Integrating Team-Based Design Across the Curriculum at a Large Public University

Despite high enrollments and budget cutbacks affecting many programs, students still need design experience which prepares them for a globally competitive workforce. We demonstrate that team design projects can be threaded across the curriculum even at large institutions with high departmental student to faculty ratios (∼50:1). We assessed student outcomes with an undergraduate population of nearly 500 students using a mixed-methods approach. Students reported increased confidence in their engineering, design, and teamwork skills after completing the projects.