Forming And Managing Project Teams In A Large Capstone Design Course

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(UK). For many years he was management consultant at Ford Motor Company in high-tech education and training. In 1994 he received the ASEE Chester F. Carlson Award for innovation in engineering education. He has co-authored books on creative problem solving, engineering design, entrepreneurship and innovation. He has work experience in industry, seven universities in the U.S. (in three of them as dean of engineering) and four universities abroad (most recently on sabbatical at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology). His engineering specialties are in aero-acoustics, vibration, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, solar energy, and engineering design, with over 100 papers published in these fields. Dr.

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