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Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Sabin Gianelloni, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Molly H. Goldstein, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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Systems Engineering

application in integrating these concepts more explicitly into thecurriculum at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s BS in Systems Engineering &Design. Understanding systems thinking, design thinking and their relationship has value fordesigning a curriculum that can more fully prepare students to excel in both systems engineeringand professional design, enhancing students’ impact after graduation.2.1 Design Thinking OverviewDesign thinking is cognition, or the process of thinking, that includes the usage of solution-basedmethods to explore human centered values throughout the engineering design process [1][2]. Ithas also been described as “high order intellectual activity” that “requires practice and islearnable” [1]. There are various

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Morteza Nagahi, Mississippi State University; Raed Jaradat, Mississippi State University; Samaneh Davarzani, Mississippi State University; Mohammad Nagahisarchoghaei, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Simon R. Goerger, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center

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Systems Engineering

USMA. Dr. Goerger is also the 2019-2020 President of the Military Operations Research Society (MORS). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 The Impact of Systems Thinking Skills and Proactive Personality on Academic Performance of Engineering Students AbstractAcademic performance of college students, particularly those who are in an engineering program,continues to receive attention in the literature. However, there is a lack of studies that examine thesimultaneous effects of students' systems thinking (ST) skills and proactive personality (PP) onacademic performance. The linkage between ST skills and PP has not been investigated

Conference Session

Programs in Support of Systems Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chet Boncek Jr, Raytheon Company

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Systems Engineering

phones,GPS devices, and the wireless devices regularly used today. The non-existent or casualtreatment of these topics positioned students only to be avid consumers or perhaps savvyend-users, but, fell short by failing to impart at least some understanding of what is takesto design, manufacture and bring such items to market. These topics have begun toappear in curricula driven by the demand for a technically competent work force at a timewhen a large population of the current work force prepares to retire. 1A simulation developed by Raytheon in partnership with the Business Higher EducationForum (BHEF) permits trade-off studies and analyses of hypotheses and parameterswhich are supposed to impact the strength of the projected STEM

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Programs in Support of Systems Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan K Donohue, University of Virginia; Ali Bouabid, Khalifa University of Science and Technology

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Systems Engineering

its share of controversy. There is no argument that traffic volume on US 29, a main north-south artery, is far beyond capacity; the arguments revolve around proposed solutions, their impacts, and costs. We research the main problem and related issues and perform an analysis similar to the one for the Community Water Plan.Because of the writing-intensive nature of the course, second-year standing became a pre-requisite for the second offering of the course. This change ensured that students would havehad the PVCC English Composition sequence before the class. Students who had not completedthis sequence had some issues completing the case studies, and we wanted to support studentsuccess in this course as well as

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John M Santiago Jr, Colorado Technical University; Kathy L. Kasley P.E., Colorado Technical University

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Diversity

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Systems Engineering

capstone has been revised around the Vee Modelto describe systems engineering process. The top-down and bottom-up design perspectives arecompared, and weekly deliverables are presented to help students practice systems engineering.A detailed description of weekly deliverables and rubric for the Critical Design Review aredescribed elsewhere1. Two perspectives of the Vee-Model are described to provide a holisticperspective of system-level thinking2-4. A 3D-printed quadcopter with its stable flight controlare provided as an illustration of the student efforts.5 Major blocks of the system include: (1) thequadcopter frame, (2) the control system, and (3) the power and thrust system.The last part of the paper attempts to compare the Vee Model system

Conference Session

Programs in Support of Systems Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

, professional skills are tantamount.Leadership Engineering - Naming the Degree ProgramThe premise for typical “Engineering Leadership” programs is that you start with an engineerand then make a leader out of him or her. Thus Leadership training is the primary focus, withEngineering as the qualifier for the type of leaders being trained. The premise of our LeadershipEngineering program is that the profession will attract future leaders (as is the case of many otherprofessions that require post-graduate professional training, such as medicine and law), and theprogram is designed to produce engineers out of those future leaders. Thus it is a broad-based,liberal engineering program for future leaders in the public and private sectors.Therefore we have

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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

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Systems Engineering

Computational Mechanics, Solid Mechanics, Product Design and Develop- ment, and STEM Education. He has taught several different courses at the undergraduate and graduate level, has over 60 publications, is co-author of one book, and has done consulting for industry in Mexico and the US. He can be reached at Karim.Muci@sdsmt.edu.Dr. Cassandra M Birrenkott, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Dr. Cassandra Birrenkott received her B.S. degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in 2007. She received her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 2012 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, studying mechanochemical reactions of a spiropyran mechanophore in

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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

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Systems Engineering

with applications through senior design education. Her research focuses on teaching systems thinking and sustainable design in team-based engineering design courses. Mengyu Li is an Instructional Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) at the University of Florida (UF). She teaches numerous undergraduate and graduate level ISE courses, including: Supply Chain Management, Senior Design Project, Systems Design, and Systems Architecture. She has also re- ceived the UF Rising Star Award in 2021 for her commitment to ongoing educational improvements and excellence. Prior to her current position, Mengyu worked as a product developer at a manufacturing company, where she was

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Education and K-12

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pablo Biswas, Texas A&M International University; Runchang Lin, Texas A&M International University; Ramesh Hanumanthgari, Texas A&M International University; Sri Bala Vojjala

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Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

-basedProcess Asset Libraries (PAL) to store software engineering best practices, implemented as awiki and improves the use of agile processes. Greer[12] addressed a range of research areasincluding the application of agile methods to safety critical software development, therelationship of agile development with user experience design and how to measure flow in leansoftware development. Similar research is done by Gary et al.[11] on the basis of agiledevelopment process. Procter et al.[26] used a case study of a project to create a Web 2.0-based,Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for researchers to share digital resources in order to reflecton the principles and practices for embedding eResearch applications within user communitiesusing agile

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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

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Systems Engineering

fifty articles in this area, co-authored the book How Learning Works: 7 Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching, and developed several innovative, educational technologies, including StatTutor and the Learning Dashboard.Dr. Laura Ochs Pottmeyer, Carnegie Mellon University American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 A Combined Online Learning / In-Class Activity Approach to Teach Systems Thinking and Systems Engineering Skills to Freshman Engineering StudentsAbstractEngineering graduates from traditional disciplines (e.g., mechanical engineering) have feltincreasing pressure to develop holistic, systems thinking

Conference Session

SED Technical Session: Instructional Experiences

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Giulia Palma, University of Alabama in Huntsville; Bryan Mesmer, The University of Alabama in Huntsville; Amy Guerin, University of Alabama in Huntsville

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Diversity

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Systems Engineering

of Alabama in Huntsville. Dr. Mesmer was previously a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University. He completed his Ph.D. in August 2012 at the State University of New York at Buffalo in Mechani- cal Engineering. Also at the University at Buffalo, he completed his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2010) and a dual B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (2007). His research has focused on improving the systems engineering process, particularly for large-scale complex systems. He uses his background in decision analysis, multidisciplinary design analysis and optimization, system/subsystem modeling, design theory, and value-based design to perform research

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Developing Systems Engineering Curriculum, Part II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ricardo Pineda, University of Texas, El Paso; John E. Weaver, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company; Oscar H. Salcedo, University of Texas, El Paso; Jose Luis Falliner, The University of Texas, El Paso; Richard T. Schoephoerster, University of Texas, El Paso

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Systems Engineering

, implementation and deployment of the AT&T Services and Network in Mexico. He was also Siemens Business Services (SBS) Practice Director for Latin America where he was the main consultant in systems implementations in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil. Dr. Pineda has extensive experience in Academia; he was a Professor at ITESM in Monterrey, Mexico and at the ”Universidad de Los Andes” in Colombia and currently at the University of Texas at El Paso. His current Research projects include: PI for ”Energy Se- curity Microgrid Large Scale Energy Storage (LSES)” for Raytheon-Energy Solutions, PI for ”Prognosis & Resilience Design for Complex SoS” with Raytheon-IDS, PI ”SOS Global Attributes to Design Space Mapping

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

succeed and “need to begrown via in-house training or experience” [Adcock et al., 2015]. For example, NASA developedthe Systems Engineering Leadership Development Program (SELDP) to provide “developmentactivities, training, and education” to more quickly cultivate systems engineers [Ryschkewitch etal., 2009].Universities have responded to the growing market demand for systems engineers in a range ofways, from adding or further emphasizing elements of systems engineering to existing courses(e.g., capstone design courses; see Chaput [2016]), to creating entire programs in systemsengineering (e.g., Stevens Institute of Technology). How effective are these efforts, how can theybe improved, and, can we identify a set of best practices in doing such

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Tahsin Mahmud Chowdhury, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Sreyoshi Bhaduri, McGraw Hill ; Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Systems Engineering

Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He holds degrees in Industrial Engineering (BS, MS), Master of Business Administration (MBA) and in Engineering Education (PhD). Homero has 15 years of international experience working in industry and academia. His research focuses on contemporary and inclusive pedagogical practices, industry-driven competency development in engineering, and understanding the experiences of Latinx and Native Amer- icans in engineering from an asset-based perspective. Homero has been recognized as a Diggs Teaching Scholar, a Graduate Academy for Teaching Excellence Fellow, a Diversity Scholar, a Fulbright Scholar, and was inducted in the Bouchet Honor Society. American

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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

few universities offering systems engineering at that time, but notable in the field wereUniversity of Southern California, University of Missouri at Rolla (now Missouri University of Science andTechnology), Air Force Institute of Technology, Naval Postgraduate School, and the military serviceacademies. The curriculum was designed after reviewing those programs for best practices and textbook recommendations. We gave considerable weight to the evolving body of knowledge beingencapsulated by INCOSE in their Guide to the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK, 2015),itself inspired by the work of the Project Management Institute (PMI).The MSSE was stood up at the main campus in 2004 with the following course list: • SE600 Systems

Conference Session

Developing Systems Engineering Curriculum, Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice F. Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology; Jon Wade, Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology; Douglas A. Bodner, Georgia Institute of Technology; Masataka Okutsu, Purdue University; Dan Ingold, University of Southern California; Peter G. Dominick Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology, W.J. Howe School of Technology Management; Richard R. Reilly, Stevens Institute of Technology; William R. Watson, Purdue University; Don Gelosh, ODDRE/Systems Engineering

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Systems Engineering

. He has over 20 years of experience in the research and development of Enterprise systems at IGT, Sun Microsystems and Thinking Machines Corporation. Dr. Wade is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Douglas A. Bodner, Georgia Institute of Technology Douglas A. Bodner is a senior research engineer in the Tennenbaum Institute at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research focuses on computational analysis and decision support for design, opera- tion and transformation of enterprise systems. His work has spanned a number of industries, including aerospace and defense, automotive, electronics, energy, health care, paper and pulp, semiconductors and telecommunications. Dr. Bodner is a senior

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Pedagogy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas H. Bradley, Colorado State University

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Diversity

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Systems Engineering

data on online-student toinstructor real-time interactions using the archived recordings of 6 Systems Engineering coursesoffered in Fall 2015. The presence and participation of the students, and the types of successfulinteraction elicitation techniques are described for this dataset. The challenges and opportunitiesof instructing synchronous sections of systems engineering courses are discussed. Results maybe used to develop best practices for instructors of Systems Engineering online coursework.KeywordsSystems Engineering, Distance Education, Graduate Education, Synchronous Online LearningIntroduction Systems Engineering (SE) is a discipline and a sub-discipline of engineering that expertshave identified as a key component of

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily M Salmon, Mississippi State University

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Systems Engineering

Paper ID #20248Lean Six Sigma Case Study within a Public School DistrictMs. Emily M Salmon, Mississippi State University Emily Salmon is a recent graduate of Mississippi State University (MSU) with a bachelor’s in Industrial and Systems Engineering. She is a Research Engineer for MSU’s Institute for Systems Engineering Research (ISER) located in Vicksburg, MS. Her current research involves lean six sigma practices and applications, manufacturability, and modeling and simulations. She received her Six Sigma Black Belt from MSU’s CAVS Extension Center in June 2016 and is currently pursuing her Masters of Engineering at MSU

Conference Session

Pedagogical Advancements in Engineering Management

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Jimmy Gandhi, Stevens Institute of Technology; Brian Sauser, Stevens Institute of Technology; Brian E. White, Complexity Are Us - Systems Engineering Strategies; Alex Gorod, Visiting Fellow, University of Adelaide; Vernon Ireland, University of Adelaide

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

the the Systems Development and Maturity Laboratory (http://www.SysDML.com/), which seeks to advance the state of knowledge and practice in how we manage system lifecycles. He teaches courses in Project Manage- ment of Complex Systems, Designing and Managing the Development Enterprise, Advances in System of Systems Engineering, and Systems Thinking. In addition, he is a National Aeronautics and Space Ad- ministration Faculty Fellow, Editor-in-Chief of the Systems Research Forum, and Associate Editor of the IEEE Systems Journal.Dr. Brian Emery White, Complexity Are Us - Systems Engineering Strategies Brian E. White received Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in computer sciences from the University of Wisconsin, and S.M

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Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pablo Biswas, Texas A&M International University; Runchang Lin, Texas A&M International University

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Systems Engineering

documentation is required to start the process as users, system analyst, developers, teamleader, quality assurance analyst, and database administrator work together as a team.Recently, the agile development process got lot of attention to the researchers in the area ofinformation technology. Procter et al.24 used a case study of a project to create a Web 2.0-based,Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for researchers to share digital resources in order to reflecton the principles and practices for embedding eResearch applications within user communitiesusing agile development. Garcia et al.13 provided a set of guidelines to develop knowledge-basedProcess Asset Libraries to store system engineering best practices, implemented as a wiki andimproves the use

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sanjay Jayaram, Saint Louis University; Michael A. Swartwout, Saint Louis University

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Systems Engineering

are space systems, robust fault tolerant control, nonlinear control, adaptive control, small spacecraft design, high performance spacecraft components, mechatronics, real-time health monitoring, and diagnostic methodology.Dr. Michael A. Swartwout, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng. Dr. Swartwout is co-director of the Space Systems Research Laboratory. His research and teaching interests focus on systems engineering and design. Page 26.1454.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Systems Engineering Entrepreneurship Modules across Aerospace

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandy L. Furterer, University of Datyon

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Systems Engineering

Course, University of Dayton, Fall2016.Swart, A.J., “Does it matter which comes first in a curriculum for engineering students—Theoryor practice?,” Int. J. Elect. Eng. Educ., vol. 47, pp. 189–199, 2010.Swart, A.J., “Theory versus practical in a curriculum for engineering students—A case study,”presented at the AFRICON, Nairobi, Kenya, 2009.The VARK modalities. http://vark-learn.com/introduction-to-vark/the-vark-modalities, 2017.The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), 26. Business Scenarios,http://pubs.opengroup.org/architecture/togaf9-doc/arch/ 2011.Yin, R.K., Case study Research—Design and Methods. Thousand Oaks, CA, USA: SAGE, 2009.

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. Vinarcik P.E., University of Detroit Mercy

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Systems Engineering

learning and applyingonly one. The tables and matrices derived from the SysML models during these courses havesome similarities to the canned viewpoints in DoDAF but empirically resonate better with thestudents. This may be, in large part, due to them “seeing” how the content is extracted (and howit answers specific questions about the system of interest).2 The author, a 2004 graduate of the Fifth Cohort, still has fond memories of his January Experience.3 (Vinarcik, The Ultra Survey Mission: Crafting A Systems Architecture Design Project, 2013)Early Experiences Teaching SysMLEarly efforts to introduce SysML into the curriculum were challenging both for the instructor andthe students; the instructor had limited practical experience with

Conference Session

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

education has started to focus onoffering courses, concentrations and degrees in engineering systems. MIT’s ESD program is aconcerted effort in this direction.ESD’s vision is to advance research in these areas and to also simultaneously impart knowledgeof established methods and approaches to our students for tackling such problems. To date, theseefforts have primarily been conducted at the graduate level, where a strong student response andinterest in our programs indicates a good measure of success (see Fig. 1). More broadly, outsideof MIT, many engineering systems educational initiatives are focused at the graduate level.5Similarly, there are numerous examples of junior or senior-level design courses that draw onsystems-based approaches, often

Conference Session

Innovations in the IE Curriculum

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ana Vila-Parrish, North Carolina State University; Dianne Raubenheimer, Meredith College

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

approach that integrates project management methods andtools with Lean-Six Sigma methods. An additional objective of this research is to develop abetter understanding of the unique aspects of the engineering problem solving process. Weassessed the student’s problem solving strategies, products, and design process reflections usingWolcott’s “Steps for Better Thinking” rubric 1.IntroductionCapstone courses give students the opportunity to solve large, unstructured problems in aclassroom setting. These team-based projects mimic the industrial setting that most students willenter upon graduation. Throughout the capstone experience students find themselves faced withcomplexities not found in a traditional course, especially when the projects are

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

be characterised by a sound knowledge and application of regulations and publicsafety. The graduate capabilities profile for this degree is divided into several areas in whichthe degree programme should contribute to the profile: 1 Knowledge of Engineering Sciences. 2 Analysis and Problem solving. 3 Design and Synthesis. 4 Investigation and research. 5 Risk Management. Page 25.553.6 6 Team Work. 7 Communication. 8 The Engineer and Society. 9 Management and Financial. 10 Practical Knowledge.These areas of learning are noted in brackets in the following two papers.Engineering Management 1Learning OutcomesOn

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 2: SE Applications

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharon Claxton Bommer, KBRwyle; Alice E. Grimes, Air Force Institute of Technology; Adedeji B. Badiru, Air Force Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Systems Engineering

. Figure 5. Program Organizing CommitteeThe program is facilitated by the Department of Faculty Development. The Director of FacultyDevelopment is the Program Leader, responsible for overall execution of the program. Thesupport staff member researches best practices, develops measuring tools for data collection, andtracks program progress by analyzing the data collected from the measuring tools. FacultyPosition A and Faculty Position B are voluntary advisory roles on the committee. These facultyrepresentatives are drawn from the Faculty Development Advisory Council. The two facultymembers selected represent both military and civilian faculty, with one member from eachcategory. The faculty selected for the committee are both experienced professors

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Developing Systems Engineering Curriculum and Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jon Patrick Wade, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Systems & Enterprises); Roberta S Cohen, Stevens Institute of Technology; Nicholas S Bowen, Stevens Institute of Technology; Eirik Hole, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Systems and Enterprises)

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Systems Engineering

technologyrefreshes. Koopman also explained that developing problems that represent the complexity ofCPS is difficult. Projects and problems must be realistic and motivating but also incorporatedomain knowledge that is accessible to students. There is a risk that problems can become overlycomplicated—projects must be designed with the right amount of ‘messy’.”The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Foundations for Innovation inCyber-Physical Systems report [4] as well as the European ARTEMIS Research agenda [5] pointsout similar needs across many CPS domains. The NIST report identifies 21 barriers andchallenges for CPS reliability, safety, and security. In the top rated category of Metrics and Toolsfor CPS Verification and Validation (V&

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Technology and Equipment to Improve IE Instruction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dave Yearwood, University of North Dakota; Alex Johnson, University of North Dakota

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

withmanufacturing practices, it is important to utilize a variety of specialized tools to implementproduct designs. However, the ability of institutions to meet these goals in fiscally austere timesis proving to be difficult for all but those with the financial resources to acquire costly industrialgrade equipment.In order for manufacturing and vocational programs to survive, they must adapt and becomecost conscious. And, when cost-saving measures are necessary, it is important to ensure that theprogram will still satisfactorily prepare students to enter the job-market as qualified workers.While it may not be necessary for graduates in some program areas like engineering todemonstrate proficiency in the use of specialized manufacturing equipment, it is

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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

best practices, lessons learned, and checklists, should be in-grained as a mental reference for planning and performing tasks to minimize risk and support engineering decision making, not for substitution of informed engineering judgment.Solutions to this overall problem and its subelements require consensus solutions by academia,industry, and government through a series of action-oriented steps that promote the awareness,recognition, and a willingness to correct the problem. For additional information on many ofthese topics, please refer to Wasson [2]. The scope of this paper focuses on three key aspects ofthe problem: 1. Misperceptions that the Plug and Chug ... Specify-Design-Build-Test-Fix Paradigm is SE. 2