Short Experimental Ceramic Projects to Incentivise Mechanical Engineering Students

Department of Mechanical Engineering SENIOR DESIGN PROJECTS 2006 - 2007

Using IR Cameras Beyond Outreach: Motivational Projects for Engineering Students

Affordable infrared (IR) cameras provide a unique opportunity to motivate and enhance the education of engineering students. We used both IR and visible images from a FLIR E60 camera as an instructional vehicle in a digital image processing course, where students came from several engineering majors. These IR and visible images were used as the basis for an openended final project in the course...

Development of Capstone Projects on Secure Communications for Engineering Students

A capstone project is a compulsory requirement for passing the last course and obtaining the bachelor’s degree. In order to make students develop their own self-learning capabilities, it is important to offer them real life projects, helping them in the process of combining already acquired information with new knowledge. In this contribution, we present the details of a real capstone project a...

Investigative Projects in Engineering for Secondary School Students

David C. Shallcross, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia [email protected] Abstract  This paper describes a series of activities for the senior secondary mathematics class room which have been developed to illustrate how mathematics is used by engineers. In one example students are presented with an innovative design for a single storey underground car park. The cl...

Motivating Students in Software Engineering Group Projects: an Experience Report

Motivating students to engage with their subject is an ongoing challenge in higher education, particularly in science and engineering. This paper presents experiences gained in introducing robotics as a means to increase engagement with a second-year undergraduate software-engineering group-project module forming part of a computer science degree programme. Robotics is well-established as an ef...