Common elements of capstone projects in the world's top-ranked engineering universities
Common elements of capstone projects in the world's top-ranked engineering universities
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世界顶尖工程大学顶点项目的共同要素
DOI：
10.1080/03043797.2013.766676
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
T. Ward
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作者：
T. Ward
“顶点”是一个比喻，用来描述一个最终的成就，建立在以前的作品和封装他们。Capstone项目被纳入工程课程，以整合多学科学科，并教授传统授课课程难以传授的专业技能。由于这些项目有助于将学生转变为专业工程师，因此它们对大学的行业声誉和排名有直接影响。因此，值得研究在世界顶级工程大学实施的顶点计划，以发现它们的共同点。在本文中，共同的元素，在机械和航空航天工程本科课程在世界一流的工程大学实施的顶点计划进行了识别和分析，以确定既定的最佳实践。这些做法可以模仿并应用于世界各地大学的工程课程教学法，以提高未来毕业生的专业技能。
‘Capstone’ is a metaphor used to describe a final achievement that builds upon previous works and encapsulates them. Capstone projects are included in engineering curricula to integrate multi-disciplinary subjects and teach professional skills that are difficult to impart in a traditional lectured course. Since these projects serve to transition students into professional engineers, they have a direct impact on a university's industry reputation and ranking. Therefore, it is worthwhile to study the capstone programmes implemented at the world's top-ranked engineering universities to discover common elements which characterise them. In this paper, common elements of the capstone programmes implemented in mechanical and aerospace engineering undergraduate programmes in the world's top-ranked engineering universities are identified and analysed to determine established best practices. These practices can be modelled and applied to the pedagogy of engineering programmes at universities around the world to improve the development of professional skills of future graduates.