Setting the Multidisciplinary Scene: Engineering Design andCommunication in the “Hoistinator” Project

摘要

Rowan University’s COE offers students an exciting and innovative technical communicationand design curricula. All engineering students, at the beginning of their sophomore year, enrollin Sophomore Clinic, the second year of Rowan’s unique Clinic program. While all four yearsof Rowan’s clinic curricula are multidisciplinary, Sophomore Clinic I provides the students withthe opportunity to experience a collaborative environment where a team of communications andengineering faculty work together to educate students in the “real-world” environment ofengineering design – an environment that addresses the skills of designer, planner, presenter,builder, team-leader, writer, evaluator, researcher – all in the context of a engineering-lab-basedversion of what most sophomore engineering students in other programs experience asComposition II.