Work in Progress: The Role of Physics in an Engineering Education

This paper describes a work in progress to redesign the freshman physics course to address the needs of engineering students. Specific ways in which the redesign has been done are: (1) synchronizing certain physics labs to illustrate certain concepts that are necessary to carry out engineering projects in the freshman engineering class; (2) redesigning the remaining lab classes to emphasize fundamental concepts of physics using event prediction as opposed to focus on measurements; and (3) improved student practices with emphasis on "diagnosis" was explained below