Designing Innovations Research Stream – A Design Research Program for First-Year Students
Mohammad Fazelpour,
Benjamin Landon,
Jeffrey Herrmann
et al.
Abstract:Understanding how teams solve design problems can influence students' perspectives on designing innovative products and systems. Furthermore, education needs to be tailored to engage first-year students in undergraduate research opportunities which increases student retention and graduation rate among STEM majors. A new initiative at the University of Maryland, the First-Year Innovation & Research Experience Program (FIRE), provides authentic research experience to first-year students. This paper introduces a … Show more
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