Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

H. Jung; Anthony de Sam Lazaro; Amanie Abdelmessih

An Integrated Concept-to-Prototype Capstone Design Experience Amanie N. Abdelmessih, Ph.D., Anthony de Sam Lazaro, Ph.D., Isaac H. Jung, Ph.D., PE Mechanical Engineering Department Saint Martin’s School of Engineering Lacey, WA 98503-1297AbstractThe objective of the two-semester Capstone/senior design program, at Saint Martin’sMechanical Engineering Department, is to prepare student- engineers for the workforce byhaving them participate fully on a design team to solve an open-ended real-world design problem.Students design, then build/assemble their project. For the senior design project

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Briana Lucero, Colorado School of Mines; Cameron J Turner P.E., Colorado School of Mines

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Design in Engineering Education

incorporating communities in the design process. Teaching students to designwith communities and not for communities is dependent upon the context of the design process.This paper addresses the pedagogy of social engineering in the capstone design projects rooted inthe framing of the design process for collaborative creativity.The programs that enact multidisciplinary curriculums are exemplar in satisfying the ABET a-kguidelines. Institutions of higher education that additionally use multi-year projects and employdesign progression though the undergraduate curriculum have more success in generatingprojects that have lasting effects on the communities. Due to the long-term commitment of thestudents to a specific project or community, there is greater

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kimberly B. Demoret P.E., Florida Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

students” to improve learning within the university.based on the idea of students teaching and learning from each other. Student attitudes aboutteaching and learning from peers are explored, along with the relative importance of factors Background and Motivationhighlighted in the Self-Determination Theory (SDT) of intrinsic motivation- autonomy, masteryand relatedness (i.e., feeling a connection to a larger group). The first approach described is the The work in this paper was motivated by a desire to improve student performance in Aerospaceuse of capstone design projects with explicit educational objectives to enhance the hands-on Engineering (AE) capstone design at a mid-sized southeastern private university. At this school

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Raj Desai; Ted Loso; Dave Baird; Craig Downing; Gary Frey

order toaccomplish this, the following research questions were proposed: · Will drawing an object in 3-D and producing that part with a Rapid Prototyping system as part of an Industry initiated project improve student visualization skills? · Does industry and education see benefits in this type of partnership?To do this several courses and industrial projects were used and evaluated for visualization skillimprovement and perceived benefits to provide a more complete picture.NeedThe need is seen as twofold in nature. Industry needs both trained personnel and access tospecial services. Education needs to provide trained personnel and access to the latesttechnology possible. Graphics is one of the core areas and permeates most

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ding Yuan, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Jane M. Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Ananda Mani Paudel, Colorado State University, Pueblo

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Design in Engineering Education

sustainable engineering design skills. Moreover, thestudents can practice and demonstrate their capability on sustainable engineering design throughtheir capstone senior design experience. Typically, our engineering students select project ideasand work in teams to prepare their senior design proposals in a fall Senior Seminar course andcomplete them in the following spring semester. Hence, this new module was designed to beimplemented in fall, right after each team was formed and selected a senior design topic.This new module included lectures, group discussions, in-class activities, team assignments, andsurvey. It started with an in-class discussion about the relationship of sustainability toengineering. Then, a six-factor table was introduced as a

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Trevelyan, University of Western Australia

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #13710Incremental Self-Assessment Rubrics for Capstone Design CoursesProf. James Trevelyan, University of Western Australia Professor James Trevelyan works part-time as a Winthrop Professor in the Mechanical and Chemical En- gineering School at The University of Western Australia, Fellow of Engineers Australia, and also practices as a mechanical and mechatronics engineer developing new air conditioning technology. His main area of research is on engineering practice, and he teaches design, sustainability, engineering practice and project management. He is well known internationally for pioneering research that

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Sayed

followed across different capstone classes with application to machinedesign and automotive capstone classes is presented. The developed process fosters creativity,develops students’ communication skills and provides a logical product realizationengineering/management experience.The educational design process starts with team building and brainstorming focusing oncreativity as right brain activity. From the brainstorming list of projects one is selected based oncreativity, effort and timing. Each team proceeds to develop a written and oral proposalcontaining product history, state of the art, Bill of Product, development and simulationmethodology, project management/impacts and cost estimates. The Bill of Product represents theset of product

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jagannathan Sankar; Juri Filatovs; Devdas Pai

Session 2425 Integration of Materials Science into an Industrially-Sponsored Engineering Design Course D. M. Pai, G. J. Filatovs and J. Sankar NSF Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures Department of Mechanical Engineering NC A&T State University, Greensboro, NC 27411AbstractAn industrially-sponsored aluminum product design elective course offered over the past six yearshas dealt with a range of design projects principally chosen from the transportation and structuralfield. Engineers from industry present the

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David A Saftner, University of Minnesota Duluth; Sara D. Ojard, University of Minnesota Duluth; Eshan V. Dave, University of Minnesota, Duluth; Nathan William Johnson, University of Minnesota Duluth; Eil Kwon; Rebecca Teasley, Civil Engineering University of Minnesota Duluth

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Design in Engineering Education

a New ProgramABSTRACTThe University of Minnesota Duluth’s Department of Civil Engineering accepted its firststudents in 2008, graduated its first class in 2012, and first offered a capstone design course inthe spring semester, 2012. Groups of five to six students designed a building on a local site.Students organized their teams based on interest in a particular branch of civil engineering,allowing individual students to focus their efforts on a particular subject. Based on feedbackfrom faculty, practicing engineers, and students, several changes were implemented prior to thefall 2012 semester. These changes included making the group size smaller, modifying the gradedsubmissions, and changing the project location. Most significantly, the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Palmer, Louisiana Tech University; Hisham Hegab, Louisiana Tech University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

in the capstone experience. However, there is little transition between the highlydefined problems provided in lecture and laboratory courses versus the open-ended projectstudents are asked to solve in their capstone design course. The capstone design projects for theNanosystems Engineering program is provided by faculty across a variety of disciplines.Therefore, it became evident that rather than expecting each faculty mentor to provide certainbasic skills, a more effective approach would be to have all Nanosystems Engineering students towork on a smaller open-ended project in the last quarter of the Junior year to teach all theelements that they would need to apply more deeply in their capstone project the following year.The educational

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Reyer; Stephen Williams; Owe Petersen

competition concerns.Our “course within a course” style also includes guest specialists working with the students ontopics such as safety, ethics, standards, resume and interviewing techniques, and evenprofessional behavior. A “trade show” with a prototype and poster competition completes thecourse’s professional experiences. Employer response to the efforts has been very positive andencouraging.I. IntroductionThroughout the Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (EE) program at MSOE, design isstrongly integrated into many courses. These projects are generally short-term, and involveindividual or two-student teams. The projects lead to the major capstone design experience,Senior Design, which is a three-quarter course sequence: EE-407/8/9

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Batill

earlier offerings of this project-based, team-oriented courseinvolved the type of corporate culture in which the design process took place, the nature of theproduct and an attempt to develop collaboration between students from engineering, marketingand design. The paper outlines the learning objectives for this course, its implementation andpresents a preliminary assessment of the impact of the changes.I. Introduction and Overview of the ExperimentThe capstone design class in the Mechanical Engineering program at Notre Dame has undergonea number of changes in the past few years that have altered the types of projects and theassociated technologies invoked by the students. The course is presented as a team-based,product-focused, design-build

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Potter; Brian Knight; Antoine Ataya

graduate students from their respective institutions’ business schools. The RICPE hadidentified a need for students with a technological background to participate with thosecompanies with a significant technological or engineering focus to their business.This opportunity for greater collaboration with the local business community was very timely.Over the past two years, the administration and faculty of the SECCM had been working totransition the senior engineering capstone design course to a “client-based” format. Under a Page 9.568.1“client-based” scenario, all of the projects offered to student teams for their capstone projects

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Andrew L. Gillen, University College London; Michael L. Woodrow, University College London; Jose Luis Torero, University College London

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Design in Engineering Education

a projectwhere the interactions of the sub-disciplines are complex and where extrinsic variables,associated to professional practice, many times drive decisions.Our work takes place within a larger project to reform the integrated civil engineeringcapstone course. This course is offered as a final year experience for undergraduates, butmasters-level students are also allowed to participate. The course is offered at a large, publicresearch institution in the United Kingdom where professional certification can be attainedvia the accredited undergraduate or master’s programs. The course was implemented morethan a decade ago, and through these years it has been modified several times. In its currentform, the capstone course has been largely

Conference Session

Capstone Pedgagogy

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

C. Richard Compeau Jr., Texas State University; Austin Talley P.E., Texas State University

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #29114Work In Progress: Is Our Capstone Mentorship Model Working?Dr. C. Richard Compeau Jr, Texas State University C. Richard Compeau Jr. is a Professor of Practice in the Ingram School of Engineering, and the Electrical Engineering Program Coordinator. He is interested in teaching and curriculum development. His work is typically project-specific for the EE Capstone courses, with an emphasis on applied electromagnetics.Dr. Austin Talley P.E., Texas State University Dr. Austin Talley is a Senior Lecturer in the Ingram School of Engineering at Texas State University. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division: Capstone Design Practices

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly B. Demoret P.E., Florida Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

]. Social loafing tends to increase withteam size [3].At the Florida Institute of Technology (Florida Tech), aerospace engineering majors take a three-semester Capstone Design sequence- a one-credit Junior Design class in the spring, then twothree-credit Senior Design 1 and Senior Design 2 classes. Aerospace projects are complex andcostly, and teams tend to be large, averaging eight students per team. Teams are self-organizedand pick their own project managers after being assigned to a team. One instructor is responsiblefor grading the entire class (a typical class size is ~70 students), though other faculty may act astechnical advisors to individual teams. Student grading is based on team products (60%), peerfeedback (20%), and individual

Conference Session

Construction Division Technical Session 4: Capstone, Safety and Beyond

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Alan Bugg P.E., Auburn University; Wesley Collins, Auburn University

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Diversity

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Construction Engineering

earned a bachelor’s degree in agricultural engineering in 1983, a master’s degree in Business Administration in 2003, and a master’s degree in Building Construction in 2011, all from Auburn University. Mr. Bugg is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Alabama, a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), a certified DBIA Design-Build Professional, and a Certified Professional in Erosion and Sediment Control (CPESC).Dr. Wesley Collins, Auburn University Wesley Collins is an assistant professor in the McWhorter School of Building Science at Auburn Univer- sity. Dr. Collins completed his PhD in Construction Management at Arizona State University in 2015, and was awarded the Outstanding CII Graduate

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division: Capstone Design Practices

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natascha Trellinger Buswell, University of California, Irvine; Mark E. Walter, University of California, Irvine

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

. The senior designor “capstone” project course became MAE189 Senior Projects, and students were required totake 3 units of MAE189 for graduation. With only 3 “decentralized units,” the ambitions of thestudents were limited and projects were also, unsurprisingly, of low quality. Around 2005, theunit limit on MAE189 was removed; the 3 unit requirement was maintained, but up to 8additional MAE189 units could be used for technical elective credit. This was done both toplease students who were increasingly finding that project involvement was the easiest way toget an engineering job, and the projects were getting larger, needing students to be active formultiple quarters. In fact, students were starting to get involved in projects prior to their

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division: Capstone Design Practices

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Elliot Gaines, University of South Florida; Olukemi Akintewe, University of South Florida; Schinnel Kylan Small, University of South Florida; Terreonn Henry

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #25238Engineering Design Instruction Using Slack for Project Support and Team-workDr. Jonathan Elliot Gaines, University of South Florida Jonathan E. Gaines is faculty in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of South Florida. He is the Director of First Year Experiential Education and Learning. Through this position, he develops and implements the curriculum for USF’s Foundations of Engineering Lab course. He is also the Principle Investigator for Bulls Engineering Youth Experience (Bulls-EYE Mentoring) a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math based outreach program that uses undergraduate

Conference Session

Before the Capstone: Project-based Experiences Early in the Curriculum

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

John Komlos, Villanova University; Stephanie L. Walkup PE, Villanova University; Kevin A. Waters P.E., Villanova University

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Civil Engineering

Paper ID #29459Modernizing an Introductory Civil Engineering Course with Project-BasedLearningDr. John Komlos, Villanova University John Komlos, Ph.D., is a Teaching Professor with the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Villanova University. Dr. Komlos teaches environmental engineering as well as general civil engineering courses. His research examines the fate and transport of contaminants in natural and engineered systems with an emphasis on water quality, geochemistry, and hydrodynamics. His current research focus is on subsurface metals and nutrient retention mechanisms as they pertain to pollutant removal

Conference Session

Best Practices and Lessons Learned in Capstone Design Projects

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher P. Pung, Grand Valley State University; Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

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Manufacturing

 employers, and the program well supported by industry.The paper explores the relationship between the four pillars model and industry focused senior project.This will includes a sample project description and analysis.The Capstone Senior Project CourseThe final test of the student preparation is the senior project capstone course. This course uses many,but not all of the topics taught in prerequisite courses. In addition it introduces a few topics of aprofessional nature. The projects in this course are sponsored by local companies. Faculty vet theprojects for suitability including technical challenge, well defined goals, and adequate financial support.The first segment of the project begins in the winter of the senior year. During this semester

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Quadrato; Ronald Welch

different grading process than thosethat have an easily defined solution. This paper explains how, through the use of a blendedcriteria and norm based assessment and evaluation process, to clearly communicate standardsand outcomes, fairly grade dissimilar designs, and effectively encourage continuousimprovement of design products. Evidence of these outcomes will be assessed through thestatistical analysis of student feedback from the United States Military Academy.Introduction United States Military Academy (USMA) civil engineering majors are required tocomplete a one-semester capstone design project as a requirement for graduation. The capstonedesign provides the best integrated experience to assess student performance on the USMA

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Phillip Thompson; Denny Davis; Larry McKenzie; Kenneth Gentili

include: (1) motivation, (2) technical competence, (3) judgment and decision making,(4) innovation, (5) client/quality focus, (6) business orientation, (7) product development, (8)professional/ethical, (9) teamwork, (10) change management, and (11) communication. Theseattributes span ABET engineering criteria 3 and 4 requirements.A set of broadly-applicable capstone course learning outcomes is presented to address needs fordeveloping the attributes of top quality engineers and to match capstone course objectives withinengineering curricula.Introduction and ObjectivesIntroduction and RationaleCapstone design courses occupy strategic positions in engineering baccalaureate degreeprograms. They provide senior engineering students open-ended project

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Geoffrey Recktenwald, Michigan State University; Danny Rubin, Rubin

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Mechanical Engineering

based courses. He created and co-teaches a multi-year integrated system design (ISD) project for mechanical engineering students. He is a mentor to mechanical engineering graduate teaching fellows and actively champions the adoption and use of teaching technologies.Mr. Danny Rubin, Rubin Danny Rubin is the founder of Rubin, a leading provider of online curriculum for business communication skills. Rubin, the company, provides its signature curriculum, called ”Emerge,” to engineering schools nationwide. Emerge features in-demand communication topics like email etiquette, phone etiquette, net- working, LinkedIn and more. Danny began his career as a local TV news reporter and national news consultant for NBC’s ”Meet

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Brian J. Novoselich, United States Military Academy; James E. Bluman, United States Military Academy; Rebecca Zifchock, United States Military Academy; Matthew Dabkowski, United States Military Academy

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Mechanical Engineering

the new introductory course, andthe first cohort that did. All data evaluated their skill levels during their senior year capstonedesign experience. Therefore, the survey was a direct opportunity to assess the result of an earlyintroduction to the mechanical engineering profession and design process.The paper assesses the effect of the Intro to ME course on student grasp of the design processand their ability to apply the process to their capstone design project. Overall results were mixedwith faculty indicating that students who completed the Intro to ME course differentially appliedthe design process but also had fewer gaps in their knowledge of the tools associated with thedesign process. Furthermore, there were no indications that the

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Valerie Vanessa Bracho Perez, Florida International University; Anilegna Nuñez Abreu, Florida International University; Ameen Anwar Khan, Florida International University; Luis Enrique Guardia, Florida International University; Indhira María Hasbún, Florida International University; Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

engineering design practice [9], [10], [11], indicating that there is a need to furtherunderstand what factors influence engineering students’ perceptions of design skills.Additionally, there is a gap between what engineering students and practicing engineers believeengineering work, design, and practice to be, demonstrating a need to understand therepresentations students have of engineering, design, and engineering practice [5].The study presented in this paper is part of a larger project exploring the overall studentexperience within a redesigned senior design mechanical engineering capstone course at a large,public, Minority Serving Institution (MSI). This study highlights students’ perceptions of theskills developed, and courses taken throughout

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Delorme, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES)

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

of complex, multi-disciplinary, systems engineering focused student de- sign and development projects. Page 26.1509.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 “Work-in-Progress:” The Capstone Marketplace: An Online Tool for Matching Capstone Design Students to Sponsors with Challenging ProblemsThe Capstone Marketplace is an online tool developed and maintained to match multi-disciplinary student teams with challenging engineering projects. While web based tools exist formatching students to projects at individual institutions, the Capstone

Conference Session

Supporting the Capstone Experience

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nathan Miner, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Aliye Karabulut Ilgu, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Jennifer S. Shane, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Katherine Madson, Iowa State University of Science and Technology

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Civil Engineering

Paper ID #33122Engineers as Effective Team Players: Evaluating Teamwork Skills in aFlipped Project Management for Civil Engineers CourseNathan Miner, Iowa State University of Science and TechnologyDr. Aliye Karabulut Ilgu, Iowa State University of Science and Technology Dr. Aliye Karabulut-Ilgu is an assistant teaching professor in the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at Iowa State University. Her background is in Curriculum and Instruction, and her research interests include online learning, hybrid learning, and technology integration in higher education.Jennifer S. Shane, Iowa State University

Conference Session

Capstone Design in ECE

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sasan Haghani, University of the District of Columbia; Wagdy H. Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia; Esther T. Ososanya, University of the District of Columbia; Miguel E. Uzcategui, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc; Ashenafi Lambebo, University of the District of Columbia

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #15078A Capstone Project on the Development of an Environmental MonitoringWireless Sensor Network Powered by Harvested RF EnergyDr. Sasan Haghani, University of the District of Columbia Sasan Haghani, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of the District of Columbia. His research interests include the application of wireless sensor networks in biomedical and environmental domains and performance analysis of communication systems over fading channels.Dr. Wagdy H. Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia Wagdy H. Mahmoud is an Associate Professor of

Conference Session

ABET Issues and Capstone Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Davis; Craig Hoff

2005-2130 The Integration of Hands-on Team Projects into an Engineering Course to Help Students Make the Transition from Student to Professional Engineer Craig J. Hoff, and Gregory W. Davis, Kettering UniversityThere is considerable concern that current engineering education practices do notadequately prepare students for the practice of engineering. This statement goes farbeyond the often stated requirements that to be successful in their careers engineeringgraduates must have good communication skills, must be able to work inmultidisciplinary teams, etc. There