The LEAP program teaches first year students engineering skills as they work through their prerequisite courses, preparing them to excel in their core engineering classes.
LEAP students are learning:
- Human-centered engineering
- Scientific research
- Stakeholder analysis
- Design thinking
- Prototyping
- Free body diagrams / structural analysis
- Back of the envelope calculations
- Test method development
- Project finance / budgeting / expense tracking
- Project costing and market viability analysis
- Intellectual property principles, including patent types and the patent application process
