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Collectively and individually, first-year students in Mechanical Engineering lack familiarity with real mechanical systems. Individual students have noted that they have not grown up able to simply “take stuff apart”. As a result, the mechanical engineering undergraduates have minimal skills or knowledge of common mechanical devices. The foundations course for the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics at the University of Waterloo has adopted the role of giving new students opportunities to interact with hardware in an “Engineering Clinic” environment. This paper will provide a preliminary work-inprogress report on the activities and the role these activities played in the student experience. The paper will report on the delivery of the activities, and the initial student reactions to the hands-on activities in this context.

Hands-on Explorations as Background Research for First-Year Design Projects