Conference Session

Flexible Engineering Curricula

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diana A. Chen, University of San Diego; Gordon D. Hoople, University of San Diego

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

has been instrumental in informing our curricular design and the founder ofESJP has joined us as a professor of praxis within the new General Engineering department.Program StructureThe General Engineering major was officially added to the the university catalog in Spring 2017.However, as students do not begin taking major-specific courses until after they complete thecommon engineering core, our first course will be offered in Fall 2017. We anticipate that ourprogram will be ABET accredited under the Engineering (general) category after we conferdegrees upon our first graduates in 2019.Our GE curriculum is divided into four components: university liberal arts requirements, anengineering core, GE major courses, and a concentration. This