Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses and Tools in support of Systems Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ertunga C Ozelkan, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Peter L Schmidt P.E., University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Devin Hatley, UNC Charlotte; Kathleen Ann Boutin-Pasterz, UNC Charlotte

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Systems Engineering

Reduction andRecycling met on a weekly basis to discuss the project and ensure it met everyone’s objectives.Throughout the process, both groups realized that the value of such a partnership reaches into thecore of their mission at the university.This work will detail the execution of two capstone design projects with significant sustainabilitycontent. Project scope and deliverables will be discussed, along with project outcomes andlessons learned during the conduct of these projects. Project disposition and future work are alsodetailed. Links between sustainability and accreditation criteria are discussed.Literature ReviewWhile there are many papers that are worth mentioning in the literature for sustainabilityeducation for engineers, we have to

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses and Tools in support of Systems Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Guerra, NASA Headquarters; Gloria A. Murphy, NASA; Lisa D. May, NASA Headquarters

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Systems Engineering

concrete examples. The course exposes students to various techniques ingetting the systems engineering job done, such as concept of operations, requirementsdevelopment, trade studies and decision analysis, failure modes effects analysis, andcost/schedule modeling. The order of the some 24 different topics follows, to some extent, thesystem life cycle of development, with system formulation topics at the beginning and systemimplementation topics later. Page 23.203.3The second effort originated from NASA’s sponsorship of engineering faculty ideas forchallenging capstone design projects. One of the winning proposals came from AuburnUniversity’s Drs

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses and Tools in support of Systems Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaojing Yuan, University of Houston (CoT); Heidar Malki, University of Houston (CoT); Xiaohui Yuan, University of North Texas

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Systems Engineering

education to address a need in 21st century instrumentationand measurement workforces. The developed modules have been offered in several courses since2010 and the assessment results demonstrate that they not only effectively introduced recenttechnology advances in wireless sensor networks to students, but also nurtured their system-levelcritical thinking skills. Six project-based WSN learning modules with twenty-two hands-on experiments weredeveloped to teach students the fundamentals of WSN design and how to develop networkeddata acquisition systems to monitor and control a physical system. These six modules weredistributed across four WSN technical content areas: component-level, system-level, network-level, and capstone/project-level

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses and Tools in support of Systems Engineering Education

Collection

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

SE 5345 Project Practicum:Each student shall participate in the SE 5345 Project Practicum capstone course after theyhave participated in an internship. An internship consists of fulltime systems engineeringwork at the worksite of an industry partner. Students may secure an internship independently, via student-to-companyapplications to internships, and via RIMES facilitated applications, in which student Page 23.44.10resumes are forwarded to companies, and the companies choose candidates.5, OBJECTIVESSystems Engineering Educational ObjectivesThe program has defined five principal

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses and Tools in support of Systems Engineering Education

Collection

2013 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

for theinstructors and to provide an interactive learning environment outside the lecture period for thestudents. Using ViTAS, students will be able to submit the homework assignments online, toengage in anonymous homework review, and to discuss with their peers. The idea of studentsgrading the homework assignments of their peers is very beneficial, because during the processof grading other’s homework, the students get the opportunity to learn/review their ownwork/mistakes. Also, the instructors finalize all grades and post them on the website to confirmthe students’ learning activities. In particular, this project focuses on the Agile systemdevelopment process, which is a group of system development methodologies based on iterative

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses and Tools in support of Systems Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ravi T. Shankar, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL; Jonathan Paul Dickson, FAU; Carlo A Mazoleny, Florida Atlantic University

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Systems Engineering

need has arisen to define a body ofknowledge relevant to SE.BKCASE is a four year old knowledge-based project with a scope to define a SE Body ofknowledge (SEBoK9) and then use SEBok to develop a graduate reference curriculum for SE,called GRCSE8. A reference curriculum exists at the graduate level for systems engineering(SE), but not at the undergraduate level at present9. The document is ‘forward’ looking withprogram objectives being fulfilled five years after graduation by students in their near to mid-term of their careers. This is in keeping with GRCSE’s goal to develop a professional master’sdegree in SE; that is, a degree intended for someone who will either enter the workforce as asystems engineer, or who is already in the workforces

Conference Session

Programs in Support of Systems Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael C Smith, University of Virginia; Barry Horowitz, University of Virginia; Thomas S. Brett, Dept of Systems Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science

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Systems Engineering

#offered#since#1999.#The#cohort#model#is#centerpiece#of#the#approach,#enabling#students#to#learn#from#each#other#as#well#as#from#highly#qualified#instructors#as#they#progress#through#a#rigorous#academic#curriculum,#culminating#in#a#group#capstone#project#that#offers#substantial#exposure#to#and#interaction#with#government#and#industry#organizations.##The#33Fhour#Master's#in#Engineering#in#Systems#Engineering#degree#program#is#delivered#over#three#terms:#Summer,#Fall,#Spring.#Summer#term#consists#of#one#week#in#residence#plus#one#10Fweek#session;#Fall#semester#consists#of#two#10Fweek#sessions#and#Spring#semester#consists#of#one#10Fweek#session#plus#a#second#weekFinFresidence#for#a#total#of#two#weeksFinFresidence#and#four#10Fweek#sessions.#One#course

Conference Session

Programs in Support of Systems Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Systems Engineering

all facets of a system, such as stakeholder values, risk, quality, and policyimplications in addition to the process or physical system, and develop sets of recommendationsand action plans. The value of these KSAs to industry, government, and academia can be seen inthe growing demand for systems engineers, with one source anticipating a 45% increase indemand for practitioners from 2009 to 2019.1 However, systems engineering is not the onlydiscipline in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields calling forincreased numbers to meet projected demands, and therefore face competition for and potentialshortage of students.2 A root cause for this shortage is that the traditional K-16 pipeline has notprovided sufficient