Applied Major Project Learning in Engineering

Applied Major Project Learning … ify

Applied Major Project Learning … ify

Opportunity for occasional chaos

Opportunity for uncovering hidden explorations

Why Reimagine Projects?

• gap between academia and profession expectations
• low satisfaction with piecemeal project experience

Also see James Trevelyan’s analysis of activities of graduating engineers

Why Projects at all?

• engineers conduct work in ‘interdisciplinary team projects’
• projects encaurage students to apply knowledge and gain experience
• success with Capstone Project experiences

2018 Engineering Project Showcase News Story

For us, projects are about Value

A shout-out to A/Prof Shayne Flint and Dr Lynette Johns-Boast for their collaboration with Computer Science projects to develop this framework

Principles of Capstone Project

• All work should add VALUE
• FREEDOM from constraints
• RESPECT for all involved
• TRUST and AUTONOMY of students
• TRACABILITY of work product
• Meaningful MANY-EYES FEEDBACK

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See an example of the MANY EYES Feedback output, created through a Wattle Database!

What value do students deliver?

Results from this semester’s exit survey - see the whole thing here

Our Current Course Structure

See the Current Program Structure and New Program Structure if you’re interested

Reimagining the Course Structure

See the Current Program Structure and New Program Structure if you’re interested

Amplify Streams

Get Involved!

We’re looking to AMPLIFY our students’ work in many different streams.

Possible streams:

• smart cities, transport, sustainability, infrastructure
• space, instrumentation, optical devices
• ag-tech, water management, environment
• sports, circus, imagineering
• medical, biomed, accessibility
• humanitarian engineering, appropriate technology
• outreach and technology policy
• challenges, such as World Solar Challenge & Grand Challenges!