Conference Session

Critical Thinking and Creative Arts

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill Genereux, Kansas State University, Salina; Elena Mangione-Lora, University of Notre Dame

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Liberal Education

AC 2009-2124: ENHANCING STUDENT LEARNING WITH VIDEO PROJECTSBill Genereux, Kansas State University, SalinaElena Mangione-Lora, University of Notre Dame Page 14.572.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Enhancing Student Learning with Video ProjectsAbstractThis paper will explore the use of digital video as a teaching tool in college courses. Two verydifferent courses of potential interest to engineering educators are cited as examples. The first isa foreign language course offered at the University of Notre Dame which uses video technologyto encourage students to write, produce, and star in original Spanish language "telenovelas" orday-time dramas

Conference Session

Programmatic Issues in Physics or Engineering Physics

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Ross, University of Detroit, Mercy; Eswara Venugopal, University of Detroit, Mercy; Daniel Maggio, University of Detroit, Mercy; Meghann Mouyianis, University of Detroit, Mercy

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Engineering Physics & Physics

University of Detroit Mercyhas offered a summer out-reach program for local high school students. The UNinitiatesIntroduction to Engineering (UNITE) program is designed to resemble a university freshmanengineering curriculum. The goal is to introduce students to the subjects and skills necessary tosucceed as an engineering student. Classes involve hands-on activities emphasizing team work.Students take five classes daily - Persuasive Speaking, Computers, Mathematics, Physics, andCollege Writing - all taught by University professors. All UNITE students are registered asUniversity students and receive an official grade in each of their five classes. Students can earntwo college credits per course provided they earn at least a C. Applicants to the

Conference Session

Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace & Successful Graduates for a Flat World: What Does It Take?

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aisling O'Sullivan, University of Canterbury; Thomas Cochrane, University of Canterbury

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International

(team-based) research project 1 Generate a detailed budget, timeline and project management strategy 1 Write and present a mini research proposal examined by programme academics 2,3 Generate, collate and critique data for a defined problem. Perform necessary statistical analyses/modelling 2,3,4 Design a sustainable solution for the defined problem incorporating triple- bottom line considerations (integrated ecological, economic and cultural facets) 3,4 Produce sound conclusions and a substantial literature review Page 14.973.5 4 Deliver final technical report, oral

Conference Session

Integrating Design into the BME Curriculum

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Mellodge; Brad Deschenes

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Biomedical

design tools, technical writing, intellectual property,and ethics. Figure 1: Organization of the Engineering by Design course.Grades are determined by assessing student performance in both the project section and commonlecture, with the majority based on the project. In the project section, grades are based onattendance, peer evaluation, writing assignments, and presentations. In the common lecture,grades are based on attendance and quizzes.Further details of the course, its history, and how it supports the curriculum have been previouslypublished2.Digital HealthDigital health is the monitoring, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic and acute health conditionsthrough the use of medical devices, remote sensing technologies, local

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Tech Session I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacy Klein-Gardner; Rick Williams, East Carolina University; Stephanie Sullivan, East Carolina University; Loren Limberis, East Carolina University

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Biological & Agricultural

effectiveness of their teaching. Finally, a learning environment mustbe community-centered, one in which students are provided opportunities to learncollaboratively.There are many efforts underway within STEM education to move away from traditional lecturemethods of delivery towards more novel methods designed to engage the students in the learningprocess.9-12 In many cases, these methods are taking the How People Learn concepts fromtheory to practice. The highlights of two specific programs, Project Galileo11 and VaNTH12follow.Project Galileo has developed two novel pedagogical approaches: Peer Instruction and Just-in-Time Teaching. These approaches are designed to provide students “with greater opportunity forsynthesizing concepts while instructors

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Recruiting, Retention, Enrichment

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Bumbalough, Kettering University; Jennifer Aurandt, Kettering University

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Environmental Engineering

2008. Presently GEO is responsible forcollection of all paper recycling in the student common areas but has drop offlocations that are maintained by the university. In April of 2008 GEO received a grant from the National RecyclingCoalition and the Coca-Cola Company to purchase beverage container recyclingbins. Thirteen bins were placed in July 2008. A staff member maintains the binsand tracks the numbers of cans and bottles being recycled in exchange forMichigan’s 10 cent bottle refund. The number of cans that were recycled arerecorded for the grant, but due to the 10 cent refund, many of the cans werestolen. Therefore, GEO placed a sign-up sheet on all of the bins so that if peopletook the cans they could write down how many they took

Conference Session

BME Curriculum Development

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sonya Seif-Naraghi, University of California, San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

understand the difficulties and rewards and canspeak to them candidly.Class DesignA note on the infrastructure suggested for a successful program: it would be beneficial tohave a university contact that is also corresponding with the student. A good way to dothis is to create an independent study course or a special topics course in which anystudent participating in a study abroad program would enroll. This would enhance thestudent’s experience abroad. Assignments for this class would be centered on weeklyjournal entries. Expectations for these journal entries should be left open-ended toencourage student-directed writing, but there should also be a directed component everyweek. These assignments might include discussing a new word, phrase, or

Conference Session

Been There, Done That: Advice for NEEs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Philip Gerhart, University of Evansville

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New Engineering Educators

Page 14.399.3finding a mentor and establishing the relationship for success.There are many types of mentoring: direct supervisor as mentor, mentoring done on aspontaneous basis as the need arises, informal group mentoring from an organized program (e.g.,workshops and presentations), peer mentoring, and mentoring from a senior faculty member whois not in an official supervisory role.5 Jordan et al. thoroughly review the different mentoringrelationships and highly recommend the final mentoring method listed above (mentoring from anon-supervisor) mostly because of the honest and direct communication possible without fear ofrepercussions on yearly reviews. The material presented in this paper is this recommended typeof mentoring, but the mentoring

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design Constituents

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phillip Wankat, Purdue University; Kamyar Haghighi, Purdue University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

. Because of the large number of concentrations withinMDE, it is difficult and perhaps impossible to write a single performance objective for the MDEprogram. Thus, objective II is phrased as meeting “one or more of the following milestones.”For objectives II.2 and II.5 we will count degrees, certificates, and so forth. For objectives II.1,II.3 and II.4 we have carefully defined terms and will use them to determine if the objectiveshave been satisfied. The performance target is that 75% of graduates will satisfy Objective II. Aplan was developed to determine if graduates are meeting the program objectives listed in Table4. Because MDE had only one graduate at the time of the ABET visit and will not have a largenumber of graduates before the next

Conference Session

Panel: What Funding Agencies Look For

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jane Daniels, Henry Luce Foundation; Kathleen Christensen, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; Jessie DeAro, National Science Foundation; David Ruth, Elsevier Foundation

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

ofthe Clare Boothe Luce Program to increase the participation of women in the sciences andengineering. The key word is “institutional” commitment. Some institutions write about afemale faculty member, several female faculty members or a student organization whoimplement pre-college, retention or mentoring activities. Such examples describe activitieswhich may be admirable, but are taking faculty and student time away from important teaching,research, or learning responsibilities. True institutional commitment is evident through thesignificant commitment of institutional resources to counteract factors that limit the progress ofwomen; efforts to increase the participation and advancement of women that are proactive andinstitutionally sponsored

Conference Session

Building Diversity in Engineering Graduate Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ali Ansari, Virginia State University; Jahangir Ansari, Virginia State University; Krishan Agrawal, Virginia State University

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Minorities in Engineering

-study (HBCU-UP Planning grant) on its STEM program. Through this study, thefollowing needs were identified:1. Develop state of the art programs in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Manufacturing Engineering and obtain Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) accreditation for these programs by 2006.2. Purposeful restructuring of curricula to link together courses or coursework along with sound assessment components so that students find greater coherence in what they are learning and greater interaction with faculty and peers.3. Improve retention and the recruitment of quality students.4. Provide research opportunities for faculty and undergraduate students.5

Conference Session

Educational Issues in Civil Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anant Kukreti, University of Cincinnati

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Civil Engineering

their research. Also included are literature research techniques, methods for acquiring off-site material, and strategies for pursuing their research interests once the students leave this program and return to their classrooms. The workshop is conducted in a PC-Lab and the participants are actively engaged in first-hand experience in using the search engines for their literature search. 2. Communicating Science Effectively Workshop. Is held in the first week and consists of three components: “Writing Science,” which will support trainee co-authorship of research results; “Speaking Science,” a means to prepare undergraduate trainees for effective slide presentations; and “Presenting and

Conference Session

Measuring Success of Graduate Program Components

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

senior member of IEEE and is a member of ASME, SIAM, ASEE and AGU. He is actively involved in CELT activities and regularly participates and presents at the Lilly Conference. He has been the recipient of several Faculty Learning Community awards. He is also very active in assessment activities and has presented more than a dozen papers at various Assessment Institutes. His posters in the areas of Bloom’s Taxonomy and Socratic Inquisition have received widespread acclaim from several scholars in the area of Cognitive Science and Educational Methodologies. He has received the Assessment of Critical Thinking Award twice and is currently working towards incorporating writing assessments that

Collection

2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Paul Blowers

theseoriginated as far back as the 13th century5. However, their use has seemed to explode recentlywith a much larger number of publications appearing in the literature. Even just since 1997,there have been 500 peer-reviewed articles that have investigated their use, according to a briefsurvey of Journal Citation Index.Novak6 proposed the concept map as a way of created a knowledge network that contains pointsand verticies as concepts and links between them as the relationships among concepts. Kinchinand Cabot point out that there have now been 25 years of extended research and development ofusing concept maps to help students learn how to learn7. Essentially, concept maps are two-dimensional representations of a set of concepts and their relationships8

Conference Session

Assessment and Continuous Improvement in Electronics and Electrical ET Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Youakim Al Kalaani, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

and see how the various concepts fit together. Toenhance class participation, students were asked to work in teams and get fully involved in allactivities as well as reading assignments and references to understand underlying concepts.Student where asked to write a complete lab report explaining results and implications. For thispurpose, students made use of the equipment located in the EET power systems lab which isequipped with industrial-type dc/ac machines and variable-speed drives modules. Additionally,several team projects covering different drive control applications were assigned and presentedin class toward the end of the semester.Course AssessmentsContinuous improvement is an important issue for Engineering Technology programs

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Potpourri

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katie Cadwell, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Greta Zenner, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Naomi Chesler, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Wendy Crone, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

faculty. Typically, up to 20 minutes of in-class timeevery other week is spent educating first semester students about the basics of design: the designprocess, keeping a design notebook, writing a progress report, teamwork and leadership,fundamentals of oral and poster presentations, etc. In addition, outside experts are frequentlybrought in to discuss auxiliary topics that may be relevant to the students’ design projects, suchas designing human and animal experiments, protection of intellectual property, engineeringethics, or global engineering design. However, students’ enthusiasm for and interest in lecturetopics that are not of immediate importance is low. Additionally, there is resistance from bothstudents and faculty to substantially

Conference Session

Emerging Issues in Materials Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane Folz, Virginia Tech; Christine Burgoyne, Virginia Tech; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Materials

Page 14.1017.2allowed for a change to the laboratory courses without significant impact on the content orquality of the lecture courses.Incorporated into each of these courses – before and after the curriculum change -- was a strongcommunications component. The assignments were developed with the goal of teachingstudents to provide succinct, well-written evidence of their laboratory work through memos andprogress reports. Assignments were graded by both the technical and the communicationsinstructors, providing an assessment of the writing quality as well as technical content.In addition to a change in the curriculum was a change in instructors for these labs. Theprocessing lab was assigned to a new faculty member in fall 2007, and the

Conference Session

Learning as a Community

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Hinds, Michigan State University; Thomas Wolff, Michigan State University; Neeraj Buch, Michigan State University; Amanda Idema, Michigan State University; Cynthia Helman, Michigan State University

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First-Year Programs

in the same residence hall community, it is hoped that an academicallysupportive peer group will enhance the overall experience.Such integration does not come easily. A coordinated plan has been developed to join the Page 14.749.3Cornerstone Experience and the Residential Experience to address the challenges encountered bythe development and implementation teams. These issues include facility location andcomposition including design and construction, gender balancing in a residence hall withpredominantly engineering degree program students, segregating engineering students or mixingwith other majors on single residence hall floors, development

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Laramee, State University of New York, Binghamton; Shelley Dionne, State University of New York, Binghamton; Hiroki Sayama, State University of New York, Binghamton; David Wilson, State University of New York, Binghamton

operators improved the overall “quality” of outcomes of evolutionary design.a.) Particle swarms are generated by students working in groups using one of four evolutionarystrategies (1: neither mixing nor mutation operators, 2: Mixing only, 3: Mutation only, 4: Mixingand mutation). b.) 28 swarms selected by the students are simultaneously simulated and projectedon a large screen in the classroom for students’ peer evaluation. c.) Samples of the final swarmdesigns created by students. Top: The three that received the highest rating scores. Bottom: Theworst three that received the lowest rating scores. d.) Mean normalized scores plotted with regard Page

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Hinton, Utah State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

the productivityof a faculty member’s research.Overvie wWhen a new faculty member is hired at a research intensive university they are told that they willbe expected to create an internationally recognized research program if they expect to beawarded tenure and promotion. The questions then asked by many of these newly hired facultymembers include : What does it mean to have an internationally recognized research program?How do you create an internationally recognized research program? How do you measuresuccess? Is a successful research program based only on the publication of refereed journalpapers? What about refereed conference papers? What about patents? How does grant writing fitinto this process? Are collaborations, both internal and

Conference Session

New Trends in CHE Education I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claire Komives, San Jose State University; Erik Fernandez, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

, students in the senior Biochemical Engineering elective course were assigned thetask of creating problems suitable for the BioEMB website. The problem creation was generatedfrom information in research papers on bioprocesses. Coupled with a rubric for the problemdevelopment and some mentoring by the faculty, students have learned about process design,along with the peer review and publishing aspect of having their problems posted on the website.The project has shown that students can learn about applying material balance concepts to thescale-up of published data and information to develop a process design strategy. In turn, theproblems were "beta-tested" in the undergraduate chemical engineering core course. Assessmentof this project by means of

Conference Session

Classroom Engagement

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica Cardella, Purdue University; Heidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue University; Amber Oliver, Purdue University; Matthew Verleger, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

pursuing her Masters of Science in Human Resource Management in the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University. She received her B.S. in Organizational Communication with a concentration in Human Factors Engineering from Purdue University.Matthew Verleger, Purdue University Matthew Verleger is a doctoral candidate in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He received his B.S. in Computer Engineering and his M.S. in Agricultural and Biological Engineering, both from Purdue University. His research interests are on how students develop mathematical modeling skills through the use of model-eliciting activities and in peer review as a pedagogical tool

Conference Session

Engineering Courses for Non-engineers

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bradley Bishop, United States Naval Academy

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

scientists in many circumstances not because they want to, nor because they lack the intellectual capability to analyze the situation more closely, but because they must make decisions. Key to understanding the certainty trough is the idea that groups socially close to knowledge production (engineers, scientists, technical writers, etc.) show more uncertainty than non-technical peers, with those very far (socially) from knowledge production showing the greatest uncertainty and distrust. The uncertainty for knowledge producers takes two forms: personal uncertainty (knowing enough to know what is unknown) and group uncertainty (when multiple engineers disagree on some aspect of a technological

Conference Session

Engineering Design: Implementation and Evaluation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cameron Denson, Utah State University; Nathan Mentzer, Utah State University; Jodi Cullum, Utah State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

. Page 14.668.2NCETE Teacher Professional Development Positioning of the teacher as developer of lessons facilitates coherence with otherlearning activities occurring in each teacher’s classroom. Specifically, teachers can situate theengineering design concepts into their curriculum by crafting a lesson rather than attempting tofit a pre-packaged generic lesson into an existing and, perhaps, rigidly structured curriculum.The lesson development opportunities provide teachers with an active learning experience,wherein they first experience exemplary engineering design challenges as participants and thencreate design challenges. Formative feedback was provided by peer teachers and professionaldevelopers as the teachers developed the lessons

Conference Session

Learning as a Community

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sondra Miller, Boise State University; Pat Pyke, Boise State University; Amy Moll, Boise State University; Melissa Wintrow, Boise State University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University

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First-Year Programs

ERC was such thatstudents lived in suites with a shared common meeting space, which facilitated collaborativework and study. Through structured activities outside of the classroom, the FiR facilitatedlearning that enhanced engineering academics (e.g., advising, study groups, tutors), communitybuilding (e.g., informal drop-in coffee nights, rock climbing), and supported the RC programcommon values. Success of these programmatic activities was assessed qualitatively (i.e.,student’s perceptions articulated through reflective writing) and quantitatively (i.e., academicperformance in key freshman engineering courses).Qualitative Life Skills SuccessesTo fully assess the successes of the ERC, we chose to first qualitatively examine the experiencesof

Conference Session

Getting Started: Objectives, Rubrics, Evaluations, and Assessment

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

of teaching. Thus, in recent years, peer evaluation of teaching [2] has taken its placealongside student evaluations in determining teaching competence. But faculty remain uneasyabout their student evaluations, regarding them almost fatalistically as something potentiallyimportant over which they have little control.The goal of this work is to present the cases of a number of engineering and computer-sciencefaculty who did manage to improve their scores, in hopes that they can serve as role models. Weidentify several aspects of their teaching where change made a difference. Then we comparetheir observations to what the published literature reveals. We conclude with recommendationsfor faculty who want to improve their scores.Our respondents

Conference Session

International Aspects of Civil Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Crispino, United States Military Academy; Andrew Bellocchio, United States Military Academy; Scott Hamilton, United States Military Academy; Aaron Hill, United States Military Academy; Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

engineer and background experience.5 Incontrast, a first year instructor at Kabul University receives only $80 per month and $200 permonth during their second year. Eventually through academic promotion at Kabul University, asenior instructor can earn up to approximately $650 per month at the time of this writing. It iscritically important to the future success of engineering education at NMAA and at KabulUniversity that both schools be able to retain a highly qualified faculty. Page 14.694.4Developing Faculty in a Developing NationBetween January and August 2008 we deployed from West Point to Afghanistan to developcourses for the civil engineering

Conference Session

Goal Specific First-Year Courses

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taryn Bayles, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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First-Year Programs

requirement for the First Year Success sections) prior tosubmitting their final report. UMBC also has a Writing Center located in the Learning ResourceCenter on campus that provides assistance to the students in the preparation of their reports.Each team is also required to make a formal oral presentation using PowerPoint at which eachteam member is required to present (the First Year Success sections are also required to give apractice presentation prior to their formal oral presentation with the instructor). Specific Page 14.813.3guidelines for the presentation are discussed in class and the students are also given a gradingrubric for the

Conference Session

Classroom Engagement

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith Holbert, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

and Bowers (1997) of studentsstudying physics found that reading is, in fact, more important than hearing.IntroductionHaving been challenged by a member of the public—specifically a K-12 school teacher—toprovide authoritative source(s) of the STATEMENT, what was envisioned as a simple search andproof would ultimately reveal a lack of evidence for the cited statistics. The STATEMENT beingreferred to here is that people (or students) learn (or recall/remember): • 10% of what they read • 20% of what they hear • 30% of what they see • 50% of what they hear and see • 70% of what they say (and write) • 90% of what they say as they do a thingThere are various forms and permutations of the STATEMENT found in published

Conference Session

Aerospace Workspace: Current and Future 2

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Guerra, NASA; John A. Christian, University of Texas, Austin; Wallace Fowler, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

Course uses a variety of student assignments, both group and individual. The groupassignments are intended to prepare the students for the teaming aspect of the capstone designcourse. Example group assignments include assessing the results from a real trade studyperformed by NASA, and developing the scope and concept of operations for a current aerospacemission in development. Group assignments also offer the students an opportunity to presenttheir work to their peers. The individual assignments address problem solving and programmingskills as well as a required writing component. For a semester-long project, students are asked towrite about the systems engineering learning concepts based on reading a particular NASAmishap investigation report