Conference Session

Issues and Direction in ET Education and Administration: Part I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amin Karim, DeVry University; Jennifer McClain, IEEE

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Engineering Technology

Japan.However, although knowledge of standards should be integral to engineering and technologyeducation, standards education is still generally acquired after students graduate from college –in their professional lives and as needed. Private corporations, government agencies and otherprofessional organizations have provided this training for the last century, because mostengineering and technology programs in the United States do not have standards education intheir curriculums. In the college curriculums, consideration of standards has been generallylimited to applications in the design of senior projects. Page 14.1070.2The Engineering Accreditation

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anas Chalah, Harvard University; Fawwaz Habbal, Harvard University; Michael Raspuzzi, Harvard University

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

thechallenge were chosen to be interdisciplinary to bring the students to a realistic mindsetand learn skills that are normally needed in addressing real life challenges.Our curriculum for the bachelor of science degree embodies several classes that studentswork in as a group with a client. Also, there are other courses where students may workas individuals on complex projects. Some students work on capstone thesis that mayrequire certain sophistication that match research conducted in faculty labs; see Figure (1)for examples. What distinguishes the cases we are addressing here is the diversity of thegroup, coming from international universities and the short time to achieve the goals forthe project, thus introducing elements of urgency and

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ganapathy Subramanian Natarajan, Texas Tech University; Chinweike I Eseonu, Texas Tech University; David A. Wyrick PE, PEM, Texas Tech University

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Engineering and Public Policy

), sustainability and technical policy, engineering education, and learning abroad for engineers. He has taught capstone design for mechanical engineering, industrial engi- neering, and engineering management programs, primarily in cooperation with external clients. At Texas Tech University, he developed a faculty-led course in International Engineering that has been offered in Nantes, France, and Lule, Sweden. Previous to the 2007, he was at the University of Minnesota Duluth, including 9 years as head of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. He has also been a visiting professor at Lule University of Technology in Sweden. He has over 6 years of experience in the oil and gas and computer industries, and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Michael Fosmire, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Amy S. Van Epps, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ruth E. H. Wertz, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kerrie A Douglas, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Self-Assessment. in ASEE Annu. Conf. Expo. AC 2011–1275 (2011). Page 24.748.69. Novick, M. R. The axioms and principle results of classical test theory. J. Math. Psychol. 3, 1–18 (1966).10. Brown, C., Murphy, T. J. & Nanny, M. Turning Techno-Savvy into Info-Savvy : into the College Curriculum. J. Acad. Librariansh. 29, 386 –398 (2003).11. Kotys-Schwartz, D., Knight, D. & Pawlas, G. First-year and capstone design projects: Is the bookend curriculum approach effective for skill gain? in ASEE Annu. Conf. Expo. (2010).12. Fabrigar, L. R., Wegener, D. T., MacCallum, R. C. & Strahan, E. J. Evaluating the use

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electromechanical Engineering Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Satyajit Verma

. Instructorsand students in both programs can demonstrate key engineering and technical principles andconduct laboratory exercises on the Process Bench. It has sufficient simplicity, flexibility andversatility so that it can be redesigned or modified quickly to accommodate project work invarious courses including Capstone projects.AcknowledgementsThanks to Dr. J. T. Coppinger and Dr. R. Bachnak in the Engineering Technology Program atTAMU-CC for valuable discussions on the Process Bench.Bibliography1. Department of Chemical Technology, Brazosport College, www.brazosport.cc.tx.us.2. Process Operator Technology Program, The Victoria College, www.vc.cc.tx.us/programs/workforce/ptech.html.3. Applied Fluid Mechanics, R. L. Mott, Fifth Edition, Prentice Hall

Conference Session

ET Interdisciplinary Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Cremin; Terrence Kelly

interfacing of Global Positioning Systems (GPS). In the second half ofthe semester students concentrate on developing entrepreneurial GPS applications. Applicationsdocumented thus far include: • Low cost systems to assist the Botswana Army locate Park Rangers who become engaged with poachers in the jungles and forests of Botswana. • A low cost timekeeper for a PC using QBASIC and a hiking class GPS receiver.During the Fall 2001 semester, investigations included projects on: • The use of GPS in identifying and mediating traffic backups in the St. Louis area1. • Application of GPS techniques to a robotics navigation and communication subsystem2. • The use of GPS and “Geocaching” for

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Russell D. Jamison

used extensively. Teams of two engineering and two business students are formed atthe beginning of the courses and work together throughout the semester on case study analysisand other course-specific projects.The Integrated Project is the capstone course in the Technology and Management Program. Inthis course, teams of three engineering and three business students work on technology-relatedbusiness problems provided by industry sponsors. Guided by a faculty member and a designatedproject manager from the sponsor, they interact directly with the sponsor’s technical and busi-ness staffs. The problems posed to these teams are real, current, and messy. Each team presentsits analysis and recommendations to the sponsor at the end of the semester

Conference Session

DEED Technical Session 1: Adapting to COVID and other Design Challenges

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Rennick, University of Waterloo; Eugene Li, University of Waterloo; Michael Lenover, University of Waterloo; Wesley Blankespoor; Sanjeev Bedi, University of Waterloo

graduates with theknowledge, skills, and attributes needed in their workplace, and they want faculty whounderstand and respond to the changing needs of the workplace.” For academia, industry arefrequent financial donors, however industry can also play many different roles including: asmembers of research consortia; affiliate members of programs; advisors through mechanismslike industrial advisory boards; hosts of student internships/co-op programs; instructors or guestlecturers; and sponsors and/or stakeholders for design projects (especially capstone designprojects) [1].Focussing on partnerships in the realm of teaching (as opposed to research), there are severalexamples of graduate degrees both developed with industry, and developed specifically

Conference Session

Works in Progress: Curricula and Pathways

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alma H. Rosales, Colorado State University; Andrea M. Leland, Colorado State University; Olivera Notaros, Colorado State University, ECE Department; Richard F. Toftness, IEEE High Plains Section; Thomas J. Siller, Colorado State University; Michael A. De Miranda Ph.D., Colorado State University; Alistair Cook, Colorado State University; Melissa D. Reese, Colorado State University; Zinta S. Byrne, Colorado State University; James Warren Weston, Colorado State University; Anthony A. Maciejewski, Colorado State University

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Educational Research and Methods

Engineering has worked for years to continuouslyimprove its approach to professional formation, relying heavily on input from constituentsranging from alumni and corporate partners to faculty and current students. The most influentialstakeholder group has been the department’s Industrial Advisory Board (IAB), and for the pastdecade the IAB has driven a number of initiatives designed to teach and build capacities forprofessional skills, often called “soft skills.” As shown in Table 2, the IAB’s recommendationshave been delivered in silos, mostly via the senior design capstone experience. ECE 202 CircuitTheory Applications – which now includes a project design component in the sophomore year –has served as the vital lower-level course for introducing

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 25

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jordan Nickel, University of Waterloo; Gregory Litster, University of Toronto; Christopher Rennick, University of Waterloo; Ada Hurst, University of Waterloo; Carol Hulls P.Eng., University of Waterloo

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

instead of getting discouraged 2. Social modeling – seeing peers succeed at challenging tasks contributes to one’s beliefs that they will also be successful 3. Social persuasion – people can be persuaded to believe in their own abilities 4. Physical and emotional states – self-efficacy beliefs are affected by emotions like anxiety, as well as physical strength and stamina, and one’s ability to regulate emotionsThe first three mechanisms - mastery experiences, social modeling, and social persuasion - areall common elements of project-based learning. For example, cornerstone (i.e., a project whichappears early in a curriculum to serve as a foundational experience for students), capstone, andother long duration

Conference Session

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Madeline Polmear, University of Colorado Boulder; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Nathan E. Canney, CYS Structural Engineers Inc.

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

impact of professionaldevelopment and her role in it. Part of what I think my role is in senior design is to help students transition from being students to being professionals. So toward that end I like to bring in a lot of not just professional level project experience that they would have like open-ended problems and clients that ask for one thing and want another.Although the formal curriculum in capstone design was changed so that professional issues andethics were moved to a separate course, the instructor explained the value of implicitlyintegrating these topics to support students’ professional development and preparation. “Thehabits and dispositions of thought and conduct, the things we come to care about, are shaped byour

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Scott Fleming, Georgia Institute of Technology; Amy Pritchett, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Aerospace

avionics, are segmented into separate design tasks. Technical componentdesign teams must iteratively integrate critical information from adjacent technical systems into theirdecision-making process.31 Thus, communication of knowledge about the design of an aerospace vehicleneeds to occur through time as the design evolves.Aerospace engineering capstone design courses are typically one to two semester courses that askstudents to design an aerospace vehicle using a given set of requirements while interacting on a team.While there is some variability in the requirements of a design task, most capstone design projects coverthe conceptual design phase of the aerospace engineering design process.33 Fixed wing design courseprojects generally ask students

Conference Session

Teams, Teaching, Leadership, and Technical Communications in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Melnyk, U.S. Military Academy; Brian J. Novoselich, U.S. Military Academy

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Mechanical Engineering

is an active duty Army Lieutenant Colonel currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy (West Point). He earned his Ph.D. in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech in 2016. He holds Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in mechanical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and West Point respectively. His research interests include capstone design teaching and assessment, undergraduate engineering stu- dent leadership development, and social network analysis. He is also a licensed professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017

Conference Session

Professional and Regulatory Issues in Ethics

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramanitharan Kandiah P.E., Central State University; Krishna Kumar V Nedunuri, International Center for Water Resources; Ning Zhang, Central State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

lecture based approach. Hence, in 2016, as the newcomponents, reviews on ethical case studies and exams were added to the course. Also, thegraduates from the same ENE program, who currently work in the industry and the governmentwere invited as the guest speakers to provide the students their insights and the experiences. Withthe Fall 2016 assessment (Appendix-C), in the capacity of the instructor, the first authorrecommended to incorporate two more components, project management and research conductinto EPS course with the experiences gained from other courses. Project management was foundas a required topic from the course, Senior Capstone Project. Engineering students doingundergraduate research at the authors’ institution have to pass an

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Addressing the NGSS: Supporting K12 Teachers in Engineering Pedagogy, Engineering Science, Careers, and Technical Pathways

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Jimmy Gandhi, California State University - Northridge; Vidya K Nandikolla, California State University - Northridge; George Youssef, San Diego State University; Peter L. Bishay, California State University - Northridge

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division

realizing their design through 3D printing. In this module, a historic background about 3D printers is first introduced, and then the impact of 3D printers on third industrial revolution is discussed. Students will be able to immediately hold, evaluate, test and use their designs as well as share it with each other and the world. 3. Capstone Design Project The main goal of the third module is to design an assistive technology mechanical object to help people with special needs. Each group of students deliver well-defined 3D solid models, fully functional assistive technology device, formal design report, and formal design presentation.Survey Findings & AnalysisThis paper was written at the

Conference Session

Graduate Education and Undergraduate Research in ET

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saeed Foroudastan, Middle Tennessee State University; michael anderton, Middle Tennessee State University

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Engineering Technology

© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity at Middle Tennessee State UniversityIntroductionThis paper discusses undergraduate research and creative activity at Middle Tennessee StateUniversity as implemented as a capstone course and design project. Four seniors from theelectro-mechanical and mechanical disciplines applied and were partially funded to doundergraduate research. Their project was to build a boat to compete in the national Solar Splashcompetition. “Solar Splash is the World Championship of Solar/Electric boating. It is aninternational intercollegiate competition that takes place over five days”1. For their work, theseniors received credit for the

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mitchell Neilsen

backgrounds up to speed, 2. An implementation course that allows students to work with state-of-the-art design tools, embedded development environments, and target platforms to interconnect a variety of sensors and actuators in complete real-time embedded systems, 3. A theory course, which is the focus of this paper, covering both real-time scheduling theory and contemporary design methodologies, and 4. A project-based capstone design course to complete a comprehensive design for a complex embedded system.This section discusses the layout of our curriculum to provide training to embedded systemsdesigners and programmers. The embedded systems curriculum consists of four semester-longcourses at the upper

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mitchell Neilsen

variety of sensors and actuators in complete real-time embedded systems, 3. A theory course covering both real-time scheduling theory and contemporary design methodologies, and 4. A project-based capstone design course to complete a comprehensive design for a complex embedded system.This section discusses layout of our curriculum to provide training to embedded systemsdesigners and programmers. The embedded systems curriculum consists of four semester-longcourses at the upper undergraduate/beginning graduate level.3.1 Remedial courseThe first course is designed to be a remedial course for students who do not have a properbackground for the subsequent courses in the proposed course sequence. The course consists ofthree

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Dennis; Jeff Ball; Martin Bowe; Daniel Jensen

MultiMedia Session 2793 A Student-Developed Teaching Demo of an Automatic Transmission Scott Dennis, Martin Bowe, Jeff Ball, and Dan Jensen Department of Engineering Mechanics US Air Force Academy, COAbstract The core curriculum at the United States Air Force Academy emphasizes the engineeringdisciplines. The capstone of the core curriculum is a unique engineering design course, Engr410—Engineering Systems Design, all cadets take regardless of academic major. In this course,sections of approximately 16-18 senior cadets are randomly grouped resulting in a diverse mix

Conference Session

Issues Affecting Engineering Program Development

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jimmy Bill Linn, East Carolina University; Merwan B. Mehta, East Carolina University; Janet Hooper Sanders, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

/methods engineer, machine tool design engineer, manufacturing engineer, technical partner, project director, vice-president and consultant. His present re- search interests are enhancing manufacturing and business processes through lean principles and theory of constraints, and the pursuit of quality and variation control through six-sigma. Merwan has conducted 2-day post conference value stream mapping workshops for the Institute of Indus- trial Engineers (IIE) for their Lean/Operational Excellence Conference since 2001 at various companies all over the US. He is an ASQ Certified Six-Sigma Black Belt and a SME Certified Manufacturing Engi- neer.Dr. Janet Hooper Sanders, East Carolina University Janet H. Sanders

Conference Session

Educational Research

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; Helen Chen, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Establish/develop study groups / offer courses with focus on analytical skills to 1) Get more faculty & industry support for senior capstone help students put together their basic course; 2) (**) Raise expectations for the quality of knowledge with requirements of theGroup 7 projects to industry standard. Group 16 problem.Group 8 Problem-oriented course earlier in the curriculum Group 17 no answer Identify a couple of courses that will Should implement this idea across the curriculum

Conference Session

Combining Research and Teaching

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Duggan

. Page 7.1035.12“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition, Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”Attachment 4Student Work: Draft Leaching Model Draft Design Specifications Page 7.1035.13“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition, Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Education” RCMW Engineering 550 Huntington Avenue ¨ Boston, MA 02115 Specifications for Environmental Capstone Design Project Prepared For

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 14: Advanced Pedagogical Techniques

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anahita Ayasoufi, Auburn University; Golbou Makki; Amanda Sterling, Auburn University; Kyle D Schulze, Auburn University; ASHU SHARMA, Auburn University; Jeffrey C. Suhling, Auburn University; Daniel Kevin Harris

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

rubric used for assessing student performance in laboratory projects or in capstone design [7], and usage of American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) rubric on Lifelong Learning [8] outside of a course context. These tend to be limited and qualitative, for example [9] splits the learning profile into only 2 sub-outcomes and measures student performance in each outcome in projects using rubrics with qualitative levels of Unsatisfactory, Minimal, Adequate, or Exemplary. The paper [6] offers a rubric that breaks down the learning into three sub- components of identifying the needed knowledge, developing a learning plan, and applying

Conference Session

Making Professionals: Methods to Build Success Skills

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jakob C. Bruhl, United States Military Academy; James Ledlie Klosky P.E., United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

clear in The Engineer of 2020 and it is also a central part ofthe Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge, 3rd Edition. Many programs provide an opportunityfor students to demonstrate creativity and innovation in their capstone projects but few providefoundational instruction or opportunities to hone creativity skills throughout the curriculum.Inspired by the need to develop creative and innovative engineers and encouraged by theliterature about how the necessary skills and attitudes can be developed through education, thispaper describes how creativity has been deliberately and explicitly integrated in a requiredsenior-level civil engineering course. Although early in implementation and assessment, the datasuggests that integrating creativity into

Conference Session

Making in Design

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vincent Wilczynski, Yale University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

problem-based learning and service learning alsobecame popular approaches to connect course material with field applications, often using client-driven scenarios and open-ended challenges.5,6 This attention to increasing student engagementwas in part prompted by an increased awareness of the value of active learning and team-basedproblem solving.These initiatives manifested themselves in a variety of fashions, including improving studentexperiences using cornerstone and capstone design projects as well as the creation of U.S.Government sponsored initiatives. For example, the grant-funded “Learning Factory” projectwas developed to simultaneously create a practice-based curriculum and the supporting physicalfacilities required to design/fabricate

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aloysius Emig Jr., Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg; Sedig Agili, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg

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International

, electromagnetics, communications, controlsystems, digital signal/image processing and computer vision. The BS EET program providessimilar experience however; its strengths include an applied, hands-on approach and extensivelaboratory experience. Through a senior capstone design project, both curricula emphasizewritten as well as verbal communication and a teamwork approach among students to attain acommon goal.Thus, students in automation and robotics, microcomputers, communications, and seniorcapstone design project courses have ample opportunities to design and implement hands-onpractical applications. Currently, several students are involved in implementing practicalapplication projects such as WI-FI security robot, auto lander, and computer numerical

Conference Session

Technical Session: Transforming Engineering Education Is Possible! A Descriptive Case Study of Reimagining Engineering Education and Delivering a Wake Forest Engineering Student Experience Promoting Inclusion, Agency, Holistic Learning, and Success

Collection

2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Olga Pierrakos, Wake Forest University

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

anexample, one of the first assignments in our first engineering class - EGR 111 (Introduction toEngineering Thinking and Practice) - was a personal statement of what each student hoped to dowith an engineering degree and where they envisioned they would be after graduation. This wasnot an easy assignment but one that we would give back to students on graduation day (nearly 4years later). Similar visioning assignments like an Independent Development Plan (IDP) wouldbe part of the curriculum too and would continue to be improved by the founding faculty team(e.g. Melissa Kenny, Kyle Luthy, Kyana Young, Courtney DiVittorio). Ethical Leadershipassignments and Career Readiness assignments in capstone design, etc. Figure 3: Some of the

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nancy B. Barr, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

students improve their technical writing skills. Thispaper details a comprehensive study of a GTA training program implemented in a largemechanical engineering department. Situated within the field of Writing Across theCurriculum/Writing in the Disciplines, the program was developed to meet the unique needs ofthe department’s GTAs and address perceived deficiencies in undergraduate student writing byteaching best practices in writing evaluation. Two methods were used to assess the efficacy ofthis program: 1) Qualitative methods such as interviews and an open-ended survey were used togain the perspective of the GTAs and their students on a variety of issues; and 2) A summativeassessment compared Senior Capstone Design final reports completed prior

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 12: Promoting Student Success and Motivation

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware; Amy Trauth, American Instiutes for Research (AIR); David L Burris, University of Delaware; Alexander John De Rosa, University of Delaware

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

instructors [30, 31], we found the key to managing the largeenrollment of a technical communications course is using of well-trained teaching assistants toprovide students with timely feedback on weekly assignments. Our strategy was to provide theteaching assistants with continuous instructional support in the form of weekly meetings with theinstructor.Technical Communications is unique in that it featured a contextualized learning experience forcourse assignments, namely, asking students to communicate as if they were product engineers atMelissa and Doug®. In reality, Melissa and Doug® is a partner of the program and periodicallysponsors introductory design and capstone projects. These connections provide a realistic contextfor students when they

Conference Session

Software Engineering Teaching Methods and Practice

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Durant, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

Requirements and Interdisciplinary WorkAbstractThe author discusses an interdisciplinary approach to helping students learn to write a systemrequirements specification (SRS). This approach has been refined during use over the last threeyears and involves students in the first quarter of their junior year. Software engineeringstudents enrolled in a required requirements course act as the requirements team over an eight-week period while biomedical engineering students who are ready to begin the requirementsphase of their capstone design project act as clients. Each of the requirements and client teamsconsists of four to six members. The experience was documented in ASEE conference papers inOctober of 20041 and June of 20052.Benefits of the process and