Conference Session

Product Development and Manufacturing

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jay R Porter, Texas A&M University; Joseph A. Morgan, Texas A&M University; Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, instrumentation, and entrepreneurship.Dr. Joseph A. Morgan, Texas A&M University Joseph A. Morgan has over 20 years of military and industry experience in electronics and telecommunica- tions systems engineering. He joined the Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution Department in 1989 and has served as the Program Director of the Electronics and Telecommunications Programs and as the Associate Department Head for Operations. He received his BS degree in electrical engineering (1975) from California State University, Sacramento, and his MS (1980) and DE (1983) degrees in in- dustrial engineering from Texas A&M University. His education and research interests include project management, innovation and

Conference Session

Enhancing Engineering Management

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Philip Mayhorn, Univerisity of North Carolina, Charlotte; Ertunga C Ozelkan, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Engineering Management

Paper ID #7075Partnering With Students to Continuously Improve the Systems Engineering& Engineering Management ProgramDr. Jonathan Philip Mayhorn, Univerisity of North Carolina, Charlotte Dr. Jonathan Mayhorn currently works for AT&T as a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt where he coaches those who lead projects to improve processes in the Construction and Engineering Department. He recently became a certified Project Management Professional. Jonathan also serves as an Adjunct where he teaches four classes in the Systems Engineering & Engineering Management Department at the University of North Carolina at

Conference Session

Two-year College Potpourri

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Karen Wosczyna-Birch, CT College of Technology; Charlotte B. Forrest

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

, she has served as Executive Director of the South Carolina Advanced Technological (SC ATE) Center of Excellence, leading initiatives and grant-funded projects to develop educational leadership and increase the quantity, quality and diversity of highly skilled technicians to support the American economy. Craft currently serves as Principal Investigator (PI), Mentor-Connect: Leadership Development and Outreach for ATE; PI, South Carolina National Resource Center for Expanding Excellence in Technician Education (SCATE); Co-PI, ATE Regional Center for Aviation and Automotive Technology Education Using Virtual E-Schools (CA2VES); and Co-PI, Centers Collaborative for Technical Assistance (CCTA). The SC ATE Center is

Conference Session

What's New in Engineering Economy

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Sullivan; Lawrence Ambs; Julia Sullivan; John Dixon; Janis Terpenny

Session 2139 The Engineering Economics of Energy Use and Capital Investment Janis P. Terpenny, Lawrence L. Ambs, John R. Dixon, Julia L. Sullivan,1 and William G. Sullivan2 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA1/ Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA2AbstractA potential capital investment involving energy use or energy conservation is always incompetition with other possible uses of the same available capital. The competition may comefrom other energy related projects, or from proposals for, say new

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Capstone and Design

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jamie Szwalek, University of Illinois at Chicago; Yeow Siow, University of Illinois at Chicago; Jaqueline Oxmara Rojas Robles, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Mechanical Engineering

, the quality and quantity of the support staff, in particular undergraduateteaching assistants, were found to be more crucial than anticipated and a robust recruitmentprocess became necessary. The high-stake design project in ME 250 changes each semester toprevent students from obtaining a set of solutions or project reports from prior terms, so teachingassistant training is continuous. The specifics of each problem encountered will be described inthe paper, along with lesson learned on how best to handle each situation and create a structurewhere continuous improvement can be made sustainable.Keywords: first year design, mechanical engineering, Arduino, project-based engineering1 IntroductionME 250 is a first-year design course offered at

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth A. Debartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology; Wade Lee Robison

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Engineering Ethics

Paper ID #22376Risk Management and Ethics in Capstone DesignDr. Elizabeth A. DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) Elizabeth A. DeBartolo, PhD is the Director of the Multidisciplinary Senior Design Program at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where students from Biomedical, Computer, Electrical, Industrial, and Mechanical Engineering work together on multidisciplinary teams to complete a 2-semester design and build project. She received her graduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and has worked at RIT since 2000.Prof. Wade Lee Robison c American Society for

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katja Holtta-Otto, University Of Massachusetts-Dartmouth; Pia Helminen, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK); Kalevi Ekman, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK); Thomas Roemer, University of California-San Diego

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Design in Engineering Education

multiple functions in Understanding of PD costs and economy creating a new product (e.g. marketing, finance, industrial design, engineering, production). Ability to work out project plan and schedules, manage resources, manage risks, complete a Ability to coordinate multiple, interdisciplinary project successfully, and communicate and tasks in order to achieve a common objective. document effectively. Reinforcement of specific knowledge from other courses through practice and reflection in an action-oriented setting

Conference Session

Novel Courses and Content for ChEs II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margot Vigeant, Bucknell University; James Maneval, Bucknell University; Michael Prince, Bucknell University; Michael Hanyak, Bucknell University; William Snyder, Bucknell University

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Chemical Engineering

, incorporating economics, process simulation, control, Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Educationtransport, material and energy balances, thermodynamics, safety, and ethics (among otherelements). Due to the scope and scale of these projects, they are generally completedthrough calculation and simulation only.Senior design at Bucknell University is a two-semester sequence composed of two four-credit courses. In this paper, we describe how we moved from the traditional seniordesign sequence, in which both semesters focused on a single simulation-based design ofa styrene plant for a simulated company to one

Conference Session

IT-based Instructional Technologies

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clifton Kussmaul, Muhlenberg College

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Information Systems

Engineering Education, 2008 Open Source Software to Support Student Teams: Challenges, Lessons, and OpportunitiesAbstractTeam projects have a long history in education, with an extensive literature. Appropriate toolsand procedures can support team projects, and open source software tools present specificopportunities and challenges. Open source software (OSS) generally refers to software that isdistributed without charge and with the original source code, so that anyone can fix defects, addenhancements, or otherwise modify the software and share their changes with others. Thus, OSScan be freely installed on any number of computers, and modified by faculty and students withappropriate knowledge, but it may include

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Dahm, Rowan University; Dom Acciani, Rowan University; Jennifer Courtney, Rowan University; Chenguang Diao, Rowan University; Roberta Harvey, Rowan University; William Riddell, Rowan University; Bernard Pietrucha, Rowan University; Paris von Lockette, Rowan University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

in 1999. His interests include the physics of polymers and numerical computational methods in materials science. Page 11.359.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 CONVERGING-DIVERGING APPROACH TO DESIGN IN THE SOPHOMORE ENGINEERING CLINICAbstractThe Rowan University Sophomore Engineering Clinic is a two-semester sequence intended toteach engineering design and communication. Historically, the course has been taught withsemester-long projects, one in the fall and one in the spring. An example from the fall 2003 and2004 semesters was the Hoistinator project. Student teams of 4-5 were challenged

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and Innovation in First-Year Programs

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chao Wang, Arizona State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

of meaningful work, KEEN (Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network)started a movement of fostering an entrepreneurial mindset in young engineers. This paper willdiscuss the experience and evaluation of incorporating entrepreneurial mindset learning in afreshman Introduction to Engineering course.Introduction to Engineering is a one-semester 2-credit hour freshman lecture and lab coursefocusing on teaching engineering design process, with students completing a half-semester longmulti-disciplinary design project. In addition, technical concepts such as engineering drawing,MATLAB and basic disciplinary knowledge are taught along with the introduction of “softskills” such as communication, teamwork and project management. This paper will discuss

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Elizandro, Tennessee Technological University

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Industrial Engineering

regional economic development in the UpperCumberland. The implementation was based on Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge, theAppalachian Regional Commission definitions of Program Areas, and the Morrill Land GrantAct of 1862 with an expanded definition of economic development.A cohort of industrial engineering seniors were instrumental in the design and development ofthe system. Similar to an AmeriCorps VISTA engagement, a characterization of the studentperspective is the opportunity to strengthen an organization so it can continue to serve the needsof the community after the project has ended.The system includes an organizational platform, a strategic planning process based onquantitative measures of regional employment, and a methodology for

Conference Session

Experiential Learning Initiatives

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lei Miao, Middle Tennessee State University; Jamshid E Farzidayeri, Middle Tennessee State University; Walter Boles; Ahad S. Nasab P.E., Middle Tennessee State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

cooking.Dr. Walter BolesDr. Ahad S. Nasab P.E., Middle Tennessee State University Dr. Ahad Nasab received his PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1987. He then worked as a research scientist at the Center for Laser Applications of Physics Research Group of University of Tennessee Space Institute. In 1991 he joined the faculty of Middle Tennessee State University where he is currently the coordinator of the Mechatronics Engineering degree program. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 An indoor Bocce game played by autonomous robotsAbstract: This paper presents a course project assignment in an upper-division engineeringcourse: Controls and Optimizations. Students

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tristan M. Ericson, York College of Pennsylvania; Stephen N. Kuchnicki, York College of Pennsylvania

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Materials

independent study over developingan advanced course was quite positive. It was important to have interested and dedicatedstudents on this project, which was ultimately fairly time-consuming. It was also essential toextend the work across two semesters to successfully complete all phases of the project: design,build, create specimens, test, and analyze data.1. IntroductionUndergraduate research is a great mechanism for students to apply their basic skills, developexperimental methods, and to address challenging and difficult problems. Kuh [1] identified thisas one “high-impact” educational experience. Research forces students to wrestle with a problemin much more detail – and for a much longer amount of time – than the majority of theundergraduate

Conference Session

FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Schimmels, Marquette University

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First-Year Programs

engineering skills associated with design andcommunication and on personal characteristics associated with good teamwork and effectiveleadership. Small group discussion related to course readings are used to increase studentunderstanding of abstract engineering concepts. Design projects are used to facilitate studenttransfer of their understanding to new contexts.The course sequence has been piloted in the Mechanical Engineering program and was shown tobe quite successful with regard to student achievement and student satisfaction. Plans are beingmade for college-wide implementation of a similar freshman experience emphasizing skill andpersonal characteristic development.1.0 IntroductionThe issues of engineering student engagement and persistence and

Conference Session

What's New in the Mechanics of Materials?

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea Surovek, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Mechanics

factor to early attrition rates in engineering students2.Unfortunately, addressing real world applications in engineering courses is typically left untilupper division, discipline specific classes. Contextual learning is often left out of engineeringcore course such as Statics and Mechanics of Materials, despite both the significance of thematerial taught in these courses to upper division classes and the pedagogical advantages tousing such an approach in engaging multiple types of student learning styles3. Labs and casestudies can help in developing context; this paper presents a project that can easily be adaptedinto any mechanics class, regardless of discipline or lab component, that helps students topersonalize the material.In order to

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Bernard Goldberg

organizations.I. IntroductionIt is commonly thought that the best way of doing each project would be to select the alternativewhose cash flows have the largest net present-value. But net present-values are not defined untildiscount rates are specified. If low discount rates are specified, alternatives with the largest netpresent-values could have output cash flows that are received in the distant future. Specifyinghigh discount rates would reduce the net present-values of distant cash flows. How high thediscount rate should be is an open question in both theory and practice. Discount rates in currentuse often include engineering and marketing risks as well as investor opportunity costs. Thisresults in discount rates such as weighted average -costs-of

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Mackay; George DeLancey; Richard Cole; Bernard Gallois; Keith Sheppard; Gerald Rothberg

our graduatesin concert with the goals of ABET EC 2000. The Design Spine provides a design experience ineach of the eight semesters for all of our engineering programs 1. A key feature is the extent towhich the core design courses are coupled to the core engineering-science courses to enhancelearning. Open-ended projects together with experiments in the design courses are chosen toprovide context for and reinforce the engineering science taught concurrently. The Design Spinealso provides the vehicle to develop key competencies in problem solving, effectivecommunication, project management, ethics, economics of engineering, teaming and industrialecology in an evolutionary manner throughout the sequence. The embodiment of this approachin the

Conference Session

ELOS Best Paper Nominations

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Huettel, Duke University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

. Page 22.374.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Connecting Theory and Practice: Laboratory-based Explorations of the NAE Grand ChallengesAbstractThis paper describes a pilot project, conducted during the Fall 2010 semester, that incorporatedlaboratory exercises inspired by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Grand Challengesinto an introductory digital signal processing course. The Challenges were broadly interpretedand local expertise and resources were used to enhance the experience. In one project, studentsinvestigated environmental sensors in the local “SmartHome” and followed up by analyzingactual solar and electrical energy usage data. In another

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Education Session 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nabila A. Bousaba, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; James M. Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Carolina Agricultural &Technical State University. Some of the senior design teams that she mentored include the UNCC Parking team, IEEE Hardware competition teams. In addition she mentored industry sponsored projects from Microsoft, NASA and special Innovation and Entrepreneurship teams. She published and presented papers in ASEE conferences in June 2009, 2010, and 2011. Prior to her current position at UNC- Charlotte, Nan worked for IBM (15 years) and Solectron (8 years) in the area of test development and management.Dr. 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

Collection

2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Joshua H. Smith; David Brandes

meet the needs of the communities and, secondarily, to trainstudents to be globally and environmentally aware professionals. Because EWB–LC isorganized at Lafayette as a student club, it predominately operates outside of the academicprograms of Lafayette’s Division of Engineering. In addition, EWB–USA policies regarding thementoring of student work have evolved considerably since 2003, becoming more rigorous butalso more restrictive. For example, EWB–USA requires student chapters to have at least oneprofessional mentor with direct professional experience who participates in both the design andimplementation of project work. Because not all faculty advisors are qualified to serve as theprofessional mentors or willing to travel on implementation

Collection

2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Joshua H. Smith; David Brandes

meet the needs of the communities and, secondarily, to trainstudents to be globally and environmentally aware professionals. Because EWB–LC isorganized at Lafayette as a student club, it predominately operates outside of the academicprograms of Lafayette’s Division of Engineering. In addition, EWB–USA policies regarding thementoring of student work have evolved considerably since 2003, becoming more rigorous butalso more restrictive. For example, EWB–USA requires student chapters to have at least oneprofessional mentor with direct professional experience who participates in both the design andimplementation of project work. Because not all faculty advisors are qualified to serve as theprofessional mentors or willing to travel on implementation

Collection

2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Ahmed S. Khan; Beverly Cronin; Maneesh Kumar; Atef Mustafa; Pankti Patel; Joey Socorro

Application of RFID Technology in a Senior Design Course Ahmed S. Khan Beverly Cronin Maneesh Kumar Atef Mustafa Pankti Patel Joey Socorro DeVry University, Addison, Illinois 60101, USA AbstractThis paper describes the design and implementation of a senior project based on RFID (RadioFrequency Identification) technology. The objective of the project, titled “Real Space PhysicalObject Tracking System (RSPOTS), was to design a complete

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Christopher McComb; Fariborz Tehrani

255 Research and Practice Group Methodology: A Case Study in Student Success Christopher McComb and Fariborz Tehrani Carnegie Mellon University/ California State University, FresnoAbstractExperiential learning is a key component in engineering education. In civil engineering, thiscomponent is typically delivered through multiple projects. These projects may include termprojects for individual courses, senior design projects, theses, or independent studies. The focusof these experiences may gradually shift from practice-oriented projects in undergraduate studiesto research-oriented projects in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nikunja Swain, South Carolina State University

State University) has an ongoing Target Infusion Proposal grant from National Science Foundation(NSF) to address the problem of the lack of awareness and participation in cyber security since 2019.The project vision is to create a successful model of institution wide reform for undergraduatecybersecurity education at SC State University using instruction, internships, and seminars. The studentshould be able to evaluate, make decisions, and take responsible actions in the context of cyber security.This project uses a multi-tier approach to increase capacity in cyber security education, training, andawareness in the undergraduate curriculum The objective of this poster presentation is to share ourexperiences with various project activities. The

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2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Qingli (Barbara) Dai

) tutorials were effectively used to learn NX. Specific parts of eachtutorial are assigned for learning the solid modeling skills. The design projects built theskills of what has been learned in tutorial assignments by modeling real mechanicalsystems.MTU hosted the Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education(PACE) Competition in CAD Methods class (MEEM 4403). The course final deignproject that comprises the team competition is the culmination of lab assignmentsperformed throughout the semester. Each team made a formal presentation to the PACEjudges to explain the design objectives, design features, features of the CAD model, andany issues related to working collaboratively on a team. The design itself was presentedusing screen

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University; Austin Spencer Bohlin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 NSF CAREER: Towards a framework for engineering student innovationAbstractThe ability to innovate is essential in the rapidly evolving technological landscape. Many effortshave been made in engineering education to support student innovation (e.g., innovation andentrepreneurship programs and targeted courses). Yet, research on how engineering studentsapproach and experience innovation has been limited. In this CAREER project we conducted aseries of empirical studies using interviews, think-aloud protocols, and surveys to examineengineering students’ innovation skills, views of the innovation process, and experiences thatsupporedt their development of innovative competencies. Informed by

Conference Session

Biomedical Division Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kiersten Lenz, University of New Mexico; Eva Chi, University of New Mexico; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Linnea K. Ista, University of New Mexico; Heather Canavan, University of New Mexico

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Diversity

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Biomedical Engineering

undergraduate courses to train engineers who are critical thinkers, problem solvers, and able to understand the societal contexts in which they are working to addressing the grand challenges of the 21st century.Dr. Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico Dr. Vanessa Svihla is a learning scientist and assistant professor at the University of New Mexico in the Organization, Information & Learning Sciences program, and in the Chemical & Biological Engineering Department. She served as Co-PI on an NSF RET Grant and a USDA NIFA grant, and is currently co-PI on three NSF-funded projects in engineering and computer science education, including a Revolutioniz- ing Engineering Departments project. She was selected as a

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University; Tom Merrill, Rowan University; Robert Alan Hirsh, Cooper University Hospital; Sameer Sood, Rowan School of Osteopathic Medicine

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Biomedical

. Page 26.1762.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Work-In-Progress: Clinical Immersion and Team-Based Engineering DesignINTRODUCTIONA clear need exists to streamline healthcare to reduce costs while enhancing patient care anddevelop more cost effective and safer medical devices. To meet this need, we must increase thenumber and the quality of bioengineers trained to identify and solve healthcare problems, anddevelop solutions through biomedical engineering education experiences.Improving team-based design experiences driven by new projects drawn from unmet clinicalneeds is a strategy to train engineers while simultaneously addressing healthcare

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Colby Ryan; Alexis Crandall; Mitch Martinez; David Kennedy; Kristian Ecolango; Jay Porter; Joseph Morgan

. areas has on recruiting and retention. To this end, the Capstone is designed to prepare future engineers degree program has required course work in four areas:by bridging the gap between the classroom and industry. analog and digital electronics, wired and wirelessStudents are required to form teams of two to six members communications, embedded hardware and software, andwhich allows them to develop the skills necessary to system level design of monitoring and control applications.succeed in a diverse industry setting. Each team is required In addition, the curriculum is augmented through courses into use their knowledge and skills to design, develop, industry-applicable skills including project