Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Education Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abby M Kelly, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; David Jones, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Roger Michael Hoy, University of Nebraska; Evan Curtis, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Angela Kaye Pannier, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Richard R. Stowell P.E., University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

, businessand soft skills, and teamwork, specifically with diverse and interdisciplinary groups2. Anemphasis on these skills as well as a more rapid method of developing them is needed within thesenior capstone design sequence.Like other universities, we have found that our traditional approach to the teaching of capstonedesign is not addressing all of the challenges discussed above. As a means to begin to addressthese issues, our department implemented a two-week rapid design challenge (RDC), similar tothe challenge developed by Bucknell University1. The RDC was adapted to better suit our needsand initially implemented in the spring of 2010. The challenge has been conducted four timesand critically evaluated after each semester. Here, we present our