Teaming engineers and technical communicators in interdisciplinary classrooms: working with and against compartmentalized knowledge

Technology Entrepreneurship @ Sfu: Experiential, Interdisciplinary Learning Through an Immersive Two-Year Program

“…Within engineering programs, a natural place for this to occur is within the context of the typical senior year "capstone" design project. The literature includes several examples of programs in which capstone teams are formed across the boundaries of different Engineering disciplines [2], [3], [4], as well as those in which teams form more broadly across Faculties [1], [5], [6], [7], [8], [11]. In specific cases, programs are aimed at stimulating interactions between Engineering (and/or Science) and Business students, with a focus on entrepreneurship, e.g.…”