Conference Session

Innovative Programs - Structure, Delivery, Evaluation

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Robertson, Arizona State University; Joseph Tidwell, Arizona State University; Ronald Thomas, Raytheon; William Charlton, Boeing

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

dialogs withindustry-based participants, there are some useful outcomes for academic projects.However, we should first recognize four important differences. Student academicprojects (at least up to PhD level) are usually: 1. Undertaken by individuals or a small group. The participants do not have much variety or depth in the experience they bring to the project. 2. Short in duration. Even a capstone project is only equivalent to about a month of full-time energetic project work. That’s not long to learn practical techniques. 3. Not part of a continuous development scheme where one project depends on the timely delivery of results from another. 4. Learning-focused. That means that although a project may be funded by a