Hanson, J. H., & Aidoo, J. (2012, June), Capstone Design: Insights from an International Collaborative Student Team  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--21043

\bibitem{asee_peer_21043}
  Hanson, J. H., \& Aidoo, J. (2012, June), \emph{Capstone Design: Insights from an International Collaborative Student Team}
  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas.
  10.18260/1-2--21043

James H. Hanson and John Aidoo.  "Capstone Design: Insights from an International Collaborative Student Team".  2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2012.  https://peer.asee.org/21043 Internet.  26 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_21043}
  James H. Hanson and John Aidoo.
  "Capstone Design: Insights from an International Collaborative Student Team".
  \emph{2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2012.
  https://peer.asee.org/21043 Internet.  26 Dec, 2024

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AB  -                             Capstone Design: Insights from an                        International Collaborative Student TeamAbstract:Since 2005 the Civil Engineering Department at SCHOOL has had at least one internationalcapstone design project each year. For each of those projects, the student team worked on aproject for a client in another country. This year the international project was designed by aninternational collaborative student team. Three students from SCHOOL were paired with threestudents from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana todesign a project in Ghana. The academic grades for all six students were inextricably linked;therefore, the six were forced to work collaboratively in order to produce a successful design.In order to complete the project, the team had to overcome several new challenges. Although allsix students spoke English, their dialects and accents were very different. Adding to thecommunication challenges was the need to work remotely. The students were unable to meetface-to-face. In addition, only the KNUST students were able to visit the project site, so theyhad to relay critical information to the SCHOOL students.The instructors also had to overcome challenges. The two schools were on different termschedules. The capstone design courses had different durations, learning objectives, anddeliverables. Therefore, the instructors had to adapt their expectations and demands on thestudents in order to facilitate the collaboration within the team.This paper provides unique insights and lessons learned from both the student and instructorperspective. It shows how well the student team achieved the educational outcomes, andsummarizes the benefits the students gained beyond technical skills. The paper concludes withrecommendations for programs that would like to develop an international collaborative studentteam experience.
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