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

Paper ID #9832Using a Marketplace to Form Multidisciplinary Systems Engineering Cap-stone Project TeamsMark Ardis, Stevens Institute of Technology Mark Ardis is a Distinguished Service Professor in the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Insti- tute of Technology. He is interested in the professionalization of software engineering, and its relationship to systems engineering. In his career Mark has helped create academic programs in software engineering at 5 schools. He received a BA in mathematics from Cornell University and a PhD in computer science from the University of Maryland. Mark may be reached at

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Gary Teng, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Systems Engineering

of enforcing Systems Engineering (SE)principles and practices into course work that can enhance students’ understanding of the issuesin systems integration and project management. In the process of educating SE students,professors need to ensure that students understand the importance of obtaining such skills aseffective communications, good leadership, excellent project management, strong collaborationskills, high ability to adapt to multi-culture environments, and sufficient risk management ability.In addition, SE students also need to adopt two fundamental Industrial Engineering/SE principles,simplification and standardization, into their work. The issue is how we embed the requirementsof these skills and SE principles into course work to

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James A. Mynderse, Lawrence Technological University; Jeffrey N. Shelton, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Systems Engineering

design andbuild an automated device. It was hypothesized that reformulating the design project as aproblem- or project-based learning activity would facilitate long-term learning amongundergraduate as well as graduate students. It is intended that the design problem serve twopurposes: a) encourage students to apply knowledge from the lab assignments, and b) allowstudents to learn the value of integrated mechanical-electronic-software design as compared tothe more conventional process of sequential design. The first goal, application of prior Page 24.708.2knowledge, makes the activity more similar to a project-based learning approach while

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yong Wang, University of Illinois, Chicago; Lin Li, University of Illinois, Chicago

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Systems Engineering

general method with broad applications toidentify the influences of various variations on the systems or processes. It is traditionally afundamental course offered to students in various ISE programs across the American universities.This paper presents a recent effort at a research university in the U.S. to integrate renewableenergy topics into the traditional DOE course to help ISE students update their knowledge baseand foster environmental responsibility and sustainability awareness in their future careers. Anew topic related to the manufacturing of a specific form of renewable energy, cellulosic biofuel,has been integrated into an eight-week course project session. The course-end evaluation andsurvey have shown a significant increase of

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radu F. Babiceanu, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Systems Engineering

systems education integration project” started in the Fall 2013 semester with theoffering of the graduate “Software Requirements Engineering” and “System RequirementsAnalysis and Modeling” courses in one combined section. The first course is required for themaster’s program in Software Engineering, while the second one is an elective course for thestudents enrolled in any other graduate engineering programs. The encouraging coursediscussions and student feedback received during Fall 2013 halfway into the semesterstrengthened the faculty belief in the software and systems integration effort and prompted theimplementation of the other proposed combined sections. Therefore, the Spring 2014 semesterwas scheduled to feature two new combined sections

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

journals. Dr. Sekulic is the Principal Investigator of the NSF TUES multi-year STFS project.Bob Gregory, University of Kentucky College of Engineering Bob Gregory is a senior staff writer in the College of Engineering, University of Kentucky. His MA and PhD degrees in English are from University of California, Irvine. After twenty years spent teaching college students how to write at a variety of colleges and universities, including Carnegie Mellon and University of Miami, Dr. Gregory currently assists faculty with multidisciplinary grant proposals and projects. Despite his lack of previous academic training in engineering, his background has been instru- mental in assisting faculty in cross-disciplinary work between

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

in 1995 as an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. Prior to joining the faculty at Rose-Hulman he was an assistant professor at Virginia Tech and an instructor at N. C. State University. After completing his M.S. in electrical engineering in 1976, he joined the DuPont Corporation where he worked in various technical, design, and supervisory positions before returning to obtain his PhD. Dr. Moore directed the electrical and computer department’s senior design program for several years and is currently involved in externally sponsored multidisciplinary graduate and undergraduate projects as well as international project teams and collaborations. He recently spent a sabbatical year at the

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Madeleine C Brannon, George Washington University ; Zoe Szajnfarber; Thomas Andrew Mazzuchi, George Washington University

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Systems Engineering

Introduction to Systems Engineering course isstructured around three group projects, which collectively provide an overview of thefundamental lessons of the field. The projects are an egg drop challenge which teaches the valueof upfront Systems Engineering and rapid prototyping, a LEGO Mindstorms™ competitionwhich teaches the importance of problem decomposition, testing and validation, in addition todesign under operational uncertainty, and a Lean Simulation game which teaches user needs, theimportance of balanced work and enterprise value.While it has been well established in the general pedagogical literature that group projects andactive learning are effective teaching tools, they are not widely used in Systems Engineering fora variety of reasons

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Said El-Rahaiby, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Andres Tovar, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Systems Engineering

Notre Dame robotic players with a kicker andlinemen. The design and manufacturing project was carried out by a group of 25 IUPUIundergraduate students (from freshmen to senior) from three different disciplines: mechanical(eleven students), electrical (eight students), and computer engineering (six students). In ourwork, this challenge is systematically addressed following a multidisciplinary designoptimization (MDO) strategy1.MDO can be described as collection of design theories, computational tools, and practicesdeveloped in the applied mathematical community to improve the design process of engineeringcomplex systems through the interaction of coupled discipline analyses2. Its theory wasformalized in the aerospace industry where designers

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven J Henderson, U.S. Military Academy; Kenneth McDonald P.E., Dept of Systems Engineering, United States Military Academy, West Point

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Systems Engineering

Engineering (Missouri School of Mines – MS&T). He is a registered Civil Engineer in the states of Virginia and Wyoming; he is a Certified Planner by the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP); and a registered Project Management Professional (PMP) with the Project Management Institute (PMI). Dr. McDonald is also a member of Gamma Theta Upsilon and Phi Kappa Phi. His research and consulting interests are in capacity development analysis and decision analysis as applied to infrastructure and other complex enterprises especially in the arena of nation reconstruction and capacity development. He teaches classes in systems engineering, engineer- ing economics, and project management. He has worked in Iraq

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eva Andrijcic, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; William D. Schindel, ICTT System Sciences; Craig G Downing, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Systems Engineering

due to the time it took them to teachpatients how to use the device, and patients refused to use the device for fear that it resembled adevice used for inhaling narcotics. As a result of poor sales, in 2007 Pfizer withdrew Exuberafrom the market, and instead of reaching the initially projected yearly revenues of $2 billion, thecompany suffered a $2.8 billion loss11.In the 1930s Douglas Aircraft introduced the DC-3 aircraft, which has been called by many themost successful airplane ever built. It had an incredibly long life and was very successfully usedfor many, originally unintended, commercial purposes in the US and abroad12. Consequently,Douglas Aircraft experienced great success, primarily because it was able to satisfy

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Sugarman, United States Air Force; Kellie Schneider, University of Dayton; Edward F Mykytka, University of Dayton

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Systems Engineering

with a traditional lecturemodel. One major aspect of the new course is a scenario based experience in that the student isimmersed into a realistic project and interacts with characters. The storyline presented is one inwhich the student plays the role of a new engineer working for a company that is bidding on anddeveloping a light rail system to connect three cities. As students progress through a series ofPowerPoint presentations, they are introduced to various systems engineering topic areas viadifferent subject matter experts. These experts “talk” to the student and explain their area ofexpertise and how it relates to systems engineering on the light rail system. Students mustoccasionally answer questions during these exchanges within the

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

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yue Bi, University of Virginia; Reid Bailey, University of Virginia; Michael C. Smith, University of Virginia

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Systems Engineering

and Discovery Services team by utilizing relational database and data visualization skills. Currently, she is working with the Virginia Department of Transportation to support its project acquisition process with data analysis, systems integration, and risk management.Prof. Reid Bailey, University of Virginia Reid Bailey is an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia in the Department of Systems and Information Engineering.Dr. Michael C Smith, University of Virginia Mike Smith earned his B.S. and M.S. at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and Ph.D. from the Uni- versity of Missouri - Columbia. He has worked across a variety of application domains including man- ufacturing, transportation, defense