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| Increased global competition and national attrition rates of engineering students surpassing 40% have made building an effective, efficient undergraduate engineering education model critically important. With support from NSF's Department Level Reform program, Purdue University has implemented a multidisciplinary engineering (MDE) program that gives students rich scholarly interconnections and builds bridges between disciplines. New multidisciplinary courses have been developed to bring emerging technologies into the engineering curriculum and incorporate findings in learning, pedagogy, and assessment. An example of this integrated approach is SCI 190, Integrated Science for Engineers and Scientists, a team-taught course that yields an interconnected understanding of science, bridging biology, physics and organic chemistry. Other classes, such as IDE 495, Manufacturing and Assembly, incorporate thermodynamics, economics, biology, and management to place concepts like life-cycle analysis and green chemistry in perspective for engineers. The MDE program also features undergraduate research, service learning, and a multidisciplinary capstone design course. |
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General Papers
1:00 PM-4:50 PM, Thursday, March 29, 2007 McCormick Place North -- Room N230A, Level 2, Oral
Division of Chemical Education |