Conference Session

Engineering Design Graphics Division (EDGD) Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jan Edwards, College of Lake County; Rob Twardock, College of Lake County

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics Division (EDGD)

for prototyping, the ability to iterate designs quickly, as well asdeveloping some of the teamwork and workplace professionalism skills associated with projectwork typically found in industry.Freshman and sophomores studying engineering benefit a great deal when they network andbond through the shared experiences of project work. Community college students, in particular,exhibit improved retention and graduation rates as a result of building a shared sense ofcommunity [3], [4]. With their commuting status and typically heavy part-time job workload,community college students don’t often socialize outside of class, which leads to isolation bothsocially and academically. Project based learning can help this by promoting a student’s sense ofself