- Conference Session
- FPD VI: Presenting "All the Best" of the First-year Programs Division
- Collection
- 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
- Authors
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Lorelle A. Meadows, University of Michigan; Robin Fowler, University of Michigan; Elizabeth S. Hildinger, University of Michigan
- Tagged Divisions
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First-Year Programs
engineering design project. At thattime, engineering students were entering their sophomore and higher-level courses with twoperceived deficits: they were untrained in the sorts of communication skills that their upper-division engineering courses, internships, and future careers would demand of them, and theywere unacquainted with the methods and mindset characteristic of engineering. A team oftechnical and communication faculty set out in 1991 to design a class to remedy this situation.The course was designed with a significant technical communication component with theintention of ultimately implementing this course, for engineering students, in place of theuniversity-wide first year writing requirement.The first iteration of the course was