Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amber L. Genau, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Materials

English, history, social sciences and the fine arts. At UAB,these state-mandated core curriculum classes take up more than a quarter (36/128) of the creditsthat are required for an engineering degree, but most are entirely unrelated to the students’chosen area of study. Meanwhile, engineering departments across the country wrestle with howto address necessary issues like communication, ethics and sustainability in their curriculumwithout sacrificing existing technical content. One possible solution is to partner with thehumanities faculty who are teaching required core classes to create new courses that betterengage students and help them understand the relevance of the other disciplines to their work andidentity as engineers.The history of

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hui Shen, Ohio Northern University; Vishal R. Mehta, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

be used in real world. The PBL is used to preparestudents with skills such as leadership, team building, ethical behavior, creativity, criticalthinking, problem solving, and entrepreneurial skills.4 PBL has been implemented as part of thecurriculum5 or as a replacement of traditional classroom.6 There has been study where it hasbeen applied in multiple universities simultaneously where students from different degrees weregiven PBL based materials science course.7 For the specific field of materials sciences, PBL hasbeen implemented mostly for sophomores, juniors but rarely in a freshman classroom. In anincreasingly complex modern world, engineers are regularly challenged both technically as wellas socially to solve multifaceted problems