Conference Session

Best Practices in IE Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Elam, Texas A&M University, Commerce; E. Delbert Horton, Texas A&M University, Commerce; Sukwon Kim, Texas A&M University, Commerce; Bob Wilkins, Texas A&M University, Commerce

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

engineeringstudents who were not Calculus-ready and placed into Pre-Calculus. An engineering course wasdeveloped to parallel the material in Pre-Calculus. For example, students applied the conceptslearned regarding linear, power, and exponential equations in Pre-Calculus to applications in theengineering course. A second engineering course to follow this first one was eventuallydeveloped (another paper8 detailed the development of this engineering course sequence). Thefirst engineering course covered engineering design, engineering ethics, and sustainability inengineering. The second engineering course covered spatial visualization skills, engineeringachievements, computer programming basics, and had an engineering design project. Uponcompletion of the