Abstract:Since 2002, the Kate Gleason College of Engineering (KGCOE) at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has seen its Multidisciplinary Senior Design (MSD) program grow from a small pilot project into a college-wide initiative involving four departments and almost 400 students annually. While subtle adjustments have been made each year, a major redesign effort was undertaken prior to the 2006 academic year to improve program alignment with departmental objectives, to improve delivery efficiency and effective… Show more
“…The MED course presented in this article is a unique contribution to the engineering education literature with its fully virtual interactive multidisciplinary design experience methodology. Moreover, the evaluation of the MED courses in the literature is mainly pertained by the evaluation of the projects at the end of the semester and/or end-of-course student course assessment [6,8,16,24]. The present project, however, offers several evaluation methods for the students and teams via their interaction with collaborative tools and team members.…”
Section: Benefits and Challenges As Experienced By Studentsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Petre [25] indicates that recent companies and projects call for intense multidisciplinary cooperation among fields, such as mechanical engineering, electrical or electronic engineering, software engineering, and industrial design. For this reason, multidisciplinary project design-based learning is one of the integral components in undergraduate engineering education [8].…”
Based on the multidisciplinary needs of today's complex and innovative technology, accreditation bodies of engineering demand proof of multidisciplinary teamwork in undergraduate engineering curricula. This article reports the design and conduct of a Multidisciplinary Engineering Design (MED) course initiated as a result of accreditation process requirements. The course, which consists of multidisciplinary lectures, practice sessions, and various phases of a multidisciplinary team project, was conducted online because of the COVID‐19 pandemic by a multidisciplinary team of instructors using multiple software tools to enhance collaboration. In general, the course outcomes were satisfied under the current design, and several points for further improvement and elaboration were collected via quantitative and qualitative evaluations. Accordingly, the results show that the project‐based and team‐based MED course, in terms of multidisciplinary course management and its outcomes, can benefit from the use of software tools in creating a multidisciplinary team in distance education by means of enhanced cooperation and motivation among the participants.
“…The MED course presented in this article is a unique contribution to the engineering education literature with its fully virtual interactive multidisciplinary design experience methodology. Moreover, the evaluation of the MED courses in the literature is mainly pertained by the evaluation of the projects at the end of the semester and/or end-of-course student course assessment [6,8,16,24]. The present project, however, offers several evaluation methods for the students and teams via their interaction with collaborative tools and team members.…”
Section: Benefits and Challenges As Experienced By Studentsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Petre [25] indicates that recent companies and projects call for intense multidisciplinary cooperation among fields, such as mechanical engineering, electrical or electronic engineering, software engineering, and industrial design. For this reason, multidisciplinary project design-based learning is one of the integral components in undergraduate engineering education [8].…”
Based on the multidisciplinary needs of today's complex and innovative technology, accreditation bodies of engineering demand proof of multidisciplinary teamwork in undergraduate engineering curricula. This article reports the design and conduct of a Multidisciplinary Engineering Design (MED) course initiated as a result of accreditation process requirements. The course, which consists of multidisciplinary lectures, practice sessions, and various phases of a multidisciplinary team project, was conducted online because of the COVID‐19 pandemic by a multidisciplinary team of instructors using multiple software tools to enhance collaboration. In general, the course outcomes were satisfied under the current design, and several points for further improvement and elaboration were collected via quantitative and qualitative evaluations. Accordingly, the results show that the project‐based and team‐based MED course, in terms of multidisciplinary course management and its outcomes, can benefit from the use of software tools in creating a multidisciplinary team in distance education by means of enhanced cooperation and motivation among the participants.
“…ABET specifically requires that students be able to function on multi-disciplinary teams. The CD sequence supplies a framework where students from diverse backgrounds can easily be mixed in groups (27) .…”
He is also a member of ASEE, Eta Kappa Nu, and the Project Management Institute. He is the author of numerous books, book chapters, journal articles, and conference papers in the areas of embedded systems, robotics, parallel processing, and engineering education.
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