Course Reflections: 481W/482
The Penn State Architectural Engineering senior Capstone gave students the opportunity to practice all of the information and techniques gathered throughout their studies, as well as demonstrate their professionalism and knowledge to industry leaders. Through 2016-2017 the Robinson Halls project that is being constructed at Penn State University has been observed in order to suggest possible value cost, schedule, engineering, and constructibility options that could be implemented into the project. These suggestions focused on meeting the owner’s needs for the projects completion while optimizing the systems to create the best possible outcome for the project. This process was broken up into two series where the Fall Semester focused on gathering and analyzing information on the current project, while the Spring Semester focused on the completion of value alternatives for the project.
CPEP Review
The use of CPEP for the Capstone project created a great opportunity to individually display your work as you progressed through the year. Being able to consistently update my work and allow others to view it to review and comment on certain aspects of my report allowed for a great quality control check. Not only was is a great opportunity to allow students to provide a finished product at the end of the year with all of the information located in one location, but also gave students the experience in creating their own CPEP website.
ABET Outcome Survey
Important Note: These outcomes reflect an individual student assessment of the course, not the instructor's assessment.
Note: While great efforts have been taken to provide accurate and complete information on the pages of CPEP, please be aware that the information contained herewith is considered a work‐in progress for this thesis project. Modifications and changes related to the original building designs and construction methodologies for this senior thesis project are solely the interpretation of Grant Gheer. Changes and discrepancies in no way imply that the original design contained errors or was flawed. Differing assumptions, code references, requirements, and methodologies have been incorporated into this thesis project; therefore, investigation results may vary from the original design.