Towards a New Model for First-Year Introductory Courses in Engineering Education Programmes

An important and common component of engineering programmes is a first-year course aimed at introducing various subjects as well as motivating the students and introducing them to the engineering profession. This paper compares four such courses at Chalmers University of Technology, The Royal Institute of Technology, Linköping University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Discriminators showing details of each course are displayed and possible course development is discussed.