scholarly journals DESIGN OF A WESTERN ENGINEERING "GREEN" BUILDING

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. M. O'Carroll ◽  
E. K. Yanful ◽  
F. Berruti ◽  
R. O. Buchal
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Integrated Design ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teams ◽  
Design Work ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
Engineering Consulting ◽  
The University ◽  
Capstone Design Courses ◽  
Capstone Design

The Faculty of Engineering proposes to replace an existing building at the University of Western Ontario with a modern, state of-the-art, environmentally friendly, and energy-efficient building designed by students. This is an ideal opportunity to expose students to an interdisciplinary design project involving every engineering discipline. Students were commissioned to design a building that achieves the highest possible Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design accreditation. Initial design work was performed by students as part of their capstone design courses in 2004/2005. In 2005/2006, two competing multidisciplinary teams of students conducted detailed integrated design work in collaboration with industry - including architects and engineering consulting firms - to tackle the structural, environmental, materials, mechanical and electrical requirements. The experience was very positive, but the degree of interdisciplinary collaboration was less than expected due to the departmental nature of existing capstone design courses.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A CROSS DISCIPLINE CAPSTONE DESIGN EXPERIENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.C.D. DeGagne ◽  
Paul Labossiere
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Real World ◽  
Capstone Course ◽  
Engineering Program ◽  
Engineering Discipline ◽  
Respective Discipline ◽  
University Of Manitoba ◽  
The University ◽  
Capstone Design Courses ◽  
Capstone Design

One of the most effective and efficient ways for an engineering program to facilitate compliance with the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) accreditation criteria is through capstone design projects and courses. Currently, the University of Manitoba Faculty of Engineering has several capstone design courses; however, each is independently focused on its own respective discipline. The resulting educational experience for students, though rigorous and challenging, is maintained within the boundaries of the students’ engineering discipline, thereby neglecting to provide the opportunity for students to work with people from multiple disciplines and across multiple fields. This style/mode of education, where students work in silos, arguably does not reflect real world engineering. Program representatives from the Faculty of Engineering agree. An interdisciplinary capstone course would provide a more rounded engineering education for students. Exposing students to other disciplines and facilitating their learning of the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to work in a multidisciplinary capacity will more effectively prepare students for the real world. Thus, to better comply with CEAB requirements and to increase the breadth and depth of students’ engineering education, an interdisciplinary capstone pilot course will be launched at the University of Manitoba.This paper explains how this multidisciplinary capstone pilot program has been developed, and touches on the early stages of its initiation and implementation.

Mechatronics as a Capstone Design Course

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R. Murray ◽  
Joseph L. Garbini
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
University Of Washington ◽  
High Regard ◽  
The University ◽  
Capstone Design Courses ◽  
Capstone Design

Abstract Capstone design courses in engineering, which provide students the opportunity to tackle open-ended, real-world projects, are generally held in high regard as learning experiences. A relatively new and increasingly important component of engineering is the area of mechatronics. In this paper, we review the goals of capstone design courses and examine how well suited mechatronics projects are for use as projects in capstone design courses. Our experiences in using mechatronics projects in the senior-level capstone design course in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington are presented. From these experiences, we demonstrate that mechatronics projects are particulary well suited for use in capstone design.

Innovative Educational Collaboration between Colleges to Improve Disabilities and Enhance Learning

2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-116
Author(s):  
MOLLY L. MCCLELLAND ◽  
DARRELL K. KLEINKE
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Assistive Devices ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teams ◽  
Collaborative Education ◽  
Detroit Area ◽  
Physically Challenged ◽  
College Of Engineering ◽  
The University

ABSTRACT Interdisciplinary collaboration in higher education can produce valuable learning experiences beyond that of a single discipline approach. The University of Detroit Mercy College of Engineering and College of Health Professions have effectively collaborated yielding results that benefit not only the student but physically challenged individuals living in the Detroit area. Teams of engineering students and nursing students work together on projects to build assistive devices that improve the lives of people in need. This paper describes the techniques, goals and objectives used in multidisciplinary collaborative education. Students who have completed the course have described an enhanced understanding of how to effectively collaborate with members of other disciplines. Clients who have worked with the multidisciplinary teams have benefited by receiving assistive devices that have significantly improved their activities of daily living.

scholarly journals Effective Coordination of Capstone Design Work Using Milestones

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel F. Couturier ◽  
Guida Bendrich ◽  
Francis Lang
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Design Work ◽  
Management Framework ◽  
Engineering Program ◽  
Continuous Feedback ◽  
Added Benefit ◽  
The University ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Capstone Design

 Abstract – A universal management framework has been developed for coordinating the work of students and mentors in the capstone design course offered in the Chemical Engineering program at the University of New Brunswick. The framework makes use of seven evenly spaced milestones to pace the students through their design project. The milestone documents describe the main tasks to be completed by students and apply to any client-based project. They also provide the marking scheme to be used by mentors when evaluating the team reports submitted at the end of each milestone. As an added benefit, the universal milestone framework also enables the progressive assembly of a high-quality final report since each milestone report is tailored to be a section of the final report. As expected, the performance of students on the final report is generally better than the average of their milestone grades. Furthermore, the universal framework ensures deliverables are consistent for every group regardless of their project, which results in a streamlined experience for both students and instructors. Student opinion surveys suggest that students appreciate the frequency of the milestones, which allows for continuous feedback and appropriate pacing.

scholarly journals CEAB-INSPIRED RUBRICS FOR ASSESSING DESIGN DOSSIERS IN CAPSTONE DESIGN COURSES

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antony J Hodgson ◽  
Machiel Van der Loos
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Design Work ◽  
Graduate Attributes ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Engineering Department ◽  
Routine Basis ◽  
Capstone Design Courses ◽  
Capstone Design

In the UBC Mechanical Engineering Department, we have recently shifted from using formal reports as our primary documentation process in our capstone design course to a 'design dossier' approach in which students document their work on a task-by-task basis. While this approach has significant benefits in terms of students learning how to document their design work on a routine basis, it has produced challenges in marking a wide range and volume of submissions from different teams working on different projects. In this paper and presentation, we share our experiences of using marking rubrics inspired by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board's list of graduate attributes.

scholarly journals DESIGN OF A CONSISTENT INTERDISCIPLINARY AND DUAL FACULTY CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.C.D. DeGagne ◽  
Paul E. Labossiere
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Engineering Program ◽  
Engineering Discipline ◽  
Respective Discipline ◽  
University Of Manitoba ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Interdisciplinary Courses ◽  
The University ◽  
Capstone Design Courses ◽  
Capstone Design

Abstract - One of the most effective and efficient ways for an engineering program to facilitate compliance with the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) accreditation criteria is through capstone design projects and courses, [1]. Currently, the University of Manitoba Faculty of Engineering has several capstone design courses; however, each is independently focused on its own respective discipline. The resulting educational experience for students, though rigorous and challenging, is maintained within the boundaries of the students’ engineering discipline, thereby neglecting to provide the opportunity for students to work with people from multiple disciplines and across different faculties. This style/mode of education, where students work in silos, arguably does not reflect real world engineering. Program representatives from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Manitoba agree that the capstones should be more reflective of real life situations. For this paper, we were hoping to present the research results of a pilot interdisciplinary capstone that was to be launch in the winter of 2017. Unfortunately, the pilot course was not offered because of low student enrollment. So we decided to take an innovative and creative approach to the research. Since, at the University of Manitoba, the Dean of Engineering is also the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, rather than team with an outside industry focus group, we decided to develop a holistic course with the Faculty of Architecture. The Dean supports this strategy. Interdisciplinary courses are most important because they "…articulate the difference between educational problems and workplace problems" [2]. And allow "(students) persons from different disciplines to work collaboratively and are integrated to combine their knowledge to solve a problem"[3]. This paper explores and explains how that Engineering/Architecture Multidiscipline Capstone and Dual Faculty course will be developed, touches on the early stages of its initiation and implementation, and outlines how the success of the new course will be evaluated.  

scholarly journals Internally Incentivized Interdisciplinarity: Organizational Restructuring of Research and Emerging Tensions

Minerva ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikko Salmela ◽  
Miles MacLeod ◽  
Johan Munck af Rosenschöld
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Scientific Output ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Academic Careers ◽  
Organizational Restructuring ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The University ◽  
Internal Funding

AbstractInterdisciplinarity is widely considered necessary to solving many contemporary problems, and new funding structures and instruments have been created to encourage interdisciplinary research at universities. In this article, we study a small technical university specializing in green technology which implemented a strategy aimed at promoting and developing interdisciplinary collaboration. It did so by reallocating its internal research funds for at least five years to “research platforms” that required researchers from at least two of the three schools within the university to participate. Using data from semi-structured interviews from researchers in three of these platforms, we identify specific tensions that the strategy has generated in this case: (1) in the allocation of platform resources, (2) in the division of labor and disciplinary relations, (3) in choices over scientific output and academic careers. We further show how the particular platform format exacerbates the identified tensions in our case. We suggest that certain features of the current platform policy incentivize shallow interdisciplinary interactions, highlighting potential limits on the value of attempting to push for interdisciplinarity through internal funding.

scholarly journals RINNO: Towards an Open Renovation Platform for Integrated Design and Delivery of Deep Renovation Projects

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6018
Author(s):  
Theo Lynn ◽  
Pierangelo Rosati ◽  
Antonia Egli ◽  
Stelios Krinidis ◽  
Komninos Angelakoglou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Integrated Design ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Building Stock ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Regulatory Standards ◽  
Automation Systems ◽  
Wide Range

The building stock accounts for a significant portion of worldwide energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. While the majority of the existing building stock has poor energy performance, deep renovation efforts are stymied by a wide range of human, technological, organisational and external environment factors across the value chain. A key challenge is integrating appropriate human resources, materials, fabrication, information and automation systems and knowledge management in a proper manner to achieve the required outcomes and meet the relevant regulatory standards, while satisfying a wide range of stakeholders with differing, often conflicting, motivations. RINNO is a Horizon 2020 project that aims to deliver a set of processes that, when working together, provide a system, repository, marketplace and enabling workflow process for managing deep renovation projects from inception to implementation. This paper presents a roadmap for an open renovation platform for managing and delivering deep renovation projects for residential buildings based on seven design principles. We illustrate a preliminary stepwise framework for applying the platform across the full-lifecycle of a deep renovation project. Based on this work, RINNO will develop a new open renovation software platform that will be implemented and evaluated at four pilot sites with varying construction, regulatory, market and climate contexts.

scholarly journals Practice of Biopsychosocial Medicine in Portugal: Perspectives of Professionals Involved

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Graça Pereira ◽  
Alfonso Alonso Fachado ◽  
Thomas Edward Smith
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teams ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Biopsychosocial Medicine ◽  
Health Care Centers

Although, recently, the biopsychosocial approach has been emphasized in the practice of family medicine, how psychologists and physicians interact in collaborative family health care practice is still emerging in Portugal. This article describes a qualitative study that focused on the understanding of psychologists and family physicians' perceptions of their role and the collaborative approach in health care.A questionnaire gathered information regarding collaboration, referral, training and the practice of biopsychosocial medicine. A content analysis on respondents' discourse was performed. Results show that both physicians and psychologists agree on the importance of the biopsychosocial model and interdisciplinary collaboration. However, they also mentioned several difficulties that have to do with the lack of psychologists working full time in health care centers, lack of communication and different expectancies regarding each other roles in health care delivery.Both physicians and psychologists acknowledge the lack of academic training and consider the need for multidisciplinary teams in their training and practice to improve collaboration and integrative care. Implications for future research and for the practice of biopsychosocial medicine are addressed.

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