scholarly journals INCORPORATING A COMMUNITY-BASED RAPID MANUFACTURING FACILITY INTO A FIRST YEAR ENGINEERING DESIGN COURSE

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Wlodyka ◽  
Bruno Tomberli
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
First Year ◽  
Design Tools ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Laboratory Equipment ◽  
Manufacturing Facility ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Design Students ◽  
Manufacturing Technologies ◽  
The University

University engineering departments are often challenged to maintain state of the art manufacturing facilities due to the rapid technological changes that are occurring in industry. Older or obsolete engineering laboratory equipment, manufacturing machines, and design tools are difficult to replace due to limited department budgets, space, and staff resources.At Capilano University, where a hands-on project-based one semester first year engineering design class is offered, the Engineering department has taken a novel approach to meet the above challenge.The Engineering Design students are required to design, build, and test original prototype electrical circuits, and mechanical structures as part of their design projects. Construction of these student-designed units requires a rapid turnaround manufacturing facility to meet the peak demands of the students, capabilities that smaller universities are often limited in their ability to provide.To meet this specific requirement, a community-based private rapid prototyping design and manufacturing facility, Zen Maker Labs, was approached, and a partnership agreement has been developed. The agreement consisted of cooperation between the university and the Zen Maker Lab to support up to 60 engineering design students. The students were provided with tools, safety training, and support for manufacturing. The facility has provided CAD design stations, several 3D printers, laser cutters, and numerically controlled milling machines to support manufacturing of student designs. Access to the manufacturing facility was initially provided on subscription basis, where students used the library to “sign-out” membership cards, and access the facility on a controlled,  supervised basis. The controlling of student numbers through the  university library provided a method for managing student access to themanufacturing facility over a period of 8-10 weeks. This arrangement for laboratory access has recently been expanded through a revised collaboration arrangement, and has provided engineering design students with handson experience with several manufacturing technologies and CAD engineering modelling and design tools.

scholarly journals Teaching Design to First-Year Engineering Students

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael McGuire ◽  
Kin Fun Li ◽  
Fayez Gebali
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
First Year ◽  
Considerable Effort ◽  
Student Teams ◽  
Product Engineering ◽  
Teaching Design ◽  
Integrated Communication ◽  
The University

Design is associated with the invention,planning and building a product. Engineering design, inparticular, takes considerable effort, skills, andintegration of knowledge; hence, it is difficult to teachfreshmen this subject since they have not possessed ordeveloped the proper skill set yet. The Faculty ofEngineering at the University of Victoria has beenteaching engineering design (in two successive courses)to all first-year engineering students. In addition toattending plenary lectures, student teams are working oncompetitive projects in the laboratory, while participatingin highly integrated communication modules. In thiswork, we discuss the curricula of these design courses,model of delivery and share our experience for the pastthree years.

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.

scholarly journals An Introductory Design Project Case Study: Cardboard Beds for Emergency/Refugee Situations

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Maw
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
First Year ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Design Project ◽  
Emergency Shelters ◽  
The Future ◽  
Design Students

In the Fall of 2013, first-year Mount RoyalUniversity engineering design students completed a 5-week long team-based project with the objective ofproducing a cardboard bed for emergency/refugeesituations. The project was a success and this paperdetails how it was run, what lessons were learned, and thenature of the outcomes. For those considering a similartype of project in the future, resources and client groupsare described. Ultimately, the student groups were ableto design a variety of cardboard beds that supported atleast one adult, comfortably. Variations included bedsfor African cholera outbreaks, Syrian and African refugeecamps, and Canadian emergency shelters.

scholarly journals Reciclado de desechos plásticos en Laboratorio de Manufactura

2019 ◽  
pp. 16-23
Author(s):  
Mónica Alejandra Sánchez-Torres ◽  
Agustín Guzman-Cortés
Keyword(s):  
Second Life ◽  
Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene ◽  
Plastic Waste ◽  
Laboratory Equipment ◽  
Waste Production ◽  
3D Printers ◽  
Manufacturing Technologies ◽  
The University ◽  
Continuous Use ◽  
Butadiene Styrene

Mexico is ranned first place among countries with plastic waste production; recycling mainly polyethylene terephthalate (PET), the recycling of other plastics is almost nil. Laboratory equipment are didactic elements in Manufacturing Engineering; It allows to develop professional competences required in this major, by integrating theoretical and experimental contents through laboratory practices. The problem of continuous use of 3D printers in lab practices is that, for each kilogram of polylactic acid (PLA) and acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), between 10% and 30% results in waste material. The university can hardly afford these supplies to the Manufacturing Laboratory because of the high cost of plasctic materials. That is why this project seeks to offer a technological proposal to give plastic waste a second life, as an outcome from laboratory 3D printers. This may decrease the environmental impact generated by the university. These wastes can be recycled, through a mechanical method, and used as material in the realization of laboratory practices that develop academic and professional skills of new manufacturing technologies.

scholarly journals EXPERIENCE WITH A SMALL UAV IN THE ENGINEERING DESIGN CLASS AT CAPILANO UNIVERSITY – A NOVEL APPROACH TO FIRST YEAR ENGINEERING DESIGN

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Wlodyka ◽  
Margaret Dulat
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Video Camera ◽  
Field Investigation ◽  
First Year ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Student Teams ◽  
Small Uav ◽  
Practical Design ◽  
Diploma Program

Capilano University offers a very successfulfirst-year Engineering Transfer and EngineeringTransition Diploma program. A key learning experiencefor students of both programs is a one-semesterEngineering Design course, in which the instructor leadsthe student through a practical design project, applyingengineering design principles that are presented in thecourse. In 2014, a new project design theme wasintroduced, specifically working with small UnmannedAerial Vehicles (UAVs). The teaching methodologycombined both lecture and student led learningexperiences. Student teams of 4 were provided a commonassignment to carry out a field investigation using a UAVand video camera to simulate an industrial application.With experience gained on a PC based flight simulator,all teams successfully completed their designs, carried outtheir UAV flights and documented their results. Studentsdeveloped project management and communication skillsearly in their engineering education. This innovativeapproach in first year provides students with immediateexposure to the practical limitations that constrainengineering design. The teaching methodology isexpected to result in graduate engineers who havestronger skills in teamwork, communication, and designcapability. This first year teaching methodology hasshown significant promise as demonstrated through thequality of the design projects, as well as positive feedbackfrom the students.

AN ENGINEERING DESIGN PROJECT TO PROVIDE MULTI-DISCIPLINARY EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seach Chyr (Ernest) Goh ◽  
Sumi Siddiqua
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Project Teams ◽  
First Year ◽  
Final Exam ◽  
Sustainable Engineering ◽  
Design Project ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
Negative Comments ◽  
The University

First year engineering students at the University of British Columbia Okanagan, take the Fundamentals of Sustainable Engineering Design course as part of the suite of common courses for all engineering students regardless of discipline. The largest assessment components of the course are the final exam (40%) and the design project (40%). For the design project, teams of 4 – 6 students build a scaled-down prototype of a Well Ventilated yet Energy Efficient Room (WeVeyEER) that must be able to maintain its interior temperature at 10°C above ambient and at the same time continuously exchange stale air from within with fresh air from outside. It also has to meet load-bearing, size and power supply constraints. The energy consumption, rate of air exchange and weight are parameters for comparing performance of the prototypes. The majority of teams (55 out of 64) could achieve the requirements. Feedback about the project was mixed, with 57 positive and 56 negative comments.  

scholarly journals Recent Enhancements to the Biosystems Engineering Design Trilogy at the University of Manitoba

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danny D Mann ◽  
Kris J Dick ◽  
Sandra A Ingram
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
First Year ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Capstone Course ◽  
University Of Manitoba ◽  
Second Year ◽  
The University

In previous years, several improvements to the teaching of engineering design were made by staff in the Department of Biosystems Engineering at The University of Manitoba. The first innovation occurred when a trilogy of courses spanning the final three years of the program was introduced as a replacement for a single capstone course in the final year of the program. In its original conception, engineering students were to get three opportunities to be involved in design problems originating from industry, with greater expectations with each subsequent experience. A second innovation occurred when technical communication was formally integrated within the trilogy of design courses. This innovation has helped engineering students realize the value of professional communication skills in collaborating with each other and in preparing reports and presentations for an industry client. A third innovation occurred three years ago when the decision was made to allow students to participate in the prototyping of their designs. The so-called “Design Trilogy” now consists of a single course (Design Trilogy I) taken during the second year of the engineering program (which builds upon the first-year design experience with the requirement of a conceptual solution in response to a design problem provided by industry) and two courses taken during the final year of the program. Students are required to have a design completed on paper by the completion of Design Trilogy II and fabrication of the prototype occurs during Design Trilogy III. The student experience in the Design Trilogy, with particular emphasis on curriculum innovations in Design Trilogy III, will be discussed.

scholarly journals FROM STEM TO STEAM IN ENGINEERING DESIGN

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chantal Rodier ◽  
Mohamed Galaleldin ◽  
Justine Boudreau ◽  
Hanan Anis
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Early Years ◽  
First Year ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Curricular Design ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Design Activities ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Creativity, communication skills, interdisciplinary sensitivity, and cultural and civic responsibility are vital skills and perspectives to inculcate in contemporary engineering students. A number of studies have demonstrated the benefits of exposing engineering students to arts, as studying arts and humanities can open up their minds to creative ideas from great minds outside of science and engineering. In most cases, engineering students are exposed to the arts by taking a few non-technical courses as electives. Many students view these courses as less important and irrelevant to their field of studies. Integrating the arts into the technical engineering curriculum is challenging but critical to engineering design, particularly in early years, and represents a natural opportunity. This paper discusses the approach taken by the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Ottawa of exposing students to the arts through curricular and extra-curricular design activities. These include offering design challenges, a first-year engineering design course and summer internships. This paper also discusses the challenges that arise in delivering such curriculum and the impact of such exposure on the engineering students involved.

scholarly journals Learning in Facebook: First year tertiary student reflections from 2008 to 2011

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Josh McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
First Year ◽  
Online Learning Environment ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Online Forum ◽  
Student Cohorts ◽  
Design Students ◽  
The University ◽  
Technological University ◽  
Student Reflections

<p>This paper reflects on the use of Facebook as an online learning environment for first year design students from 2008 to 2011. Between 2008 and 2010 three student cohorts from the University of Adelaide engaged with their peers through forums hosted by Facebook, submitting work-in-progress imagery and critiquing peers' submissions. In 2011 the study expanded to include national and international collaborators with first year cohorts from Swinburne University in Australia, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore also participating, allowing students to interact with their global peers. The online forum facilitated increased peer interaction, particularly between local and international students, and improved academic performance as a result of consistent feedback from a range of sources. At the end of 2011 students from the four participating cohorts between 2008 and 2011 were invited to take part in a survey reflecting on and evaluating the learning experiences in Facebook. The results highlighted many positive outcomes regarding the online forum, and have led to the establishment of a series of recommendations for the future use of Facebook as a learning tool, outlined at the conclusion of this paper.</p><p> </p>

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