This paper looks at how students majoring the mechanical engineering perceive the satisfaction of their freshman engineering design course and capstone design. The results of this study show that the satisfaction of the freshman engineering design cou...
This paper looks at how students majoring the mechanical engineering perceive the satisfaction of their freshman engineering design course and capstone design. The results of this study show that the satisfaction of the freshman engineering design course is much lower that of the capstone design. The freshman students feel overwhelmed by the pace and load of freshman design course, though they cannot have interest and motivation on engineering. The engineering faculty and engineering education research center need to develop freshman design course contents and new structures to increase the quality of engineering freshman design education.