Conference Session

Eco-Car Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shawn Midlam-Mohler,, Ohio State University ; Jason Linger, Ohio State University ; Jack Slavinski, Ohio State University ; Lisa Fiorentini, Ohio State University

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Eco-Car Poster Session

andcommunication, risk and crisis management, and project documentation and reporting. All ofthese topics are taught in application to ECE projects. Several case studies are discussed tohighlight the importance of minimizing risks to avoid project failure. Students conduct a real-world ECE project designed to strengthen skills in project management. Students are required tolearn and use Microsoft Project for their project and deliver presentations about their project.This course features guest speakers who share their project management and industryexperiences. This course is unique in that the target audience is exclusively graduate students.Because of the importance of project management skills in industry, this course is required forthe ECE

Conference Session

Eco-Car Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel van Lanen, University of Waterloo

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Eco-Car Poster Session

teams, which are made up of young adults whoare also full time students. These student teams are student driven and apply classroomknowledge to real world work under limited faculty supervision, specifically when hands-onwork is being executed. As student focused organizations, these teams often rely on theiruniversity’s or college’s guidelines to develop a set of standard operating procedures. Thoughthese set a base for the team, the guidelines are no substitute for training that is specific to thesafety risks associated with the work the team is doing. It is also difficult to convince studentteam leaders to invest time into training team members who may not participate on an ongoingbasis.By developing a hierarchical level based safety