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Presentation
Influences on Engineering Instructors’ Emphasis on Interdisciplinarity in Undergraduate Courses
121st ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition! 360 Degrees of Engineering Education
(2014)
Abstract
Solving many of today’s technological and social challenges will require interdisciplinary thought and action1-5, and the growth of interdisciplinary engineering programs6 suggests that the field is acknowledging its role in preparing students to tackle complex problems and develop innovations that will advance quality of life, economic growth, and national security. Efforts to enhance students’ interdisciplinary knowledge and skills include the development of interdisciplinary design courses through the NSF-funded SUCCEED Coalition and ABET’s later accreditation mandate for undergraduate programs to prepare new engineers to work on multidisciplinary teams7. Borrego, Froyd and Hall observed that the high level of awareness among engineering department chairs of interdisciplinary capstone design projects was “an obvious response to ABET EC2000 criteria”8 (p. 197).
Disciplines
Publication Date
2014
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana
Comments
This paper is from the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings, June 15-18, 2014. © American Society for Engineering Education. Posted with permission.
Citation Information
Lisa R. Lattuca, David B. Knight and Michael Geoffrey Brown. "Influences on Engineering Instructors’ Emphasis on Interdisciplinarity in Undergraduate Courses" 121st ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition! 360 Degrees of Engineering Education (2014) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/brown-michael/4/