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Open-ended ill-structured capstone design project as the culminating activity in an engineering graphics course

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The course culminated in "an open ended, ill structured final design project as a capstone activity" worth 25% of the grade: a robotic arm in solid modeling software capable of picking up a ping pong ball and a pencil. Students worked in teams of two over 4 weeks, dividing arm and gripper components, encouraged to think economically about cost and materials within a given work envelope. Solutions were analyzed for adherence to size and economy constraints and demonstrated via animation.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Solid Edge solid modeling software, team pairs, a 4-week design window, and a defined work envelope with size and economy constraints

Constraints

  • The work envelope was set to given dimensions simulating constraints that often exist in engineering

Target Learners

  • undergraduate mechanical engineering students

Learning Goals

  • open-ended design problem solving with CAD solid modeling

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Key Sources

  • Goodridge, W. H., Lawanto, O., & Santoso, H. B. (2017). A Learning Style Comparison between Synchronous Online and Face-to-Face Engineering Graphics Instruction. International Education Studies, 10(2). https://doi.org/10.5539/ies.v10n2p1
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title Open-ended ill-structured capstone design project as the culminating activity in an engineering graphics course
description The course culminated in "an open ended, ill structured final design project as a capstone activity" worth 25% of the grade: a robotic arm in solid modeling software capable of picking up a ping pong ball and a pencil.
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