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Title

Undergraduate engineering project work

Author(s)

Blicblau, Aaron S.;  Richards, David J.

Abstract

This work sets out to investigate the possible relationship between project results at first and final years of an engineering course. Although first year projects are introduced into the engineering curriculum, major project or research work by the students is not undertaken until they reach their final year. The results of a cohort of final year students, who finished in the minimum time, were tracked backwards to their first year. A multiple linear regression analysis was conducted in an attempt to predict final year project outcomes from first year projects only. The quantitative results showed that there is no direct predictability in grades from first year projects to final year projects. However, results from a survey of these students indicated the importance of their project work in the engineering environment.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology

Source

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AaeE 2010), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 05-08 December 2010 / Anne Gardner and Lesley Jolly (eds.), pp. 490-495

Publication year

2010

FOR Code(s)

09 Engineering;  0102 Applied Mathematics;  0103 Numerical and Computational Mathematics;  091307 Numerical Modelling and Mechanical Characterisation

Keyword(s)

Engineering education;  Engineering students;  Outcomes;  Project work;  Undergraduates;  University

Publisher

Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney

ISBN

9780646546100, 0646546104

Publisher URL

http://www.aaee.com.au/

Copyright

Proceedings copyright © 2010 Australasian Association for Engineering Education. This paper copyright © 2010 Aaron S. Blicblau and David J. Richards. The author(s) assign to AaeE and educational non-profit institutions a non-exclusive licence to use this document for personal use and in courses of instruction provided that the article is used in full and this copyright statement is reproduced. The author(s) also grant a non-exclusive licence to AaeE to publish this document in full on the World Wide Web (prime sites and mirrors) on electronic storage and in printed form within the AaeE 2010 conference proceedings. Any other usage is prohibited without the express permission of the author(s). Published version of the paper reproduced here in accordance with this policy.

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