Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammed BOUGAA, CentraleSupelec and EISTI; Stefan Bornhofen, EISTI; Alain RIVIERE, SUPMECA; JEAN-CLAUDE TUCOULOU, AFIS ASSOCIATION FRANCAISE D'INGENIERIE SYSTEME

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Systems Engineering

, intelligent processin which designers generate, evaluate, and specify concepts for devices, systems, or processeswhose form and function achieve clients’ objectives or users’ needs while satisfying a specifiedset of constraints.” [1]. Therefore, it can be assumed that PBL is actually the most appropriatepedagogical model for both engineering design and SE Education. Even though PBL seems to be the most adequate model for teaching SE, there are a numberof open research questions and challenges regarding this pedagogical model. Some of themhave been identified by Dym et al. [1]Current practices in SE educationInterstingly, current SE education programs do not pay much attention to the design of compe-tency models, nor to the adoption of SE standards

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

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

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