Work in progress: Constructing a multidisciplinary design project for first-year engineering and Computing students: Traffic Simulation Engineering Design Challenge

Teaching first-year students is a balance between introducing technical content and providing perspective for students to forge connections to the context of what engineers do. Making the possible impact of engineers real and visible to introductory students in an authentic manner can be challenging. This paper describes the implementation and impact for a Traffic Simulation engineering design challenge in a freshman level “Introduction to Engineering Design” course comprised of both Engineering and Computing students at Arizona State University.