Engineering Project

Aim

The course should give the students a perspective on engineering and the future role as an engineer. In specific, the course should introduce basic methods for project work. Administration, planning, communication, documentation, and presentation of project work are part of the course and the students should contribute as a member of a project work team. After the examination of this course the students should know how to:

• work in a project according to a project model
• plan a project work from a given specification and document this in project- and timeplans.
• find knowledge of relevance to solve the project tasks
• collaborate to make the work in a project group successful
• administrate and document an ongoing project work
• present the results from the project work both orally and in a written report

Content

The lectures aim to prepare the students for the project work bringing up information on CDIO and model for project work used at LiU (LIPS model). Are also included lectures with topics on group work, written and oral communication and information search. Lectures given by inviting guest lecturers graduated from the Engineering program should give to the students an insight in their future role as engineers. The lectures on information search are given for smaller groups at the library. The project work is done in groups of 5-9 students. Each group is assigned to a specific project task and a teacher is acting as a customer. The groups are put together by the course management, which also assigns a project to each group. The customer presents a specification of the project task to the project group. All projects are described in brief on the course homepage. From this specification the group will make a project plan and perform a project work according to the project model LIPS. Each group has frequent meetings with a teacher acting as a mentor/supervisor. During the work the students have a given maximum time for supervision. The project work should be documented during the work, and at the end presented in the form of a demonstration and a written report. Both the demonstration and the report is a part of the examination. At the end of the course the work is also presented for the other students at a project conference.