Special session - Real World Engineering Projects: Discovery-based curriculum modules for first-year students

Author

Carletta, Joan ; Bayles, Taryn M. ; Kalveram, Karl ; Khorbotly, Sami ; Macnab, Chirs ; Nazhandali, Leyla ; Rice, Jonathan ; Smith, James A. ; Turner, Laurance E. ; Williams, Stephen ; Wyard-Scott, Loren

Author_Institution

The University of Akron, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

18-21 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This special session is organized to provide an interactive forum for the introduction of a set of curriculum modules developed under IEEE´s Real World Engineering Projects (RWEP) program. The modules, available to the public via a RWEP web portal, are designed for use in the first-year engineering and computer science classroom, and are hands-on, teambased projects that emphasize the societal impact of the work that engineers do. After a brief introduction to the RWEP program and the curriculum modules, the authors of the modules will present their ideas and demonstrate the laboratory activities associated with their modules in interactive, informal simultaneous sessions.

Keywords

Bit error rate; Computational modeling; Computer science; Data communication; Design engineering; Error correction codes; Grippers; Mechanical sensors; Prosthetics; Wireless communication; and engineering education; curriculum development; first-year students; laboratory instruction;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 2009. FIE '09. 39th IEEE

Conference_Location

San Antonio, TX, USA

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4715-2

Electronic_ISBN

0190-5848

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2009.5350608

Filename

5350608