Assessment of Engineering Reasoning in Student Journals Engineering Industrial Design Business About About Polytechnique Third-largest teaching and research establishment in Canada and first in Qubec. First in Canada for the scope of its engineering research. 30,000 students graduated since ,000 graduates per year. 27% of Quebec trained engineers are Polytechnique graduates. 220 professors. 50% of our graduates work for Small-Medium Enterprises. Operating budget of $85 million Cdn. Annual research budget of $60.5 million Cdn. 2 About our capstone projects Projects done in collaboration with industrial customers Students from three schools collaborate in a common project team Polytechnique (engineering) University def Montral (industrial design) HEC Montral (business, marketing, management) Large scale multidisciplinary teams (up to 20 students per team) 8 month long projects (6000 to 8000 student hours) 3 Learning project structure and journals 4 Design: Franois-Olivier Dagneau, Louis Drouin Project 333: Ecology-Economy-Experience Capstone project (2007) Customer: ITAQ, Quest Enterprises 5 Capstone project (2008) Exterior: Marc-Andr Rmillard Interior: Maryse Pelletier Seating: Karine LeBon Project AUA: Advanced Urban Bus Customer: ITAQ, CDCQ 6 Capstone project CAMAQ (2008) Aerospace industry consortium for education Prototype manufacturing from CAD data 7 Project 1 (2009) Exterior-interior: tienne Brub, Daniel Racine 8 Project 2 (2009) Exterior: Stphane Carrier Interior: Paul Ta Seating: Catherine Lagac Driver compartment: Clo Poirier, Maude Blanchard 9 Journal assessment Date and week number Time spent Page number External source references Meeting minutes Text Graphics Graphics and text Engineering reasoning 10 Journal samples First year student 11 Journal samples Fourth year student 12 Date of journal entry Time spent 3D hand drawn dimensioned sketch Documented question to be adressed Supporting calculations Journal samples Fourth year student 13 Documented hypothesis 3D sketch and design decisions Design calculations and criteria check Journal assessment CriteriaEvaluationGrade 1) How many types of information in logbook. 40/40 : types 32/40 : 8 9 types 24/40 : 6 7 types 16/40 : 6 and less 40% 2) Engineering reasoning demonstration 30/30 : Excellent 20/30 : Good 10/30 : Must improve 30% 3) Individual task identification and completion Assigned tasks Completed work Documented progression Timesheet 30/30 : Excellent 20/30 : Good 10/30 : Must improve 30% Total100% 14 1- Content type 15 2- Critical thinking Personal problem framing and resolution abilities measured not solution quality. Solution quality measured in the team reports. 16 3- Project information Personal meeting notes and actions to do present Individual tasks assigned and clearly identified Written elements to prove the student worked on his assigned tasks Demonstration of progress over time towards completion of the tasks Compilation of all personal hours spent on the project Entries to the journal are marked with the date they were done on Empty pages identified as intentionally left blank No ripped out pages to insure integrity of the content timeline 17 Outcomes Students learn to document their personal work and questions on a daily basis in a centralized document (their project journal). Students share journal content at a moment notice during team meetings. Students find for themselves the value of documenting personal work when questioned on work done 6 months ago. Students use teacher feedback to adjust their journal writing. New recently revealed outcomes 3 year project fosters use of old student journals in team transitions. Students use older journals to better understand project decisions in support of published milestone reports. Students voluntarily leave their journals to the team who will continue their work after they have left the project. 18 Future developments Journal tagging methodology testing in preparation of electronic journal format. (Collaboration with the University of Bath) 19 For information Clement Fortin Director of mechanical engineering cole Polytechnique 20