Interactive Bottle Recycler: A “Green” Senior Design Project Case Study

Current architecture studios are missing an important phase in the education process, which is constructing the students’ conceptual ideas on a real physical scale. The design-build approach enables the students to test their ideas, theories, material selection, construction methods, environmental constraints, simulation results, level of space functionality and other important aspects when used by real target clients in an existing context. This paper aims to highlight the importance of using the design-build method through discussing a design project case study carried out by the Masters of Architecture design programme students at Beirut Arab University, who have built prototype units for refugees on a 1:1 scale.

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Designing undergraduate optoelectronic laboratories: a unique senior design project

Technology-Based Re-Engineering Engineering Education Proceedings of Frontiers in Education FIE'96 26th Annual Conference ◽

10.1109/fie.1996.573035 ◽

2002 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

C.J. Theesfeld ◽

S.M. Lord

Keyword(s):

Design Project ◽

Senior Design

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"Study on the Case Study of Industrial-Educational Design Project According to the Specialization of Design Business Education -Focused on individual genetic test (DTC) package development cases-"

Journal of Basic Design & Art ◽

10.47294/ksbda.21.3.30 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 21 (3) ◽

pp. 415-428

Author(s):

Jin Ki Choo

Keyword(s):

Business Education ◽

Genetic Test ◽

Educational Design ◽

Design Project

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A Case Study of the Effects of Design Project Length on Team Collaboration and Leadership in Senior Mechanical Engineering Projects

Volume 3: 19th International Conference on Advanced Vehicle Technologies; 14th International Conference on Design Education; 10th Frontiers in Biomedical Devices ◽

10.1115/detc2017-68197 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

James Righter ◽

Andy Blanton ◽

Hallie Stidham ◽

Doug Chickarello ◽

Joshua D. Summers

Keyword(s):

Exploratory Research ◽

Design Teams ◽

Team Collaboration ◽

Project Completion ◽

Communication Structures ◽

Senior Design ◽

Design Projects ◽

The Impact ◽

Engineering Projects

This paper describes exploratory research regarding leadership and communication within undergraduate engineering design teams. The case study was performed on student design projects of one and two semester duration to begin to assess the impact of project length on leadership and communication within the design teams. Data was collected using a survey that was given to the participants in three capstone design projects in Clemson University’s senior design course. The survey was administered within one month of course and project completion. While there were differences in the communication and leadership patterns between the teams, there were other possible influences beyond the project length such as team size and organization, organizational and geographic distribution, and the nature of the product. As a result, further research is proposed to study leadership and communication structures within undergraduate teams and multi-team systems (MTS).

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