Bringing Technology to the First-year Design Experience Through the Use of Electronic Design Notebooks

In 2011, I joined the Biomedical Engineering (BME) Department as a Lecturer and Outreach Coordinator. As part of the BME design faculty, I work on curriculum development, as well as innovative approaches for teaching design. I coordinate BME outreach, advising BME seniors as they develop interactive handson activities for K-12 students that teach biomedical engineering concepts. Additionally, in 2012, I began teaching an introductory engineering course (Introduction to Engineering Design) to incoming freshmen in the College of Engineering. In 2014, I became a coordinator for the Introduction to Engineering Design course, which has become a popular course with over 900 students enrolled per year, and an expected enrollment of 1000 students this coming academic year.