ENGR 300 Third Year Group Project and Seminar
In their third year, engineering students will participate in a one-year group project that ideally cuts across multiple engineering fields (electrical and electronic, mechanical and computer), to revisit the design process at a higher level, to deepen teamwork skills, and to reinforce system level thinking. Part 1 of the third-year project is implemented through Leadership 4 for Engineers, which will address leadership, service learning, and 49 responsibilities of the engineering profession to the community. Projects undertaken will include a servicelearning component. Students will consider more than technical feasibility in their solutions, but also the desirability and sustainability of their solution to the community and the environment. In the course Third Year Group Project and Seminar, a weekly seminar that will facilitate group meetings and coordinate milestone completions, as well as provide a forum for discussion regarding professional issues and system level design. Students will also be required to reflect on their teamwork experiences, their own learning, and their completed group project, and present their project in a public forum. Learning objectives for the Third Year Group Project and Seminar include a maturing of design thinking and creative thinking skills, consideration of qualities such as environmental and societal impacts of their design, deepening of system-level thinking, project management experience, teamwork and communication skills development.
Required of CE, EE, and ME students
- Prerequisites: Leadership Seminar 4 for Engineers and System Dynamics, concurrent enrollment in Control Systems
- Credit Hours: 0.5
- Ashesi Credit Units: 2
- Hours per week classroom: 1.5
- Hours per week lab: 2
- Hours of Study outside of the class (reading, assignments, studying, projects, and so on: 10 per week)