Collection

2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Jenn Rossmann; Karina Skvirsky

develop a course for lower divisionstudents that would introduce them to the vocabulary, methods, and values of both engineeringand art. This differs substantially from the Colorado model in that our students, as sophomores,are participating in our interdisciplinary course before their own disciplinary expertise (or bias)is established. Our syllabus, assignments, and objectives are therefore distinct.This course is offered with Lafayette’s VAST [Values and Science/Technology] designation, acomponent of the common course of study.5 Each sophomore student is required to completeone VAST course. Courses with the VAST designation are writing-intensive seminars,involving interdisciplinary integration and multiple disciplinary approaches to course

Collection

2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Christopher L. Reitsma

of the adjustments were also introduced into othercourses, Introduction to Electronics (EE362), and Military Electronic Systems (EE450), toprovide further comparison and analysis. EE362 is the follow-on course to EE302, while EE450is the final electrical engineering sequence course offered for non-engineering majors.BackgroundIn EE302, throughout the course students were taught using the crawl, walk and runmethodology which capitalized on the Thayer method and an Army approach to training2,3,4.They were introduced to the crawl phase during preparation using their syllabus, textbook andprovided instructor notes—which were from a previous instructor in the course—for each lesson.During the walk phase, the students received a lecture—a third