期刊名称：Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association
出版年度：2017
期号：Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA) Conference- June 4-7, 2017 University of Toronto
DOI：10.24908/pceea.v0i0.10539
出版社：The Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA)
摘要：Recently, the University of Ottawa has sought to increase experiential learning opportunities for its engineering students. A great deal of effort has been made to remove barriers and increase resources for students participating in large-scale international engineering design competitions. However, so far students involved have participated in these extracurricular activities purely out of interest and to gain experience.
In this paper, we seek to recognize this immense effort made by students by developing a course in which students can receive credits for working on these projects. The course was split into two sessions per week involving three hours of lecturing, practical learning activities and group meetings with full guidance from the instructor and three hours of laboratory time for students to work on their project.
A few key aspects of the course were found to highly benefit the teams that had participating members in the course. A technical skill development project requiring each student to develop a new skill considered useful by their teams, proved to be the course highlight. Inter-team collaboration developed and continued after the course ended. Other aspects, while beneficial, would require improvement in future offerings the course. Extensive design report writing and presentations in the course solidified participating students’ abilities in these aspects, which was made evidently clear during these portions of each competition, but drew extensive complaints from students. Customized quizzes related to the specific competition rules for each team, given early on, gave poor results but helped strengthen rule compliance compared to previous years. Finally, improved team organization and a significant increase in team performance at competition was achieved by all teams who had students participating in the course, demonstrating the course’s success.
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