First Year Engineering News

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Apr 17, 2019

Freshmen Engineering Students presented at the 2019 ASEE-Zone 1 Conference, Niagara Falls, NY

Freshmen engineering students, under the supervision of Professor Bala Maheswaran, presented five papers at the American Society of Engineering Education – Zone 1 conference on April 11-13, 2019 at Niagara Falls, NY.

Dec 14, 2018

Sustainability Education: It’s All Fun and Games

Associate Teaching Professor Kathryn Schulte Grahame’s first-year corner stone students partnered with the Museum of Science to create interactive games that would educate children on sustainability.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Oct 01, 2018

Exploring “Technical Innovation and Product Prototyping” in Silicon Valley

FYELIC Teaching Professor Bala Maheswaran of the Col­lege of Engi­neering led a five-week-long Dia­logue of Civilizations program, titled, “Technical Innovation and Product Prototyping” in Silicon Valley, San Jose.

May 23, 2018

STEAM Go! and the Center for STEM Education present their research at the recent ASEE New England conference

Associate Academic Specialist Jennifer Love and Center for STEM Education Director Claire Duggan recently published and presented their paper “STEAM Go! A School District’s Approach to Implementing New State Science, Technology & Engineering PreK-12 Curriculum Standards” at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) New England conference at the University of Hartford on April 27, […]

Jun 26, 2017

3D Printing in the Classroom

CAMD/COE Assistant Teaching Professor Mark Sivak and FYELC Associate Academic Specialist Jennifer Love demonstrated their use of 3D printing at TEXPO, Information Technology Services’ third annual Teaching and Technology Expo.

Apr 13, 2017

Cornerstone Class Presents to Beachmont Elementary School

This past Monday (April 10) the students of Professor Schulte Grahame’s Cornerstone of Engineering class traveled to Beachmont Elementary School in Revere, Massachusetts to present their projects on sustainability to students grades 3 – 5. Spending the past semester mastering skills in Matlab, C++, Arduino programming, 3D printing, Solidworks, AutoCAD design, and Matlab-Sparkfun integration techniques the designed 9 […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Dec 14, 2016

Noisy Engineers Union

First-year engineering students in Assistant Teaching Professor Joshua Hertz's Cornerstone of Engineering course built new electronic percussion instruments for their team design projects and worked with a local musician, Maria Finkelmeier, to test them.

Dec 14, 2016

FYELC Students present their Arduino projects at Design Expo

First year engineering students in Associate Academic Specialist Jennifer Love’s Cornerstone of Engineering course displayed their projects at a Design Expo that showcased how they solved authentic engineering problem for a particular group of humans, animals or other living things.