scholarly journals A Combined Online Learning / In-Class Activity Approach to Teach Systems Thinking and Systems Engineering Skills to Freshman Engineering Students

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Bedillion ◽  
Karim Muci-Kuchler ◽  
Cassandra Birrenkott ◽  
Marsha Lovett ◽  
Laura Pottmeyer
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Engineering Students

A Flipped Classroom Approach to Conveying the Basics of Systems Thinking to Engineering Undergraduates

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan M. Weaver ◽  
Darrell K. Kleinke
Keyword(s):  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Verification And Validation ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
System Verification ◽  
Engineered Systems ◽  
Design Experience ◽  
Capstone Design

Engineering students spend the majority of their academic careers learning tools to enable tasks related to detailed design. For example, a mechanical engineer may learn to size a heat exchanger so that an engine would not overheat, an electrical engineer may learn to specify gains in a control system to provide desired performance, and a civil engineer may learn to size columns to avoid buckling. While these analytical capabilities are essential to the execution of engineered systems, there are tools and perspectives related to systems and their design that are historically absent in an undergraduate engineering education. Through the Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network (KEEN) and the University of New Haven, the authors have developed a flipped classroom module that provides a basis in systems thinking as related to the conception and execution of complex engineered systems. The module could be useful in several areas of the curriculum, but is primarily intended to develop perspectives and skills necessary to ensure a successful capstone design experience. The module is broken into five lessons: (1) Foundational Concepts, (2) Key Systems Principles, (3) Architecture Development, (4) Multiple Views of a System, and (5) System Verification and Validation. Lesson 1 begins with the importance of the problem statement, and then proceeds to introduce form and function, function mapping, and many key definitions (system, interface, architecture, systems engineering, and complexity). Lesson 2 introduces key systems principles, including systems thinking, systems of systems, and system decomposition. Lesson 3 overviews the systems architecting process and summarizes the four most typical methods used to develop a system architecture. Lesson 4 discusses viewing a system from six different perspectives. Lesson 5 presents the systems engineering V model, requirements cascading, and verification and validation. The module includes several interactive activities and built in knowledge checkpoints. There is also a final challenge wherein the students must apply what they’ve learned about systems thinking and systems engineering to a hypothetical problem. This paper will further describe the module content and format. The paper will also make the case that the content included in the module is essential to an efficient, effective, and rewarding capstone design experience. This is achieved by summarizing common pitfalls that occur in a capstone design project and how good systems thinking can avert them. The pitfalls covered include failure to fully understand all key stakeholders’ most important needs, failure to understand desired system function in a solution-neutral way and failure to follow a robust process to map function to form, poor choice of how to decompose the system into subsystems, errors/inefficiencies in interface definition and management, and poor (if any) planning for design verification and validation.

Bridging Psychology and Engineering: Undergraduate Conceptions of Human Systems Engineering

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 510-514
Author(s):  
Rod D. Roscoe ◽  
Samuel T. Arnold ◽  
Ashley T. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Introductory Courses ◽  
Knowledge And Beliefs ◽  
The People ◽  
Human Systems

Instruction and coursework that link engineering and psychology may enable future engineers to better understand the people they are engineering for (e.g., users and clients) and themselves as engineers (e.g., teammates). In addition, human-centered engineering education may empower engineering students to better solve problems at the intersection of technology and people. In this study, we surveyed students’ conceptions and attitudes toward human systems engineering. We aggregate responses across three survey iterations to discuss students’ knowledge and beliefs, and to consider instructional opportunities for introductory courses.

scholarly journals Development of Listening and Linguistic Skills through the Use of a Mobile Application

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Lizeth Ramos ◽  
Arturo Valderruten
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
Level 1 ◽  
Written Test ◽  
Undergraduate Programs

The purpose of this article is to present the results of a research that was developed with eight groups of students of undergraduate programs of the Language Institute at Santiago de Cali University. The research was developed with four groups of students who used a mobile application developed jointly by foreign language professors, a software development professor and systems engineering students, as a support tool for individual practice of English level 1 (Test groups) and an equal number of groups of students who did not use the application (Control groups). No mobile applications already available in the market were used because none of them fit the sequence of topics that the course develops along the semester, thus, it was necessary to design an application tailored to the different themes, grammar and vocabulary requirements that were developed by the students. In both cases, a written test was performed at the beginning and end of the course in order to establish the benefit that the application could offer to the students in the test groups. The results indicate that the frequent use of the mobile application might have a positive impact on the development of both listening and linguistic competencies of English.

scholarly journals Incorporating Basic Systems Thinking and Systems Engineering Concepts in a Mechanical Engineering Sophomore Design Course

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karim Muci-Kuchler ◽  
Mark Bedillion ◽  
Shaobo Huang ◽  
Cassandra Degen ◽  
Marius Ellingsen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Mechanical Engineering

scholarly journals GLOBAL CLASSROOM: A CASE STUDY IN ONLINE LEARNING ON SUSTAINABLE CITIES

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadine Ibrahim ◽  
Allison Van Beek
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Sustainable Cities ◽  
Diverse Classroom ◽  
Design Learning ◽  
Global Classroom

A new learning opportunity among civil engineering students is learning about urbanization in cities, which combines the sub-disciplines of civil engineering in a seamlessly interdisciplinary manner.  One of the greatest benefits of learning about a global phenomenon such as urbanization is introducing the opportunities to offer examples of the technological, cultural and social diversity surrounding the evolution of urban design, technologies and sustainable strategies from global cities. The ability to have a globally diverse classroom to bring in these perspectives and create a learning experience that captures this information sharing and exchange can be created through course design, learning activities, and assessments, hence the “global classroom.”  The authors present a case study of the global classroom for the online course “Sustainable Cities: Adding an African Perspective” and share their perspective on learner-driven formats that support the global classroom, which hinges upon students’ own interest and commitment to an online learning format.  

ONLINE LEARNING CONTENT FOR POWER ENGINEERING STUDENTS, WITH SEMANTIC-BASED NAVIGABILITY

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anca Daniela Ionita ◽  
Adriana Olteanu ◽  
Radu Nicolae Pietraru ◽  
Dominic Eugeniu Moraru ◽  
Andrei Budu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Power Engineering ◽  
Learning Content

The Knee Bone Connected To the Thigh Bone

2010 ◽  
pp. 139-149
Author(s):  
T. J. Joyce ◽  
P McCormack
Keyword(s):  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Joint Replacement ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Total Joint Replacement ◽  
Peer Learning ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Human Anatomy ◽  
Written Feedback ◽  
Thigh Bone ◽  
Anatomy Teaching

Bioengineering is a multidisciplinary subject which necessitates that engineering students, who typically have no knowledge of medicine, must quickly and effectively gain a thorough understanding of the complexities of human anatomy. Teaching on a Bioengineering module at Newcastle University’s School of Mechanical and Systems Engineering employed a combination of Primal Pictures anatomical software, bespoke teaching materials and peer to peer learning. This allowed Bioengineering students to quickly construct an understanding of anatomical principles which they used in individual, assessed projects on total joint replacement. Anonymised, written feedback gathered from the students revealed overwhelmingly positive learning experiences and assessed projects indicated deep knowledge of the anatomical descriptions necessary to understand and work with the science of joint replacement.

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