Secondary materials: Engineering properties, environmental consequences, and social and economic impacts. Final report

Due to the comprehensive nature of the two-semester Capstone Design course for fourth-year students, many of the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) Graduate Attributes (GrAtts), and associated learning outcomes (LOs), are present within the course. As the term ‘graduate attribute’ implies, students should exhibit specific attributes upon graduation. Thus, assessing these attributes in the students’ final year enables the faculty and students to verify that the goal of achieving these attributes has been accomplished. However, it is also necessary to examine the results of the assessments to make any downstream adjustments to the curriculum, to address any weaknesses in specific attributes.The undergraduate course calendar provides the following course description for the Capstone Design course:Student design teams, operating within a "company" environment, utilize the broad range of their undergraduate experience in interdisciplinary projects selected to promote interaction between the mechanical, automotive, and materials programs. Design methodologies and team interaction simulate future professional practice. Project milestones include: a design proposal with cost analysis and scheduling, construction and commissioning of the designed apparatus, and a final report and presentation having both global and detail completeness [1].One can see that the course is comprehensive; however, it is also quite unique for each design team as it pertains to each specific project. The uniqueness of projects, along with the fact that there are multiple advisors and assessors of projects, provides challenges to ensuring accurate and consistent assessments.This paper will describe what the department of Mechanical, Automotive & Materials Engineering (MAME) at the University of Windsor has incorporated into the Capstone Design course to assess many of the CEAB GrAtts and LOs, and implement a continuous improvement program for the department.

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Report on Session 2a

Geological Society London Engineering Geology Special Publications ◽

10.1144/gsl.eng.1991.007.01.28 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 335-337 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

K. D. Privett

Keyword(s):

Natural Condition ◽

Large Scale ◽

Engineering Properties ◽

Frost Heave ◽

List Type ◽

Freeze Thaw ◽

Materials Engineering ◽

Loess Deposition ◽

Geomorphological Processes ◽

Lake Deposits

IntroductionThe papers in this session of the conference concentrate on some of the processes described by the Theme Lecturer, Professor Hutchinson, and the engineering properties of the materials. Engineering implications are referred to in the papers but are included in this session because the process/properties element is stressed. This report is intended to provide a brief introduction to the session papers and all references are to papers in this conference.The term “periglacial” is sometimes restricted to geomorphological processes where freeze-thaw is the dominant action but the definition generally is widened to include all those processes, and their landforms, taking place in cold climated outside the margins of an ice sheet and so encompasses everything that is not directly glacial. This conference has used this wider definition and thus deposits such as laminated glacial lake sediments (Bell and Coultard) are included in this session. Table 1 illustrated the range of features that could be considered, many of which are discussed to varying degress in the papers.TABLE 1: List of periglacial features/processes.LARGE-SCALE LANDSLIPSSOLIFLUCTION, MUDFLOWS, SHEARSASYMMETRIC VALLEYSFROST CREEPCAMBERS, VALLEY BULGESICE WEDGESPOLYGONSFROST HEAVE, INVOLUTIONSFROST MOUNDS, PINGOSFROST SHATTERINGLOESS DEPOSITIONLAMINATED LAKE DEPOSITSCHEMICAL OF CaCO3SLOPE PROCESSESThe various processes involved in the formation and modification of slopes, either in their natural condition, or if modified by some engineering works. Is is not surprising then, that the majority of papers submitted to this session concern periglacial slope processes.

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