scholarly journals EXPERIENCES AND PROPOSALS FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING DESIGN COURSES

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pouyan Jazayeri ◽  
William (Bill) Rosehard ◽  
David Westwick
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Group Structure ◽  
Structure Design ◽  
Course Structure ◽  
Interdisciplinary Design ◽  
University Of Calgary ◽  
Design Projects ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Equal Contribution

This paper presents some of the experiences gained from the interdisciplinary design course offered at the university of Calgary in the 2004-2005 academic year. It also provides a few proposals and recommendations to improve the course (or similar versions) in the future. The components of the course—lecture content, group structure, design projects, and general course structure—are analyzed and some of the challenges—equal contribution from members, scheduling, grading, and more— are described in this paper. The approaches used in overcoming these problems, along with further suggestions, are also detailed.

scholarly journals DESIGN AND INNOVATION IN WESTERN'S INTEGRATED ENGINEERING PROGRAM

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph O. Buchal
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Career Goals ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Engineering Program ◽  
Design Projects ◽  
The University

Society needs innovators to solve pressing design problems, and emerging technologies drive innovation. The Integrated Engineering Program offered at the University of Western Ontario develops engineering innovators by offering an interdisciplinary engineering education with emphasis on emerging technologies and engineering design. The program incorporates design in every year, and offers students the unique opportunity to participate in large multi-year design projects as part of their formal engineering education. A survey shows that students rate these features of the program important and valuable contributors toward their career goals.

scholarly journals INTERDISCIPLINARY CAPSTONE DESIGN STREAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO: IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cherly Pearce ◽  
Steve Lambert ◽  
Wayne Parker
Keyword(s):  
Team Members ◽  
Course Structure ◽  
Capstone Course ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering ◽  
Capstone Courses ◽  
Interdisciplinary Design ◽  
Project Deliverables ◽  
The University ◽  
Logistical Barrier ◽  
Capstone Design

An interdisciplinary design approach is a collaborative effort involving team members from different engineering disciplines to solve a problem. An opportunity for interdisciplinary education exists in the fourth year capstone design project. Interdisciplinary capstone courses are offered at other Canadian universities but, at the University of Waterloo (UW) the co-operative undergraduate engineering program poses a logistical barrier to students interacting with students in other disciplines for capstone design projects. Currently, students can form their own interdisciplinary team but differences in course structure, project deliverables, and design terminology and method between engineering disciplines is challenging for students and instructors. An investigation into the feasibility of a new interdisciplinary capstone design course at UW is undertaken. A possible home for the interdisciplinary capstone course could be under the Chair of Design Engineering. Overall, receptivity among departments is positive but a more comprehensive analysis is required.

scholarly journals ENGCON: A PRE-CAPSTONE ENGINEERING DESIGN CONVENTION

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Rennick ◽  
Eugene Li
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Internal Support ◽  
Design Projects ◽  
Capstone Projects ◽  
The University ◽  
Important Activity ◽  
Capstone Design

The capstone design project is ubiquitous in engineering programs worldwide, and is seen by students as the single most important activity in their undergraduate careers. Staff and faculty at the University of Waterloo identified three issues with the current capstone process: students are unaware of industrial suppliers, they lack multi-disciplinary exposure, and they often struggle to identify "good" needs for their projects. The Engineering IDEAs Clinic, with support from instructors and staff from across Engineering, developed a conference for students to address these issues. EngCon – aimed at students in third/fourth year – brought students together with their peers from other programs, instructors from across the Faculty, and representatives from suppliers (both external industry, and internal support units) with the goal of improving their capstone projects. This paper presents the design and implementation of EngCon in both 2017 and 2018 with lessons learned from offering a large coordinated set of workshops aimed at students as they enter their capstone design projects.  

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.

Participant Observations and Recommendations From an Integrated Design Project in Architecture and Engineering

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josh Hartung ◽  
Jay McCormack ◽  
Cam Stefanic ◽  
Jason Cyr ◽  
Keith Bickford ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Integrated Design ◽  
Structure Design ◽  
Joint Decision ◽  
Course Structure ◽  
Available Bandwidth ◽  
Design Project ◽  
Team Culture ◽  
The University

An interdisciplinary design project was conducted with students in the mechanical engineering and architecture departments at the University of Idaho. In order to offer the multidisciplinary design experience within the available bandwidth of instructors, the project was structured around and integrated into existing courses and resources. Past interdisciplinary product design courses have shown the value of interdisciplinary work in the professional development of students in addition to being effective at developing innovative new products. Descriptions of these courses provide insights on conducting them with regards to team structure, course structure, design process, and other topics. This paper summarizes observations reported from students and instructors involved in this project. Observations highlight challenges in project management, examples of cultural differences between disciplines, approaches to design, specifics of project ownership, and perceptions of level of detail in work products. Based on those observations, recommendations are made to develop and deploy a design process that facilitates the strengths of both disciplines and enables mentor guided project management. In addition, these recommendations will help establish a team culture and work setting that does not violate the culture of either discipline while enabling joint decision making, and address directly the impacts of a domain biased product as the design project focus.

scholarly journals EVALUATING STUDENT DESIGN ACTIVITY IN ENGINEERING DESIGN PROJECTS

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. S. Petkau ◽  
D. D. Mann
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Design Activity ◽  
Design Teams ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Design Activities ◽  
University Of Manitoba ◽  
Design Projects ◽  
The University

Student design projects in engineering courses are usually short term conceptual design problems. Upon completion of the projects it is difficult to assess which design activities had the greatest contribution to the success of the design. In the fall of 2006, students in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year Design Trilogy courses at the University of Manitoba were asked to keep extensive design journals. Design teams consisted of multiyear students completing various industry projects. Student design activities recorded in the journals were coded. Data were compared between design teams and between students in the different years of study. This paper describes the evaluation process and reports on the preliminary findings.

scholarly journals Reframing from the ground up: Redesigning a credit-bearing information literacy course using the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 212
Author(s):  
Shonn M. Haren
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
General Education ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Applied Learning ◽  
Course Structure ◽  
Literacy Course ◽  
Upper Level ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Complete Overhaul

LIB 1500 is a three-credit information literacy course offered by the University Library at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly-Pomona), which is taught by faculty librarians. The course was developed during the 2014–15 academic year and has been offered continuously since. While targeted primarily toward freshmen, in the course inevitably include a number of sophomores and upper-level students seeking to fulfill their lifelong learning General Education requirement, for which LIB 1500 is one of several options. While the development of LIB 1500 has been a labor of love, by the end of Spring Quarter 2017, those of us involved in teaching the class had noticed that the course was becoming dated and needed a complete overhaul. Therefore, during the 2017–18 academic year, librarians at Cal Poly-Pomona fundamentally redesigned LIB 1500 to reflect the threshold concepts described in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. In doing so, we learned valuable lessons about course structure, applied learning, and the iterative nature of course revision.

scholarly journals COMPLEMENTARY USE OF DESIGN METHODOLOGIES IN EDUCATIONAL ENGINEERING DESIGN PROJECTS: A CASE STUDY

2013 ◽  
pp. 105-111
Author(s):  
KARL HAIN ◽  
CHRISTOPH RAPPL ◽  
STEPHAN REITBERGER ◽  
SIEGMUND HUBER
Keyword(s):  
Applied Sciences ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Design Methodologies ◽  
Engineering Design Education ◽  
University Of Applied Sciences ◽  
Educational Engineering ◽  
Supply Industry ◽  
Design Projects ◽  
The University

The challenge of a nowadays well-grounded engineering education is preparing industry ready graduates, that is, to provide students with the skills to master the complexity of products in terms of innovation, invention and problem solving combined with soft skills abilities. This addresses particularly the engineering design education, which in general should be mainly based on practical studies represented by engineering design projects. In order to supply industry with work-ready practitioners, the effectiveness and efficacy of design education respectively design projects is a crucial aspect. This article presents some findings of an efficient use of design methodologies and techniques when carrying through design projects in the faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics at the University of Applied Sciences, Deggendorf, Germany. Engineering design projects are compulsory for students within their curriculum. The projects aim at fostering and stimulating students creativity by means of a complementary use of design methodologies and techniques. By taking advantage of this approach the systematic generation of ideas in the course of a design project is presented, which eventually led to the development of an innovative product.

scholarly journals A COMPETENCY-BASED, STUDENT-CENTERED ASSESSMENT MODEL FOR ENGINEERING DESIGN

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. R. Johnston ◽  
D. J. Caswell ◽  
D. M. Douglas ◽  
M. J. Eggermont
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Work ◽  
University Of Calgary ◽  
Assessment Approach ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
The University

The new first-year engineering design and communications course at the University of Calgary has adopted a competency-based, student-centered model for assessing learning. Satisfactory performance in this course requires mastery of core competencies in four categories: ability to function as a member of a team, ability to contribute effectively to product or process design, ability to communicate effectively using the written word, ability to communicate effectively through the medium of drawing. Every assignment in the course is aimed at evaluating one (or more) of the core competencies from these categories. Student work is assessed as Excellent, Good, or Requires Additional Work. Because our focus is on competency, we permit students to redo any of their work to achieve a better assessment. Students must achieve the minimum of a Good on every assignment to have established competency and pass the course. Students can also redo assignments to move from a Good to Excellent assessment. Students compile term work into portfolios. The portfolios illustrate the progression of learning to both instructors and students. Students also use the portfolio to highlight their design and communication abilities to future employers. The new competency-based approach used at the University of Calgary is more effective than traditional assessment models because it requires students to learn from one another and to reflect on their learning. Students receive feedback by following a four-step process: 1) Comparison to posted examples of student work, 2) Discussion with other students, 3) Generation of a written self-assessment, 4) Feedback on self-assessment by instructors. This assessment approach reinforces the skills needed for engineering design.

Evaluating Methodical Engineering Design Education

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carsten Rückert ◽  
Gritt Ahrens ◽  
Frauke Schroda ◽  
Oliver Gaedeke
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Structure Design ◽  
Additional Stress ◽  
Design Work ◽  
Engineering Design Education ◽  
University Of Berlin ◽  
Design Projects ◽  
Work Structure

Abstract At the Institute for Machine Design of the Technical University of Berlin, design methodology has been taught in industry-related engineering design projects for more than 20 years. In an interdisciplinary research study, different kinds of engineering design projects were evaluated. The aim was to identify factors which influence the acceptance and application of design methods, and thus optimize engineering design education and design methodology. The results suggest that the design work structure prescribed by design methodologies is a natural way to structure design work, at least for students. The separation of the basic machine elements education and the design methodology education seems to result in additional stress for the students.

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