In a new Product and Process Engineering Laboratory, teams of two or three freshman engineering students explore six products or processes by playing the successive roles of user, assembler, and engineering analyst. This format provides a hands-on, collaborative learning environment to improve students' manipulative, problem-solving, and creative thinking skills. The lab also endows freshmen with a desired, early identity as engineers. Student responses to the first two offerings of the laboratory have been positive.
Section I-- Introduction
Section II-- Freshman Product and Process Engineering Laboratory
Section III-- Integrated Learning Environment
Section IV-- Observations and Evaluations from First Two Offerings
Section V-- Course Implementation
Section VI-- Conclusions
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