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Day1: Design

First-year engineering students tackle a design challenge posed by a customer from the local community.

Day1: Edge students tackling a design challengeAs part of the Day1: Design program, you and a team of other first-year engineering students will explore a challenge posed by a local community customer and work to develop possible technological solutions. Join a dynamic community of peers and mentors while doing engineering in a real-world context to start your first year with a truly engaging and life-changing experience.

Day1: Design is a deliberate attempt to make the engineering profession real from your very first semester. As part of the Design program, you will carry out a design project as you work in teams to analyze the needs of a customer from the Holland community, design a viable and efficient solution, and develop an actual prototype. Culminating your semester of work will be your presentation of the prototype to the customer.

"It felt good to actually do something important for someone already in my freshman year. This kept me really interested in engineering right away." 

Community Details

  • Design project is embedded in the Introduction to Engineering laboratory course
  • Upper-level engineering students mentor first-year students through the design project

Faculty Mentors

Dr. John Krupzak
Dr. John Krupzak

Professor of Engineering

VanderWerf-Room 223C
27 Graves Place
Holland, MI 49423-3617
616.395.7152
krupczak@hope.edu

Ms. Susan Ipri Brown
Ms. Susan Ipri Brown

Director of ExploreHope, Instructor of Engineering

VanderWerf-Room 223B
27 Graves Place
Holland, MI 49423-3698
616.395.7924
browns@hope.edu

Dr. Jeffrey Christians
Dr. Jeffrey Christians

Assistant Professor of Engineering

A. Paul Schaap Science Center Room 2106
35 East 12th Street
Holland, MI 49423
616.395.6895
christians@hope.edu

Hope CollegeDay1 Research Communities

A. Paul Schaap Science Center35 East 12th StreetRoom 3207Holland, MI 49423

workP. 616.395.7405