The Next Generation: Retooling Engineering Curriculum

Purdue University Sponsored Events at ASEE 2011

Managing Change: Global Progress and Challenges to Creating the Curriculum of the Future

• Integrating New Competencies
• Busting Barriers
• Discovering Success Factors
• Finding the Right Champions
• Managing Change

Join us to explore these topics about what works and what doesn't in the worldwide transformation of engineering curriculum.

Pre-Conference Workshop

Vancouver

Sunday, June 26th, 2pm - 5pm

Integrating and Assessing Engineer of 2020 Attributes into Engineering Curriculum: Sustainability, Ethics, and Global Competence.

Purdue University faculty and researchers will share experiences of incorporating themes of sustainability, entrepreneurship, ethics, and global competence into their classrooms.

Workshop provides a great opportunity to collaborate and identify ways concepts may be integrated into courses and the methods to assess student learning.

Workshop outcomes:

• Motivation and inspiration to incorporate non-traditional topics of interest into engineering curriculum
• Individualized action plan for integrating a non-traditional, non-technical-type component into curriculum
• Networking with colleagues with similar challenges

Facilitator & Presenters

Moderator:

• Anne Dare, Graduate Research Assistant, Purdue University, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Presenters:

• Stephen Hoffmann, Assistant Head, Purdue University, Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering
• Rodney Trice, Associate Professor, Purdue University, School of Materials Engineering
• P.K. Imbrie, Professor, Purdue University, School of Engineering Education

ASEE host division: Minorities in Engineering

Curriculum Change: How are we doing?

Marc Williams

Monday, June 27th

Session I, 2:15pm - 3:45pm
Session II, 4pm - 5:30pm

The world economy is changing, and the engineering profession is evolving to keep up.

In response, many schools have adapted curriculum and adopted new initiatives revolving around how we educate our future engineers.

Purdue University is hosting two sessions to gain a clearer understanding of how Colleges of Engineering in the U.S. and globally are managing curriculum change. What are the barriers? What are the factors of success?

Marc Williams, Purdue University associate head and professor of aeronautics and Astronautics/ABET Coordinator will present and distribute results of the pre-conference survey.

Facilitated small-group discussions will explore specific topics that arise from the survey. Both sessions will cover a range of topics, so interested participants may wish to attend both sessions. Summaries of discussions will be compiled and distributed to attendees after the conference.

Sessions sponsored by Purdue University's College of Engineering.

Purdue Reception, 6pm - 7:30pm

Hosted by Leah H. Jamieson, the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering at Purdue Past President and Fellow of IEEE, co-author of NAE's Changing the Conversation, member of NAE and AAAS, and newly elected Fellow of ASEE