scholarly journals A NOVEL DESIGN COMPETITION FOR THIRD-YEAR CIVIL ENGINEERING STUDENTS

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janaka Y. Ruwanpura
Keyword(s):  
Design Education ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Construction Material ◽  
Successful Outcome ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
University Of Calgary ◽  
Design Competition ◽  
The University ◽  
Novel Design

At many Canadian universities, there are few courses for design education in the civil engineering curriculum except in fourth year. This paper explains an innovative approach introduced by the author to promote design education using a design competition at the University of Calgary. Through this design competition, third-year students learn design concepts and apply them using a real project, integrate several civil engineering deliverables in one project without doing them in a separate course, and gain experience that prepares them for their final-year design course. The eight courses included in the competition comprise all civil engineering aspects, including structural, geotechnical, transportation, environmental, construction, material, and project management. This inaugural year’s design competition is based on the new Alberta Children’s Hospital Project. The paper discusses the competition’s purpose, structure, student participation, deliverables, and successful outcome.

scholarly journals THIRD YEAR INTEGRATED DESIGN PROJECT FOR THIRD YEAR CIVIL ENGINEERING STUDENTS

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janaka Ruwanpura
Keyword(s):  
Design Education ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Construction Material ◽  
Integrated Design ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Design Project ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
The Third ◽  
Design Competition

There is a lack of courses for design education in civil engineering curriculum except in fourth year at many Canadian Universities. An innovative approach introduced and implemented by the author to promote design education at the third year using a design competition at the University of Calgary was very successful. Student learned design concepts, applied them in the third year using a real project, integrated several civil engineering deliverables in one project without doing them in a separate course, and gained experience to get ready for their final year design course through this design competition. The eight courses included in the competition comprise all civil engineering aspects including structural, geotechnical, transportation, environmental, construction, material, and project management. The lessons learned by implementing the competition for 2 years, the author suggests a new idea to introduce a third year design project for civil engineering students. The paper discusses the purpose, structure, student participation, deliverables of the new idea.

scholarly journals INNOVATIVE FINAL YEAR DESIGN PROJECT-INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE MAKES A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janaka Y. Ruwanpura ◽  
Andrew MacIver ◽  
Thomas Brown
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Successful Outcome ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Innovative Design ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
University Of Calgary ◽  
The University ◽  
University Industry

The Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Calgary is proud to be a leader in multi-disciplinary design education in Canada by bringing many facets to design education including internationalization. This design education produces many contributions to university, industry and society by developing innovative design solutions. This paper explains the novel approach adopted for the final year civil engineering design course in 2002/3 using the largest urban renewal project currently underway in Europe, which the students the opportunity to develop designs. The concept, structure, challenges, contributions and the successful outcome of the civil engineering design course are also explained in the paper.

The Impact of Team-Based Product Dissection on Design Novelty

2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine A. Toh ◽  
Scarlett R. Miller ◽  
Gül E. Okudan Kremer
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Idea Generation ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Engineering Design Education ◽  
Current Design ◽  
The Impact

Although design novelty is a critical area of research in engineering design, most research in this space has focused on understanding and developing formal idea generation methods instead of focusing on the impact of current design practices. This is problematic because formal techniques are often not adopted in industry due to the burdensome steps often included in these methods, which limit the practicality and adoption of these methods. This study seeks to understand the impact of product dissection, a design method widely utilized in academia and industry, on design novelty in order to produce recommendations for the use or alterations of this method for supporting novelty in design. To investigate the impact of dissection, a study was conducted with 76 engineering students who completed a team-based dissection of an electric toothbrush and then individually generated ideas. The relationships between involvement in the dissection activity, the product dissected, the novelty and quantity of the ideas developed were investigated. The results reveal that team members who were more involved in the dissection activity generated concepts that were more novel than those who did not. In addition, the type of the dissected product also had an influence on design novelty. Finally, a positive correlation between the number of ideas generated and the novelty of the design concepts was identified. The results from this study are used to provide recommendations for leveraging product dissection for enhancing novelty in engineering design education and practice.

scholarly journals NEW SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING PROGRAM PROPOSAL – MINDSET AND DEVELOPMENT

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Paul ◽  
Gillian Ayers ◽  
Joule Bergerson ◽  
Kerry Black ◽  
Tanya Brucker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Sustainability Education ◽  
Education Literature ◽  
Sustainable Systems ◽  
University Of Calgary ◽  
The University ◽  
Climate Crisis

With the continued climate crisis, there is increasing recognition for the important of sustainabilityeducation in engineering. At the University of Calgary, we are developing a program in Sustainable Systems Engineering to address this need. Systems thinking and sustainability are intrinsically linked, as in order to comprehend the wicked challenges of sustainability today, we must take a holistic, interconnected, systems approach. This paper outlines sustainability education literature, and our approach to program development. Overall, we hope to foster mindsets and develop engineering students who are able to fundamentally shift the discourse on sustainability engineering within industry, and critically reflect on the role of engineering itself.

scholarly journals FAMILIARIZATION: FOSTERING CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING IN ENGINEERING DESIGN EDUCATION

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Caswell ◽  
C. R. Johnston ◽  
E. Baraniecke ◽  
D. Douglas ◽  
M. Eggermont
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Creative Problem Solving ◽  
Engineering Design Education ◽  
University Of Calgary ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering Education ◽  
Creative Problem ◽  
The University ◽  
Engineering Training

Developing the skills of creative problem solving in undergraduate engineering education is a significant challenge in the typically analytical engineering training program. The problem lies in the fact that the skills of design and creative problem solving are primarily skills of synthesis rather than analysis. Design instructors at the University of Calgary have developed an approach to design that fosters the development of synthesis skills. This paper develops Familiarization as one component of the approach necessary for creative thinking and provides a description of the classroom requirements for developing the concept.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF THE INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM WORK ATTRIBUTE AMONG UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING STUDENTS: TRENDS ACROSS 4 YEARS OF ASSESSMENT

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Grocutt ◽  
A. Barron ◽  
M. Khakhar ◽  
T.A. O'Neill ◽  
W.D. Rosehart ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Program Accreditation ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering ◽  
University Of Calgary ◽  
Teamwork Skills ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

The Engineers Canada Accreditation Board outlines 12 Canadian Engineering Graduate Attributes required for program accreditation. One of these attributes is Individual and Team Work. Since 2016, at the University of Calgary, there has been a voluntary, undergraduate-wide survey administered to the Schulich School of Engineering students every spring via an online platform. The purpose of the survey is to assess students’ perceived development of teamwork skills during their program, and identify avenues to improve program offerings. After four consecutive years of this survey, with sample sizes ranging from 683-973 students, there are three main trends that can be identified: students perceive teamwork skills as highly important for their future careers, there are noticeable differences between male and female students regarding teamwork experiences, and students value teamwork skills training and opportunities for peer feedback. Implications of these findings are that there are gendered teamwork experiences among undergraduate engineering students and more research is needed to understand interventions that can mitigate this.

DOMEGO

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-37
Author(s):  
Franck Taillandier ◽  
Alice Micolier ◽  
Gérard Sauce ◽  
Myriam Chaplain
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Board Game ◽  
Evaluation Protocol ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

Construction project is a major learning of the civil engineering educational program. However, the related knowledge is difficult to apprehend and assimilate during lectures since it is theoretical and practical work or tutorials on the subject are scarce. To address this issue, the authors developed DOMEGO, a game for teaching construction projects to civil engineering students. This board game aims to provide students with active and experiential learning of the key issues of a construction project. In the game, each player embodies a stakeholder of a construction project and must carry out the project while meeting her/his objectives. DOMEGO has been successfully integrated into an instructional setting of undergraduate students in Civil Engineering at the University of Bordeaux and Polytech, Nice Engineering School. Student feedback collected in the post-game survey was very positive. However, a more thorough analysis with a real evaluation protocol would be necessary to validate the game interest to teach construction project.

Assessment of Individual and Teamwork Attributes in Undergraduate Engineering Students

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas O'Neill
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Team Work ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Personal Support ◽  
Program Accreditation ◽  
Team Projects ◽  
University Of Calgary ◽  
Teamwork Skills ◽  
The University

Engineers Canada Accreditation Board lists12 Canadian Engineering Graduate Attributes necessaryfor program accreditation. One of these is the Individualand Team Work attribute. At the University of Calgary anannual survey has been developed to assess studentperceptions of teamwork. The survey examines students’overall satisfaction with teamwork activities, attitudestowards teamwork, perceived emphasis and supportreceived from the department, teamwork skills(competence and importance), and personal support forteamwork initiatives. Based on the responses from pastyears two trends can be identified: students perceive agap between their competence in teamwork skills and theimportance of those skills, and students show high levelsof support for more teamwork initiatives. Following thesetrends three recommendations can be made: teamworkskills development activities for the students, moreopportunities for peer feedback in team projects, andsupport for first year students. By annually administeringassessments engineering departments can evaluate theirsuccess in developing the necessary Individual and TeamWork attribute required by Engineers CanadaAccreditation Board for program accreditation.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document