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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Matthew Alexander

life-long learning. A fraction of these students have design sequence, known as Process Design II / ProcessEnglish as their second language, and development of oral Design III. The author has served as the primary instructorand written communication skills to the level of fluency for these two courses for the last 2½ years. This paperexpected of engineers in the United States is challenging. presents the instructor’s approach to improving studentThe students are tested in their oral communication skills performance in these areas.through delivery of six group-format project presentations The students in the senior design course sequencein the two course sequence. The course sequence also present

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Rochelle Williams; Sherri Frizell; Felecia Nave; Audie Thompson

of Texas at Austin April 4-6, 2018counselors at local area high schools were sent promotional participants to journal about not only what they learned thatmaterials, and the program was advertised on the day, but also consider the broader impacts of that activityUniversity’s website and other social media platforms. The on society. Projects focused on five areas of engineeringmost effective advertisement resulted from word-of-mouth (chemical, civil, computer and electrical engineer,promotion by PVAMU alumni. A particular focus was on mechanical) and computer science.Region 4 high schools in Houston, Texas that have a The mechanical

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cameron Coates, Armstrong Atlantic State University; Wayne Johnson, Armstrong Atlantic State University; Chris McCarthy, Armstrong Atlantic State University

and may sometimes include a financial incentive. Thispaper describes and assesses a one-week summer program designed to push the academic andtime management limits of students who are already interested in science and engineering. Theprimary objective is early exposure to research, design and communication with the expectationthat all participants in the program will become undergraduates who are motivated to pursueresearch projects. Other objectives included the successful introduction of advanced concepts to12th grade students through software; pushing the intellectual pace of these students, who aregenerally unaccustomed to academic pressure, and the development of the participants’leadership and teamwork skills. This program distinguishes

Conference Session

Graduate Education and Undergraduate Research in ET

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerry Visser, South Dakota State University; Kurt Rosentrater, USDA-ARS

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

astudent a well rounded opportunity. Most undergraduates work within internships or cooperativeeducational frameworks with one entity. At South Dakota State University, the ProductDevelopment Center (PDC) has initiated a collaborative research project with the USDAAgricultural Research Service (ARS) in Brookings for the benefit of undergraduate students.This collaborative framework with the United States Department of Agriculture ARS grows fromthree key aspects. First, the students at both the ARS and the PDC exchange concepts and workinteractively on projects. This provides a wider scope to how their research efforts connect tothe greater scope of both the PDC and ARS. Second, the PDC and ARS pool equipment andlaboratory tools which would be

Conference Session

Software Engineering Topics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Sebern, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Mark Hornick, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

www.msoe.edu/se/AbstractData management tools are necessary for effective support of disciplined software processes thatmake use of historical data for planning and process improvement. This paper reports describestwo such tools and how they have been applied in an undergraduate software engineeringprogram and to support software process improvement initiatives in industry. One of the tools, anopen-source development project, has recently added new capabilities that may make it anattractive choice for both educators and practitioners.IntroductionSoftware engineering programs generally incorporate courses and other learning experiences thatare designed to provide breadth and depth of coverage across the discipline, addressing bothpractice and process

Conference Session

The Challenges of Tech Transfer

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Mutter, Bluefield State College; Frank Hart, Bluefield State College

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

our School of Engineering Technology and ComputerScience (SETCS) with in-house internship experience and the School with a source of increasedfunding through CART, the operation of our own Course Management System (CMS) as a fee-based self-sustaining business operation, our ongoing applied research projects for industry andagencies, our partnerships with other colleges, universities, industry, and government, and theoperation of the shop CART store.The vision of CART is to become a highly respected resource for innovative engineering andmerging technologies in the discovery of applied research and design of applications that driveour economic viability, solve industrial problems, and strengthen homeland security and nationaldefense.Our

Conference Session

International Case Studies:Collaborations, Exchanges & Interactions

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joerg Mossbrucker, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Edward Chandler, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Holger Dahms, Lübeck University of Applied Sciences; Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Jens Thiedke, Lübeck University of Applied Sciences

Tagged Divisions

International

Applied Sciences the MSOE faculty generally teach a shortintensive 2 week course at the end of the spring semester. An appropriate number of credits andassociated grade are given and entered on both university transcripts. The Lübeck universityfaculty visit MSOE in the fall quarter to participate in the project defense of their own studentswho perform their Diplom Arbeit (senior thesis project) at a company generally in theMilwaukee region. During the visit the Lübeck faculty also provide a series of special topiclectures in various courses depending on the expertise of the faculty member.The benefits of the faculty exchange are many. Not just does the experience foster a strongerbond to the partner abroad, but the presence of the faculty serves

Conference Session

IE Program Design II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Furterer, East Carolina University; Sandra Furterer, University of Central Florida; Abeer Sharawi, University of Central Florida; Luis Rabelo, University of Central Florida; Lesia Crumpton-Young, University of Central Florida; Kent Williams, University of Central Florida; H. Gregg St. John, EMG Consulting

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Industrial Engineering

Learning Theory and Instructional Design Theories that will provideexperiential learning and student experiences in the classroom.• Integrate Cognitive Learning Theory and Instructional Design Theory to identify appropriateuses of technology to support classroom instruction goals and student learning objectives.• Develop aggressive recruiting strategies that increase awareness of IE careers among HighSchool students and serve to entice them to pursue Industrial Engineering with special emphasisupon exposing members of historically underrepresented groups and females.The project has contributed to engineering education in two major ways: 1) to provide a strategythat other departments of higher education can use to reform their curriculum; and 2

Conference Session

Effective Learning Innovations in Civil Engineering Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Ramseyer, University of Oklahoma

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Civil Engineering

. Challenges for the facultyand staff include; providing enough raw materials to keep up with the students' phenomenalvolume of work, helping make the work fun and exciting, and expanding the students horizonsbeyond the immediate research focus of their team. As the summer progresses, the students takeover day-to-day management of the projects. To ensure that all the students are engaged in theresearch and understand its goals and challenges, weekly meetings are held to discuss progress,difficulties and preliminary results. Keeping the work fun and exciting, while granting thestudents control of the research process, encourages the students to pursue graduate study. Several research sponsors make this challenging program possible. Each of the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Teaching Models in NRE

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheldon Landsberger, University of Texas at Austin; Elmira Popova, University of Texas; Kendra Foltz-Biegalski, University of Texas; Steven Biegalski, University of Texas at Austin; Michael Krause, University of Texas

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Nuclear and Radiological

researchers from Brazil to forecast energy pricing and load. One of her current projects, in collaboration with the McCombs School of Business, concerns risk-informed asset management for electric and nuclear power generation. The project addresses risk assessment, risk management, and reliability problems that arise in electric power generation. The research seeks to help industry officials make the best operational and executive management decisions by more accurately accounting for seemingly unpredictable issues such as outage duration and regulatory safety constraints, as well as uncertainty related to energy prices, mechanism failures, repair costs and other factors.Kendra Foltz-Biegalski

Conference Session

Issues of Cooperative Education I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

ROBERT GRAY, Penn State Erie

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

his work. Page 13.1135.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Systems Design Using Real-World Experiences with IndustryAbstractThe author has co-developed and taught the following courses related to systems design at theauthor's School of Engineering: Senior Design Project (3 semester hr) Manufacturing Related Topics in Probability, Statistics and Reliability (3 semester hr) Senior Design Seminar (1 semester hr)These systems design courses taught in a traditional classroom setting meet ABET criteria.However, by adding the non-traditional elective Applied Systems

Conference Session

Hands-on Materials Science and Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

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Materials

Induction Pulse Electric MotorIntroductionThis is an excellent design and fabrication project that can be used in introductoryengineering classes to teach motor principles as well as material selection. The basicconcept of this activity was originally developed by Beakman’s World, and I haveimproved it over the past ten years while teaching motor principles at the university level.Standard Radio Shack materials can be used. One of the most important improvements isreplacing the paperclip based motor cradle for one made from copper wire.The primary objective of this project is to gain an understanding of electric motorprinciples; and the materials needed to convert electricity and magnetism into motion.Keywords related to this project include

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2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

Authors

Ivan L Guzman P.E., New York City College of Technology; Sara Gómez Woolley, New York City College of Technology

Paper ID #35692A Shoestring Grassroots Approach to Publishing an Open EducationalResource Engineering TextbookProf. Ivan L Guzman P.E., New York City College of Technology Dr. Guzman is an assistant professor at New York City College of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Civil/Geotechnical Engineering from New York University (NYU). His research interest include transpar- ent soils, rapid penetration into granular media, sustainability and Green Roof farms. He has over 12 years of pre-academia professional consulting experience in government and private sector projects within the fields of geotechnical, structural and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Teams

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Dong, California Polytechnic State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

integrating multipledisciplines into a single project – some linear, some parallel, and some truly integrated.Regardless of the model it is beneficial to have instructors who have a passion for what theyteach and who want to work together, and have a team of instructors who can bring multipleperspectives to a given topic.It is not uncommon for college level courses to be team taught, but it is not the norm. Instructorsinvolved in team teaching typically have two options available for implementing the course.• A tag team approach where one instructor may teach the first half of the class and the second instructor the later half• A collaborative model where each instructor attends each session and lectures at each session.Classes which

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pramod Rajan, Auburn University; P.K. Raju, Auburn University; Chetan Sankar, Auburn University

AC 2009-960: EDUCATING ENGINEERS ON GLOBAL ISSUES THROUGHU.S.-INDIA RESEARCH EXPERIENCE PROGRAM CASE STUDIESPramod Rajan, Auburn UniversityP.K. Raju, Auburn UniversityChetan Sankar, Auburn University Page 14.508.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Educating Engineers on Global Issues through US- India Research Experience Program Case StudiesAbstractEngineering students can understand global issues better in their curriculum ifthey are able to see examples of real-world issues happening in the industry. Thispaper describes the experiences in conducting a collaborative non-destructiveevaluation (NDE) project between students and faculty members of

Conference Session

Distance and Web-Based Learning in ET: Remote and Virtual Laboratories

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Tech University; Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Emre Bahadir, Murray State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Department of Industrial and Engineering Technology of Murray State University. His teaching and research interests are in the field of design and manufacturing. Page 14.1020.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Remote Laboratory CollaborationAbstractThis current NSF DUE Project titled --The development of a Remotely Accessible RapidPrototyping Laboratory-- is promoting an awareness of rapid prototyping technology through thedevelopment of a remotely accessible rapid prototyping laboratory. This project is: (a)introducing cutting-edge rapid prototyping technology to four-year engineering

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention in Engineering Technology Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Richter, Eastern Washington University; William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University; Jason Durfee, Eastern Washington University; Terence Geyer, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

AC 2009-969: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FORMAL RESEARCH STUDY ONCORRELATING STUDENT ATTENDANCE WITH STUDENT SUCCESSDonald Richter, Eastern Washington University DONALD C. RICHTER obtained his B. Sc. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from The Ohio State University, M.S. and Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Arkansas. He holds a Professional Engineer license and worked as an Engineer and Engineering Manger in industry for 20 years before teaching. His interests include project management, robotics /automation ,parametric modeling and rapid prototyping.William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University William R. Loendorf is currently an Associate Professor of Engineering & Design at

Conference Session

Integrating Design into the BME Curriculum

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Blair Rowley, Wright State University

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Biomedical

communication and final designdocumentation. There are numerous instruments involved with each step toassure that the final design has been optimized, meets the client’s needs, and iswell documented. At the end of the first quarter small teams are formed and aproject is assigned to each team. These projects are all different and by the end ofthe third quarter a product is produced.During the first quarter the class also forms teams of four or more and each teamundertakes the same design project. They then use the methods being taught ontheir design. It has been observed that while the students learned the principles,they were frustrated with the experience. Usually one or two on a team wouldtake the lead and the others coasted. A major problem was

Conference Session

Novel Measurement Experiments

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amit Nimunkar, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Silas Bernardoni, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Tyler Lark, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Andrew Watchorn, National Instruments; John Webster, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

Industry–Student Partnerships in Development and Sharing of Educational Content Involving LabVIEWAbstractThe biomedical engineering (BME) students at our university often need hardware and softwarefor data acquisition, automation and data analysis for their instrumentation laboratory classes andopen-ended design projects every semester. We have teamed with the Education Division atNational Instruments to form a collaborative partnership for the necessary resources and to createteaching material to facilitate students with their design projects. National Instruments havedonated NI ELVIS system instrumentation equipment during the 2007–2008 academic year aswell as continuous support to help students with their learning objectives

Conference Session

First-Year Advising and Transition

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria Sanchez, California State University, Fresno; Ira Sorensen, California State University, Fresno; Walter Mizuno, California State University, Fresno; Satya Mahanty, California State University, Fresno

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Deviation 2008 Participants Deviation Participants The type of project was 4.4 0.9 4.4 0.9 appropriate for the class Level of difficulty was 4.1 0.9 3.8 1.1 appropriate for the class Amount of given time was 3.9 1.2 3.5 1.1 adequate Project encouraged to 3.6 1.1 3.9 1.0 continue as ME major Percentage of the grade corresponds to work put 3.6 1.2 3.5 1.1 into it Project

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Wilhelm; Edmund Tsang

environment, andthe weekly activities are geared towards helping students to successfully carry out a design projectinvolving press-forming/press-shaping. Students engage in hands-on activities to investigate therelationship between structure, properties and processing of materials. They apply some general conceptsof manufacturing to design the dies for press-forming/press-shaping, and use AutoCAD and a modelcomputer-aided milling machine to cut a prototype die. They use statistics for product description,tolerance, and properties. Students also make final design project presentation. Details of the course andresults of student evaluation are described in the paper.INTRODUCTION The faculty of the Mechanical Engineering (ME) Department at the

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

George Meyer; James K. Randall; Charles T. Morrow

set of notes) was made available to all students.Laboratories included programming of a micro controller for data acquisition and control, building aninstrumentation amplifier, strain-gages, differential transformers, thermocouples, flow measurement andoptical sensing devices. Some labs evolved out of an inexpensive kit of electronic components for distantstudents. Others labs were videotaped, with data collection provided on video. Written reports were preparedby the students. Students purchased Windows-based virtual electronics software for designing and testingelectronic circuits. A open-ended design project of a team of 2-3 students was required. Each teamprepared oral and written reports of their projects. Student interaction was carried

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

George A. Bohlen; Donna C.S. Summers

, business process re-engineering, continuous quality improvement concepts, and activity-based-cost accounting. Students were divided into teams consisting of both business students and engineeringstudents to accomplish two major projects. One project consisted of flow charting the processes in theUniversity Bursar’s office. The students had to flow chart the existing process and recommendimprovements. As a term assignment, each student team was required to contact a local firm, interviewrepresentatives from all levels of management and evaluate the firm against each of the Malcolm BaldrigeNational Quality Award Criteria. Each student team was required to orally present their findings from theBursar’s office project and to present their conclusions

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Kurt J. Colella; Vincent Wilczynski

’ engineering education arepresented in the USCGA portfolio. The portfolio artifacts themselves include project assignments, reports,photographs, videos, story boards, prototypes and design specimens. Though motivated as a tool to document Page 1.508.1 -- ..- -. - fiiih’-’ } 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.,,,~yy’: Ithe design experience for ABET evaluators, the local portfolio has also been an effective method to describe

Conference Session

Learning from Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerald Nelson, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

2006-76: DEVELOPING ENGINEERS WITH AN ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRITGerald Nelson, Mississippi State University Gerald Nelson, an industrial engineering graduate (1974) with an MBA (1985) from Mississippi State University, began his career with a co-op experience at Rockwell International. Nelson worked five semesters with Rockwell before joining them full time after graduation as a Project Engineer and Program Manager. Nelsons career includes former positions as Plant Manager, Trinity Industries; President and Chief Operating Officer of the Wear Resistance Group of Thermadyne Industries, Inc.; Executive Vice President of Operations, Viasystems Group, Inc.; and Chief Operating Officer of

Conference Session

FPD3 -- Professional Issues for First-Year Courses

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dwight Tolliver, University of Tennessee; Lauren Hines, University of Tennessee; J. Roger Parsons, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

year and has continued to grow and develop.One of the key components of the program is team projects. Students are placed into fourto six member teams and given various projects throughout the course of the year. Theteams are formed based on several different factors. First, personality type is considered,as identified by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, so that each team has members withvarious personality types. Next, ACT scores and gender are considered. Historically,higher ACT scores were grouped together and lower ACT scores were grouped together.Teams were arranged so that those teams with female members had at least two femalesin the group.The team projects correspond with the concepts and skills students are learning in theirclasses

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Fry, Brigham Young University

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Liberal Education

page for the d.school. “We believe having designers in the mix is key to success in multidisciplinary collaboration and critical to uncovering unexplored areas of innovation. Designers provide a methodology that all parties can embrace and a design environment conducive to innovation. In our experience, design thinking is the glue that holds these kinds of communities together and makes them successful.”8This statement describes the influence on education of the increasingly “messy”, large scaleproblems and projects that will typify projects in our modern society. It also marks theseparation of the “process” used by applied artists/designers from their traditional “results”.Rather than just being applied to the

Conference Session

Achieving the Civil Engineering Body of Knowlegde

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fred Meyer, U.S. Military Academy; Allen Estes, U.S. Military Academy; Ronald Welch, U.S. Military Academy; David Winget, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Assessment the Easy Way: Using Embedded Indicators to Assess Program OutcomesI. IntroductionThe culminating design experience for civil engineering majors at the United States MilitaryAcademy (USMA) is CE492, Design of Structural Systems. CE492 serves as a “capstone”experience or one in which students are faced with a multi-disciplinary design projectincorporating facets from all previous civil engineering courses. Previous capstone experienceshave required students to design structures planned for construction or currently underconstruction at the Academy, thus providing an opportunity for site visitations and activeparticipation with key players in the project development process. Since CE492 provides amulti-disciplinary

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martha Green, Texas A&M University; Parag Ravindran, Texas A&M University; Rita Caso, Texas A&M University; Jeffrey Froyd; Xiafeng Li, Texas A&M University; L. Alan Minnick, Texas A&M University; Ram Shukla, Texas A&M University

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Design in Engineering Education

NSF initiatives in the areas of engineering and science education.Jefferey Froyd, Texas A&M University Jeffrey Froyd is a Research Professor in the Center for Teaching Excellence and Director of Academic Development at Texas A&M University. He was Project Director for the Foundation Coalition, one of the NSF Engineering Education Coalitions and Project Director for "Changing Faculty through Learning Communities," a project sponsored by the NSF Research on Gender in Science and Engineering Program.Xiafeng Li, Texas A&M University Xiafeng Li is a PhD student of computer science at Texas A&M University. He got his B.S. from Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute in

Conference Session

Design for Manufacture and Industry

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rudolph Eggert, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

: a) identifying part features or characteristics that affect partinsertion and fastening, b) identifying part features or characteristics that affect part handling andc) using solid modeling software to verify that mating parts will assemble. The data also suggest that industry desires more emphasis on the following “class-room”learning experiences: a) complete a design project using DFMA guidelines/checklists andb) make a part using rapid prototyping; and “non class-room” learning experiences: a) visit localindustry, b) do a summer internship in industry, c) complete a term in industry (co-op ed.). Lastly, the data show that most engineers do not learn their DFMA methods and conceptsin their undergraduate program. Rather