[Staff] FW: New Directory of Projects Suitable for First-Year Engineering Students

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Lawrence C. Hinkle

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From: Landis, Ray [mailto:rlandis at exchange.calstatela.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 10:25 PM
To: Landis, Ray
Subject: New Directory of Projects Suitable for First-Year Engineering
Students

 

Dear Engineering Educator:

 

I am pleased to announce the creation of:

 

A Directory of Projects for First-Year Engineering Students

 

You can see the directory at:
http://www.discovery-press.com/discovery-press/studyengr/projects.asp

 

There you will find assignment statements for more than 100 projects
currently being used at both community colleges and 4-year institutions
across the nation.  Many of the projects are design, build, test projects.
Others focus on one or more aspects of student development.  Some projects
are small (one or two weeks) while others are comprehensive (semster long or
year long).

 

Also included in the directory is a catalog of 33 regional and national
engineering student design competitions (e.g., steel bridge truss, solar
splash, Baja SAE, etc.).  Although these projects are not strictly for
first-year engineering students, you can perhaps find a role for your
students in them.

 

Links are also provided to other sources of design projects for first-year
engineering students.  The first link is the IEEE Real World Engineering
Project Library.  There you will find 28 electrical and computer engineering
projects for first-year engineering students.  The second link is a
directory of 70 first-year engineering projects compiled by Southern
Methodist University in the mid 1990s.

 

The directory is a "living" resource.   Additional projects are always
welcome as are any references to sources of projects.  Comments on how to
improve the directory will be appreciated as well.

 

I hope this directory serves as a resource to bring more and better
engineering projects to first-year engineering students. 

 

Ray Landis

Dean Emeritus of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology

California State University, Los Angeles

 


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