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Goals
- Change the learning experience for undergraduate engineering majors
- Provide students with a large-scale, multidisciplinary design experience
- Develop a new, practical approach to university project management
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Technical Challenges
- Organizing a diverse group to complete a large project in a resource-constrained environment
- Adapting course structure to existing departmental curricula
- Creating a curriculum adaptable to the needs of diverse institutions
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Objectives
- Develop a set of teaching materials for university engineering projects
- Conduct two iterations of a project engineering course
- Produce a set of electronic tools for university project management
- Disseminate results among a national audience
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Approach
- Refine and document our use of Bugzilla, Wiki, and chart templates
- Write an instructor’s manual for project-based systems engineering
- Employ an umbrella course structure to leverage existing classes
- Draw team leads from an advanced course in Project Management
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