Student engagement and enthusiasm is key to a successful program. It is crucial that new students feel connected to the profession early in their career; that they should have opportunities where they "Feel Like an Engineer".
The Pearl Sullivan IDEAs Clinic hit a home run with Engineering Days, which are events characterized by multi-day immersion of teams of students working on large, hands-on, open-ended engineering design problems. Modeled on the concept of a “hackathon”, students embrace the intensity and bring their best to solving these challenging real world problems.
