degree program as incubators for eventual spin off to a new engineering degree programs in their own right; that is the likely case for our Systems Engineering program. Our program emphasizes (a) systems thinking and (b) low fidelity systems modeling, and developing competencies in (c) communication, (d) problem solving in a collaborative team, (e) professional leadership, and (f) a selection of courses to fulfill college and university requirements that cover a system. This paper also describes the beginning of a community-wide survey of U.S. Systems Engineering programs to test the hypothesis that the systems engineering academic community in the US lies along a linear axis with: (A) one
incorporating a global view is expected.[13] Thestudent proceeds to establish a global company structure and is denoted in Figure 2. Figure 2. Organizational Structure of Global Ventilator Company (BtN)The students rapidly learn that effective organizations have dynamic and visionary leaders andthus expanded the team by 550 associates in the global count. They elect the name B-VengersNorth America which is modeled in the global team after Toyota North America.[14]3.1 Intellectual Property - Acquisition and PartnershipMedical ventilators and other electronically sophisticated devices can be manufactured withinthe automotive domain; however, they must be re-designed and readied for higher rates of mass © American
are as follows. • Describe the role of mechanical engineers in society and identify career opportunities within the field • Implement a systematic approach to solving problems including accurate use of engineering units • Apply engineering fundamentals to solve problems in various areas of mechanical engineering • Use CAD, basic fabrication, and microcontroller tools to develop virtual and physical prototypes for testing • Effectively launch a team in which members (a) recognize and support each others’ styles and strengths and (b) generate and agree to ground rules that they will use to help guide their collaboration • Build consensus and recognize and address emerging conflicts using active
is also supported by Rehmann et al.’s [27] note that the creation ofbehavior over time graphs can be supported by tracing a loop in a causal loop diagram.RQ3: Affordances of Different Approaches to Assessing Systems ThinkingTwo main themes were identified that represent tensions between different types of affordancesseen across assessments. First was the tension between (a) having less structure so there arefewer constraints on the students’ visualization and (b) the potential for ambiguity whenevaluating a visualization. Another was the tension between (a) the time it takes to administer anassessment and (b) how much an evaluator can learn about a student’s or a group of students’understanding of a problem. These two tensions overlap. For
Paper ID #33445Evaluation of Targeted Systems Thinking and Systems EngineeringAssessments in a Freshmen-Level Mechanical Engineering CourseDr. Cassandra M. Birrenkott, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Dr. Cassandra (Degen) Birrenkott received her B.S. degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in 2007. She received her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 2012 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, studying mechanochemical reactions of a spiropyran mechanophore in polymeric materials under shear loading. She is currently an Assistant
. See Table 1 for a list of the data sources used.While it is not the focus of this paper, it is worth noting that all of the mechanical engineeringcourses in this analysis were designed so that ST/SE concepts and skills were incorporated – e.g.,via various combinations of introducing these concepts in lecture and assigning homeworks, casestudies and small-group projects that exercise the ST/SE concepts and skills.Table 1. Semester and course administrations of the STSS Semester School Course Fall 2019 Institution A Intro to Mech Eng Fall 2019 Institution B Intro to Mech Eng
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