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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
Aloul, Fadi
Zualkernan, Imran
Husseini, Ghaleb
El-Hag, Ayman
Al-Assaf, Yousef
Date
2014
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Peer-Reviewed
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Abstract
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.