Practicing And Assessing Formal Systems Competencies In Ece Senior Design

Systems engineering concepts were included for the first time this year in the Electrical and Computer Engineering sequence of senior design courses at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. In this year-long program, teams of three to four students complete an externally sponsored project. In this year's class, a subset of the Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) Competencies was introduced at the beginning of the course, and assigned as model artifacts to appear in project deliverables. This paper presents an early report of a work in progress, and as such, it primarily describes the process of transforming the sequence of courses and the assignments that were used to provide practice with the MBSE Competencies. Qualitative assessments are included in order to provide some indication of the students' abilities to use the MBSE Competencies. The goal is to use these qualitative results to help produce meaningful rubrics that can be used next year to provide a more quantitative analysis of student performance.