Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marcia Friesen, University of Manitoba

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

practice, inwhich ‘design’ denotes the systematic selection and articulation of components into an overallsystem. An example may be the typical design of the components of a commercial heating andventilation system, the design of the structural members of a building, or the design of hardwareand software components for a given functionality. Although each scenario allows for a numberof acceptable designs, early-career engineers are generally acculturated into a professionalpractice environment in which a ‘right answer’ or ‘best answer’ is defined based on establisheddesign codes and standards, engineering precedent, and business practices related to maintainingprofitability of the design endeavour.Finally, many design engineers express frustration

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Don Dekker, University of South Florida; Stephen Sundarrao, University of South Florida; Rajiv Dubey, University of South Florida

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

students may beemployed, to work on developing the products.Rehab-IDEAS is currently developing three of the designs from Capstone that have beenpatented. One is a beach and rough terrain platform that allows a person in a power wheelchairto explore rough terrain. Another is a mechanism that takes a backpack or briefcase from theside of a power wheelchair to the back of the chair. This is helpful, because with the backpackon the side of the chair, it can’t fit through doors. The third is a folding writing table forwheelchairs. This would make it much easier for students to take notes and to eat lunch.This company gets start-up financing, and some of the student teams have received royaltychecks. This is a great “postscript” to an exciting Capstone