Conference Session

Design Across Disciplines

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Besser, University of Saint Thomas; AnnMarie Thomas, University of Saint Thomas

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Design in Engineering Education

identified five institutions that had undergraduate programs, whichblend mechanical engineering education with industrial design methodologies. The degree to Page 22.25.3which this integration takes place varies from institution to institution. This list is not exhaustive;these universities were chosen to illustrate ways some engineering programs are approachingaspects of design education that are more commonly found in an industrial design program.Three of the five universities we looked at include “industrial design style” classes in theirmechanical engineering curriculum. These universities are Northwestern University in Evanston,IL, the

Conference Session

Project-Based Learning

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald R. Ulseth, Iron Range Engineering; Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University; Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Dan Ewert, Minnesota State University, Mankato, Iron Range Engineering; Bart M. Johnson, Itasca Community College

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Provost at Texas A&M University. He served as Project Director for the Foundation Coalition, an NSF Engineering Education Coalition in which six institutions systematically renewed, assessed, and institutionalized their undergraduate engineering curricula, and extensively shared their results with the engineering education community. He co-created the Integrated, First-Year Curriculum in Science, Engi- neering and Mathematics at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, which was recognized in 1997 with a Hesburgh Award Certificate of Excellence. He has authored or co-authored over 70 papers on engineer- ing education in areas ranging from curricular change to faculty development. He is currently an ABET Program

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leigh R Abts, University of Maryland, College Park

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Design in Engineering Education

reports and assessments; • The need for a “reference” Introduction to Engineering (or Introduction to the Design Process) curriculum as a model for a dual enrollment (secondary and undergraduate credit); • The importance of the preparation of secondary teachers in Introduction to Engineering and design course content and problem-solving, and performance assessment; and • The importance of an assessment tool kit that includes rubrics for the design process and problem-solving and that utilizes an electronic portfolio.A recent focus group and expert interviews have indicated that use of a design process rubriccould form the initial reference framework for the learning, teaching and performance guidelinesnot only for

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark W. Steiner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Junichi Kanai, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Cheng Hsu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Richard Alben, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Design in Engineering Education

- puter and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 1983, 1985, and 1990, re- spectively. From 1991 to 1998, Dr. Kanai was an Associate Research Professor at the Information Science Research Institute, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, working on document image processing. From 1998 to 2002, he was a senior scientist at Panasonic Information and Networking Technologies Lab, Princeton, NJ. His work included development and transfer of advanced technologies to product divisions. From 2002 to 2004, he was a manager at Matsushita Electric Corporation of America (Panasonic), Secaucus, NJ, providing system integration and software development for clients. Dr. Kanai joined RPI in 2004. He is

Conference Session

Project-Based Learning

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Oscar G. Nespoli, University of Waterloo; Harry Tempelman, Hitachi Construction Truck Mfg Ltd.; Ryan Spencer; Steve Lambert, University of Waterloo

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Design in Engineering Education

provide feedback, in an actionable way, to our engineering curriculum and students’education. It represents their view on what is currently important to them. When soliciting inputfrom industry partners, there are often recommendations that they make that may or may not beimplemented in the curriculum. This mechanism and method represents an actionable and timelymethod to have the industry educational recommendations implemented.BackgroundThe process of education has been described as a two step process [1]; namely, the delivery ofknowledge, and the assimilation of knowledge by the learner. For engineering education, a thirdstep is required – the application of knowledge in uncertain situations and under constraint.Case studies continue to be

Conference Session

Design Across Disciplines

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Craig Titus, Purdue University ; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Design in Engineering Education

- neering and Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education. He is an fellow of the ASEE and NSPE. .He was the first engineer to win the Campus Compact Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service- Learning. He was a co-recipient of the 2005 National Academy of Engineering’s Bernard Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education for his work in EPICS. Page 22.444.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Designing in a Social Context: Situating Design in a Human- Centered, Social WorldIntroductionSince the appearance of the

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eckehard Doerry, Northern Arizona University; Bridget N. Bero, Northern Arizona University

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Design in Engineering Education

weeks. • Flexibility in curricula. The difficulties in integrating the iCubed experience as a legitimate course into participants' programs of study points to the need for added flexibility in curriculum design. An additional problem was that some courses in which we were forced to embed the iCubed experience required specific deliverables in some specific format; these were often incompatible with the deliverables planned for iCubed subteams, creating extra work for the unfortunate students. A more ideal solution would be to reserve an upper division elective for a team-based project course (whether interdisciplinary or not), defining the required deliverables for the course as generally as

Conference Session

Project-Based Learning

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ali M. Al-Bahi, King Abdulaziz University; Reda M Abdulaal P.E., King Abdulaziz University, Faculty of Engineering, Industrial Engineering Department; Abdelfattah Y. Soliman, King Abdulaziz University, Faculty of Engineering; Faisal I. Iskanderani, King Abdulaziz University, Faculty of Engineering

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Design in Engineering Education

theories and techniques of an engineer’s disciplinespecialization. Small projects may only involve one area of engineering specialization, but largerprojects will be multidisciplinary, not only involving engineers from different specializations, butother professional and non-professional personnel and teams. Successful completion of projects inpractice requires the integration of all areas of an engineer’s undergraduate training.7Project based learning is a teaching and learning model (curriculum development and instructionalapproach) that emphasizes student-centered instruction by assigning projects. It allows students towork more autonomously to construct their own learning, and culminates in realistic student-generated products.8Although

Conference Session

Design Across Disciplines

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James M. Leake, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; David Weightman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2011-822: ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL DESIGN EDUCATIONCOLLABORATIONJames M Leake, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign James M. Leake joined the Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems (formerly General) Engi- neering in August 1999. His educational background includes an MS in Mechanical Engineering (1993) from the University of Washington, a BS in Ocean Engineering (1980) from Florida Atlantic University, and a BA in Art History (1974) from Indiana University. His current research interests include engineer- ing education, integration of CAD/CAE software in the engineering curriculum, spatial visualization, and reverse engineering. Professor Leake’s publications include two books, Engineering Design

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Paul Pearson, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Electronic Systems

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2011-2745: INNOVATIVE SENIOR PROJECT PROGRAM PARTNER-ING UNIVERSITY AND CORPORATE PARTNERSEric Paul Pearson, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Electronic Systems Eric P. Pearson is the Sector Director of Development Programs for the Electronic Systems Sector of Northrop Grumman Corporation. After several years as an organizational Staff Manager and the Antenna Integrated Product Team lead for major radar programs he began the development of Internship, Co-op, New Graduate Engineering rotation and Early Career Leadership Training Programs. Eric carries a pas- sion for assisting soon-to-be and recent university graduates as they develop their technical, professional and leadership skills through their early careers in

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cameron J. Turner, Colorado School of Mines

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Design in Engineering Education

. Page 22.1213.5 • Concern for the demands made by the course upon the supervising course faculty, the TFAs, the students and different program customers. • An increasing focus of the class on project management and paperwork issues instead of on engineering design. • Graduates who as one faculty member put it, "could not write themselves out of a paper bag." • A lack of integration with the engineering curriculum and the senior design experience.2.2 Implementing ChangeThe task of re-designing the program was assigned to three faculty members, representing themechanical, electrical and civil engineering specialties (representing about 95% of the studentsin the course), replacing the single program director

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; William Riddell, Rowan University

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Design in Engineering Education

Engineering Clinic: teaching engineering design and technicalcommunication. New assessment results quantifying student success on the entrepreneurialprojects, both in terms of developing student interest at the beginning of the semester and inconvincing faculty at the end of the semester that a project merits additional effort in the junioryear, will also be presented.I. Background and IntroductionProject-based learning has been gaining popularity in engineering curricula to address theprofessional skills component (or A-K criteria) introduced by ABET in the 2000 criteria2. TheCollege of Engineering at Rowan University has adopted an eight-semester sequence of courses,known as Engineering Clinics, which are integrated through the curriculum for all

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harry B. Santoso, Utah State University; Raymond E. Boyles, Utah State University; Oenardi Lawanto, Utah State University; Wade H. Goodridge, Utah State University

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Design in Engineering Education

has been involved in the International Technology Education Association and T.E.A.C. His current interest involves robotics, education and student motiva- tion with curriculum development. His goal is to design a robotics based system that allows all to achieve their educational goals with enjoyment.Oenardi Lawanto, Utah State University Oenardi Lawanto received his B.S.E.E. from Iowa State University, M.S.E.E. from the University of Dayton, and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Currently, he is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering and Technology Education at Utah State University. Before coming to Utah State, Dr. Lawanto taught and held several administrative positions

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nabila A. Bousaba, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; James M. Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Claude M. Hargrove, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Valentina Cecchi, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Design in Engineering Education

Electrical Circuit course.James M. Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte James M. Conrad received his bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana, and his master’s and doctorate degrees in computer engineering from North Carolina State Uni- versity. He is currently an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has served as an assistant professor at the University of Arkansas and as an instructor at North Carolina State University. He has also worked at IBM in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and Houston, Texas; at Ericsson/Sony Ericsson in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; and at BPM Technology in Greenville, South Carolina. Dr

Conference Session

Design Across Disciplines

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Farrokh Attarzadeh, University of Houston; Alan Gow, Alan Gow and Associates; EunSook Kwon, University of Houston

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Design in Engineering Education

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Interactive Design and Technology Research: From Ideation to ImplementationAbstractThe growth and acceptance of interdisciplinary education has blurred the boundaries associatedwith more traditional and insular curricular models. In this environment, multidisciplinaryprojects are fast becoming the norm. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the framework andworking process of a new interdisciplinary capstone course that creates a dynamic new learningcontext by combining an Industrial Design Studio with a Computer Engineering TechnologyLaboratory. Integrating two core courses, senior students in Industrial Design and ComputerEngineering

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen Wosczyna-Birch, CT College of Technology and the Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing; Wesley Francillon, Ph.D., Connectiuct Community College; John Birch, The Birch Group, LLC

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Design in Engineering Education

improving life on thisplanet. In addition, the LSSL Program continues to implement recruitment and retentionstrategies identified in the National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Sciences Page 22.868.2(IWITTS), an NSF funded project, which addressed gender equity and the recruitment andretention of underrepresented populations in non-traditional fields. The structure of the LSSLProgram has impacted not only students enrolled in the Program but also educators and industrypartnerships through innovative education techniques, particularly the integration ofprofessional/soft skills with PBL.LSSL Program project teams have been

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen W. Laguette, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Design in Engineering Education

results and the continued evolution of the process and the design program.A successful Capstone Design program including companion design courses has beendeveloped2,3 that has become an integral and important component of the MechanicalEngineering curriculum. A variety of challenging projects are created each year to appeal tostudent academic and career interests. Students work in teams with the assistance of a facultyadvisor to tackle a significant mechanical engineering design project. The formation of studentteams can be a challenging and time consuming process that is critical to the success of thedesign project and the course experience. Attention continues to be focused upon the formationof student teams and the selection process in the

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susannah Howe, Smith College; Mary A. Moriarty, Smith College; Apurva Errabelli

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Design in Engineering Education

individual written assignment and the team transfer map activity were formallydocumented as part of a module for the Integrated Design Engineering Assessment and LearningSystem (IDEALS). More information about IDEALS and its current NSF-funded initiative todevelop assessments and instructional materials that support student and team growth in design-based courses can be found at http://ideals.tidee.org and through recent publications.6,25,26 Bothassignments can be downloaded after creating an account on the IDEALS website(https://secure.tidee.org). The Instructor's Guide within the Transferring Knowledge moduledescribes the learning objectives and assignment structure; the transfer activities follow Path B.Pilot Study ContextThe pilot study was

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katie Grantham, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Ryan Arlitt, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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NSF Grantees

areas with poor usability. Initial improvements to theinterface were made based upon feedback from the questionnaire. Page 22.652.2 1. INTRODUCTION The goal of this research project is to test usability of the Risk in Early Design(RED) application when used as an expert knowledge source for tasks previously thoughtto require engineering experience. As technology progresses, it is critical that educationalefforts focus on preparing students to build on the new developments, rather thancontinuously teaching them to “reinvent the wheel.” The teaching of new technology isnot limited to the integration of novel

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zeshan Hyder, Virginia Tech & UET Lahore; Zulfiqar Ali, Virginia Polytechnic State University; Janis P. Terpenny, Virginia Tech; Richard M. Goff, Virginia Tech

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Design in Engineering Education

professor at Virginia Tech with a joint appointment in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Education and is a faculty affiliate of Industrial and Systems Engineering. She is currently on assignment as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the Di- vision of Undergraduate Education. Dr. Terpenny’s research is focused on engineering design and design education. She has been the principal or co-principal investigator on over $7 million of research funded by NSF and industry, and has published several book chapters, and over 130 peer reviewed publications. She is a Fellow in IIE, a member of ASME, and ASEE.Richard M. Goff, Virginia Tech Richard M. Goff is an Associate Professor

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Teodora Rutar, Seattle University; Brandon Shuman, MS

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Design in Engineering Education

through seminars, etc. Hence, we developed sixteen outcomes for thesecourses that we map to ABET’s a-k criteria and mechanical engineering-specific criteria. Theseoutcomes are: students work in teams to solve an open-ended engineering problem, useengineering judgment, consider economic factors, implement project planning and management, Page 22.68.2create written documents, give oral presentations, communicate with people of various technicalbackgrounds, incorporate environmental, economic and social constraints into the projectsolution, integrate knowledge obtained in mechanical engineering and core classes, apply variousmechanical engineering

Conference Session

Design Communications & Cognition I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dirk Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jitesh Panchal, Washington State University; Sammy Haroon, The RBR Group; Farrokh Mistree, University of Oklahoma

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Design in Engineering Education

to attain a net zero energy / eco footprint in the built environment. His cur- rent education focus is on creating and implementing, in partnership with industry, a curriculum for educating Strategic Engineers those who have developed the competencies to create value through the realization of complex engineered systems for changing markets in a collaborative, globally dis- tributed environment. It is in this context that he enjoys experimenting with ways in which design can be learned and taught. Farrokh is a Fellow of ASME and an Associate Fellow of AIAA. Email URL http://www.srl.gatech.edu/Members/fmistree

Conference Session

Design Spine

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ming-Chien Hsu, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Design in Engineering Education

visit their decisionabout scales afterwards. The team had an opportunity to engage in intentional learning from thisinteraction with their project partner, but this opportunity was not pursued.DoingEngagement with situation/differences:Teams practicing in the “working together” category engage in the iterative communicationpractice, and take responsibility for being effective communicator. The team with the divide-and-conquer approach did not initially talk a lot about the difference perspectives that they can take,and instead jumped very quickly to implementation. It was not until later when the situationabout testing rose did they realize they needed a more integrative approach. They startedcommunicating by trying to learn more about what

Conference Session

Design Communications & Cognition II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn W. Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University ; Philip Samuel, BMGI

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Design in Engineering Education

. Dr. Jablokow is the architect of a unique 4-course graduate-level module focused on problem solving lead- ership and is currently developing a new methodology for cognition-based design. She also founded and directs the Problem Solving Research Group, whose 50+ collaborating members include faculty and stu- dents from multiple universities (e.g., Penn State, Temple, Virginia Tech, U. Florida), as well as industrial representatives, military leaders, and corporate consultants.Philip Samuel, BMGI Dr. Phil Samuel is a Senior Vice President at BMGI, Inc., a management-consulting firm specializing in performance excellence and design thinking. An integral part of BMGI’s management team since 2005, Phil brings more

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

(Ruth) Jill Urbanic, University of Windsor; Susan S. Sawyer-Beaulieu, University of Windsor

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Design in Engineering Education

Industrial Engineering Students1 Introduction1.1 Introduction to capstone design project workshopsThe classical senior capstone design course consists of establishing an environment wherestudents are given the experience in solving a substantial problem while working in a teamenvironment. The engineering design problems to which Canadian engineering students areexposed must be open-ended, and require the integration of curriculum elements1. In theIndustrial Engineering (IE) program at the University of Windsor, industrial sponsors from avariety of sectors (automotive, food, recycling, hospitals, and so forth) are engaged to providereal open ended projects to the industrial engineering students over a two term period. Withrealistic ill defined opened

Conference Session

Design Communications & Cognition II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Bielenberg, Petroleum Institute

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Design in Engineering Education

ofliteracy over time and highlights the ways in which a sophomore level design course at a technological university inthe Middle East has incorporated an explicit focus on Academic Literacy in order to enhance the progress ofundergraduate engineers towards the competencies and attributes needed by professional engineers.IntroductionToday’s global economy is fueled by rapid innovation and technological breakthroughs. Tofunction in such an economy, engineers require a full set of professional skills in addition totechnological know-how. The effective engineer in industry is one who has excellentinterpersonal skills, is able to work on multi-disciplinary teams, possesses a broad knowledgebase, is aware of global issues, possesses information and

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaobin Le, Wentworth Institute of Technology ; Anthony William Duva, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Richard L. Roberts, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Ali R. Moazed, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

, 2011 Instructional Methodology for Capstone Senior Mechanical DesignAbstract: The capstone design project is a big event in every mechanical program. Thecapstone design project serves as a bridge to help students migrate from an academicenvironment to an industrial environment. Any school normally don‟t have the full capability toconstruct and physically test each capstone design project due to limited equipment, limitedfunds and limited time, which is the primary difference between the industrial environment andthe academic environment. Due to this defect in the academic environment, there are twocommon major problems in lots of capstone designs. Some capstone projects couldn‟t providethe supporting documented analysis to answer whether

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bridget M. Smyser, Northeastern University; Gregory J. Kowalski, Northeastern University

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Design in Engineering Education

, the twosemesters follow each other directly, with students taking the first semester in late summer,followed immediately by the second semester in the Fall. In the other sequence, the students takethe first semester in early summer, and then spend 6 months on co-op before returning in theSpring to complete the second semester of Capstone. Although these two sequences weredeveloped simply to accommodate student schedules, this fact provides an opportunity todetermine whether the lag between semesters hinders, aids, or has no effect on whether studentsgenerate quality designs and use good project management techniques. Students who take theconsecutive sequence have the advantage of working continually on their design problem for 2terms

Conference Session

Design Communications & Cognition I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicole E. Genco; Katja Holtta-Otto, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; Carolyn Conner Seepersad, University of Texas, Austin

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Design in Engineering Education

skill can facilitate creative thinking because a highly skilledperson is better able to develop new techniques and skills. Highly skilled individuals are betterable to adjust their behavior to demands that arise, suggesting that skill is an importantdeterminant of the capacity to restructure.18 In engineering, this trend could be exemplified bysenior engineers approaching a problem breadth first, looking at many design solutions beforenarrowing on one, as opposed to junior engineers’ less creative depth first strategy19.In this paper, we focus on investigating the differences in creativity between freshman and seniormechanical engineering students. It is assumed that the differences between these two groups areprimarily due to their skill

Conference Session

Automation Subjects in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University

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Manufacturing

Page 22.558.3assessment from the introduction to engineering course are presented. A brief section on thecurrent state of the summer camps is also covered before the conclusions.ENGR 1010 Introduction to Engineering Course ProjectThis section presents the most recent attempts on integrating animatronics into ENGR 1010Introduction to Engineering course with a semester long project. The main objective of thisopen-ended team project is to design and develop an animated robot or puppet. The teams arecomposed of three to four students and required to follow a process based on product design anddevelopment. Main stages of the process are described below in their actual sequence: Concept Development: Through a brainstorming activity students