Difference between revisions of "Perspectives on EG1004"

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The mission of the first-year engineering experience is to prepare students for their undergraduate experience, solve real-world multidisciplinary problems, and develop the professional skills needed to succeed in their careers. This will be accomplished through project-based learning in the General Engineering (EG) 1004 Introduction to Engineering and Design course. This course is central to the students-first initiative at NYU Tandon School of Engineering by offering project-based learning for practical engineering skills development in the first year. EG1004 is a gateway course to the rest of the curriculum and opportunities that students will have at Tandon and in their future careers. The EG faculty and teaching assistants represent a variety of disciplines and act as mentors for student projects and professional development.

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+The mission of the first-year engineering experience is to prepare students for their undergraduate experience, solve real-world multidisciplinary problems, and develop the professional skills needed to succeed in their careers. This will be accomplished through project-based learning in the General Engineering (EG) 1004 Introduction to Engineering and Design course. This course is central to the students-first initiative at NYU Tandon School of Engineering by offering project-based learning for practical engineering skills development in the first year. EG1004 is a gateway course to the rest of the curriculum and opportunities that students will have at Tandon and in their future careers. The EG faculty and teaching assistants represent a variety of disciplines and act as mentors for student projects and professional development.
-<p>Our world is becoming ever more complex. It is no longer
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-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 EG1004, 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>EG1004 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
-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>
-Industry Professor and Director of General Engineering<br>
-Polytechnic University</p>
-<p>July 2008</p>
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