Balancing the Disciplines--Recalibrated

This complete paper is a continuation of the work reported in the work-in-progress paper by the authors in the 2021 conference. Balancing the Disciplines is an interdisciplinary design project for use in Introduction to Engineering courses. At Dunwoody College of Technology, the course titled "Introduction to Engineering" is taken by electrical, mechanical, and software engineering first-year students. The team-based project involves designing, building, programming, and calibrating an electromechanical balance. This project makes use of the skills and interests of each represented discipline. In the prior work ("Balancing the Engineering Disciplines!: An Interdisciplinary First-Year Design Project"), the authors laid out the project in detail and proposed changes to further improve the flow and educational value of the work. Many of these changes were incorporated for the fall 2021 course offering. This paper addresses those changes and compares student feedback results with the prior offering in fall 2020. Instructor feedback is included, and further refinements are also proposed.