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A Case Study of Multidisciplinary Design Course: Focused on Learning Effectiveness of Interdisciplinary Teams  

Lee, Euy-Soo (Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Dongguk University)
Cho, Sung-Ku (Department of Industrial and System Engineering, Dongguk University)
Lee, Yong-Han (Department of Industrial and System Engineering, Dongguk University)
Lee, Myung-Cheon (Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Dongguk University)
Youm, Se-Kyoung (Department of Industrial and System Engineering, Dongguk University)
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Journal of Engineering Education Research / v.9, no.4, 2006 , pp. 10-18 More about this Journal
Abstract
Today it is critical for all engineers to have the capability of interacting in teams with members of different background and to meet the challenges that they will encounters in their careers. To satisfy such needs multidisciplinary engineering-design courses are attracting more attentions than ever in the engineering education community. In this paper we analyze the learning effectiveness of interdisciplinary design teams in an engineering design course in Dongguk University. The comparison analysis between monodisciplinary teams and interdisciplinary ones demonstrates higher learning effectiveness of interdisciplinary teams. In addition, the student evaluation of learning effectiveness points out that communication skill is one of the most important factors for a successful project. Such results show that multidisciplinary design courses must gain wider acceptance in engineering education and engineering students must have more chances to experience multidisciplinary teamwork.
Keywords
engineering-design course; t-test;
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