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Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joon Kim; Daniel Biezad

Page 10.346.1students.Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference * Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education As shrinking budgets cause an ever greater part of undergraduate laboratory education to becomputer centered, and as a greater percentage of students enter the curriculum withoutpractical experience in mechanics or a familiarity with tools and tooling, there is a strong needto expose aerospace engineering students to these realities of the aviation workplace, aworkplace that traditionally has inspired a passionate intensity. The Aerospace EngineeringDepartment at Cal Poly is trying to provide hands-on skills and foster this intensity

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joerg Mossbrucker

basic digital building blocks such as multiplexers, decoders, full adders and ROMs and verify the correct operation of the design through simulation and/or implementation • Design, simulate and/or implement sequential circuits using various representations such as state diagrams, ASM charts, and hardware description language, specifically VHDL • Design, simulate and/or implement a digital system as a circuit consisting of a Data Path and Control Unit • Design the Control Unit as a finite state machine and using micro- programming • Be able to describe the design and verification process through written communication in the form of laboratory reports

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NEW Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Marshall

://www.sensorsmag.com/articles/0202/30/main.shtml.2. Korane, K.: Putting ER Fluids To Work. Machine Design, May 9,1991, pp. 52-57.3. Scott, D.: Amazing Hardening Fluids Open a New World of Hydraulic Drives. Popular Science, April 1984, pp. 42-46.4. Duclos, T.G.: Electrorheological Fluids and Devices. Automotive Engineering, December 1988, pp.45- 48.5. Carlson, J. D., Lord Corporation, Sensor Technology and Design, February 2002 http://www.sensorsmag.com/articles/0202/30/main.shtml.6. Conrad, H.: The Impact of ER Fluids. Compressed Air Magazine, March 1992, pp.14-17.Biographical Information:Dr. JOHN ALLEN MARSHALL taught senior high school prior to receiving his Ph.D. from Texas A&MUniversity. He has 23 years of university teaching experience, and is

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jason Krupar; George Suckarieh

Leadership and Teamwork Education for Engineering and Technology Students An Experiential Learning and Community Service Approach George Suckarieh, Jason Krupar University of Cincinnati1. IntroductionThe history of technical education in the United States over the last two hundred years can betraced back to the American Revolution; it evolved from both military and craftsmanship needs.Over the years, the trends in technical education changed from teaching of craftsmanship andbasic science, to assembly and design of sophisticated projects. The present trend in technicaleducation focuses on complimenting the design skills of

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ronald Rorrer; Richard Sanders; Daniel Knight

Tapping Hidden Talent Ronald A. L. Rorrer1, Daniel Knight2, Richard Sanders3 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center/2Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory, University of Colorado at Boulder/3Department of Music and Entertainment Industry Studies, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences CenterAbstractWe have developed a summer program intended to tap the talent of high school students whohave the capability to succeed in college, but are currently not on a college bound path. Thecourses in the program consist of a merging of

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Service Learning Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Moeller; Margaret Pinnell; Bernard Amadei; Jay Shah; R. Scott Summers; Angela Bielefeldt; Robyn Sandekian

course that are offered. To date, the course has been offered twice through the Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory (http://itll.colorado.edu). The course gives students a thorough understanding Page 10.364.9 of some of the most common and important technologies being introduced in small-scale Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education community developments. Students are asked to create, design and construct appropriate technological systems, processes

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Issues for ET Administrators

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2005 Annual Conference

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Melanie Thom; James Thom; Dennis Depew

order to exist and thrive at the university.Developing a national forum to support a positive discussion and debate concerning the futuredevelopment of technology programs and their role in fulfilling the university’s mission shouldbe a national priority. Clearly, a major dichotomy is the appropriate balance and focus in theareas of teaching and research. Clearly, good classroom and laboratory instruction is expected atall major universities, especially those that are state supported.Some would also argue that good teaching is not possible without good research and scholarship,and that the scholarship should be grounded in the creation and development of new knowledge.This new knowledge could come in the form of new curriculum or pedagogy, or

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

students.Course Management IssuesThe current structure allows for the dedication of three faculty assigned to the class. However, thegoal is to make the offering more “standardized,” such that by 2006, one faculty with several studentTAs can teach the course. Part of this objective will be satisfied by documenting a series of bothfinal projects and standard weekly projects. An instructor can select a final project, then choose fiveto seven short projects which will support that final project. Accumulating short projects is similarto the activities which produced the fine laboratory manual offered by Wang. [11] The authorswould have chosen this manual as a required text in the new course revision, but for the fact thatEGR 286 needed to be offered with

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wade Shaw; Muzaffar Shaikh; Carmo D'Cruz

experiential learning with academic programs.This paper reviews the growing popularity of engineering management programs, the impact ofentrepreneurship courses on the engineering management curriculum (including a taxonomy ofpromoters, engineers, managers, engineering managers and engineering entrepreneurs), thedebates over teaching of entrepreneurship courses and a new course in Systems EngineeringEntrepreneurship that will be a paradigm shift in engineering entrepreneurship education.The Growing Popularity of Engineering Management ProgramsTo better prepare themselves, many engineers, scientists and researchers are choosing to pursuetheir master's degrees. This fact in and of itself is not unusual. What is unusual, however, is thefact that the

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Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Burleson; Theodore Djaferis; Paul Dobosh; Orin Hoffman

Engineering Educationrescue robot. Although this communications module truly pushed the envelope of thestudent’s abilities, grappling with designing and integrating the communication protocolsinto their robots provided interesting complexities, interactions, and other system issuesthat arise in a multi-layered physical system. It also enabled us in the classroom tosubstantively introduce more advanced topics in communication.4 Laboratory strategiesIt is important to note that this refocusing on system issues did not just take place in thelabs or the classroom. Indeed, teaching a systems perspective required a paradigm shifton the part of the instructors. For example, thought processes of the instructors that usedto be implicit must be made explicit

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Labs, Demos and Software in Mechanics

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2005 Annual Conference

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Bradley Burchett

://www.ecpsystems.com 2. Burchett, B. T., and Layton, R. A., “An Undergraduate System Identification Laboratory”, Proceedings of the 2005 American Control Conference, Portland, OR, June 8-10, 2005.Author BiographyBRADLEY T BURCHETT is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He teaches courses on the topicsof dynamics, system dynamics, control, intelligent control, and computer applications. His research interestsinclude non-linear and intelligent control of autonomous vehicles, and numerical methods applied to optimalcontrol. Page 10.985.11 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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Curriculum Issues in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Massood Towhidnejad; Thomas Hilburn

, management, and others such as sales, consulting, and teaching.• Engineers use tools to apply processes systematically. Therefore, the choice and use of appropriate tools is key to engineering.• Engineers, via their professional societies, advance by the development and validation of principles, standards, and best practices.• Engineers reuse designs and design artifacts.However, there are two key differences between products designed by software engineers(software products) and other engineers (bridges, automobiles, electrical components, etc.).Software is abstract rather than physical and it deals with discrete rather than continuous entities.The intangible nature of software affects its visibility, its changeability, and its lack

Conference Session

Innovative ET Leadership

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Arnold Peskin; Walter Buchanan

capstoneexperience for Engineering Technology students, documenting their ability to integrateknowledge from various technical and general education areas and apply it in ameaningful way. The portfolio development process requires students to reflect on pastexperiences, both academic and professional, and then use the information gained fromthis reflective process to develop learning statements that address specific learningobjectives.Excelsior’s Engineering Technology programs represent a laboratory of innovativeassessment, articulation and course delivery, whose techniques can be used by alleducational institutions to further the cause of educating and recognizing worthy studentswho might not otherwise be able to complete traditional degree requirements

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Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Miller; Joyce Pittman; Virginia Elkins; Max Rabiee; Eugene Rutz

Technology-Enabled Content in Engineering Science Curriculum Eugene Rutz, Virginia Elkins, Joyce Pittman, Max Rabiee, and Richard Miller University of CincinnatiAbstractEngineering technology technical courses often have both lecture and accompanying laboratorysessions. The laboratory assignments reinforce the understanding of the topics studied during thelecture sessions. A planning grant was awarded from the National Science Foundation throughtheir Bridges for Engineering Education Program to develop technology-enabled content inengineering science courses. Content was developed to appeal to a variety of learning styles andto support student-centered learning. This paper will describe the

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Brainard; Sheila Edwards Lange; Elizabeth Litzler

? Since entering your department, have you experienced isolation?Laboratory Climate How well are lab experiments explained prior to your participation in them? Extent other team members view you as a leader when working in small groups in the lab? How productive do you feel when working in a group lab setting? Page 10.308.4 Extent your suggestions or comments are taken seriously by the “Proceedings of the 2005

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosalyn Berne

beliefs held by some ofthe very people on whom the nanotechnology initiative depends[1] . The intention hasbeen to elicit their ideas and concerns, beliefs, fears and motivations, as those pertain totheir work as researchers in nanoscale science and technology. The aim here is to help“disparately interested parties overcome their language differences in order to join in acommon cause.”aMy studies follow these scientists over a period of five years, as they move deeper intotheir own abilities and understandings, and as they make more discoveries, broaden theircollaborations and facilitate the development of new technologies. The participants areprincipal investigators who are conducting nanoscaled research in their own laboratories,at universities

Conference Session

Assessing with Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

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T.M. Wildman; M. L. Wolfe; Jr., O.Hayden Griffin, O.Hayden Griffin,; J. Muffo; G.T. Adel; G.V. Loganathan; Kumar Mallikarjunan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Tamara Knott, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

0431779 is gratefully acknowledged.Bibliography1. “Towards a Taxonomy of Electronic Portfolios”, http://webcenter1.aahe.org/electronicportfolios/taxonomy.html, accessed 12/23/04.2. http://bearlink.berkeley.edu/ePortfolio.3. Colyer, S., and Howell, J., “Beyond the shoe box: Developing an e-portfolio for leisure sciences students,” in the Proceedings of the Teaching and Learning Forum, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia, February 2002. (available at: http://lsn.curtin.edu.au/tlf/tlf2002/contents.html).4. A.I. Morrison - Shetlar, “Investigative Laboratory Assessment of student learning,” http://www.fctl.ucf.edu/staff/morrison/nabt2002/NABT2002.pdf.5. Ridgway, J., and McCusker, S., Literature Review of E- assessment

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Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mehria Saffi; Mariana Alvaro; Diana Mejia; David Bowen

suchexperience. By this method, we were able to interview practitioners in manufacturing, service,transportation and government organizations. Interviewees hailed from relatively smallmanufacturing organizations (approximately $6 million in annual sales), to some of the largestand well known (UPS, FEDEX), and most respected engineering companies (e.g., Bechtel, Intel,Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Hewlett Packard) in the world.As a group, our interviewees averaged 17.9 years supervising engineers working in teams andparticipated in an average of 68 teams each. They served as leaders or supervisors for 22% ofthe those teams, and served as non-supervisory team members on the remaining 78%.Interviews were conducted either at the interviewees

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Design and Computation in ChE Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Shaeiwitz

This curriculum would replace a significant portion of the macro-scaletechnology that has been taught in chemical engineering for most of its history as a professionwith multi-scale technology, while retaining a sufficient amount of the traditional technology topermit teaching and learning of manufacturing. Traditional course titles may change, reflecting arearrangement of topics based on length scales.1In any new curriculum paradigm, there will still be a need for a capstone experience. In the newcurriculum paradigm, the capstone experience may include design of a product at multiplescales, from the product at the atomic through the colloid scales, as appropriate, and themanufacture of the product at the macro scale. Therefore, a new class of

Conference Session

ET Curriculum & Design Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Blanton

curricula changed with the development of microwave during World War II. Morerecently, a uniform need for EM in certain engineering specialties has become less clear aselectrical engineering has expanded and become more diverse. Page 10.521.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering EducationWhile there is coverage of EM in traditional electrical engineering programs, the engineeringtechnology (ET) programs have been hesitant about teaching EM.3 In engineering curricula, theEM course is supported by math

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alvin Lester; Bruce Mutter

. Students must meet deadlines in an increasingly self-motivated environment. 11. Students must self motivate in general and avoid procrastination without traditional verbal reminders of assignment due dates. B. Disadvantages for Students: 1. Student must still meet in class for the regular scheduled class times for web facilitated courses. 2. Students uploading assignments to CART CMS may require more time than writing it out by hand. 3. Student must have access to compatible hardware, software, and high speed web connection. 4. Students may need to access computer laboratories at school, libraries or other places with public access to the web

Conference Session

College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Nation; Leah Jamieson; Jill Heinzen; Carla Zoltowski; William Oakes; Joy Krueger

(composed of students from 20 disciplines), vertically integrated (freshman-senior), engineering-based series of design courses. Each EPICS project involves a team ofeight to twenty undergraduates, a not-for-profit community partner – for example, a community-service agency, museum or school, or government agency - and a faculty or industry advisor. Apool of graduate teaching assistants from seven departments provides technical guidance andadministrative assistance. Currently, the Purdue EPICS program has 29 teams (over one third ofwhich serve pre-college needs) with over 400 students participating during the 2004-2005academic year. EPICS teams work in four areas of the community, access and abilities,education/outreach, social services and the

Conference Session

Integrating Mathematics and Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Pennell; Peter Avitabile; John White

courses to courses in their majors orto their careers. Consequently, their motivation to learn the material in mathematics courses islow, and their retention of this material is poor.This paper describes an interdisciplinary, multisemester project designed to lead students toappreciate the relevance and importance of basic STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering andMathematics) material. Starting in the sophomore level differential equations course andcontinuing in junior and senior level engineering courses, students analyze dynamic systemsfrom various points of view, including mathematical modeling. This paper describes the projectand the modules being developed to implement it.IntroductionMathematicians teaching service courses for engineering

Conference Session

Advice for Dual-Career Couples

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bruce; Lori Bruce

member who is an engineering educator, the “home time” willexperience some intrusion. When that household has two engineering educators, the family willhave to make frequent adjustments and “home time” will be under full-fledged assault. Whenthat household has two engineering educators in the same department, personal time is oftenoverwhelmed by the professional. Make that two “new” engineering educators in the samedepartment. “Help us, Kemo Sabe”. The problem is not that two educators in the samedepartment work more or harder. The problem is that both careers and their associated issues areso intertwined, it is hard to “get away from work”. Two research programs. Two sets ofgraduate students. Two laboratories. And often one name. “Why are there

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Feodoroff

hasgreatly enhanced the learning experience. It has motivated students to create more complete andcomplex designs and to spend more time using the CAD software. Students are no longersatisfied with their “first design”. They are encouraged to redesign their creation again andagain. It has promoted student interest in mechanical engineering technology. Since theintroduction of this machine, the enrollment in the program has increased by more than thirtypercent.References1. Hansberry, Eric, Bernard Hoop, Thomas Hulbert, and Robert Augus, “First-Year Design Projects in EngineeringGraphics”, Proceedings of the 2000 ASEE Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri.2. Skurka, Carolyn, Brain Thomas, and Walter L. Bradley, "Teaching Freshman Engineering Using

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ET Curriculum & Design Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafael Obregon; Kevin Hall

engaged in “learning-by-doing” activities. “Whatever delivery medium you work with, awareness of the variety oflearning styles which your learners may possess can help you make effective decisions aboutyour presentation of information, the guidance and practice you provide, and the kinds ofassessment you offer in instruction which you design” (Keirns, 1999, p. 147). Buckley, et al.(1999) describe how higher education is shifting from a Teaching Paradigm to a Learning(Active Learning) Paradigm. Recognition of differing learning styles and learner experiences aretwo driving forces for this shift. Buckley, et al. (1999) demonstrated how interactive multimedialearning environments were designed at the University of Hartford to assist students in

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Leiffer

electrical students. This is alaboratory to teach students how to design and build electrical systems, with an emphasis on thepractical use of theory in the creation and testing process. In this laboratory the instructor (RWG)is careful to choose pairs of students or singles if an odd number is enrolled. Part of the teamformation is related to perceived growth needs of the student. Three students should never be puton one team because one will be left out. Students are allowed a voice in choosing a partner butthe instructor will veto a decision if there is a difference of two letter grades between them, usingthe previous lab grade as a measure. For instance, A-B and C-D students can work together butnot A-C or B-D. Experience has shown that female

Conference Session

Systems Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Widmann

Using Problem Solving Preferences to Promote Teaming in a Mechanical Systems Design Course James M. Widmann California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, CAAbstract At California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, MechanicalEngineering students are required to take a course in Mechanical Systems Design. It is ajunior level course where students learn the fundamentals of machine components (gears,bearings, screws, etc); furthermore, the students gain experience in the integration ofthese components into complex Mechanical Systems during a weekly 3-hr laboratory.During the laboratory portion

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gene Liao

short amount of time, bothapproaches use commercial FEA software as a teaching tool.Integration of FEA with undergraduate engineering courses has been held in many schools. Anycourse involving applications of mechanics of materials is appropriate for integration with FEA3-7 . However most of these integrated undergraduate courses are for civil and mechanicalengineering (and engineering technology) curriculum, very few evidences have been found thatintroduce FEA in the manufacturing engineering (and manufacturing technology) curriculum.Waldorf1 introduced FEA for fixture design analysis to the tool engineering course. Hedeveloped a series of FEA laboratory exercises to analyze and optimize fixture, mold, and diedesigns.A project-based

Conference Session

Education Ideas in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gassert; Deepti Suri

importance ofrequirements as sophomores in SE-2831 (Introduction to Software Verification), and SE-280(Software Engineering Process). The concepts learned in SE-3821 are reinforced in SE-380(Principles of Software Architecture) and the process is scaled up for the students in their three-quarter experience of “Software Development Laboratory” [5], where the students work on large-scale projects in a “real-world” setting.The unique thing about the Biomedical Engineering (BE) program at MSOE is that the studentsstart working on their design capstone project as freshman. The freshman and sophomore yearsare typically devoted to market and technology research phase. The various project groups aresupposed to have their design presentations sometime in the