GEL 1 Requirements

The GEL1 EPR Essay assignment celebrates GELs’ experiences on engineering projects. It is a writing assignment that:

• Prompts GELs to engage in a realistic team-based engineering project (or, to identify one from their recent past)
• Elicits reflection upon their experiences on the project, and
• Introduces them to an engineering Project Post-Mortem report format – they’ll be diagnosing what worked well, and what didn’t work well during the project, specifically considering teamwork and leadership factors.
• Students will then provide recommendations for how the project could be run more effectively next time.

By realistic, it is meant that the selected project should be of sufficient scale and level of completeness that the student’s experience approximates an authentic engineering process of conceiving, designing, implementing and operating a product (or, processes, material, molecule, software, service or system!).

GELs will either reflect and write a Post-Mortem on an upcoming engineering project they plan to participate in during GEL Year 1, or they may choose to reflect on a project from the recent past (completed no earlier than the spring or summer prior to their joining GEL). See further guidelines below on project selection and timing.

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