NDLI: A Case Study on Educating Engineers for Geographically-Dispersed Design Teams

Content Provider	The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Digital Collection
Author	John, F. Dannenhoffer Barry, D. Davidson Anthony, R. Ingraffea Alan, T. Zehnder Scott, L. Jones
Copyright Year	2003
Abstract	The mantra of industry today is to design products and processes using collaborative design teams. While the potential benefits of such a design philosophy are numerous and significant, many organizations find themselves falling short in the implementation. Sometimes these shortcomings are due to cultural and technical difficulties in the organization, but too frequently they are due to a lack of knowledge as to how to collaborate effectively. Described herein is an educational initiative by Syracuse and Cornell Universities to together teach collaborative design methodologies through a common two-semester, senior-level engineering design course. In the course, not only are the lectures taught to the two cohorts of students using at-a-distance technologies, but the students are teamed in cross-university teams to execute a series of 6-week design challenges, from preliminary through detailed thermal-structural design of the external skins of seconds-generation reusable launch vehicles. An Advanced Interactive Discovery Environment (AIDE), which is a computer-based infrastructure specifically designed for this course, is used to support both synchronous and asynchronous communications amongst the team members and with the faculty. Extensive surveys of the students, together with faculty observations, indicate that proper use of collaboration tools can facilitate effective geographically-dispersed design teams, making them as successful as local design teams.
Sponsorship	Design Engineering Division
Starting Page	251
Ending Page	255
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0791837122
DOI	10.1115/IMECE2003-41530
Volume Number	Design Engineering, Volumes 1 and 2
Conference Proceedings	ASME 2003 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition
Language	English
Publisher Date	2003-11-15
Publisher Place	Washington, DC, USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Design Computers Engineering design Students Collaboration Teams Engineering education Vehicles
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
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