Conference Session

Promoting Multidisciplinary Efforts

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harold R Underwood, Messiah College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

, as a collaborativeeffort between Messiah College and a small company, has gone through several fits and startsincluding sporadic seed grant funding, angel investor interest, multiple field trials, consultantcontributions, and attempted commercialization. These phases have exposed students totechnical challenges of electrical and computer engineering outside the formal classroom, butalso have required an interdisciplinary mindset to understand the social need and recognizerealistic hurdles inherent to getting a product from development to market. Previous papers haveaddressed the competitive student team member selection process and assessment of the credit-bearing project work in our engineering project curriculum at Messiah College. This