First-Year Design Showcase
Drake Performance Hall
Drake Performance Hall
1849 Cannon Drive
Main Lobby
Columbus, OH 43210
United States
First Year Design Project
The First Year Design Project is the design-and-build project component of the Fundamentals of Engineering sequence. There are currently two versions of the design project offered: the Integrated Transportation System (ITS) and the Advanced Energy Vehicle (AEV).
The ITS project incorporates the entrepreneurial development process into a design-and-build project. Students are tasked to develop a system that solves a problem, creating economic and/or social value. After developing a real life system, students model their system using provided vehicle components to validate their designs.
The AEV project is an energy and environment design-and-build project that challenges first-year engineering students to create an autonomous electric vehicle transportation system. These vehicles are the result of their semester-long design-build project, focusing on using advanced energy concepts and energy management to successfully address a real-world transportation scenario modeled after Smart Columbus.