Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Plumley, US Coast Guard Academy; Vincent Wilczynski, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Design in Engineering Education

importance to accreditation in recent years. For years, the US Coast Guard AcademyMechanical Engineering program has showcased its best work and reflected on design in thecurriculum by using a design portfolio inspired by those used by artists. The portfolio provides asnapshot of one year in the life of the program by providing examples of design work completedfor each level of the curriculum, along with reflections of educators and students. It can be usedto address many audiences including administrators, institutional benefactors, politicians,industry representatives, students, teachers, and parents. A proven template is presented whichcan easily be adopted by other authors. The template was used for portfolios presented duringtwo ABET

Conference Session

Design Communications

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Ekwaro-Osire, Texas Tech University; Innocent Afuh, Texas Tech University; Peter Orono, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis

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Design in Engineering Education

students are involved in active learning by being connected with libraries and being taughtsoft skills during their training.4-6 They will build upon these skills, horn them and evolve intolifelong learners. Sapp et al.7 used a treasure hunt assignment to teach students various sources of engineeringinformation and its contents. Slivovsky et al. 8 presented methods and strategies of integratingreflection into engineering design class. The engineering design notebook was one of thereflection methods developed and a well defined rubric was used to analyze it. The reflectiveexercises presented were successively shown to guide the students in their reflective thinkingduring the design course. Well formulated design notebooks have been shown to

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Shooter, Bucknell University

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Design in Engineering Education

. characteristics reflecting characteristics reflecting thePerformance reflecting a development and reflecting highest level beginning level movement toward mastery of of of performance. mastery of performance. performance

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg Kremer, Ohio University-Athens; David Burnette, Ohio University

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Design in Engineering Education

Honesty & data,bends rules, does to uphold integrity, rules, admits mistakes, 4.56 Integrity not bring up mistakes if admits mistakes and is never changes dates / data it reflects poorly on always honest regardless him/her, exaggerates of affect on bottom line Must be pushed to get Desire to complete all Goes above and beyond work done, no drive, assigned work in a assigned tasks, quality Work Ethic does

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Senay Purzer; Alison McKay, University of Leeds; Mark Henderson, Arizona State University; Chell Roberts, Arizona State University; Alan de Pennington, University of Leeds

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Design in Engineering Education

produced during the protocol. A key characteristic of the product design teamswas their use of drawings at every stage of the design process; in contrast the freshmanengineering teams carried out more detailed information gathering activities. These differencesbetween senior product and freshman engineering teams reflected the emphasis areas in theircurriculum. All four teams frequently iterated between the different stages of the design processand project planning was a neglected area for all teams. Further research is needed to increasethe number of team studies to explore the role of design drawings in supporting teamcommunication, team information gathering and use processes, and the role of team diversity insupporting innovative design

Conference Session

Design for Society and the Environment

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Pappas; Ronald Kander, James Madison University

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Design in Engineering Education

because so many of our human activities are related to and dependent uponproducts and processes engineers design and develop. As we have no doubt learned, andas is reflected increasingly in academia and industry, the answers to many humanproblems are not to be found in specific and discrete disciplines. We need to determinewhich disciplines need to be integrated into engineering practice as we continue toaddress critical problems facing our planet and people. This is a profound obligation andan exciting challenge, especially for higher education. Page 13.1131.3 Sustainability is a controversial topic because it appears to be an

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Keith Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology; Peter Dominick, Stevens Institute of Technology; Edward Blicharz, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

individuals work together in the team to identify anddocument personal and team development goals. At the end of the semester a final peer-feedback questionnaire is used to assess team development and also to modulate an individualgroup project grade to reflect the contributions of the individual team members. Extension of theteaming thread into subsequent design courses is planned. In this paper, the experience andassessments from the freshman year part of the teaming thread are discussed. In particular, weprovide analysis of the relationships between prior teaming experiences and actual behavior asmeasured through peer and self-evaluation and provide inferences on how these can be used asassessment tools and for personal development.BackgroundThe

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Willis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; James Conrad, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Design in Engineering Education

) positions of objectsviewed by a pair of digital cameras. By knowing or estimating the image formation properties ofeach camera, their relative pose, and the pixels pair in each digital image that correspond to aspecific 3D surface location one may invert the image formation process and find the 3Dlocations responsible for reflecting the light sensed by the camera1. Several problems arise inobtaining accurate 3D estimates, which have prompted an explosion of reconstruction techniques(the text by Ma, et al1 is entirely devoted to this subject and discusses in excess of 40 significantpublications on this problem). This is due to the extremely large number of variables involvedwhich, in addition to the geometric problem discussed previously, include

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marcia Friesen, University of Manitoba

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Design in Engineering Education

Science, Technology, Professional Engineering Politics Imagination Craft Law Example: Example: values on risk Goal for national and responsibility reflected preeminence in an in codes, laws, industry industry regulations

Conference Session

Design Communications

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Riddell, Rowan University; Maria Simone, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Peter Mark Jansson, Rowan University

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Design in Engineering Education

design.IntroductionThe significant changes that accompanied the ABET 2000 document1 reflected theobservation by academia and industry that engineering education needed to change tobetter prepare engineering graduates for the current work environment2,3. One result ofthese changes is that both design and communication have been given increasinglyimportant treatment in undergraduate engineering curriculum. Project-based courseshave been gaining acceptance as a means to introduce design experiences into thecurriculum prior to the senior capstone design course4-6. In some cases, communicationcontent has been integrated into engineering content as well7.Undergraduate students in the College of Engineering at Rowan University take asequence of eight project based

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design in the Classroom

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dominic Halsmer, Oral Roberts University; Nicholas Halsmer, Oral Roberts University; Robert Johnson, Oral Roberts University; James Wanjiku, Oral Roberts University

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Design in Engineering Education

move from what is knowable in our everyday, visible, tangible experience, downward, step by careful step, through layers of previously unseen order, to the deep order we grasp only intellectually… As the history of chemistry reveals, when we reflect on ourselves as knowers, it is clear that we are pattern-seeking and pattern-finding creatures, creatures curiously made to be curious amidst an order curiously designed to be sought.31Wiker and Witt also point out a key systems engineering principle that often shows up in nature;the value of the multifunctional part or subsystem that solves multiple problems simultaneously.Simply put, it’s basically the idea of killing two birds with one stone. They note

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rudolph Eggert, Boise State University

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Design in Engineering Education

. Students evaluate themselves and their team mates atmid-semester and end-of-semester. The evaluations are confidential and automated.The overall process is diagramed in Figure 1. Each team member uses a custom “pre-programmed” Excel workbook which stores individual data onto a common server drive. Whenall the team members have submitted their ratings, they can examine their own averages to seehow other team members rated their teamwork skills. Each member is asked to reflect on his orher progress and to suggest ways to improve his or her rating during the next rating period. Figure 1. Teamwork evaluation data entry, storage and retrieval. Enter teamwork SAVE rating values evaluation data

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Chang, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Jessica Townsend, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Design in Engineering Education

approach thatbetter reflects actual engineering practice. From the beginning, it was clear that a two-semester, Page 13.8.2senior-year, engineering capstone project course would be part of the curriculum for all Olinstudents. Just prior to the first year of instruction at Olin, the Curricular Decision Making Boardput together plans for the senior year, and noted that “by the time students are seniors, they’ll bedoing the real engineering on their own, in a year-long capstone project that will look very muchlike professional practice.” Development work on this program, eventually named SCOPE, theSenior Consulting Program for Engineering, began in

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Laguette, University of California-Santa Barbara

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Design in Engineering Education

program. It is important to note that the intent ofCapstone Design program is to reflect the technical excellence and expertise of thedepartment while providing a variety of project types and challenges for the students. TheIndustry Partner program and projects are an important component of program but are notintended to be the sole source of the projects for student consideration.Capstone Design Projects Course ObjectivesThe senior design projects are developed with the support of local industry, interestedfaculty, student organizations, and interested students. The projects reflect the academicintegrity and excellence of the Mechanical Engineering department. A committed facultyand Industrial Advisory Board are instrumental in this process.It

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karim Muci-Küchler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Jonathan Weaver, University of Detroit Mercy; Daniel Dolan, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

. Reflect on the results and the process.Minor modifications and adjustments are made regarding the activities associated with some ofthose steps. Instructionally, PowerPoint presentations are used during the lectures to cover eachtopic and case studies and/or short in-class exercises are employed to illustrate how the ideaspresented can be used in a practical context. Then, the teams are asked to apply what they havelearned in class to their product development project. To make sure that feedback can be given to Page 13.1152.7the students in a timely fashion, progress reports are requested at key milestones and/or meetingsare held between the

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Zemke, Gonzaga University; Diane Zemke, Gonzaga University

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2008-317: STRUCTURING TEAM LEARNING TASKS TO INCREASESTUDENT ENGAGEMENT AND COLLABORATIONSteven Zemke, Gonzaga University Steven Zemke is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Gonzaga University. His primary responsibilities are Design courses and assessment. His research interests include effective learning environments and design teaching and learning. Prior to teaching he was a design engineer and manager for 23 years and holds five patents.Diane Zemke, Gonzaga University Diane Zemke is a PhD candidate at Gonzaga University in Leadership Studies. Her interests include small group dynamics, reflective practices, learning, and qualitative methods. She has co-authored

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Graham Thomas, Texas Southern University; Esther Thomas, Texas Southern University

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Design in Engineering Education

anundergraduate electronics engineering technology class in which case studies are utilized.Examples of the cases used, their sources, and the method used to incorporate these cases intoclassroom teaching and learning are provided. In addition, students’ comments on the benefitsassociated with the use of cases as a learning tool will be provided and a general summary of thecomments will be presented.Developing Cases for Use in the Engineering ClassroomA case is a narrative account of a situation, problem or decision usually derived from actualexperience. Cases are often a reflection of real world situation and issues which decision makers,such as managers and engineers encounter in formulating plans aimed at finding solutions to agiven problem(s) 6. In

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Chang, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Allen Downey, Olin College of Engineering

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Design in Engineering Education

assigned to the same project, that costs 100 points. This weight reflects our desire to accommodate anti-preferences almost absolutely while still considering that violating an anti-preference might allow the program to explore a part of the solution space that yields a better global allocation. The program that generates solutions works in three phases: 1. During the first phase, the program uses one of two probabilistic greedy algo- rithms to generate an initial allocation. One algorithm enumerates the students in random order and assigns each student to the available project with the high- est preference. The other algorithm enumerates the projects in random order and chooses the student

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Morshed Khandaker, University of Central Oklahoma; Peter Orono, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis; Stephen Ekwaro-Osire, Texas Tech University

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Design in Engineering Education

participation, and leadership skills. Kuisma4 presentsportfolio assessment techniques to assess an undergraduate group project in the Physiotherapy Page 13.1304.2Program. This technique involves the students themselves reflecting on and evaluating theirlearning and also allows teachers to evaluate individual students' learning in group tasks.Traditionally, design reports alone have been the method by which the students' performance isjudged in typical capstone design courses 5. However, this limits the ability of the faculty todetermine the students' interaction with their companies and also with their peers. Rubrics aregenerally written to insure the

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susannah Howe, Smith College

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Design in Engineering Education

for Capstone Involvementand number of faculty receiving teaching credit for theirinvolvement. Note that the faculty numbers do not Student/Faculty % of Responsesnecessarily reflect all faculty involved with the capstone Ratio (n=53)course, only those who received teaching credit for theirinvolvement. As discussed in Table 1, a sizable minority of 1 – 10 19programs do not provide teaching credit for coaching

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Weaver, University of Detroit Mercy; Karim Muci-Küchler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

unlimited time) from the pure brainstormingactivity. Perhaps to gather statistically significant data, a class could be subdivided and only half Page 13.723.11given the bisociation half of the talk with the others simply given three more minutes to logideas. Then the numbers of ideas could be compared between the groups. The authors haveconjectured about doing this but have stopped short due to small class sizes and a concern thatthe variability person to person would most likely statistically mask the general trend without avery large sample size.Bisociation: Teaching PointsThe authors like to ask the students to reflect on how their thinking

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Schrage, Georgia Institute of Technology; Michael Richey, The Boeing Company; Kenneth McPherson, The Boeing Company; Xavier Fouger, Dassault Systemes; Cedric Simard, Dassault Systemes

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Design in Engineering Education

Engineering (PLE), supported by PLM and Simulation Lifecycle Management(SLM). An initial implementation step is centered on the GIT Integrated Product Life-Engineering (IPLE) Laboratory, School of Aerospace Engineering (AE), to develop thenecessary digital support environment and to introduce PLM into its graduate andundergraduate aerospace systems design courses. Figure 1. The new educational research program architecture for lifelong learningAs illustrated in Figure 1 the new educational research program includes both educationand research. Its major focus is on introducing PLM seamlessly along the studentlifecycle. The yellow oval labeled GT Design Courses reflects graduate courses in theGIT School of AE graduate program in Aerospace Systems

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Shaw, Geneva College; Murat Tanyel, Geneva College

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Design in Engineering Education

Page 13.848.5Table 1: Weekly laboratory/project activities in 2005 - 2007.Other aspects, considered informally during team selection, included placing at least oneenthusiastic (based on classroom participation) member in each team.The problem statement distributed to the students was also altered to reflect the new emphasis onbudgeting. In 2005 the students were required to build all of their electronics circuits, LabVIEWVIs, and release mechanisms from basic components that were provided. As the end of theproject approached these requirements were relaxed and the teams were allowed to usecommercially available photogates provided by the instructor and a solenoid-based releasemechanism designed by the instructor. In 2006, a budget of 2,000

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Keith Stanfill, University of Florida

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Design in Engineering Education

integrity. Once students are accepted into the program and assigned to projects, informationon each student (phone numbers, e-mail addresses, student ID numbers, disciplines, teamassignment, et cetera) would have to be manually keyed into a database. Data entry errors taketime to find and correct—especially if 150 students are involved.Revision control. Curriculum updates occur frequently across the nine participating departmentsand these changes often affected the published IPPD prerequisites. Often these changes wouldnot be reflected in the paper applications for several years. This delay was due to lack ofcommunication between the departments and IPPD. Further complicating the confusion was theproliferation of out-of-date application forms kept

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed El-Sayed, Kettering University; Steven Beyerlein, University of Idaho

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Design in Engineering Education

apply knowledge gained in their major3 or to be a cumulative and integrating experience4 and should be both a synthesis – reflection and integration – and a bridge – a real-world preparatory experiences, with emphasis on integration, experiential learning, and real-world problem solving.1,5 • In another developing view, a capstone course is "demonstration". To elaborate a capstone course is an opportunity for students to demonstrate that they have achieved the goals for learning established by their educational institution and major department.6 Since, in addition to cognitive skills, learning can occur in two other domains (affective and psychomotor,) a capstone course allows for a mix of

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Masten, McMaster University; Robert Fleisig, McMaster University

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Design in Engineering Education

andmathematical skills they are acquiring in other courses. As part of our Introduction toProfessional Engineering course, small groups of students work together on design projects.Students choose from a set of topics that reflect the diverse engineering disciplines within ourfaculty. The project descriptions were developed in collaboration with Engineers WithoutBorders (Canada) and are set in either a developing country or a remote area of Canada. Inaddition to the technical aspects of the engineering design, the final reports and presentationsaddress considerations such as ethics, healthy and safety, economics, and impact on thecommunity. Design projects included, for example, a rain-water harvesting system, a ceramicwater filter, a seed press to

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University-Great Valley; Danielle DeCristoforo, Lockheed-Martin

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Design in Engineering Education

, Page 13.1094.3while cognitive styles range from one extreme to a contrasting extreme (see Figure 1).Both cognitive level and cognitive style have multiple dimensions, each of which is measuredusing an appropriate psychometric instrument. As noted above, for example, cognitive level canbe measured in terms of potential capacity through intelligence tests and/or talent evaluations,while manifest capacity may be assessed in terms of (e.g.) skills, knowledge, and/or expertise.One of the most familiar dimensions of cognitive style may be Introversion-Extraversion, whichis often (although not the most accurately) measured using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator(MBTI®)17; Active-Reflective learning style (measured via the Learning Style Questionnaire9