessions each semester for studentspreparing for the exam. The argument here is that if students have successfully completed anengineering economy course that has pushed them to analyze the risk(s) of a project, they willfind it easy to learn how to use the factors in a timely manner for an exam.Curriculum ReplacementWith the reduction of coverage of financial mathematics, time in the curriculum can be focusedon tools for making good financial investment decisions, such as cash flow estimation, riskanalysis and multi-attribute

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Education and K-12

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles S. Wasson, Wasson Strategics, LLC

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Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

engineeringeducation is strong on imparting some kinds of knowledge, it is not very effective in preparingstudents to integrate their knowledge, skills, and identity as developing professions … In theengineering science and technology courses, the tradition of putting theory before practice andthe effort to cover technical knowledge comprehensively allow little opportunity for students tohave the kind of deep learning experiences that mirror professional practice and problemsolving.”Development of Systems Thinking SkillsSince “systems thinking” skills are an integral part of Systems Engineering attributes, Davidzand Nightingale [21] provide research data concerning the levels of significance of experientiallearning.Integration of Systems Engineering Courses