Conference Session

Engaging Faculty Across Disciplines, Colleges, and Institutions

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Cecilia Santa Cruz, PUCP; Graciela del Carmen Fernández de Córdova, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; Marta Vilela Vilela, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

differs from thetraditional multidisciplinary approach of parallel perspectives that can often be found incourses with sequential independent modules taught by professors from various disciplines.The course’s redesign was also a response to the need to embed the territory-based approachin disaster risks management, especially given the fast pace of the climate change process at aglobal scale.The course was redesigned in terms of methodology and evaluation method, in order toencourage self-learning and the integration of knowledge and skills acquired in previouscourses. The course’s new syllabus included conceptual and methodological interdisciplinarycontents related and articulated to the development of DRM plans e.g. Mitigation,preparedness and