Freshman Curriculum

Well, the website is pretty much up and running now and I've spent some time developing the first pass at a session-by-session level of curriculum for our Freshman students. It seems pretty comprehensive across Project Management and Relationship Management. I'm particularly happy, because it meets my core goals of providing things that EVERY engineering student should know but never gets taught in school.

I hope that in the future, once Freshman are exposed to these concepts, they can be applied and leveraged in their technical engineering classes. Personally, I had a hard time when professors focused on the math but did not thoroughly explain the concept, why it was useful, and how I would apply it to real world situations. One of my goals of Epee is to provide students with a framework to develop and understand engineering concepts, as well as providing real world situations that many professors do not know. That way the math can be applied to a genuine understanding of the problem being solved.

After all, engineering is not just about the math, it is being able to find a solution for whatever problem presents itself. That requires having the right tools in your toolbox, and more importantly knowing which tool is right for the job. You cannot determine that without truly understanding the problem. That is true of any situation in life and business, including interpersonal ones. That is why we are teaching a breadth of professional knowledge as well as relationship development and management, so graduates can align a problem with an honest understanding of themselves, their personality, and their skill set(s). After all, most situations that engineers find themselves needing to solve throughout their lives do not require an ability to solve really difficult equations.

I'm really looking forward to piloting our program. Hopefully I will have confirmation from Villanova this week that we can being trying it out in the spring!