Conference Session

Merging Disciplines: Practice and Benefits

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dennis A. Silage, Temple University; Keyanoush Sadeghipour, Temple University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Perspective, IEEE Press, 1994.2. John D. Ryder and Donald G. Fink. Engineers and Electrons: A Century of Electrical Progress, IEEE Press, 1993.3. Dennis Silage and Keya Sadeghipour. “ME for EEs: Where are all the ME courses in the EE curriculum?”, Proceed. ASEE Annual Conf., 2016.4. Dennis Silage, “EE and ME: Together Again”, Proceed. ASEE Annual Conf., 2013.5. Denice D. Denton. “Engineering Education for the 21st Century”, J. of Engineering Education, 1998, pp:19-22.6. Erik De Graaff and Wim Ravesteijn, “Training Complete Engineers: Global Enterprise and Engineering Education”, European J. of Engineering Education, 2010, pp. 419-427.7. Dennis Silage. “What’s all this interdisciplinary stuff anyway?”, Proceed. ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design Projects

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Forsyth, York College of Pennsylvania; Nicole Hesson, York College of Pennsylvania

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Education, 2017 Benefits and Challenges of Transitioning to Community Service Multidisciplinary Capstone ProjectsAbstractSignificant research has shown the positive benefit of service and community-based learning onstudent diversity, engagement, and retention. Elements of service-learning have beenincorporated across disciplines into traditional classes as well as capstone experiences. Whileproviding significant benefits, challenges also exist in managing relationships with externalclients, finding administrative support for these experiences, and engaging students in moreopen-ended projects.Recognizing these benefits, new capstone projects have been introduced at our mid-sized mid-Atlantic college over the last two