2017 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings
DOI: 10.18260/1-2--28895
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Switching Midstream, Floundering Early, and Tolerance for Ambiguity: How Capstone Students Cope with Changing and Delayed Projects

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“…Being agile and adaptable can lead to high levels of success. [13] Capstone leadership must work to foster this.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Being agile and adaptable can lead to high levels of success. [13] Capstone leadership must work to foster this.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, the well-structured, constrained problems that engineering students tend to solve in coursework -particularly at the early levels-do little to prepare them for the complexity of vague and unstructured workplace problems [1], [3]. Capstone by design introduces unstructured and unformulated problems, which challenges many students who are unaccustomed to dealing with this type of engineering ambiguity [4].…”
Section: The Challengementioning
confidence: 99%
“…The problems are chosen to require use of prior coursework, but often students need to acquire new knowledge, or learn new tools, to solve them. Solutions are not obvious, and often first attempts will fail, or experiments are required to explore aspects of the potential solution set [4], [7].…”
Section: Capstone Prepares Engineers For the Real World Right? Abet Outcomes And Student Perceptionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Research on capstone design experiences tend to focus on technical and non-technical skills that students develop during the capstone [8][9][10][11][12]. However, there is a gap in the literature with respect to examining the support students receive from their peers (teammates) and industry mentors as they move through the design process.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Other studies, although fewer in number, have investigated what are traditionally called "soft" or non-technical skills such as teamwork and communication [9,10]. Still other studies have explored how skills that are supportive of effective engineering design, engineering decision making, and adaptability are developed over the course of capstone design [11,12]. A critical and even lesser studied element affecting the capstone design experience is the level of support of peers and industry in overcoming and adapting to technical and non-technical challenges.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%