Full Paper: Future-Ready Students: Providing Opportunities for Remote Collaboration on an Engineering Design Project

Successful engagement and collaboration on projects where members of the team work remotely is an essential skill for students to develop.Having students collaborate with partners from another institution can add elements of reality and relevance to a class project, creating further opportunities for instructors to prepare students for the expectations of the modern workplace.This paper details the design and execution of a class project for first-year Electrical and Computer Engineering students, with project teams comprised of students from two institutions.While the organization effort is slightly higher for the instructors than other course projects, the observed value to the students is notable.Students report more communication, coordination, and teaming difficulties on this project than they do for other course projects, but they also report satisfaction and a sense of accomplishment, and their responses to end-of-project surveys show a maturing of