Hosted by the YU Center for Innovation of Engineering Education, jointly organized by Engineering Education Innovation Centers from 5 Universities
Capstone Design through international cooperation of engineers from India, China and Korea
[Jul 20, 2013]
'International Capstone Design Camp' was held at YU until the 20th.
'Capstone Design', which means 'creative total design' aims at fostering engineers with on-site work capacities and creativity. This is an engineering education program that lets students design, make and evaluate products needed in the local industry based on knowledge that they acquired in order to foster their creativity, practical ability, teamwork ability, and leadership.
It was hosted by the YU Center for Innovation of Engineering Education (director Song, Dong Joo) and jointly organized by engineering education innovation centers from the 5 universities of Gangneung-Wonju National University, Kyungil University, Keimyung University, Andong National University and YU. This camp, which was sponsored by Heesung Electronics, attracted over 60 students from not only domestic universities, but also from the BIT (Bangalore Institute of Technology, India) and the SCUT (South China University of Technology, China).
The participating students, who were grouped into teams of about 10 students from various countries, universities and majors, completed programs such as 'the establishment of objectives and criteria, Synthesis, Analysis, Construction, Testing, and Evaluation' throughout the camp.
The objective of this camp was to design and produce electric vehicles and participate in the 'Baja SAE KOREA at Yeungnam University 2013' that would be held at YU on the 17th and 20th. For this, the students attended lectures from 9 A.M., participated in workshops, and worked late into the night making the actual electric vehicle.
In the morning of the 18th, the students took their electric vehicles and participated in the car parade of the Baja SAE KOREA at Yeungnam University 2013 opening ceremony, followed by dynamic tests such as acceleration, max speed, traction force, and rock-climbing, etc. On the 20th, they participated in an endurance race for 210 minutes on a 4km off-road track at the mountain behind the YU purification center.
Ayan Roy (23, major in mechanical engineering) was the leader of the 'STRATOS' team of BIT from India and came to this camp with 9 of his colleagues. Roy said, "I learned through this camp why the automobile industry of Korea is at a world-class level." He added, "I was surprised at Korea's excellent educational environment and the passion and high level of technologies of the engineering students. I hope that such camp can also be held in India to act as a cornerstone for the development of the Indian automobile industry, which is still in its infancy."
Song, Dong Joo, the director of the YU Center for Innovation of Engineering Education (59, School of Mechanical Engineering) who oversaw this camp, said, "By having engineering students from around the world majoring in different areas such as mechanics, electric, electronics, and computer engineering come together to make one team to work on a project, it acted as an opportunity to not only improve engineering design and creative problem solving skills, but also international teamwork and communication skills as well." He added, "We will develop this camp into a successful model for international cooperation engineering education."
The Bangalore Institute of Technology Team from India participated in both the International Capstone Design Camp and the Baja SAE KOREA at Yeungnam University 2013.
