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

, 2014 Using a Marketplace to Form Multidisciplinary Systems Engineering Capstone Project TeamsAbstractOur previous research has shown that multidisciplinary capstone projects can enhancedevelopment of Systems Engineering (SE) competencies. However, undergraduate engineeringcapstone projects typically focus on only one engineering discipline. In order to assist facultyand students in forming multidisciplinary teams, a marketplace for multidisciplinary SE capstoneprojects has been created by a Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) project conductedat Stevens Institute of Technology. The marketplace enables potential project sponsors toadvertise opportunities to a broad audience of potential student teams

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mario Simoni, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; William D. Schindel, ICTT System Sciences; Xiaoyan Mu, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Dan Moore, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Wayne T. Padgett, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Systems Engineering

projects must be externallydriven or supported. Faculty research projects can be used as long as there is a well-defined goalto which the faculty member will hold the students accountable. As such the variety and types ofprojects available is dependent upon availability.The senior capstone design course is a challenging experience for both the faculty and thestudents. For the students, this course is often the first experience in which they have the primaryresponsibility to formulate and solve a complex open-ended problem over an extended period oftime. For the faculty, the challenge is to develop a course structure that  teaches students how to break down the open-ended problem into manageable pieces and

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fazleena Badurdeen, University of Kentucky; Dusan Sekulic, University of Kentucky; Bob Gregory, University of Kentucky College of Engineering; Adam Brown, University of Kentucky; Hai Fu, University of Kentucky

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Systems Engineering

graduate students as well.Although the course was originally planned for upper level cohorts of undergraduate students—ideally juniors, as preparation for senior design and senior capstone project work—it attractedseveral graduate students and it was early realized that graduate students in the class mightcontribute to better diversity of skill levels and performance of the teams. On the other hand,their presence made for more difficulties in gauging the appropriate depth and breadth of thecourse content. Page 24.392.11Difficulties with team work: One of the major goals of the STFS project was to increasestudents’ abilities to be successful in

Conference Session

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

Page 24.147.7been followed by the development teams. These are waterfall model, rational unified process,“Vee” process model, spiral model, agile development, etc. Nowadays, the typical systemdevelopment industries have not been so great while they have to deliver the working systemapplication in time and within the budget. It is widely reported that among 80% of all systemdevelopment projects fail because of lack of end-user involvement, poor requirement analysis,unrealistic schedules, lack of change management, testing and inflexible and bloated processes[Cohn[7], Martin[24]]. In agile system development process addresses these issues that makesystem development processes more successful. Also, in the agile development process, aminimal