Collection

2020 ASEE North Central Section conference

Authors

V. Dimitra Pyrialakou, West Virginia University; Kakan C Dey P.E., West Virginia University; David Martinelli, West Virginia University; John Deskins, West Virginia University; Julia Daisy Fraustino, West Virginia University ; L Christopher Plein, West Virginia University; Md Tawhidur Rahman, West Virginia University; Karen E Rambo-Hernandez, Texas A&M University; Abhik Roy, West Virginia University

of this concept in a HolisticEngineering Project Course (HEPC) that was designed as a part of a National ScienceFoundation (NSF) grant (Award Number: 1927232) and was implemented at West VirginiaUniversity (WVU). WVU HEPC is developed in such a way that engineering students work withsocial science students on a complex and open-ended engineering grand challenge problem.The organization of this paper is as follows. Section 2 discusses the concept of the holisticengineering approach and its key principles. Section 3 presents the structure of the HEPC courseand Section 4 presents the implementation of the course in the spring 2020 semester. Finally,Section 5 concludes with key lessons learned and an overview of future teaching and