Title :
Student Design Competitions in Undergraduate Engineering Education
Author :
Kaiser, Carl ; Troxell, Wade
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Eng., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO
Abstract :
This paper examines the role of design competitions in undergraduate engineering education. Emphasis is given to those competitions that are intended primarily to provide experience in engineering practice, and require a functional deliverable to be tested as part of the competition. Design projects in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Colorado State University are presented as a capstone course case study. The benefits of integrating design competitions into a capstone undergraduate experience are discussed
Keywords :
design engineering; educational institutions; engineering education; mechanical engineering; Colorado State University; Mechanical Engineering Department; engineering practice; student design competitions; undergraduate engineering education; Design engineering; Educational products; Engineering education; Engineering students; Hardware; Mechanical engineering; Process design; Symbiosis; Technological innovation; Testing; Competitions; Design; Senior Capstone;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education, 2005. FIE '05. Proceedings 35th Annual Conference
Conference_Location :
Indianopolis, IN
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9077-6
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.2005.1612297
