Conference Session

T1A: Readiness 1

Collection

2019 FYEE Conference

Authors

Nicholas A Meisel, The Pennsylvania State University; Sarah C Ritter, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Christopher McComb, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Jessica Dolores Menold, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Topics

FYEE Conference - Paper Submission

Engineering Design (EDSGN 100) acts as a gateway engineering course forover 3800 students across 20 Penn State campuses each year. Recently, the course has incorporatedsix educational modules, which cover topics from creativity to professional communication tomaking. However, these modules require a unifying experience so that the students are able toperceive how the content from the individual modules coalesces to form the unique identity of anengineer. To address this need, a new framework is proposed to guide the creation andimplementation of an 8-week long design challenge within EDSGN 100. This framework identifiesa series of 8 project characteristics necessary to create a clear connection between the content fromeach of the individual modules