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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College

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Diversity

Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 7-8, 2017 MSUrespond to customer critical comments on performance. The goal was to give students authentichands-on product development and project execution experience to relate to potential internshipand professional employers.The spirit of this project is in line with previous successful efforts to expose students to“authentic” engineering experiences and environments through, for example, Service Learning[1], Learning Factories [2], Capstone Projects [3], hands-on 1st-Year Engineering Courses,Learning in Laboratory Settings [4], and Engineering courses featuring Mechanical Dissection asa learning tool [5].The current “Illuminated Umbrella” project is a continuation of the pilot “Authentic

Collection

2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

relate to potential internship and professionalemployers. Although guided at arms-length by industry-experienced staff, the overwhelmingemphasis was for the Engineering Team to reach their own designs, experience their own failuresand successes in earning their own know-how, resolve their own communications and schedulingconflicts, and to respond to customer critical comments of prototype product performance.The spirit of this project is in line with previous successful efforts to expose students to“authentic” engineering experiences and environments through, for example, Service Learning[1], Learning Factories [2], Capstone Projects [3], hands-on 1st-Year Engineering Courses,Learning in Laboratory Settings [4], and Engineering courses featuring