PIs: Richard Goff, Associate Professor, Engineering Fundamentals, Jean Kampe, Assistant Professor, Engineering Fundamentals, Tamara Knott, Assistant Professor, Engineering Fundamentals

Project Goals or Needs Addressed: "The curriculum renewal project was generated out of the notion that the first two freshmen engineering courses, introduction engineering one and two, were very heavy on content that didn’t go into any real depth in any particular subject and were somewhat abstract. … So what we wanted to do with the curriculum renewal was to introduce more hands-on, early design activities…."
Project Grants and Expenditures: $20,000 (year 9), faculty wages



 


Early design experiences from Succeed project ST 3-2 were modified for integration into the first two engineering courses for Freshmen: an engineering problem solving course, and a design and graphics course. Project ST 3-2 represented a pilot test of design experiences in selected sections of Engineering Fundamentals, while this project represents an effort to integrate such activities into the two courses taken by all 1200 freshmen. While most design activities described for project ST 3-2 were adopted or modified for this project, some were removed and some new activities were created.

Project staff met to work on the following activities: seek better ways to deliver course material, reorganize course material, revise course syllabi to include more hands-on activities, and plan for the consistent integration of hands-on activities by the 12 to 13 faculty teaching courses to the 1200 Freshmen.