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Conference Session
Information Literacy Integration and Assessment
Collection
2009 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Barbara MacAlpine, Trinity University; Mahbub Uddin, Trinity University
Tagged Divisions
Engineering Libraries
project. The second semester freshman design course continues theintroduction to engineering design concepts with another interactive team-oriented designproject. Examples of freshman design projects include designing, building, testing and analyzingthe performance of a wooden truss; designing, building and testing a water balloon launcher, etc.Freshman design courses are followed by one-credit-hour mini capstone design projects in thesophomore and junior years. The sophomore design projects continues the development ofstudents’ design skills through a project with an emphasis on health and safety,manufacturability, sustainability, and economic, environmental, social, political and ethicaldesign constraints.The first design course in the junior