Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design in the Classroom

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Pines, University of Hartford; Hisham Alnajjar, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

from the Mid Atlantic and NewEngland region. Page 13.585.2In 1998, the awarding of an NSF Grant entitled “Integrating Engineering Design with theHumanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, and Mathematics” was the initiative for a major revisionof the curriculum of all of the engineering programs1,2. The emphasis of this grant was tointegrate design throughout the curriculum. This was accomplished by (i) Redesign of thefreshman engineering course by incorporating Integrative Learning Blocks by involvement offaculty from engineering, mathematics, physics, humanities and social sciences; (ii) Creation of anew engineering sophomore design course that