T4-D: Engineering Scholars + Tift School of Education + Technical Communication = Go Baby Go
Location
Richard Petty
Start Date
6-3-2018 8:40 AM
Description
The Engineering Scholars Track (EgrST) of the Mercer University Honors Program is an eightsemester sequence of 1-credit SU courses. Two of the major challenges in the program curriculum have been to (i) engaging the freshman in a meaningful engineering project activity and (ii) developing connections between the lower- and upper-level students. Go Baby Go is an adaptive toy program conceived by Dr. Cole Galloway at the University of Delaware that aims to enhance the social development of disabled children by providing them with a mobility solution through the modification of children’s powered ride-on vehicles. Go Baby Go vehicle build events were incorporated into the EgrST in the 2016/2017 academic year. This paper describes how the EgrST, Tift College of Education, and Department of Technical Communication collaborate to make these build events happen.
T4-D: Engineering Scholars + Tift School of Education + Technical Communication = Go Baby Go
Richard Petty
The Engineering Scholars Track (EgrST) of the Mercer University Honors Program is an eightsemester sequence of 1-credit SU courses. Two of the major challenges in the program curriculum have been to (i) engaging the freshman in a meaningful engineering project activity and (ii) developing connections between the lower- and upper-level students. Go Baby Go is an adaptive toy program conceived by Dr. Cole Galloway at the University of Delaware that aims to enhance the social development of disabled children by providing them with a mobility solution through the modification of children’s powered ride-on vehicles. Go Baby Go vehicle build events were incorporated into the EgrST in the 2016/2017 academic year. This paper describes how the EgrST, Tift College of Education, and Department of Technical Communication collaborate to make these build events happen.