Utilizing Civil Engineering Senior Design Capstone Projects to Evaluate Students' Sustainability Education across Engineering Curriculum

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...

An Approach for Engineering Curriculum Integration in Capstone Design Courses*

The current emphasis in design education is to integrate the engineering design function with all relevant engineering (as well as non-engineering) disciplines. This paper presents an approach to foster engineering curriculum integration both within a specific engineering field and between engineering fields. First, the nature of integrated design will be discussed. Then a curriculum integratio...

Quantifying Sustainability through Reverse Engineering: A Multi-Disciplinary Senior Capstone Experience*

Many senior engineering capstone projects focus on an open-ended design experience, often ignoring the concept of design sustainability. In contrast, the work reported on in this paper describes a multi-disciplinary engineering team that was given the opportunity to research detailed design factors that contribute to sustainable designs. This paper focuses on the reverse engineering and compari...

Department of Mechanical Engineering SENIOR DESIGN PROJECTS 2006 - 2007

Sustainable Engineering Systems – a new approach to civil engineering education

The increasing awareness and requirement for sustainability in undergraduate programmes has led to the development of a Design of Sustainable Engineering Systems (DSES) theme throughout the Newcastle University undergraduate programmes. This case study focuses on the development of the level 6 module in DSES. This module is a 40-credit design-based module that integrates all of the formal taugh...