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Wagler, Adam – Journal of Advertising Education, 2023
What role does advertising play in product development as part of owned media? For three years, a capstone advertising campaign course collaborated with STEM courses to form interdisciplinary teams composed of advertising, engineering, and computer science. The study provides insight into how teams can be more entrepreneurial by building on the…
Descriptors: Advertising, Capstone Experiences, Interdisciplinary Approach, Cooperative Learning
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Frederick Berry; Wanju Huang; Marisa Exter – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2024
This paper outlines the continuous improvement enhancements of a two-semester multidisciplinary capstone program tailored for senior students within the School of Engineering Technology. These courses revolve around collaborative teamwork and focus on the development of innovative solutions for industry-sponsored projects. The overarching goal of…
Descriptors: Capstone Experiences, Intervention, Communication Skills, Teamwork
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Zhang, Jingxiao; Zhao, Chuandang; Li, Hui; Huijser, Henk; Skitmore, Martin – Journal of Civil Engineering Education, 2020
Enhancing students' interdisciplinary design ability in a highway engineering context is important for the development of building information modeling (BIM). This paper proposes a new paradigm for highway engineering and its service areas based on the BIM platform, integrating road, bridge, tunnel, engineering costing; architecture; structure;…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Computer Software, Engineering Education, Capstone Experiences
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Cruz, Joshua; Bruhis, Noa; Kellam, Nadia; Jayasuriya, Suren – International Journal of STEM Education, 2021
Background: This paper explores the epistemologies and discourse of undergraduate students at the transdisciplinary intersection of engineering and the arts. Our research questions focus on the kinds of knowledge that students value, use, and identify within an interdisciplinary digital media program, as well as how they talk about using these…
Descriptors: Epistemology, STEM Education, Art Education, Engineering Education
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Alice S. N. Kim; Danielle Robinson; Celia Popovic; Alecia Carolli; Brad Jennings; Franz Newland – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024
In this study we explored the experiences of students who completed a project-based, interdisciplinary capstone course that was offered at a large university in Southern Ontario, Canada. To do so, we interviewed students after they completed the course, adopting a constructivist perspective and a phenomenological approach. Interview transcripts…
Descriptors: Capstone Experiences, Active Learning, Student Projects, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Bajracharya, Biju; Khan, Mohammad Shoeb – Information Systems Education Journal, 2023
The Autonomous Vehicles (AV) are a self-driving vehicle capable of sensing its environment and operating with minimal or no human intervention converting into a fully or partially automated vehicle. These automated vehicles have great potential to revolutionize the automotive industry and our daily lives. Thus, they are receiving a lot of…
Descriptors: Motor Vehicles, Interdisciplinary Approach, Computer Science Education, Artificial Intelligence
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Charosky, Guido; Hassi, Lotta; Papageorgiou, Kyriaki; Bragós, Ramon – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2022
The gap between industry needs and engineering graduates' competences is being tackled by project-based courses, which also help to develop key innovation competences to address current societal challenges. Nevertheless, there is limited understanding about what innovation competences are developed through the different types of project-based…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Education Work Relationship, Student Projects, Teaching Methods
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Kim, Eunhye; Strimel, Greg J. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2020
Contribution: Increased understanding of the influence of a project-based multidisciplinary design and innovation course on students' engineering design thinking, specifically regarding problem framing. Background: Entrepreneurship-related education has been offered to engineering and technology students, but its influence has been discussed…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach, Entrepreneurship
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Gutiérrez Ortiz, Francisco Javier; Fitzpatrick, John J.; Byrne, Edmond P. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2021
The engineering graduate of today will engage in a career which will span the middle of the twenty-first century, and beyond. They will work in a world which is increasingly more complex and uncertain than at any time before. This will require an integrated combination of technical knowledge and transferable skills and values, to a greater extent…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Chemical Engineering, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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Zapata-Ramos, Mari Luz; Lugo, José E. – Advances in Engineering Education, 2020
Students are attracted to innovation and entrepreneurship. However, it is challenging for them to take courses in I&E due to their already busy curriculums. This paper describes the "New Venture Design Experience," a one-year interdisciplinary program that pairs core and elective courses between the colleges of Engineering and…
Descriptors: Design, Entrepreneurship, Teaching Methods, Engineering Education
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Walker, Erica B.; Boyer, D. Matthew; Benson, Lisa C. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2019
Contribution: This paper furthers understanding of how to use studio culture to develop instruction that supports learners' epistemic development in the context of an engineering senior design course, with a focus on student development of epistemic frames. Background: Current capstone engineering design courses do not integrate the educational…
Descriptors: Design, Studio Art, Teaching Methods, Educational Change