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6.1.3 Conceptual Design of an Environment for Systems Engineering Education
Author(s) -
Ring Jack,
Buede Dennis,
Bolling Fred
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2005.tb00714.x
Subject(s) - capstone , studio , engineering education , imperfect , computer science , quality (philosophy) , systems design , software engineering , engineering , engineering management , telecommunications , linguistics , philosophy , epistemology , algorithm
A major problem in the teaching and learning of systems engineering is one of feedback concerning the quality of what we do: we often do not get any, and when we do, it is very late and imperfect. Accordingly, both initial learning and retention suffer. One of the few engineering domains involving complex systems and in which feedback is fast and quite accurate is racing, e.g., race cars!! Our proposed solution for the academic problem is a studio for modeling the “design, test, and operation of race cars“. This laboratory stresses the breadth of systems and systems engineering rather than the depth that is typical of classes in other engineering disciplines. The proposed studio can be used for capstone design and project courses at both the undergrad and grad courses.