“The approach relies on providing the students the freedom to choose their own project area as well as the utilized technology…Data collected, over five consecutive course offerings, shows that this approach is an effective method to prepare engineering students for their senior design capstone courses.” (p.91) “Results show that around 54.17% of the students have demonstrated better performances in their capstone projects.” (p.98)
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