Conference Session

Technical Session T2

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Lee Kemp Rynearson, Campbell University

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course over time and are currently used in an initial review during brainstorming and ideationfollowed by a second review coinciding with concept selection to better orient the student teamsto the different uses of the patent review findings. Several teams have elected to build on thepatent review materials by completing the University’s IP disclosure forms for a later contract-graded portion of the course.Overall, the integration of patent review into the first-year design course has been smooth, withstudent teams often conducting rigorous reviews and meaningful analyses of their findings.These materials and assignments are seen as potentially helpful to engineering design classesacross the undergraduate curriculum, including first-year design

Conference Session

Technical Session T2

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Debjani Sarkar; Timothy J Hinds, Michigan State University

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Paper ID #36349Introducing Quad Chart to Reinforce Technical Communication SkillsMs. Debjani Sarkar, Ms Debjani Sarkar is an academic teaching specialist in the College of Engineering at Michigan State University. She teaches Technical Writing for Engineers and Scientists at MSU. She also leads the com- munications and marketing activities of the first-year engineering CoRe Experience. She supervises the College of Engineering Tutoring Center, which offers free tutoring in foundational courses for under- graduate engineering students. She has over a decade of experience on e-communication, curriculum development, web and