TY - GEN
T1 - Project management in an interdisciplinary senior design team
AU - Mawasha, P. Ruby
AU - Yelamarthi, Kumar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2007 by ASME.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Innovation in the changing undergraduate engineering curriculum mandates efficient management of interdisciplinary capstone senior design projects. This effort requires collaboration and management by students and faculty from multiple disciplines, and provides students an opportunity to learn from other engineering systems. In addition, this approach will i) emphasize problem solving and creative thinking; ii) provide first-hand experience in generating a management plan; iii) expose students to multiple engineering and management disciplines, and to work in diverse, multi-cultural teams; and iv) prepare students with a keen understanding of the interdisciplinary environment necessary for success. The senior design project (SDP) presented is based on the interdisciplinary collaboration of electrical, computer, and mechanical engineering students and faculty to design an integrated high altitude balloon system that would reach an altitude of 100,000 feet and return safely to earth. This paper presents the modes by which all the above issues in SDP are addressed, results obtained and improvements planned for the next interdisciplinary projects.
AB - Innovation in the changing undergraduate engineering curriculum mandates efficient management of interdisciplinary capstone senior design projects. This effort requires collaboration and management by students and faculty from multiple disciplines, and provides students an opportunity to learn from other engineering systems. In addition, this approach will i) emphasize problem solving and creative thinking; ii) provide first-hand experience in generating a management plan; iii) expose students to multiple engineering and management disciplines, and to work in diverse, multi-cultural teams; and iv) prepare students with a keen understanding of the interdisciplinary environment necessary for success. The senior design project (SDP) presented is based on the interdisciplinary collaboration of electrical, computer, and mechanical engineering students and faculty to design an integrated high altitude balloon system that would reach an altitude of 100,000 feet and return safely to earth. This paper presents the modes by which all the above issues in SDP are addressed, results obtained and improvements planned for the next interdisciplinary projects.
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U2 - 10.1115/IMECE2007-42166
DO - 10.1115/IMECE2007-42166
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:44249088340
T3 - ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)
SP - 305
EP - 308
BT - Engineering Education and Professional Development
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Y2 - 11 November 2007 through 15 November 2007
ER -