Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Applications

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kim Nankivell, Purdue University-Calumet; Jana Whittington, Purdue University-Calumet; Joy Colwell, Purdue University-Calumet

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

before the next module becomes available. This assures that thematerial is delivered to the student in the designed and logical progression so there is no randomdelivery of the course material. The Exercise components address individual elements within theclass projects. They provide the student with the blueprints for successfully completing the classprojects.The online course ended up having ten modules: an introductory module, eight modulescontaining course content, and one module dedicated to the review of the course. Once thecontent of the course was developed, the syllabus was re-written and the course schedule wasdeveloped. An extremely important element of an online course is the Course Introduction. TheIntroduction sets the tone of the

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques in Graphics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Priti Bhatnagar, Daniel Webster College; Christopher McInnis, Daniel Webster College; Chad Hebert, Daniel Webster College; Sonja Crowder, Daniel Webster College; David Guo, Daniel Webster College; Nicholas Bertozzi, Daniel Webster College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

courses itwill be of great benefit to us to examine and discuss the best practices already developed by theCDIO partners.CDIO will strongly influence our programs as we seek to apply the 12 CDIO Standards and theCDIO Syllabus to our new and existing courses. Although we have already applied some of thegeneral principles, CDIO provides a well thought-out, well-organized template forimplementation.Both of our new engineering programs are still under development and will continue to changesignificantly over the next few years. The course sequencing in our current catalog can beviewed online at (http://content.dwc.edu/pdf/catalog/currentcatalog.pdf). Both BS programscontain five-semester design sequences. We have also increased the number of credits