Conference Session

Curriculum Reform with Cooperative Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Walsh, California Polytechnic State University; Jon Whited, St. Jude Medical; Robert Crockett, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

into an advanceddegree granting endeavor, often with the participation of particularly capable industrial partnersas content providers.A crucial synergy exists between laboratory education, cooperative education experience and thecapstone senior project experience. It is only through our long-standing partnership withindustry that we are able to provide these three facets of experiential learning, facets whichunderpin many key elements critical to the education of Twenty-first Century Engineers. Indeed,it is these very elements which provide a unique character to the educational experience.Cooperative education is a personal and institutional commitment. Laboratory education,cooperative education experience and the capstone senior project