Conference Session

Capstone Projects, Design Projects, and Teamwork

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael W. Prairie, Norwich University; Gregory Wight P.E., Norwich University; Peter Kjeer, Harvard University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

betweendisciplines can open up new pathways to creative solutions to emerging problems. Moreover,being a critical part of a larger project promotes interdependence among the players onmultidisciplinary teams, which tends to develop the self efficacy of the individual in terms oftheir own ability to contribute, recognizing the contribution of others, and the ability to “speakthe language” of the other members and even make contributions in their domain.1The emphasis of the project was on the engineering design process within a multidisciplinaryteam, while the technical scope was designed to be a vehicle for this process while introducingtechnical concepts that the students would study in depth later in their programs. The technicalscope was therefore