Reflection

The AE Senior Thesis Capstone Project provided a valuable learning experience that brought together five years of knowledge and internship opportunities into a real world understanding of the entire design process. Because of the intense workload, organization and time management skills were essential to complete all of the required work in a timely manner and on schedule to meet deadlines. The preparation of a project from start to finish enables a smooth transition to a professional work environment where similar skills will be necessary to complete concurrent projects. The class also showed the importance of all disciplines especially when certain considerations could have severe impacts on the others. The wide-range of interdisciplinary knowledge gained in the AE program permits better decision making to accommodate the impacts on other building systems.

The CPEP is an exceptional tool to display the entire thesis project. Advisors and students have easy access to all coursework, providing a central location for grading, posting feedback, and also helps save printing costs. It is also a great portfolio so show employees while it is stored in the archive. The discussion board was a useful feature early on in the design process to generate ideas from professional experiences, but the majority of my assistance came from members of the actual project design team.

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