Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karim Heinz Muci-Kuchler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Mark David Bedillion, Carnegie Mellon University; Shaobo Huang, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Cassandra M Birrenkott, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Marius D Ellingsen, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Walelign Messele Nikshi, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; John Ziadat, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

for engineers who understand the fundamentals ofsystems engineering. This paper has presented an effort to improve mechanical engineeringstudents’ systems engineering skills through the redesign of a sophomore design course. Studentswere exposed to primers and case studies that covered essential steps in the systems engineeringprocess and completed a semester-long project that required integration of various subsystems.The effectiveness of the intervention was assessed through a newly designed systems thinkingskills survey and through a course satisfaction survey. Students showed a statistically significantimprovement in self-efficacy for all measured skills, but showed a statistically significant gainover the control group only for the skill