The Gateway MYMUP Project: experience from a pilot implementation at Florida International University

Author

Tsihrintzis, Vassilios A. ; Stuart, John A. ; Resnick, Marc L. ; Pittenger, Elizabeth

Author_Institution

Coll. of Eng. & Design, Florida Int. Univ., Miami, FL, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

6-9 Nov 1996

Firstpage

111

Abstract

The Multi-Year, Multi-University project (MYMUP) is a new initiative within the gateway coalition funded by the National Science Foundation EEC Grant 9109853. It involves multi-disciplinary and multi-university student teams working on common design projects. The pilot implementation of this project took place in Fall and Spring 1996 semesters at Florida International University (FIU). This paper presents the FIU experience with this project including a description of the pilot implementation and results of MYMUP

Keywords

educational courses; engineering education; project engineering; Florida International University; Gateway MYMUP Project; National Science Foundation; design projects; gateway coalition; multi-disciplinary; multi-university; pilot implementation; student teams; Cities and towns; Design engineering; Educational institutions; Energy conservation; Guidelines; Proposals; Recycling; Solar energy; Springs; Team working;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 1996. FIE '96. 26th Annual Conference., Proceedings of

Conference_Location

Salt Lake City, UT

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3348-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.1996.569923

Filename

569923