Conference Session

Computers in Education (CoED) Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexander Hans Nagl, Penn State Berks; Rungun Nathan, Penn State Berks

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

justification for eliminating laboratories. When the secondauthor compared several ABET approved programs in the country, he found thatthey have fewer laboratories in their recommended academic plans than they dida few years ago. The reduction or elimination of real touch, feel and seeexperiences of laboratories havecontributed to the loss of “gut instinct”for many engineers. Using the common smart phonewith cost effective hardware,experiments have been designed tobring back some of the touch, feel andsee experiences to the classroom. Figure 1. Trace of acceleration from theAlmost every smart phone on the accelerometer obtained from an iPodmarket has two sensors that can beused for creating in-class experiments:a

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2013 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Aime V. Mbakop; Ashenafi Lambebo; Lalindra Jayatilleke; Sasan Haghani

6indicate that the pulse sensor used in the construction of BAN can producereliable data.IV. Conclusion and Future Research A low cost Wireless BAN, using off-the-shelf hardware was built andsuccessfully tested in real time where data was successfully captured anddisplayed on a website. The BAN collected the pulse rate, the temperature and thelocation of the patients. The captured data was made available through a graphingapplication programming interface, where data can be continuously monitored ona website. Future enhancements to safeguard the data, including the encryption ofthe patient data is under investigation. Currently the BAN is powered using a 9Vbattery. In the future we plan to investigate the use of body temperature or

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Cheng Chen; Jose Valdovinos; Frank Sanchez; Nelly Avramova; Hector Santillano; Robert Hartsock

Foundation (NSF) provided the BroadeningParticipation Research Initiation Grants in Engineering (BRIGE) program which intends toincrease the diversity of researchers in the engineering disciplines. The goal of the BRIGEprogram is to support innovative research and diversity plans that contribute to recruiting andretaining a broad representation of engineering researchers especially those from groups that areunderrepresented in the engineering population2. In 2012, the project titled “ReliabilityAssessment of Real-Time Hybrid Simulation Results for Performance Evaluation of Structuresunder Earthquakes” led by first author was funded by NSF to develop a probabilistic approach toassess the reliability of experimental results using the real-time hybrid

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Fabricio Braga Soares de Carvalho; Orlando Rocha Baiocchi; Robert Friedman

Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 192partnerships with UWT and the Institute of Technology, including UFPB, UFPE, PresbyterianMackenzie University.One important point of cooperation planning consisted in choosing students who share commoninterests with UWT faculty areas of expertise. In this specific case the area of interest is“Wireless Communications” due to the depth of experience and achievement of the ComputerEngineering staff from the Institute of Technology in this important topic.After selecting the

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Raman Unnikrishnan; Victor H. Delgado; Hye Sun Moon; Edward Sullivan

success, campus involvement and community engagement.Freshman Programs facilitated the following for the ECS scholars program: (1) enrollment ina Freshmen Year Seminar (FYS) Course that is vital to academic planning, orientation, andtransition to CSUF; this seminar offers further integration into areas of Engineering andComputer Science via a Service Learning component, (2) coordination of block-scheduling ofparticipants (3) professional development for FYS Course instructors; and (4) assessment ofall professional development programs as well as peer evaluations for instructors.e. Women in EngineeringIn 2012, ECS received funding from the Engineering Information Foundation to support a“Women in Engineering" learning community project. Nineteen

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Binod Tiwari

data, and prepare scientific presentations; which would not have been possibleotherwise. The students obtained excellent information to write in their plan of study whilesubmitting their applications for admission in the universities. In addition, they could contact theauthor anytime in their career, whenever they need a reference for future use. More importantly,the community college and high school students received an exposure to university leveleducation and research, which not only motivated them to pursue higher education but alsohelped them to streamline their academic goal. The cohort group 2 students are presented inFigure 5.Figure 5: Second cohort group: 2 high school students and 3 community college students. Proceedings of

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2013 GSW

Authors

Nripendra N. Sarker; Mohan A. Ketkar

setup forstudents to achieve fundamental knowledge on the logic gates, pin configuration of the chips andin building simple circuits on breadboard. However, too many connecting wires on thebreadboard make the circuit cluttered and almost impossible to trace bugs in case the circuitfails to work. The problems could be anywhere from a faulty circuit design to the connectionsbeing loose and the board itself getting bad due to aging. Two major undesirable outcomes wereobserved in using this traditional way of learning, i) dissatisfactions of the learners and therebyreluctance to learn the subject and ii) difficult to complete a planned syllabus on time. It hasbeen found that, as the circuits become more involved, it is a good idea to switch over

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2013 GSW

Authors

Tanvir Manzur; Md. Kabirul Islam; Nur Yazdani

professional courses pertaining to each discipline,emphasis is also given on acquiring knowledge in the basic and social sciences. A student needsto complete a total of 160 credit hours to obtain an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineeringdegree. The total credit requirement is higher than the standard requirement for a University inNorth America. The grading system and marks distribution are as follows. Distribution of marksis fixed irrespective of course, instructor and needs of students. 10 % marks is assigned to classattendance, 20% is assigned to home works and quizzes, and the remaining 70% is for the termfinal exam. Course offerings and planning are decided by Board of Undergraduate Studies(BUGS). There is also provision for employing teaching

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2013 GSW

Authors

Priscila Martinez-Avila; Emmanuel Varona; Doug D. Carlton; Abegayl Thomas; Kevin A. Schug

instructors (formativeassessment). TAs developed lesson plans with integrated activities, such as Process OrientedGuided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) real world problems to foster collaborative learning, whileemphasizing challenging concepts. PAL students tutored individual students or groups, based ontheir discretion, and regularly updated TAs to ensure ESP lessons transitioned at the same paceas that of the course. It was hypothesized learning would increase over time, which would in turnresult in a continuous increase of class mastery from test to test.On average, students had a mastery of 59.1% (SD = 14.0) when the outcome was originallytested in AURAS (pre-test). Mastery of chemistry content increased to 78.6% (SD = 7.8) on theformal examination

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

David C. Paulus; Daniel M. Settlage

anywhere, anytime,” Journal ofOnline Education, January 2005.[2] Richardson, J.C., and Swan, K., “Examining Social presence in Online Courses in Relation to Students’Perceived Learning and Satisfaction,” Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks , Vol. 7, No. 1, 2003, pp.68–88.[3] U.S. Department of Education, Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development, “Evaluation ofEvidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies,”Washington, D.C., 2010.[4] Moore, J.C., “Elements of Quality: The Sloan-C Framework”, Needham, MA. Sloan-C, 2002[5] Jamieson, S., “Likert scales: how to (ab)use them,” Medical Education, Vol. 38, 2004, pp. 1217-1218.[6] A Mayadas et al., “Online education today,” Science 323

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

sections is 3.9 — i.e. the average responsefor all 3 sections “agreed” with the statement, “The Visual Dictionary of Building MaterialsProject was a good learning experience for this course.”Approximately 57% of the students in all 3 sections exceeded the standard for this project, 18%met the standard, 11% approached the standard and the remaining 14% did not meet the standardfor this project.Conclusion:There is a qualitative benefit to incorporating a visual dictionary into a freshman course. Theauthor plans to keep this project in the coursework for freshman and encourages other faculty toimplement it into their courses. Further research on this topic with a larger sample sizes and aquantitative pre and post-test is recommended.References[1

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kalyan Mondal

set ofpractice questions in the final examination. Out of 12 students taking the test, only one studentobtained a failing score in this segment. This student happened to fail the course as well. Theaverage score of the class for this segment of learning outcome was nearly 82%, including thegrade of the failing student.In the next offering of the course, a more comprehensive rubric will be developed and used forstudent learning outcome assessment of Secure Programming principles. In future, we plan todevelop and inject some of the security concepts in the first programming course taken by allengineering and engineering technology majors in our university. References[1] Gary J. Bronson, C++ for

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Anatoliy Gordonov

courses are presented. The results of the research may be useful for those who are planning to develop new security courses or introduce a richer security component in the existing courses. Key words: Computer security, human factor, security education, motivation.Introduction The success of any security policy heavily depends on the human factor. In otherwords, no system can have a high level of security if people who develop, install, and use itdo not understand what problems insecure use can cause. The answer seems to be verysimple: teach those who deal with computers proper rules of security, and this will solvemany problems. Unfortunately, it is not always true. Many of the security rules

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Aiman S. Kuzmar

programs, ABETcurriculum criterion [7] statesthat “the technical content of the program must focus on the applied aspects of science andengineering.” Statics is one way to fulfill this ABET requirement for many EngineeringTechnology programs.Construction Management:The Occupational Outlook Handbook by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics [8] states:“Construction managers plan, coordinate, budget, and supervise construction projects from earlydevelopment to completion.” Construction Management is a vital field nationally andinternationally. Construction activities serve as an index to the strength of the economyin the USand across the World [9]. Poor construction indicates a poor economy status and vice versa [10].Many universities offer various

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Yaseen Mahmud; Masud Salimian

: http://www.eng.morgan.edu/~mahmud/iegr363/5 Gilroy, M. (2009). Higher Education Migrates to YouTube and Social Networks. The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, 12-14.6 Creswell, J. W. (2012). Educational Research. In J. W. Creswell, Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research (pp. 375-421). Person.7 Salimian, M. (2012, Oct). Facebook - Masud.Salimian. Retrieved from www.facebook.com/masud.salimian: www.facebook.com/masud.salimian8 Salimian, M. (2013, March). YouTube - DRSalimian. Retrieved from www.youtube.com/DrSalimian: 3URFHHGLQJV RI WKH 6SULQJ 0LG$WODQWLF 6HFWLRQ &RQIHUHQFH RI WKH $PHULFDQ 6RFLHW

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

E James Nelson, Brigham Young University; Tatevik Christensen; Fernando S Fonseca, Brigham Young University; A. Woodruff Miller, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

project is less than $1,000.While most accredited universities have adopted capstone courses in their CE departments fewhave published details about their programs. One reason may be that many of these programsare relatively new and still evolving. About 50% of CE departments have capstone programsthat are less than 5 years old and only about 10% have programs older than 15 years.The capstone program at the University of Utah [9] has been evolving over the past 14 years. Thecourse is based upon a proposed infrastructure project and the students manage the entire processincluding developing a preliminary engineering study as well as gathering county, city and statebudget information that will be used for planning purposes. The students are divided

Conference Session

Interactive Approaches to Teaching Materials Fundamentals

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barry Dupen, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne

Tagged Divisions

Materials

discounts. Crash-resistance, the abilityto produce high-resolution diagrams, formatting control of equations, and final pdf file size werethe main criteria. Page 23.673.4Apache Open Office met the needs best, and had the least significant disadvantages. Graphics areoutstanding, equations are easier to create with vertical lines separating unit conversions, and thesoftware is less prone to crashing than MS Word.The next step in planning the book was to select a common set of symbols. All Strengthtextbooks use E for Young's modulus, but there is less agreement between textbook authors forquantities such as normal stress, shear stress, radius

Conference Session

Micro-Technology and Nanotechnology

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maher E. Rizkalla, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Mangilal Agarwal, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Sudhir Shrestha, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis; Hazim A El-Mounayri, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Kody Varahramyan, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

the presenting students. The poster presentationsessions are managed and organized at the level of national and international conferences.The newly developed track provides three modules of research-based courses in three years, inaddition to the team-based capstone design project that students must pursue during their senioryear. Details on these two components are given below.Senior Capstone Design Project: In this course, all ECE and ME students are required to performa two-semester project that incorporate design components from various courses throughout thecurricula. This course assists students with design methodology, the consideration of alternativesolutions, and project planning in engineering design. Oral presentation and report

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education (DEED) Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reid Bailey, University of Virginia; Michael C Smith, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

, utilizing an online system called Piazza, and • Video-capture of lectures covering several of the core topics, thereby allowing the instructors to spend class time on more engaging ways of helping students learn new topics (i.e., flipping the classroom)The assessment plan for this project is multidimensional and focuses on the effectiveness of theblended approaches in promoting quick formative feedback, active learning approaches, andcollaborative learning … all in an effort to improve student learning. To this end, evaluation willinclude an end-of-course survey aimed at collecting student perceptions of the different blendedapproaches, surveys of students related to self-efficacy and their perceptions of the feedbackreceived on

Conference Session

Materials Science Education for the Future

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindsay M. Corneal, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

survey was used to assess the confidence of the students in their ability to meetthe course objectives. These assessments will allow for adjustment of future lesson plans,homework assignments, and projects.This paper presents an overview of the course, lessons learned, and the feedback obtained fromthe pilot offering. The plans for further modifications and improvements based on the evaluationof the pilot offering are discussed.IntroductionAs battery manufacturing increases in the United States, there will be an increase in demand foremployees with the skills and training necessary to work in this industry. To meet this demand,colleges and universities will need to update existing curricula with alternative energy conceptsand skills, as well as

Conference Session

Grasping the "Concept"

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sayara Saliyeva, Nazarbayev University; Dinara McLaughlin; Moulay Rachid Babaa, Nazarbayev University; Hella Tokos, Nazarbayev University; Stefaan Jan Rogier Simons, University College London; Sarim Naji Al Zubaidy, Nazarbayev University; Joseph A. Menicucci Jr., Nazarbayev University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

integrated into Engineering Systems Laboratory, a ten-laboratory course that will be taken by all engineering students in the second semester of theirsecond year in the School of Engineering at Nazarbayev University. The aim of this course wasto teach students how to analyze experimental data and interpret results. At the successfulcompletion of the course, students are expected to be able to:  analyze a problem,  state an experimental objective,  develop and implement an experimental plan,  analyze data for statistical significance,  draw conclusions from experimental data, and  write a technical report.Engineering in Society is an elective course that was first offered in the fall semester of thesecond academic year

Conference Session

Sustainability and engineering education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Woolschlager, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng.

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

the Student’s Choice Professor Award in 2003/2004 and nominated for the Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2004/2005. His re- search involves developing computer models environmental processes and systems. Some examples of his funded projects include the optimization of hydraulics and water quality in a large-scale urban drink- ing water system, the optimization of wastewater treatment plants to achieve nutrient reduction, drinking water quality analysis and disinfection chemistry, and regional sustainability issues. Prior to becoming a faculty member, Dr. Woolschlager worked as an engineering consultant in the areas of environmen- tal systems analysis, environmental planning, and water resources

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica E Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Marisa Wolsky, WGBH Educational Foundation; Christine Andrews Paulsen, Concord Evaluation Group; Tamecia R. Jones, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

, improvedattitudes toward and engagement in math, and increased plans to attend or enroll in college. Intheir evaluation of FIRST (a robotics club), Melchior and colleagues 10 reported that the Page 23.747.4program’s alumni were significantly more likely to attend college and three times as likely tomajor in engineering than compared to a group of students with similar background andachievement in science and math. A similar study was conducted in order to evaluate ProjectLead the Way (PLTW), a non-profit organization that promotes pre-engineering courses inmiddle and high schools. This study found that PLTW graduates were five times more likely toselect

Conference Session

Mechatronics

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Horacio Vasquez, University of Texas, Pan American; Arturo A Fuentes, University of Texas, Pan American

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Page 23.789.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Integration of Sensors and Low-Cost Microcontrollers into the Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Design SequenceAbstractIn most undergraduate engineering degree plans the engineering design curricula include classessuch as Introduction to Engineering, Statics, Dynamics, and Mechanics of Solids. They usuallydo not have laboratory components to help students understand concepts through hands-onexperience. This paper presents the development and implementation of an educational low-costdevice/tool that can be set up and used by students in and out of their engineering classes toassist their learning. The goal of this project was

Conference Session

CEED - Technical Session 1

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Massi, University of Central Florida; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida; Cynthia Y. Young, University of Central Florida; Cameron M. Ford, University of Central Florida; Patrice Lancey, University of Central Florida; Divya Bhati, University of Central Florida ; Kim A Small, University of Central Florida College of Engineering and Computer Science

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

,applying knowledge, professional qualities, teamwork, leadership, technology, work culture, andorganization and planning) and attitudinal change toward their current career path (such asdetermining individual strength and weaknesses, professional self-confidence, academicmotivation, understanding the chosen profession, clarifying career plans and options, andachieving career goals). Research studies have shown that having a personal support system isan important aspect of student persistence17, 18, 19, 20 as students struggle to balance work,academic, and social life. Massi et al.21 found that engineering and computer science nativefreshmen and transfer students had similar participation rates for experiential learning activities(co-ops and

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin S. High, Oklahoma State University; Scott D Gelfand, Oklahoma State University, Department of Philosophy; Ronald Steve Harrist Ph.D., Oklahoma State University; Shelia M. Kennison, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

demonstrate why people act unethically. After a discussion of each video, each individualstudent is guided through a two-part exercise. The first part, developing a Personal InventoryReport, helps the student engage in self-reflection in order to determine what sorts of situationsthe student might find ethically challenging. In the second part of the exercise, the studentdevelops a personal plan (Adaptive-Strategies Report) addressing what strategies they might usein order to increase the likelihood that they will act ethically in challenging situations (that is, thesituations arrived at while developing the Personal Inventory Report). Page

Conference Session

Laboratory Experiences in Electronics and Circuits

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Avik Dayal, Virginia Tech; Kathleen Meehan, Virginia Tech; A. A. (Louis) Beex, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

circuits and, later, the circuits that will have a desiredoperation, which was detailed in a design specification. To minimize the time spent on designexperiments, student must not only know the basics that were gained from ‘cookbook’experiments, but also the value of analysis and simulation before circuit construction andmeasurement and how to apply the results from analysis and simulations to debug the circuit.Engineering educators have begun to modify their approach to laboratory instruction to guidestudents as they develop the necessary skills for design. Most open-ended design experimentsfollow the design cycle, integrating steps that allow students to investigate, design, plan, create,and evaluate. However, motivating students to close the

Conference Session

Problem- and project-based learning in environmental engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan E. Powers, Clarkson University; Stefan J. Grimberg P.E., Clarkson University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

and systemsoperations need to be improved to make it a viableand sustainable endeavor that provides educational Figure 5: Senior Loren McNamera discussesopportunities for our students while generating aeroponics with a child at the 2012 EPA P3 Sustainability Design Competition and Expotasty and safe produce to consume. Examples ofprojects that are being completed by students include: • analysis of the energy consumed and cost of heating and powering the system; • design and installation of shades for the southern wall to reduce heat loss at night and radiant heat gain during the day; • systems operation plan for timing of seed planting, transplanting and

Conference Session

POTPOURRI

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Paymon Sanati-Mehrizy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Ali Sanati-Mehrizy; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

background of Prolog, search, agents, knowledge / rulebased systems, planning and natural language processing43. The following topics are coveredfrom the machine learning and computational intelligence part of the course: an overview ofmachine learning, simple learning methods, neural learning and evolutionary computations.Students from the School of Engineering and Computer Science usually take this elective course.There are four assignments for the course, two for the symbolic intelligence and two for machinelearning and computational intelligence. Through these four assignments, students gain hands-on experience in applying these techniques to real-world applications. This course offersessential background and training for the students to start

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education (DEED) Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert A. Meyer, Clarkson University; John McLellan, Freescale Semiconductor; Jeffrey S Sumey, California University of Pennsylvania

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

experience in computer engineering.3.1 Course Objectives and OrganizationCapstone design projects often have several objectives in addition to providing studentswith a major design experience, including fostering the development of teamwork skillsand providing an opportunity to work on a multidisciplinary project. Our studentlearning outcomes for the senior design course are: 1. Specify, plan, design, build and test a digital system requiring integrated hardware and software subsystems that utilize embedded computing in a real-world system subject to prescribed specifications. 2. Demonstrate that their project designs satisfy constraints imposed by industry and government standards, regulations, concern for public health and