Conference Session

Integrating Design in the Freshman Year (3553)

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Fellows, Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science SUNY -Binghamton; Richard Culver, Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science SUNY -Binghamton

Tagged Divisions

Freshman Programs (FPD)

of DTeC. The structure of DTeC is designed to accommodateapproximately 100 students who meet as a total group in a General Session of 20 minutes threetimes a week. At the end of the General Session, 1/3 of the students go to Graphics and Design,1/3 to Communications, and 1/3 to Computers; by the end of the week students have attendedeach two-hour lab. The skills taught in each lab revolve around the current engineering designproject, in this case, the ADDP. In Communications lab, students were required to write aseries of memos, one at each stage in the design process, to document their work. Theirlogbooks were periodically reviewed and were graded at the end of the semester to emphasizetheir importance in engineering practice. Each student