TY - GEN
T1 - The GasDay Project at marquette university
T2 - 119th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition
AU - Brown, Ronald H.
AU - Quinn, Thomas F.
AU - Corliss, George
AU - Goldberg, Jay R.
AU - Nagurka, Mark
PY - 2012/1/1
Y1 - 2012/1/1
N2 - The GasDay Project is a working software business within a university in which undergraduate and graduate students apply what they have learned in the classroom to create and license a product that solves a real-world problem. Multidisciplinary teams of engineering, mathematics, computer science, and business students produce software licensed by U.S. utilities to forecast over 20% of the nation's daily natural gas demand. The GasDay Project functions as an extracurricular learning laboratory that incorporates several student-centered learning methods including active, collaborative, and project-based learning. It provides students with experiential learning opportunities similar to those associated with co-op, internship, and research experiences. Students learn about entrepreneurship, teamwork, and dealing with customers, which prepare them for successful careers. This paper describes the pedagogical approaches to student learning employed by the GasDay Project as well as the educational benefits to students including (i) hands-on learning in a business setting with real-world consequences for successes and failures, (ii) direct contact with customers and industrial partners, (iii) experience with project management and the importance of working in a setting with competing priorities that must be met with a fixed set of resources, and (iv) knowledge of how research is conducted and how to take it from the laboratory to the marketplace.
AB - The GasDay Project is a working software business within a university in which undergraduate and graduate students apply what they have learned in the classroom to create and license a product that solves a real-world problem. Multidisciplinary teams of engineering, mathematics, computer science, and business students produce software licensed by U.S. utilities to forecast over 20% of the nation's daily natural gas demand. The GasDay Project functions as an extracurricular learning laboratory that incorporates several student-centered learning methods including active, collaborative, and project-based learning. It provides students with experiential learning opportunities similar to those associated with co-op, internship, and research experiences. Students learn about entrepreneurship, teamwork, and dealing with customers, which prepare them for successful careers. This paper describes the pedagogical approaches to student learning employed by the GasDay Project as well as the educational benefits to students including (i) hands-on learning in a business setting with real-world consequences for successes and failures, (ii) direct contact with customers and industrial partners, (iii) experience with project management and the importance of working in a setting with competing priorities that must be met with a fixed set of resources, and (iv) knowledge of how research is conducted and how to take it from the laboratory to the marketplace.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85029102389&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85029102389
SN - 9780878232413
T3 - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
BT - 119th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition
PB - American Society for Engineering Education
Y2 - 10 June 2012 through 13 June 2012
ER -