A Course in Professional Practice for Juniors

Author

Nagurney, Ladimer S. ; Adrezin, Ron

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Hartford Univ., West Hartford, CT

fYear

2005

fDate

19-22 Oct. 2005

Abstract

To better prepare our students for working with multidisciplinary teams on large projects, the University of Hartford College of Engineering has introduced a junior course entitled Engineering Practice. This one credit course is taken jointly by junior students from all engineering disciplines. The main goal of the course is to have the students work on a large project where the decisions made by other groups will affect choices made by their group and to reinforce the reality that most engineering projects require engineers to work in multi-disciplinary teams. A third goal is to show that engineers must present their work to political or regulatory bodies for a project to be approved. This course has now been taught for 3 years. The results of the evaluation of the course by the students and faculty will be discussed

Keywords

educational courses; educational institutions; engineering education; professional aspects; Engineering Practice; University of Hartford; engineering projects; junior course; professional practice; Biomedical engineering; Communication industry; Computer architecture; Design engineering; Educational institutions; Engineering students; Job design; Licenses; Mechanical engineering; Oral communication; design experiences; oral communication skills; professional practice; teams;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education, 2005. FIE '05. Proceedings 35th Annual Conference

Conference_Location

Indianopolis, IN

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9077-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2005.1612256

Filename

1612256