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Addition of COM 114 prerequisite to IDE 301Engineering Faculty Document 37-06 March 8, 2007 To: The Engineering Faculty From: The Department of Engineering Education Date: March 8, 2007 Subject: Addition of COM 114 prerequisite to IDE 301 The faculty of the Department of Engineering Education has approved the following changes in IDE 301. This action is now submitted to the Engineering Faculty with a recommendation for approval. From: IDE 301 Professional Preparation in Interdisciplinary
Engineering Sem. 2. Class 1, Cr. 1. Junior or senior standing in IDE. Seminar covering topics required for professional preparation of engineers including functioning in teams, communication, ethics, global and societal impacts, how people learn, and contemporary issues impacting and impacted by engineering. To: IDE
301 Professional Preparation in
Interdisciplinary Engineering Sem. 2. Class 1, Cr. 1. Junior or senior standing in IDE. Prerequisite: COM 114 or equivalent. Seminar covering topics required for professional preparation of engineers including functioning in teams, communication, ethics, global and societal impacts, how people learn, and contemporary issues impacting and impacted by engineering. Reason: Since EFD 39-04 changed the requirements of the First-Year Engineering program, COM 114 is no longer required in the first year. COM 114 or equivalent courses are still required in the Undergraduate Degree Programs in the Department of Engineering Education, are needed as prerequisites for IDE 301, and thus need to be explicitly listed as a prerequisite. Kamyar Haghighi Head Department of Engineering Education November 1, 2005 TO: The Faculty of the
Schools of Engineering FROM: The Faculty of the
Department of Engineering Education and The First-Year Engineering Curriculum
Committee SUBJECT: Change of
Course Requirements for the First-Year Engineering Program. The Faculty of the
Department of Engineering Education and the First-Year Engineering Curriculum
Committee have approved course requirement changes to the curriculum for the First-Year
Engineering program. This action is now submitted to the Engineering Faculty
with a recommendation for approval to take effect for beginning students entering the program Summer 2006 and
thereafter. Current and proposed plans
of study are attached. Detailed
descriptions of proposed changes are provided along with reasons for these
proposed changes and notes on their implementation. ____________________________________ Kamyar Haghighi, Head Department
of Engineering Education CURRENT:
PROPOSED:
1Completion
of the common core courses will allow entry into all the Schools of
Engineering, subject to individual schools' space management requirements. These include ENGR 100/103/104, a First-Year
General Education course, and the following courses upon which the Engineering
Admissions Index (EAI) will be based: MA
165/161, MA 166/162/173, CHM 115/123, ENGL 106/108, ENGR 126, PHYS 152, and the
Science Selective. 2A
First-Year General Education course will be selected from the 3Science
Selectives: a. Individual schools will be allowed to require a
specific course under the conditions that the student will still be admitted to
the school and that the science selective taken as a first-year student may be
counted as credits toward graduation upon application by the student and
approval by the affected school. b. Science selectives will be taken from
a controlled list of courses. The set of
courses includes: §
Second semester of Chemistry (CHM
116, 124, 136) § CS 158 or 190E, ENGR 117 c. Students who are undecided will be strongly
advised to take a second semester of chemistry as their science selective. 4Students with room in their schedule and an interest in Mechanical or
Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering will be strongly encouraged to
enroll in CGT 163. Similarly, those with
an interest in Civil, Construction, or Land Surveying and Geomatics Engineering
will be encouraged to enroll in CGT 164. 5Students
with room in their schedule will be encouraged to take additional elective courses which include
ENGR 194 or 180, EPCS 101, MSE 190, ABE 120, NE 110, ROTC and BAND courses. Characteristics of the First-Year Engineering Curriculum: A. No choices
for the fall semester classes will impact time to graduation or entry into any
of the Schools of Engineering. B. English
Composition will be required as a core first year course. C. Additional
courses may be added to the list of Science Selectives with the approval of the
First-Year Curriculum Committee. D. Replacing
ENGR 106 in the curriculum is ENGR 126, a 3 credit course more truly reflecting
the content of the current ENGR 106 course (2 - 50 minute lectures and 1 lab
per week). ENGR 126 will be responsible
for laying the basic computing foundation within the engineering context for
all professional schools. E. Renumbering
of ENGR 106 is necessary to eliminate the potential for the confusion that
would result if different students' records were to show ENGR 106 for two and
three credits. This renumbering will
also help eliminate confusion for students' counselors and the Registrar's
Office during the transition to the updated first-year curriculum. Reasons: Over the
past four years, there have been several proposals to address problems with our
first-year curriculum. While these differed
in the details of the specific changes, they all acknowledged that there are
problems with the first year, especially the overload of the spring
semester. The challenges that we face
are not unique and have paralleled similar discussions at other institutions. National trends across engineering programs
include first-year engineering curricula with a single semester of chemistry,
an early introduction to engineering, and an early introduction to biology. In our debates, we have learned many lessons
about the needs of our own programs, including the commitment to the common
first-year concept; the understanding of benefits from a balanced course load
with a Liberal Arts class in each semester; the necessity of an English
composition course; a recognition that computing concepts can be taught in the
context of computer tools such as MATLAB; and the necessity of each school to
compromise to achieve an effective, balanced and reasonable common first-year
curriculum. We can not
afford to continue with the current model that overloads the spring semester
with up to 20 required credits. The
current curriculum results in poor performance, repeating courses extending
graduation dates, required summer courses and students leaving engineering
altogether. Students that do continue
are looking to “make it through” rather than understanding the material. The
proposed curriculum will make the first year more effective, balanced and
reasonable for our students to adjust to Purdue Engineering and to learn the fundamentals
needed for success in engineering. The
proposed revisions seek to keep the common core curriculum that has served so
effectively and even eliminates the decisions that students currently need to
make during Day on Campus. Constraints and Considerations
of the First-Year Curriculum: The constraints that were considered in putting the proposal
together were that the curriculum must include: §
Two
semesters of calculus, §
At
least one semester of chemistry with the option to take a second, §
One
semester of physics, §
One
introductory computing course with the option for a second, more advanced
course, §
One
semester of English composition and the opportunity to take a COM course, or a
First-Year General Education elective from the §
A
first semester introduction to engineering course or seminar, and §
An
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