Paper ID #38917Applying a Competency-Based Education Approach for Designing a UniqueInterdisciplinary Graduate Program: A Case Study for a SystemsEngineering ProgramDr. Amy Thompson, University of Connecticut Dr. Amy Thompson joined UConn in August 2017 as an Associate Professor-In-Residence of Systems Engineering and as the Associate Director for the Institute for Advanced Systems Engineering at the University of Connecticut. She currently teaches graduate-level engineering courses in model-based sys- tems engineering and systems engineering fundamentals, and coordinates the online graduate programs in Advanced Systems
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system (nodes and relationships) asked about. Identify feedback processes Identify a direct feedback loop (e.g., A to B to A). Identify an indirect feedback loop (e.g., A to B to C to A). Connect actions to outcomes Identify possible variables that positively and negatively affect the system in the dashboard. Confirm variables that positively and negatively affect the system in the dashboard. Elaborate causal reasoning Nodes and relationships in whole diagram. diagrams Amount of money collected. Number of donations received. Use system
engineering programs and which program activities or students' experiences havecontributed to the development of students’ stakeholder awareness. For example, it will be worth studyingthe impact of internships and/or extracurricular activities on such stakeholder awareness. In the same way,using the rubric for assessing its effectiveness when assessing students’ systems thinking while addressingdifferent scenarios or design projects, such as capstone design projects. 7REFERENCES[1] J. R. Grohs, G. R. Kirk, M. M. Soledad, and D. B. Knight, “Assessing systems thinking: A tool to measure complex reasoning through ill-structured problems
Paper ID #38243Implementing Systems Engineering with Elementary School StudentsRachel Brennan, Tufts University Rachel is a senior at Tufts University, studying mechanical engineering. She has had several years of experience in both teaching and research, including tutoring in science and math, as well as working with and teaching special needs children. Her research has been focused in molecular biology and material science.Mohammed Tonkal, Tufts University and King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia Mohammed is a Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering with a research focus on teaching systems engineering to k-12