'International Capstone Design Project Camp 2017' hosted by the YU Engineering Education Hub Center
Engineering students from three countries such as Singapore, Thailand and Korea work together for creative comprehensive design for international cooperation
[Jul 14, 2017]
<Participants of the International Capstone Design Project Camp 2017>
The 'International Capstone Design Project Camp 2017' in which college students from Korea, Singapore and Thailand gathered to make an actual self-driving electric vehicle was held at YU.
YU hosted the 'International Capstone Design Project Camp' in 2013 for the first time in Korea and has been hosting the event ever since celebrating the fifth year this time around. 'Capstone design', which means 'creative comprehensive design' aims at fostering engineers with practical abilities and creativity. This is an engineering education program that allows students to design, produce and evaluate products needed in industries based on the knowledge they acquired in their respective fields in order to enhance their creativity, practical abilities, teamwork, and leadership.
This camp, which was held from the 10th by the YU Engineering Education Hub Center (Director Song Dong-joo) will be held for six days until the 15th. At this camp, 64 students from 16 universities including three foreign universities such as Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi and Chulalongkorn University of Thailand, and Singapore Polytechnic participated.
The participants were mixed by university and major into four teams to complete their assignment. The theme of this camp was 'self-driving electric automobiles'. Self-driving electric automobiles use existing electric motors and combine it with a self-driving system using Arduino sensors, etc. Each team will listen to lectures related to self-driving electric automobiles and then design and produce an actual vehicle. The teams were made up in advance before the camp started to share opinions and decide on their concept in order to perfect their work during the short period of the camp.
Kim Jin-woo (23, Halla University) who was the team leader of C Team comprised of students from Thailand, Singapore, Halla University, Hongik University and Keimyung University said, "This was a valuable experience as we were able to apply the theories that we learned in class and utilize our teamwork to produce a self-driving electric vehicle, which has become one of the biggest issues in the automobile industry." He added, "I believe that the opportunity of joining teams with students from different countries and regions and who have different majors to approach the task from various viewpoints will be very helpful in my future studies. I really hope to be able to participate in this camp again next year."
Participating students listened to theoretical lectures every morning at 9 a.m. and then went on to the workshop, while also building their own vehicle in a very tight schedule. On the morning of the 14th, which is the fifth day of the camp, the students held a car parade with their self-made self-driving electric vehicles at the 'Baja SAE Korea 2017' opening ceremony.
YU Engineering Education Hub Center Director Song Dong-joo (Professor of mechanical engineering) who supervised this camp said, "This is the fifth year of hosting this camp and the student's levels and abilities are continuously rising. Staying up all night during the camp and working hard on their project will be a great experience for the future of the students." He also stated, "This year, the project integrated self-driving and electric vehicles. I hope that through this camp, the university will be able to cooperate in industry-academic projects with the automobile and IOT industries, which is the main industries of this region."
