Conference Session

History, Program Design, and even a Journal Club

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Cramer, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Wendy Crone, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Moira Lafayette, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Jeffrey Russell, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Paul Peercy, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Darryl G. Thelen, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Daniel Klingenberg, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Amy Wendt, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

landscape that our graduates face strongly suggests a need to change the preparationour students receive.The University of Wisconsin-Madison has been facilitating change in the undergraduate programto promote a different kind of engineering education. To provide leadership and strategy forchange, the College of Engineering (CoE) formed the Engineering Beyond Boundaries EB2 TaskForce (TF) consisting of a core group of faculty.. Through a series of focus groups, facultymeetings and the formation of a larger working group, faculty and staff articulated and pursuedthe following goal:The College of Engineering will provide a contemporary engineering education that is strong inthe fundamentals of the discipline and also fosters an understanding of the