Conference Session

Technical Session T2

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Debjani Sarkar; Timothy J Hinds, Michigan State University

Tagged Topics

GIFTS

Timothy Hinds First-Year Engineering CoRe Experience Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 sarkarde@msu.edu, hinds@msu.edu IntroductionEngineers are global communicators. Our first-year engineering students write and present technicalreports, lab reports, capstone projects, formal emails, posters, elevator pitches and more, tocommunicate their technical knowledge globally to a wide variety of audiences. They are required topresent information as concisely and objectively as possible. Although the importance ofcommunication may seem self-evident, our students need to be more motivated to