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- Identifies the most important competencies and deliverables engineering/project executives expect before embarking on a project effort
- Challenges students to defend the use of resources and demonstrate the likely return on investment (ROI)
- Focuses on the practicalities of project completion in the environment in which the majority of students will work
- Provides specific outlines for weekly presentations, the proposal report, and the final report
- Simplifies instructors’ class planning with ideas for how to organize, structure, and manage an engineering capstone course
- Describes the likely phases that a team might go through using the well-known Tuckman model
- Enlightens engineering instructors who teach a capstone or senior project course but have not worked in industry
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
From the book reviews:
“The author brings his experience to bear in this book to formulate his ‘recipe’ for a very good engineering capstone course. … this short book provides a useful thoughtful outline about how to proceed in designing a capstone course as well as insights into how to teach and evaluate the students. Summing Up: Recommended. Engineering faculty and professionals.” (A. M. Strauss, Choice, Vol. 52 (6), February, 2015)Authors and Affiliations
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Fairfield University, Fairfield, USA
Harvey F. Hoffman
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Engineering Capstone Course
Book Subtitle: Fundamentals for Students and Instructors
Authors: Harvey F. Hoffman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05897-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-05896-2Published: 29 July 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35447-7Published: 04 May 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-05897-9Published: 14 July 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 144
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Engineering Design, Job Careers in Science and Engineering, Innovation/Technology Management, Engineering, general, Project Management