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

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.