%0 Journal Article
%T Teaching integrated system design with interdisciplinary group design exercises
%A Peter Grant
%A Ewen Macpherson
%A Gareth Harrison
%A Kevin Brunson
%J Engineering Education
%D 2010
%I 
%X With funding from the UKĄ¯s Royal Academy of Engineering, the University of Edinburgh has developed a set of three truly interdisciplinary group design exercises aimed at improving penultimateyear undergraduate studentsĄ¯ ability to work across disciplines and improve their preparation for transfer into industry. Three exercises on hydropower system design, potable water supply and a microsystem accelerometer are each designed and led by a Visiting Industrial Professor. The group design exercises are both challenging and popular with students and have achieved several very successful outcomes: experience of real system design; enhanced appreciation of other engineering disciplines; experience of team working where participants have different skills and expertise; demonstration of the links between design and economic viability and introduction to non-technical areas essential to fulfilling the UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence.
%K interdisciplinary group work
%K visiting professor scheme
%K industry
%K UK-SPEC
%U http://www.engsc.ac.uk/journal/index.php/ee/article/view/126/205