AC 2012-5066: IMPACT OF AN UPDATED ROBOTICS LABORATORY INAN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING PROGRAMDr. Richard A. Pitts Jr., Morgan State University Richard Pitts, Jr. is currently an Associate Professor in the Industrial & Systems Engineering Department at Morgan State University (MSU). He received his B.S.I.E. degree from MSU in 1991. Later, he received both his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in industrial engineering from yhe Pennsylvania State University in 1995 and 2006, respectively. Page 25.715.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Impact of an Updated
AC 2012-3136: USING A SYSTEMS ENGINEERING APPROACH FORSTUDENTS TO DESIGN AND BUILD LABORATORY EQUIPMENTDr. Tim L. Brower, University of Colorado, Boulder Tim L. Brower is currently the Director of the CU, Boulder, and Colorado Mesa University Mechanical Engineering Partnership program. Before becoming the Director of the partnership three years ago, he was a professor and Chair of the Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering and Technology Department at Oregon Institute of Technology. While in Oregon, he served as the Affiliate Director for Project Lead the Way - Oregon. In another life, he worked as an Aerospace Engineer with the Lockheed Martin Corporation in Denver, Colo. He is an active member of ASEE, ASME, and
Paper ID #19541A Laboratory-based Course in Systems Engineering Focusing on the Designof a High-speed Mag-lev Pod for the SpaceX Hyperloop CompetitionDr. Dominic M. Halsmer P.E., Oral Roberts University Dr. Dominic M. Halsmer is a Professor of Engineering and former Dean of the College of Science and Engineering at Oral Roberts University. He has been teaching science and engineering courses there for 25 years, and is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Oklahoma. He received BS and MS Degrees in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University in 1985 and 1986, and a PhD in Mechanical
. Olowokere1 and Abayomi Ajofoyinbo2 1,2 Department of Engineering Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas, USA Email: olowokeredo@tsu.edu1; ajofoyinboa@tsu.edu2;AbstractIn the recent literature, researchers have investigated the mismatch betweenteaching and learning styles with different research objectives. This paperpresents a framework for integrating intelligent sensor real-time measurementdata into engineering education for innovative practice-oriented learningenvironment. In this integration framework, intelligent sensors are deployed onLocal Area Networks (LAN) in engineering laboratories to measure physicalquantities that may be used for classroom
control chart signals but returns to the process at a later random time. The web-basedmodule was written in Netbeans and utilizes the Glassfish application server. A MySQLdatabase maintains the Mouse Factory information and student records. A major advantage ofthis approach is that Netbeans, Glassfish and MySQL are all open-source software packages. Page 25.1244.4Figure 2. Bill of Materials Page 25.1244.5Figure 3. Critical Point - CoverSPC Lab FourThe fourth SPC laboratory allows students to design, implement and evaluate the impact ofimplementing a c control chart within the Mouse Factory. In the first SPC
Education, 2019 Exploiting Digital Twin Technology to Teach Engineering Fundamentals and Afford Real-World Learning Opportunities University of Southern CaliforniaAbstractThis paper presents an innovative instructional approach that capitalizes on digitaltwin technology to transform traditional lectures into “learning-by doing”experiences in the course laboratory. In this paper, we address how the use ofdigital twin technology in laboratory simulation environments affords studentsauthentic learning experiences, i.e., experiences that reflect what a learner isexpected to encounter in the real-world. The immediate feedback feature, enabledby the connection of the digital twin to the physical twin, provides
the fall of 2014. This class was co-taught by professors from the MechanicalEngineering Technology (MET), Electrical Engineering Technology (EET) and the Computerand Information Technology (CIT) programs at Purdue University.The goal of this paper is to document the activities carried out during the semester the coursewas taught and present the lessons learned from teaching multidisciplinary students with thebackgrounds in MET, EET and CIT.The objective of the course was to provide a Project Based Learning (PBL) experience for thestudents. Students were tasked to specify, design, and develop prototype sub-systems for existingrobots. During the semester, the students attended lectures and participated in laboratories thatwere heavily focused
Prerequisites for Capstone Design Abstract A NASA project to improve university design education curricula has resulted in the addition of an undergraduate introduction to systems engineering and a spacecraft subsystems modeling laboratory as prerequisites to the capstone spacecraft/mission design course in aerospace engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. The systems engineering course materials, created by the second author, are based on NASA systems engineering practices and available in the public domain on the internet (http://spacese.spacegrant.org). The current paper summarizes the content of the systems engineering course, as well as a companion lab on modeling spacecraft subsystems, and focuses on the positive
current state of industrial education in institutions ofhigher learning in America. The influence of earlier apprentice programs, which provided youngpeople with an education that prepared them to become gainfully employed in a trade, seems tobe evident in the values and views of modern day industrial education programs, particularlythose in community colleges. Indeed, it may not be a stretch to suggest that many programs incolleges and universities still see value in “hands-on” or “experiential learning,” a desired featureof the modern curriculum.Current Challenges Facing Technology ProgramsGiven the high cost associated with using and maintaining industrial equipment, 8 many schoolshave begun replacing existing laboratories with newer modular
sciences is required. One year is defined as 32 semester credits or one-fourth of the creditsrequired for graduation in the program. Basic sciences are defined as biological, chemical, andphysical sciences. Most of the engineering management programs meet this criterion through acombination of math, physics and chemistry courses, some with laboratory experiences.Figure 2 3,4,5,6,7,8,9 displays the most commonly required math and basic science courses and thepercentage of the engineering management programs that require these specific courses. It canbe seen that all programs require some calculus, some calculus-based physics and some statistics.Most also require some chemistry, differential equations and a second calculus-based physicscourse
Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago. He also serves as the director of Sustainable Manufacturing Systems Research Laboratory. His research inter- ests include real-time energy management of manufacturing systems, multi-machine system modeling and throughput estimation, discrete event simulation, joint throughput and energy control, Lithium-Ion vehicle battery manufacturing and reliability assessment, and intelligent maintenance of manufacturing systems. Page 24.727.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Inclusion of Renewable Energy
Main process designPPL Process Develop practical base for process Logistics process Level 1 –Design design using simulation software design sem. V (lectures & laboratory)PPL Industrial Prepare project proposal for Models, Level 1 –project industry. Form consulting Proposal for sem. VI company (8 students). Project industry realization in industry. industrial projectPSPL Process Base for process management and Proposal for Level 2Management & optimization using specialized factory
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
modernchallenges to engineering include scale, multidisciplinary aspects, hierarchy, and complexity 1 . Asthe prevalence and relevance of these problems increase, engineering education must beresponsive 2,3,4 and many universities are including a special focus of multidisciplinaryengineering in basic courses 5 , capstone courses 6,7 , laboratories 8 , clinics 9 , and programs 10,11,12 .Overall, as course content is adjusted to the state-of-the-art, there may be a natural shift tomultidisciplinary engineering. One example of this shift is an automotive vehicle design course at our university titled“Hybrid Electric Vehicle Powertrains”. This course employs mechanical engineering andelectrical engineering skills equally to successfully design and simulate
AC 2012-4343: SYSTEMS ENGINEERING EDUCATION THROUGH PAR-TICIPATION IN ENGINEERING COMPETITIONSDr. Fernando Garcia Gonzalez, Texas A&M International University Fernando Gonzalez is an Assistant Professor of engineering at Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas. Previously, he was a technical staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory and an Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Fla. Gonzalez holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include intelligent control of autonomous systems, robotics, and modeling and simulation
derived from a graduate-level course inmechatronics that both authors have taught separately for Purdue University’s School ofMechanical Engineering (Purdue). The authors share a doctoral advisor, who developed theoriginal course at Purdue. As colleagues in both research and teaching, the authors have engagedin frequent collaboration regarding instruction in mechatronic design. While the pairing of asmall, private university with a large, public university is unusual in regards to studentpopulations, the authors used common lecture materials and laboratory experiments to minimizedifferences in student populations. Differences in student response to the PBL implementationare expected and further work will be needed to analyze those differences.An
StateUniversity found that minorities, in particular, increased their laboratory performance in a hybridenvironment. Perhaps the most compelling argument can be made by Landers7 in his doctoralthesis where a large number and variations of hybrid courses were analyzed. He states (p. 61):“it appears that online instruction is more effective than traditional instruction when seekingknowledge and problem solving gains”. In creating a hybrid Senior Design offering, facultymembers would have more opportunities to make connections with the on-line material and theteam project.Many of the present lecture topics apply directly to the design and construction of an object orstructure and dissemination of knowledge (lists and facts). The teams that work on projects
. From July 1999 to December 1999, he worked as an IT Specialist in IBM China, Beijing, China. From 2000 to 2003, he was a research assistant with the Visualization, Analysis, and Imaging Laboratory (VAIL), the GeoResources Institute (GRI), Mississippi State University. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Engineering Technology, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX. His research interests include digital signal processing, image and video coding, and wavelets. Page 26.652.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015Enhance Computing Curricula
future roles engineering and technology students will undertake, instructors can use PBL to help students develop ideas for dealing with specific problems they will likely encounter in the workplace. Case Studies: Instructors can use PBL with individual students or student teams when discussing case studies on engineering/technology concerns. Laboratory Work: For courses involving laboratory work, instructors can use PBL when discussing appropriate laboratory behavior and relate that behavior to appropriate workplace behavior. The instructor can relate lab problems to similar problems encountered in the workplace. Employed Students: If there are students who are currently employed, PBL can be
Paper ID #29822Incorporating Systems Thinking and Systems Engineering Concepts in aFreshman-Level Mechanical Engineering CourseDr. Karim Heinz Muci-Kuchler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Dr. Karim Muci-K¨uchler is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Experimental and Computational Mechanics Laboratory at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT). Before joining SDSMT, he was an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Detroit Mercy. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Iowa State University in 1992. His main interest areas include
, I worked for NASA at a Satellite Tracking Station in Ecuador Subsequently I obtained my M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Applied Mathematics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. My Ph.D. dissertation work (on Neural Networks applied to control systems and automation) went to the DOD in Virginia. My formal grad- uate academic training was in Control Systems, Telecommunications and Applied Mathematics. After receiving my Masters and Ph.D. degrees in EE, I joined AT&T Bell Laboratories. During my tenure at Bell Labs, I became skilled in the formal methodology and processes of Systems Engineering and Sys- tems Architecture applied to large systems. Throughout my career, in the high-tech
optimization algorithm known as the hybrid cellular automaton (HCA) method. This method has since been applied to the design of crashworthy structures for Honda R&D Americas, as well as blast mitigating structures and materials for the U.S. Army and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Currently, Dr. Tovar is the founding director of the IUPUI Engineering Design Research Laboratory and the author of more than100 technical publications, including 27 journal papers and one book chap- ter. His research on engineering design addresses fundamental aspects on synthesis and optimization of high-impact energy absorbing materials and structures, particularly for applications in the automotive and aerospace industries. He
course curriculum content. The author has previously used a similar approach in other research projects to obtain meaningful results. 1. What should be counted as appropriate goals and accomplishments in an undergraduate engineering course that has a significant laboratory component? 2. Does the discovery approach practices utilized by the instructor providing reasonably acceptable paths toward accomplishing the specified learning goals in the chosen course? 3. What do students actually accomplish in the designed course and the laboratory exercises? How has discovery approach helped them in meeting their learning goals? 4. How has the instructor’s organizational techniques contributed towards students
incorporation of multifunctionality by inducing desired re- sponses to mechanical loading.Dr. Karim Heinz Muci-Kuchler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Dr. Karim Muci-K¨uchler is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Experimental and Computational Mechanics Laboratory at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT). Before joining SDSMT, he was an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Detroit Mercy. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Iowa State University in 1992. His main interest areas include Computational Mechanics, Solid Mechanics, and Product Design and Development. He has taught several different courses at the undergraduate and
publications.ConclusionsThis paper describes the various ways universities and industries can collaborate tostrengthen relationships between industries and universities. Gannon University hasemployed many of these collaborations for mutual benefits. As a result of thesecollaborations, faculty has obtained numerous patents, furnished laboratories withmodern equipment either through loan or purchased using industrial funding. Studentsparticipating in these programs are able to gain valuable work experience and themajority of the students receive full-time employment offers as a result of theseinteractions.References 1. Joos, G., Marceau, R.J., Scoot, G., Peloquin, D., An innovative industry- university partnership to enhance university training and industry
consuming. Furthermore,breaking risk analysis down to these fundamental steps clouds the overall goal and point to riskanalysis: making a good decision. To overcome this, case studies or projects may be assigned tohelp instill these skillsets and allow for practice in their application. However, as these aregenerally completed in teams, there may also be a need to devise individualized testing of thissubject matter in an appropriate context.For the past several years, the author5,6 has employed a “one question” final exam in which thestudents are provided an investment scenario and background information from which they havetwo hours to make a compelling argument of whether the investment should be pursued or not.A university computer laboratory is
labs in industry, university, and government laboratories. Some of the equipments deal with metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) for LED’s and solar cells, and molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) products. The financial health of the company (all number in 1000’s) as described in its income statement is as follows5 -Year 12/2007 12/2008 12/2009 12/2010Total Revenue $402,475 $442,809 $380,149
projects.Systems engineering program assessment includes assessment of student outcomes that mirrorthe ABET a-k outcomes. These outcomes are assessed in the system engineering core courses(see Appendix: Table 1). The achievement of each of the 11 SYEN student outcomes (SOs) is tobe demonstrated by a primary core course and often by one supporting course. The assessment ofeach SO is based on quantitative performance measures that directly assess the SO. Assessmentmethodology is based on the student work, such as assignments, exams, projects, presentations,laboratory experiments, etc. Samples of student work supporting assessment of SOs are retainedand placed in the course binders maintained in the department office.The student outcomes are assessed as per
aerospace medical learning, consultation, aerospace medical investigations and aircrew healthassessments. The center promotes readiness and protect force and community health by using arange of tools and expertise including environmental and health surveillance, laboratory and riskanalysis, process re-engineering, consultation and technological innovation to maximizeoperational health capabilities and to solve problems through ingenuity and partnerships. The AirForce Institute of Technology (AFIT) is the Air Force graduate school of engineering andmanagement. AFIT is a military organization with an education mission. AFIT providesadvanced education to the Air Force and other military and government organizations. Thefaculty is composed of military
methodology and style. In addition, they do not completely testfor common modeling patterns and practices.Automated Reviews via Custom Validation SuitesIn 2019, the author attended Approaches to Marking and Validating Sensitive MBSE Models, apresentation at the 2019 MBSE Cyber Experience Symposium [6]. This presentation, by VeejayGorospe of the Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory, showcased the usage ofcustomized validation rules to assess security classification issues. Gorospe created validationrules using the structured expression language built into MagicDraw.The author is a proponent of using these structured expressions to create purpose-built tables,matrices, and dynamic legends to extract value from models. The language uses