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Publication Date: 2015
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A Case Study of a College-Wide First-Year Undergraduate Engineering Course
Aloul, Fadi; Zualkernan, Imran; Husseini, Ghaleb; El-Hag, Ayman; Al-Assaf, Yousef
European Journal of Engineering Education, v40 n1 p32-51 2015
Introductory engineering courses are either programme specific or expose students to engineering as a broad discipline by including materials from various engineering programmes. A common introductory engineering course that spans different engineering programmes raises challenges, including the high cost of resources as well as the lack of background courses of first-year students. This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of a first-year common engineering course that uses low-cost materials to expose students to a structured engineering design process. The course is explicitly designed to satisfy the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology criteria for engineering programmes. Our experience with the course shows that not only students are able to follow a structured design process successfully but we also believe that most of the ABET criteria are being delivered through the course.
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Introductory Courses, Course Content, Curriculum Design, Student Surveys, Student Attitudes, Case Studies, Accreditation (Institutions), Criteria, Program Evaluation, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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