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Teaching integrated system design with interdisciplinary group design exercises

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dc.creator Peter Grant
dc.creator Ewen Macpherson
dc.creator Gareth Harrison
dc.creator Kevin Brunson
dc.creator Robert Hyde
dc.creator David Williams
dc.date 2010-07-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-07-20T22:09:19Z
dc.date.available 2015-07-20T22:09:19Z
dc.identifier 1750-0044
dc.identifier 1750-0052
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/eb33439c384c4c8e828569a186590e18
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/12677
dc.description With funding from the UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering, the University of Edinburgh has developed a set of three truly interdisciplinary group design exercises aimed at improving penultimateyear undergraduate students’ ability to work across disciplines and improve their preparation for transfer into industry. Three exercises on hydropower system design, potable water supply and a microsystem accelerometer are each designed and led by a Visiting Industrial Professor. The group design exercises are both challenging and popular with students and have achieved several very successful outcomes: experience of real system design; enhanced appreciation of other engineering disciplines; experience of team working where participants have different skills and expertise; demonstration of the links between design and economic viability and introduction to non-technical areas essential to fulfilling the UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence.
dc.language English
dc.publisher The Higher Education Academy
dc.relation http://www.engsc.ac.uk/journal/index.php/ee/article/view/126/205
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/1750-0044
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/1750-0052
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND
dc.source Engineering Education, Vol 5, Iss 1, Pp 30-41 (2010)
dc.subject interdisciplinary group work
dc.subject visiting professor scheme
dc.subject industry
dc.subject UK-SPEC
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
dc.subject TA1-2040
dc.subject Technology
dc.subject T
dc.subject DOAJ:General and Civil Engineering
dc.subject DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
dc.subject TA1-2040
dc.subject Technology
dc.subject T
dc.subject DOAJ:General and Civil Engineering
dc.subject DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
dc.subject TA1-2040
dc.subject Technology
dc.subject T
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
dc.subject TA1-2040
dc.subject Technology
dc.subject T
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
dc.subject TA1-2040
dc.subject Technology
dc.subject T
dc.title Teaching integrated system design with interdisciplinary group design exercises
dc.type article


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