Students can visit the EngineerHub for timely opportunities and more college resources.
First-Year Engineering Experience
If you are a traditional engineering major, or undeclared, you’ll likely
take the Engineering Design sequence in your first 3-terms. This
includes Engineering Design and Data, Introductory Programming, and
First-Year Design. Depending on your placement exam results, AP or Dual
Enrollment credits, and major, other classes include calculus, physics,
chemistry and English. Regardless of where you start in the math and
physics sequence, you will remain on track to graduate on time as long
as you successfully complete your coursework at Drexel.
You can see the specifics of the first year curriculum for each major in
the undergraduate
catalog.
From left: Thayer, Keller and Patiashivili pose with the Formula SAE car.
Senior Design
Engineering students make up the majority of the senior design teams but the sequence is open to seniors in any discipline. During the fall, the students form their teams, select an area of interest, then extract and explicitly state their design problems and methods of solution in formal proposals to the Design Faculty. The teams develop their own solutions during the Winter and Spring, the culmination of which is a formal report of the results. The faculty encourages the students to place as much emphasis upon the process of defining the problems and developing the solutions as is placed upon the actual end products. To reflect that concern, proposals, progress reports and final reports are required in both written and oral formats. Examples of past projects can be found here.
Celebration of Engineering Design
The event celebrates the accomplishments of our students! First-year Design groups from ENGR 113 can enter in the FY competition, students conducting research with faculty can compete for the research competition, and any senior design/capstone team from the College of Engineering can participate in the Celebration of Engineering Design. Specific senior teams will be selected to compete as finalists in the Senior Design Champion Competition based on department criteria. The event typically takes place in the last week of courses of Spring Term in the Bossone lobby.