Online documentation approach for assisted system engineering and assessment in student projects

In this paper we describe a light on-line documentation approach which was developed for a student satellite project, but is also applicable to wide variety of engineering related student projects. The proposed approach allows flexible schedules in student team, group work and collaboration, assessment of the results, accumulation of the experience gained by previous teams. It integrates also rigorous systems engineering tools to meet the challenges of a complex engineering project. The approach is based loosely in documentation practices in space technology projects combined with best practices from student satellite projects.