Wilhelm[2] suggested howmarketing education should incorporate sustainability into their curriculum, the role ofsustainability in marketing strategy, and the implementation of an MBA-level marketing electivecourse, while Wheeler et al.[6] looked at several eLearning models and examined two casestudies with eLearning for education for sustainability applied to formal K–12 settings, highereducation, learning in the workplace or business sector, and also community-based continuingeducation. More examples include Goodnough et al.[7], who presented an overview of thesustainability initiatives at the University of Minnesota, Morris, such as a new environmentalstudies curriculum, and various research and outreach projects.MacDonald[8] described how
Paper ID #15385Systems Engineering and Capstone ProjectsDr. Fred J. Looft, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Prof. Looft earned his B..S, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering at the University of Michi- gan. After a brief period on industry, he joined the faculty of WPI 1n 1980 where he is now a professor in the ECE department and a founder of, and Academic Head of the Systems Engineering program. His interests include projects based education, curriculum development, international study abroad programs and mentoring, and autonomous robotic systems.. c American Society for Engineering
equipment suppliers include theacquisition and installation costs only. The operating and maintenance costs are not included.Impact on CurriculumThe impact of the systems engineering approach to small satellite testing and the potentialchanges in the curriculum are discussed below.Students will be guided to follow a basic system engineering approach to the overall project oftesting small satellites. Each satellite to be tested has common and special characteristics andrequirements that need to be identified and addressed in the process of generating the testingprocedures, scheduling and implementation.The approach discussed here follows the engineering practices and basic procedures establishedby INCOSE (International Council of Systems Engineering
AC 2011-1295: INVESTIGATING AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH FOR DE-VELOPING SYSTEMS ENGINEERING CURRICULUM: THE SYSTEMSENGINEERING EXPERIENCE ACCELERATORAlice F Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology Alice Squires has nearly 30 years of professional experience and is an industry and research professor in Systems Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology in the School of Systems and Enterprises. She is a Primary Researcher for the Body of Knowledge and Curriculum to Advance Systems Engineering (BKCASE) and Systems Engineering Experience Accelerator projects. She has served as a Senior Sys- tems Engineer consultant to Lockheed Martin, IBM, and EDO Ceramics, for Advanced Systems Support- ability Engineering Technology
. Responsible for all electrical connections 3) Piping Design Team a. Responsible for the design of all piping, the upper reservoir and the pulley/weight system 4) Infrastructure Design Team a. Responsible for the tower structure, lower reservoir, drain and movable base Page 25.12.5Fig. 1. Cartoon showing the required features of the water tower apparatus.The teams were provided with a project deadline and project milestones/reportables as outlinedin Table 2. Table 2. Global timeline recommendation given by faculty (Starred items were to be denoted as milestones in team timeline) Task
AC 2011-1162: COMPARING PERCEPTIONS OF COMPETENCY KNOWL-EDGE DEVELOPMENT IN SYSTEMS ENGINEERING CURRICULUM:A CASE STUDYAlice F Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology Alice Squires has nearly 30 years of professional experience and is an industry and research professor in Systems Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology in the School of Systems and Enterprises. She is a Primary Researcher for the Body of Knowledge and Curriculum to Advance Systems Engineering (BKCASE) and Systems Engineering Experience Accelerator projects. She has served as a Senior Sys- tems Engineer consultant to Lockheed Martin, IBM, and EDO Ceramics, for Advanced Systems Support- ability Engineering Technology and Tools (ASSETT), Inc
engineering students from systems, mechanical, electrical andcomputer engineering were assembled to tackle this project during the 2011-12 academic year.Each team was led by systems engineering students, who acted as the principal engineer and theproject manager, and mentored, by a systems engineering and an engineering managementprofessor. After evaluating various design alternatives, both teams came up with very innovativebottle recycler designs. Both teams were selected as finalists (top 9 out of 50 projects) in the BestSenior Design Project Competition. In this paper, we will present the educational approach howthese projects were conducted and assessed, and discuss the findings.Introduction “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we
, or other reasons determine the use of independentstudent or faculty projects? Although the use of industry-sponsored projects appears to be themodel followed by most departments, only four of the 28 universities incorporate other majors(e.g., Mechanical, Computer, and Electrical Engineering) on their capstone teams. Thesefindings correspond to earlier studies4,5,8 but do not follow the notion that in industry engineersneed to be able to work with individuals from multiple disciplines. If engineers do indeedcommonly work with others outside their own major area, why are capstone courses notembracing this concept?According to Beyerlein et al.1, the capstone course should include topics that focus on thestudents’ professional development
the complete problem.‖ (http://www.incose.org/practice/whatissystemseng.aspx) 2. A sub-field of electrical engineering. ―[E]mphasis is attached to the use of systems theory in applications [and] … tends to emphasize control techniques which are often software- intensive.‖9 3. A sub-field of industrial and systems engineering. The word ―system‖ is often added to industrial engineering to emphasize the interactions of parts of a system to create the overall behavior of the system. 4. A sub-field of engineering management or technology management. ―[S]ystems engineering includes taking into consideration all aspects of the life cycle of the system. Thus the systems engineering approach is said to
as well as business, socio-political, and otherdisciplines that clearly interacts with or are directly affected by the system underconsideration. Systems engineering requires different design thinking, as it requires indepth knowledge often beyond the traditional engineering classification boundaries. Forexample, an electrical engineer must also in many cases have knowledge of softwareengineering, or safety engineering when designing a cell phone circuit. In Dym et al. 2, itis proposed that there are many informative approaches to characterizing design thinking,which attribute and highlight the skills often associated with good designers, namely, theability to: a. Tolerate ambiguity that shows up in viewing design as inquiry or as an
suchas design and construction of a vehicle or robot quickly see the application of lecture topics toprojects. Although the topics such as Quality Function Deployment and Failure Modes andEffect Analysis have broader applications, many students working on paper designs orhumanitarian projects had difficulty relating the importance of the topic to their project. Theadded communication time that a hybrid class can offer will aid the students in making theseconnections.Background on the Senior Design CoursesThe Multidisciplinary Capstone Design Program in the Engineering Division encompasses atwo-semester course sequence. Students from Civil, Environmental, Electrical, and MechanicalEngineering specialties from the CSM Division of Engineering
approach into the existing curriculum by creating aframework of educational and organizational components that integrates discipline-specificsenior design and special projects courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Byincluding graduate students as well as external advisors, we anticipate providing a level ofprofessionalism, experience and knowledge that would not be possible on an undergraduate-onlyproject, also giving context to the career aspects of Systems Engineering for all studentsinvolved.Project DescriptionThe Stevens project, which is design/build, has been conducted over two semesters and involved4 undergraduate sub-teams from Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Management, Electrical& Computer Engineering and Civil
. McFarland, University of Virginia Page 25.487.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 ECE/SYS Integration: A Strategy for Evaluating Graduates from a Multi-year Curriculum focused on Technology Systems IntegrationAbstractIn 2009, a group of seventeen students majoring in electrical, computer, or systems engineeringbecame the first class of Leaders in Engineering Program (LEP) students at East Central StateUniversity1. The LEP is an undergraduate curriculum focused on developing knowledge andskills that address both component-level design
Paper ID #16526Systems Engineering Education and the Role of Analytics, Modeling, andSimulationDr. Bruce Harmon, Colorado Technical University Dr. Harmon received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado and served as R&D engineer, scientist, project manager, section manager, director, and executive at Hewlett Packard and elsewhere before joining academia at the Air Force Academy and then Colorado Tech, where he now serves as Dean, College of Engineering.Prof. John M Santiago Jr, Colorado Technical University Professor John Santiago has been a technical engineer, manager, and executive with
the fall of 2014. This class was co-taught by professors from the MechanicalEngineering Technology (MET), Electrical Engineering Technology (EET) and the Computerand Information Technology (CIT) programs at Purdue University.The goal of this paper is to document the activities carried out during the semester the coursewas taught and present the lessons learned from teaching multidisciplinary students with thebackgrounds in MET, EET and CIT.The objective of the course was to provide a Project Based Learning (PBL) experience for thestudents. Students were tasked to specify, design, and develop prototype sub-systems for existingrobots. During the semester, the students attended lectures and participated in laboratories thatwere heavily focused
education.Different efforts aimed at incorporating ST/SE concepts in the undergraduate curriculum oftraditional engineering majors have been reported in the literature [2-17]. Several of these effortsfocus on specific engineering disciplines (civil, industrial, electrical engineering) [2, 4, 5, 8, 11,12, 14, 17], while others give suggestions for and highlight the importance of broadly integratingST/SE into engineering programs [3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 15, 16]. In the case of existing programs, theapproach used typically involves including ST/SE-related content in an existing course or addinga new course in which ST/SE is the primary focus. These alternatives may be preferred overmore comprehensive ones due to the challenges associated with making major changes
exposure to, and retention of, systems engineering principles improveslearning outcomes in an multidisciplinary graduate level course is assessed. Students enrolled in ahybrid electric vehicle powertrains course were exposed to systems engineering principlesthrough a dedicated lecture focused on team coordination and management of complexengineering systems in the context of the team-based course capstone project. Students wereencouraged to employ systems engineering principles across all aspects of the course (e.g.homework completion and exam preparation) with student collaboration a requirement for theproject. Student surveys were completed immediately following the introductory lecture, whichquantify students’ self-assessed increase in system
(ABET accredited), an M.S. in Computer Science, and an M.S. in Computer InformationSystems. The department offers many areas of concentration, including: Artificial Intelligence,Cloud Computing, Computer Graphics and Animation & Computer Visualization. It also offerscomputing courses to the entire university to satisfy a three-hour core curriculum requirement.The Department of Engineering Technology (ET) at Prairie View A&M University offers theB.S. degree in the Computer Engineering Technology (CPET) program and in the ElectricalEngineering Technology (ELET) program, respectively. Both programs are ABET accredited.The department focuses on offering practical, hands-on experiences in computer science andengineering. This project ties
goals [30], [35], [38].ImprovementFrom our analysis, we identified 10 scholarly papers that emphasize evidence of the currentteamwork gaps and challenges in the systems engineering discipline and providedrecommendations for improvement opportunities towards effective teamwork. Specifically, therewere six papers that highlighted the challenges and opportunities in industry and four papersfrom the academic perspective. In industry the key challenges of teamwork highlighted were lackof coordination among virtual and geographically distributed team members, challenges withcommunication and team decision-making while working on systems engineering projects [17],[18], [20], [21]. Kindarto et al. [17] further recommended authentic leadership and
suggestions from students and professors who use the system. Page 25.457.6 5. Extend the ViTAS application to other curriculums such as general chemistry, biology, and upper level courses at TAMIU. Table 4. Target courses for ViTAS application [Lin et al.[18]] Course Number Course Title College Year ENGR 1201 Foundation of Engineering Freshman MATH 1314 College Algebra Freshman MATH 1324 Business Math I Freshman PHYS 1301
architectures and solutions without due analysis of alternatives (AoA), a lack of multi-disciplined decision making, poor documentation and configuration control, et al. Furtheranalysis indicates these factors are symptomatic of a much larger competency issue traceable toengineering education - the lack of a Systems Engineering fundamentals course. Ideally, a coursetaught by seasoned instructors with in-depth industrial experience acquired from a diversity ofsmall to large, complex systems.To meet program accreditation requirements, industrial needs, and remain competitive, collegesand universities institute a Systems Engineering course or capstone project based on SEprinciples and practices. However, the outcomes of these projects tend to focus on
gains visibility from the group of young people and canestablish a closer or exclusive ongoing relationship with the academic institution.An internship is not always available or logistically possible for students who may be working orotherwise occupied. Other options for providing students with experiential learning include visitsto businesses in the industry, classroom presentations and discussions by practitioners andshadow days at workplaces.Service learning experiences can be useful as well and of varying durations. For example,Hayden et al10 (2010) describe how students at the University of Vermont were involved in localservice learning projects which involved “adopting” a local town where they are involved in real-life engineering
Paper ID #19345Development of Enhanced Value, Feature, and Stakeholder Views for a Model-Based Design ApproachDr. William A Kline, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Bill Kline is Professor of Engineering Management and Associate Dean of Innovation at Rose-Hulman. His teaching and professional interests include systems engineering, quality, manufacturing systems, in- novation, and entrepreneurship. As Associate Dean, he directs the Branam Innovation Center which houses campus competition teams, maker club, and projects. He is currently an associate with IOI Partners, a consulting venture focused on innovation tools and
DesignReview (CDR): “One critical decision made in the electrical CDR was to use only one instead oftwo Arduino boards for the Control Subsystem. This reduced the complexity of the design aswell as the mass of the lunabot. The mechanical CDR confirmed the design decisions and nomajor changes were made.” The winning papers also articulated the major design reviewsconducted and the need for the design review, as outlined in Table 2. Requiring student designteams to conduct design reviews also enables the involvement of the faculty, which can varysignificantly. This benefit of conducting key milestone reviews is noted by the Montana StateUniversity6 paper: “Each review allowed the project advisers, other faculty members, andprofessionals in related
the Graduate Reference Curriculum for Systems Engineering (GRCSE). Before joining Stevens, Henry spent nine years with the Aeronautical De- velopment Agency, Ministry of Defense, India, working on aircraft design, aerodynamics, performance, optimization, and project management of the Air Force and Navy versions of the Indian light combat air- craft. He was also actively involved in promoting systems engineering among the aerospace community in India.Dr. Charles Daniel Turnitsa, Regent UniversityProf. Cheryl Beauchamp, Regent University Current Position: Chair, Engineering and Computer Science Department of the College of Arts & Science, Regent Univer- sity, Virginia Beach, Virginia Education: •Ph.D
students develop ideas based on opportunities they identify inorder to validate a market and assess the creation of value. The winner is often offered a“contract” to produce the product for university purposes [14] .Some schools integrated EML in their course projects. The authors of the paper “EntrepreneurialMindset and the University Curriculum [15]” applied technology based dynamic live case studywith color graphics animated computer simulation in their entrepreneurial course. The live casestudy involves multiple student visits to existing companies. Students construct a companysupply chain under the professor’s guidance. Bilen, et al suggested to provide students withmultiple exposures to what it means to have an entrepreneurial mindset [16
class drop rate data in foundation of engineering I and II, engineeringmechanics: statics and dynamics, principle of electrical engineering, design of experiments,college algebra, business mathematics I and II, plane trigonometry, introductory statistics,fundamentals of mathematics I, calculus I, II, and III, and general physics I and II from year2008 to year 2011. The need for improving student success in early college education can bedetermined by the high class drop rate in lower division courses such as college algebra, businessmathematics, etc. According to the undergraduate curriculum, all undergraduate students of Page 23.710.2TAMIU are
sophisticated softwareto perform the autonomous navigation using the sensor inputs. The complexity of the projectnecessitates the involvement of a relatively large group of students working together on differentparts of the system.The Robotics Laboratory at the University of Central Florida has been participating in the annualIGVC competition since 2002. In this project the students learn about most of the engineeringdisciplines that are typically included in a complex robotic project such as software design,computer vision, sensor data interpretation and fusion, robotic motion planning, vehiclenavigation, vehicle design and construction, electric motor control, computer interfaces tovarious components and many others. Naturally this education
Paper ID #34926Design and Manufacturability of Medical Ventilators from the Perspectiveof a Global Automotive FootprintDr. H. Bryan Riley, Clemson University H. Bryan Riley Ph.D., joined Clemson University in July 2019 and currently teaches controls and man- ufacturing processes courses. He has taught courses in signal processing, electrical communication sys- tems, EE capstone design, electric machines, adaptive signal processing, and hybrid and electric vehicles. Riley, who spent his early career in the automotive industry, has managed multi-disciplined and global en- gineering teams responsible for introducing advanced
evaluate means for testing the effectiveness of training and decision aids. (2000) [20] students' capability Frank Differentiation between Based on suggested thirty system thinking laws, a curriculum for Engineering (2000) [14] "system thinking" and engineering system thinking can be developed. education "engineering system thinking" Assaraf & Orion Examination of the ST skills Individual students' cognitive ability and their involvement in learning Education (2005) [21] among the junior high school are found to be the two most important factors. level students Cabrera et