scholarly journals Engineering Education Lessons From A Sounding Rocket Capstone Design Course

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph Sandfry ◽  
michael bettner ◽  
Tim Lawrence ◽  
Michael Sobers
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Sounding Rocket ◽  
Capstone Design

MNC-Sponsored Multidisciplinary Industrial-Strength Capstone Design Projects in China

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (10) ◽  
pp. 54-65
Author(s):  
Vincent Chang
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Biomedical Engineering ◽  
Multinational Corporation ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
Computer Engineering ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Design Projects ◽  
Industrial Strength ◽  
Capstone Design

With a growing need to reform Chinese higher engineering education, University of Michigan—Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (JI) initiated multinational corporation-sponsored industrial-strength Capstone Design Projects (CDP) in 2011. Since 2011, JI has developed 96 corporate-sponsored CDPs since its inception, which include multinational corporation sponsors such as Covidien, Dover, GE, HP, Intel, NI, Philips, and Siemens. Of these projects, healthcare accounts for 27%, energy 24%, internet technology (IT) 22%, electronics 16%, and other industries 11%. This portfolio reflects the trends and needs in the industry, which provides opportunities for engineering students to develop their careers. An accumulated 480 JI students have been teamed up based on their individual backgrounds, specifically electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, mechanical engineering, and biomedical engineering. The corporate-sponsored rate grew from 0% in 2010 to 86% in 2014.

scholarly journals INDUSTRY-BASED CAPSTONE DESIGN PROJECTS: MEMORIAL'S FORTY YEARS EXPERIENCE

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard M. Lye ◽  
Stephen E. Bruneau
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
The Other ◽  
Engineering Profession ◽  
Undergraduate Program ◽  
Cooperative Model ◽  
Engineering Community ◽  
The World ◽  
Design Projects ◽  
Memorial University Of Newfoundland ◽  
Capstone Design

Over the last few decades, the idea that the engineering profession should have a significant input to engineering education has taken a stronghold throughout the world. This is still true today. At Memorial University of Newfoundland, professional contacts were deliberately built into the undergraduate program when it was developed in 1969. First, the program would run on the cooperative model whereby students alternate between industry and university and second, the traditional final-year individual theses would be discarded in favour of team-oriented comprehensive capstone design projects supplied by industry and supervised by professional engineers from industry and academia. Both aspects of the program require considerable interaction between students and faculty on one hand and the practicing engineering community on the other. This has considerably strengthened the ties between industry and academia and has given the students an appreciation of the significance of their work to society in which they live. This paper will highlight some of Memorial’s experiences with industry-based capstone design projects over the last 40 years.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF HOW CAPSTONE TEAMS DEFINE ENGINEERING DESIGN FAILURE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farrah Fayyaz
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Concordia University ◽  
Design Students ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Graduating Students ◽  
Capstone Design

There is a growing trend in engineering education to increase the societal awareness among theengineering graduates, so that the engineering solutions proposed by the engineers are more sustainable. To achieve this, one of the efforts in Concordia University is to ask capstone students to discuss and implement (wherever possible) ethical, legal, social, environmental, and entrepreneurial aspects of their capstone design. Students are given two lectures during the capstone year which provides them with prompts to identify and think beyond their personal biases and perceptions of the society. At the end of the term, each capstone team is asked to define engineering failure. The aim for this is for graduating students to have a well thought of idea of the engineering design failure before they enter the workplace. This article explains the two phases (lectures) of the capstone lectures related to the ethical, legal, societal, environmental, and entrepreneurial aspects of an engineering design. Additionally, the article aims to analyze the definitions of engineering failure submitted by the engineering students at the end of the capstone year to identify keywords and terms that the graduating engineering students attribute to success and failure of an engineering design. The objective of the paper is to open the discussion among engineering educators for incorporating ideas in their courses that can improve engineering students’ understanding of a sustainable design and assess the success of these strategies.

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.

DESIGN IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING: WHAT ARE THE PERSPECTIVES

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viviane Yargeau
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Engineering Science ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
Capstone Design ◽  
Current Practices

Design in chemical engineering should aim at reaching a balance between theory and practice in engineering education in order to have students better prepared for their future endeavors. As students progress through the curriculum they learn more fundamental engineering science, more design components are introduced into courses and the complexity of the design problems increases. Elements of design are introduced in many courses and culminate in a capstone design course. Current practices in Chemical Engineering at McGill University are described here and general perspectives are discussed.

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