Mini workshop — Real World Engineering Projects: Discovery-based curriculum modules for first-year students

This mini workshop is organized to provide an interactive forum for the introduction of a set of five new curriculum modules developed under IEEE´s Real World Engineering Projects (RWEP) program. The modules, which are representative of a larger collection of curriculum modules available to the public via an open-access RWEP web portal, are designed for use in the first-year engineering and computer science classroom, and are hands-on, team-based projects that emphasize the societal impact of the work that engineers do. After a brief introduction to the RWEP program and the five showcased curriculum modules, the authors of the modules will work one-on-one with the audience providing tutorials on the laboratory activities associated with their modules in a highly interactive, simultaneous mode.