Project description
A challenge in teaching engineering design lies in the guiding of collaboration of students in a design team environment. We have identified a need for a virtual design space application that evaluates the user experience so as to encourage teamwork and project managment skills. The Student Team Electronic Resource (STeamER) project arose out of lessons learned over the past nine years of teaching project based design courses to engineering students
The University of Waterloo has developed electronic course delivery systems for students on campus and at a distance. STeamER is intended to supplement team based course delivery by providing a virtual collaboration space for student teams and their instructors.