From Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design to Design Implementation

Dumond, Patrick; Lanteigne, Eric

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“…Recently, the University of Ottawa has made a tremendous effort to revamp engineering design throughout its engineering programs by creating common first and second year interdisciplinary project based design courses [7]. These are followed up with program specific engineering design courses in third and fourth year [10], as well as optional interdisciplinary engineering design courses available to senior students [8]. In many cases, these new course rely heavily on project based learning, which is quickly gaining traction as an important tool in engineering education [11].…”

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Introducing and Sustaining Traditional Fabrication Methods in the Context of Teaching Prototyping for Engineering Design

Dumond¹

2018

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The introduction of Makerspaces across Canada has made it much easier for universities to provide engineering students the opportunity to “close the loop” on engineering design, by giving students the means to implement their projects. However, with the introduction of newer rapid prototyping technologies such as 3D printing, students forget or are unware that traditional fabrication technologies can often be more efficient then these new technologies, depending on the situation.This paper discusses the development and sustainability of traditional fabrication methods through the development of low cost dedicated facilities used in interdisciplinary engineering design courses. The introduction of these traditional fabrication methods have proven to increase the efficiency, creativity and critical thinking of engineering students related to the development of quick and iterative prototypes for their engineering designs. However, much work remains to be done if these facilities are to be optimized and sustained in this new engineering education paradigm.

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Introducing and Sustaining Traditional Fabrication Methods in the Context of Teaching Prototyping for Engineering Design

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2018

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“…The University of Ottawa has sought to recognize these students by providing course credits for their effort. One method, which has been used by other institutions to enable this recognition is through senior level capstone projects [12], a method which has also been implemented in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ottawa [7]. Unfortunately, the current single term structure provided does not allow students to follow through with the fabrication of their designs.…”

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confidence: 99%

From Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design to Design Implementation

Cited by 2 publications

References 12 publications

Introducing and Sustaining Traditional Fabrication Methods in the Context of Teaching Prototyping for Engineering Design

Introducing and Sustaining Traditional Fabrication Methods in the Context of Teaching Prototyping for Engineering Design

A Course Based Approach to Recognizing Student Efforts in Engineering Design Competitions

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