Two Way Integration of Engineering Education through a Design Project

Giralt, Francesc; Herrero, Joan; Grau, F.X.; Alabart, Joan R.; Medir, Magda

doi:10.1002/j.2168-9830.2000.tb00516.x

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“…For instance, Giralt, et al (2000) show a procedure which involved students of first and fourth year in a common project leaded by the latter, which also includes professors, industry participants and authorities. This enables students to be integrated from the very beginning in an engineering team work and to deal with the several issues that this implies.…”

Section: Learning-based Method: Pjblmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancement of Mechanical Engineering Degree through student design competition as added value. Considerations and viability

De-Juan

Rincón

Iglesias

et al. 2016

Journal of Engineering Design

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Enhancement of Mechanical Engineering Degree through student design competition as added value. Considerations and viability.This paper propose using a student design competition as an learning tool in the Mechanical Engineering Degree for enhancing the general competences and motivation of the students, transferring theoretical knowledge to practical situations and bringing together all courses involved under a common framework.This constitutes an added value that the in-person universities should offer to their students as a consequence of the Bologna process and the raising of open online resources for self-learning.In order to assess the viability of this proposal, a pilot Competition-DesignActivity (CDA) is presented using project-based learning methods during a Mechanism Theory course for sophomore students. Meanwhile, twenty seven participants of a forty five-student course from a European university took part in the pilot CDA, which consisted on redesigning the motorbike rear suspension used in a student design competition. Participants also completed mid-term and final exams as well as a survey to get their perception of this activity.Based on the success of the pilot CDA, the authors are planning to implement the proposal, including similar CDAs in other Mechanical Engineering courses to use the competition as a link between them and to encourage students to participate on the competition.

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Section: Learning-based Method: Pjblmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancement of Mechanical Engineering Degree through student design competition as added value. Considerations and viability

De-Juan

Rincón

Iglesias

et al. 2016

Journal of Engineering Design

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“…The integration of first-year engineering design courses into the curriculum at US universities has been recently well documented (Petrosky 1998;Giralt et al 2000;Marra, Palmer, and Litzinger 2000). Such an approach has been adopted in the aeronautics curriculum at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Newman and Amir 2001) and has been shown to motivate and excite first-year students and to introduce design projects early in a student's education (Burton and White 1999).…”

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confidence: 98%

Building international experiences into an engineering curriculum – a design project-based approach

Maldonado

Castillo

Carbajal

et al. 2014

European Journal of Engineering Education

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This paper is a descriptive account of how short-term international and multicultural experiences can be integrated into early design experiences in an aerospace engineering curriculum. Such approaches are considered as important not only in fostering a student's interest in the engineering curriculum, but also exposing them to a multicultural setting that they are likely to encounter in their professional careers. In the broader sense, this programme is described as a model that can be duplicated in other engineering disciplines as a first-year experience. In this study, undergraduate students from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and Universidad del Turabo (UT) in Puerto Rico collaborated on a substantial design project consisting of designing, fabricating, and flight-testing radio-controlled model aircraft as a capstone experience in a semester-long course on Fundamentals of Flight. The two-week long experience in Puerto Rico was organised into academic and cultural components designed with the following objectives: (i) to integrate students in a multicultural team-based academic and social environment, (ii) to practise team-building skills and develop students' critical thinking and analytical skills, and finally (iii) to excite students about their engineering major through practical applications of aeronautics and help them decide if it is a right fit for them.

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“…There is evidence to suggest that integrating students with multiple skill and academic levels on a common design project enhances students' learning process in that it fosters productivity and complex problem-solving [1,2]. In their assessment of an integrated design project in a chemical engineering course involving first year and fourth year students, Giralt et al [3] argue that the learning experience benefits both junior and senior students alike. The role of fourth year students as project managers and team leaders improved their understanding of the management experience.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%