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Engineering skills LEAP teaches

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
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About Emily Monroe

Emily is a mechanical engineer and the director of the Cook Engineering Design Center at Dartmouth College's Thayer School of Engineering. As CEDC director, Emily leverages her experience to connect industry sponsors with Dartmouth Engineering students. Prior to joining Dartmouth, Emily was the lead engineer at Kudos, where she ran new product development for the first disposable baby diaper with 100% cotton against baby’s skin. She also served as a manufacturing engineer at Sturm, Ruger and Co. and as an R&D design engineer at Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon Endo-Surgery.