Undergraduate Engineering Consultants
Publication: Issues in Engineering: Journal of Professional Activities
Volume 106, Issue 1
Abstract
Many traditional engineering programs offer a final-year individual research problem to introduce students to research and to assist them in developing self learning abilities. In the Civil Engineering program at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, this research has been replaced with a comprehensive design project, this being considered more appropriate, particularly for a part of Canada which is still relatively nonindustrialized. Unlike other project work, the course is operated in a fashion as close to a real life situation as possible. Students form consulting groups to tackle a problem specified by a local professional engineer who develops a normal client-consultant relationship with the group. Complete designs are required. Calculations, specifications, cost estimates, quantities, detailed plans and construction proposals must be presented for evaluation. The students are placed in a situation where they learn, not only form the teaching staff but also from engineers in industry, from each other, and by themselves.
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Issues in Engineering: Journal of Professional Activities
Volume 106 • Issue 1 • January 1980
Pages: 51 - 55
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© 1980 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published in print: Jan 1980
Published online: Feb 11, 2021
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