First & Second Year Clinics

First & Second Year Clinics

First-Year Engineering Clinic

First-year Engineering Clinics (FEC) focus on engineering’s place in society and fundamental engineering skills. Students complete short readings online and quizzes before-hand, freeing class time for hands-on minds-on learning. Students practice what they learn by 3D printing student-designs and evaluating commercial products. They use Sustainable Engineering and Universal Design principles to identify solutions to real-world problems. Students communicate their findings in memos, reports and presentations.

Topics in FEC I include Academic Success, Engineering Disciplines, Engineering Apps, Statistics, Uncertainty, Significant Figures, Divergent & Convergent Thinking, Graphics & 3D Printing, Sustainable Engineering, Problem Solving, and Units.

Topics in FEC II include Intellectual Property, Product Development, Ethics, Engineering Design, Universal Design, Statistics, MATLAB and Economics.

Sophomore Engineering Clinic

Course Curriculum

Sophomore Engineering Clinic merges communication coursework with an engineering design experience. It is collaboratively taught by faculty from the Writing Arts Department and Rowan's College of Engineering in the Fall and faculty from Communication Studies and Engineering in the Spring. Students spend part of their time each week lab, focused on engineering design principles, and the other part of the week in a composition classroom (fall) or public speaking classroom (spring), focusing on a number of written or oral deliverables that cover a variety of genres.

Coursework

In their labs, students will either complete two lab projects (each comprising a half-semester unit) or one larger lab project that spans the entire semester. Whichever approach is used, students submit several deliverables related to those projects. They also complete a professionalization sequence, a research sequence, and an "engineering in society" project, which requires them to explore the ethical dimensions of an engineering-related issue and to write about technical concepts for a non-technical audience.