Difference between revisions of "Perspectives on EG1004"

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Our world is becoming ever more complex. For engineers to create effective solutions to today's challenges requires more than their own technical expertise - it requires the ability to work on multidisciplinary teams, to communicate with various stakeholders, and to manage projects at various scales.

Being able to do so requires practice. Here in EG-1004, our goal is to empower first-year students as they begin this practice through labs and semester long projects. While the course has evolved since its original form launched in 1993, this remains its core mission. In this manual, you will find the activities and materials to help us accomplish this.

Ingrid Paredes, PhD

Director of General Engineering and Industry Assistant Professor

NYU Tandon School of Engineering

September 2023

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-<h1 align=center>Perspectives on EG1003</h1>
+Our world is becoming ever more complex. For engineers to create effective solutions to today's challenges requires more than their own technical expertise - it requires the ability to work on multidisciplinary teams, to communicate with various stakeholders, and to manage projects at various scales.
-<p>Our world is becoming ever more complex. It is no longer
+Being able to do so requires practice. Here in EG-1004, our goal is to empower first-year students as they begin this practice through labs and semester long projects. While the course has evolved since its original form launched in 1993, this remains its core mission. In this manual, you will find the activities and materials to help us accomplish this.
-possible to cope by relying on expertise from a single discipline. Freshmen in
-engineering schools must come aboard the "speeding train of runaway information
-overload" and be able to sort out what is and what is not relevant. They must
-be able to work in multi-disciplinary teams and be able to present their
-activities to peers as well as to supervisors. To address these issues, Polytechnic Institute of NYU offers EG1003, Introduction
-to Engineering and design. The course provides students an overall perspective
-on engineering as well as useful tools and work methods that will be of great
-utility to them in the years to come.</p>
-<p>EG1003 has evolved from its original form which was sponsored
-by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Gateway Coalition nearly ten years
-ago. Many faculty members, teaching assistants and students have contributed to
-this evolution and made it a better course. Intrinsic to the continuous change
-is one of this course's unique features: teaching assistants that are recruited
-from the pool of former students. Students know all too well what is troubling
-them, and when they get a chance, as TAs, to improve a perceived problem area,
-they jump on it!</p>
-<p>This course by its very nature has to be dynamic. It must
+Ingrid Paredes, PhD<br />
-reflect what is happening in the real world that is changing each day. Current
-students benefit from improvements made in previous years. Your comments will
-help make this course even better for future students.</p>
-<p>Gunter Georgi<br>
+Director of General Engineering and Industry Assistant Professor<br />
-Industry Professor and Director of General Engineering<br>
-Polytechnic Institute of NYU</p>
-<p>July 2008</p>
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+NYU Tandon School of Engineering
+September 2023
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