Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design II

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan L. Solonsky P.E., Pennsylvania State University, University Park; M K Parfitt

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

students’ priorknowledge that is applied to real projects through individual and/or team based structures [6]. As such, arevitalized approach to capstones within building engineering is logical.In response to the curricula needs on the topic of collaborative multi-disciplinary design, an industryfoundation (The Thornton Tomasetti Foundation) supported a senior design capstone course that exposedfuture project managers to work on highly collaborative teams [7]. Based on the foundation’srecommendation and an early pilot study [8], the material developed there transformed how one optionfor the capstone project within Penn State Architectural Engineering (AE) is conducted. The discussion ofthis paper reports of 9 years of implementing a multi