EVALUATING STUDENT DESIGN ACTIVITY IN ENGINEERING DESIGN PROJECTS

Engineering student design projects in a rehabilitation setting.

E ngineering students in '.:heir senior year are anxious to translate theory into application. Most engineering curricula require a design course that accords senior students this practical experience, and design course faculty strive to offer a variety of projects to their students. Most of these projects, however, are not directly related to human needs; therefore, suggestions for projects th...

Towards a Framework to Support Engineering Design Student Projects

An Assessment Tool for Student Design Projects

This paper presents a method developed by the author to assess student design projects. The method involves identifying assessment elements, weighting the elements, and grading the work as if had only one author. Data supplied by the students is used to identify the relative work put into each element. This allows individual grades to be calculated in a fair and consistent means. Sufficient bac...

Student Network Design Projects using OPNET

To provide students with a practical knowledge of networking, the K.U.Leuven organizes design projects, complementary to the theoretical courses. Master students in Electrical Engineering (Telecommunications option) design a network for a specific service in a specific environment. During the academic year 2000-2001, students worked on one of the following topics: voice traffic on leased lines,...

Engineering Innovative Practice in Managing Design Projects

Most references to innovation relate to the development of new products. This paper does not address innovation in these terms, but as changes in practices an engineer creatively adopts during engineering design projects. The authors adopt Actor-Network Theory as a way to understand these change processes (translations). The authors design a perturbation index inspired in Earned Value managemen...