Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 1

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abimelec Mercado Rivera, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus; Eric Prosser, Arizona State University

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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)

Paper ID #47688Bridging Information Literacy and Data Science: A Collaborative Approachto Project-Based LearningAbimelec Mercado Rivera, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus Abimelec Mercado Rivera is a Puerto Rican doctoral student and graduate research assistant in the Engineering Education Systems and Design program at Arizona State University. Abimelec received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM) in 2016. After working in the aerospace industry, he returned to the UPRM for his MS in Mechanical Engineering in 2017, where he pursued ways to

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Georgiopoulos

on the assessment and evaluation of the effectiveness of themodule by the students taking the class. Finally, based on the assessment results someconclusions will be drawn regarding the potential of the modules in attracting undergraduatestudents into research, specifically machine-learning research.1. IntroductionThis paper reports on the progress of a grant supported by the National Science Foundationunder the auspices of the program entitled Combined Research and Curriculum Development(CRCD). The title of the grant is “Machine Learning Advances for Engineering Education” andits purpose is to introduce Machine Learning research into the undergraduate science andengineering curriculum. Our proposal relies on two simple ideas to achieve its

Conference Session

Design & Development Projects and Practices

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Huseyin Sarper P.E., Old Dominion University; Nebojsa I Jaksic P.E., Colorado State University, Pueblo

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

cuts. Student teams in Engineering ofManufacturing Processes and Operations Research courses wrote computer programs. Theprogram first identified all possible patterns that can be cut out of a given stock length. Next, theprogram created a mathematical model (a text file) as an output. This text file was used as an inputfor the optimizer software LINGO. When compared to the manual solutions obtained by foremenin two settings, student teams with no prior experience were able to match the manual solution ofthe foremen in small problems and improve the manual solution by up to 30 % in large problems.After finishing the project, each team wrote a technical team report to document the experiencethey gained in manufacturing and mathematical modeling

Conference Session

Software Engineering Teaching Methods and Practice

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yung-Hsiang Lu, Purdue University; Mark C Johnson, Purdue University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

conceptsabout concurrent programming, synchronization, and race conditions are introduced earlyin the semester.Intelligence and User InterfaceThe competition results were 5% of the final grade. We used this small percentage in orderto encourage the students to pay more attention to the development process as well asdocumentation and user interface. The user interface was another 5% of the final grade.Four teams paid special attention to improve their user interfaces. One team added cartooncharacters to the surrounding of the board. Another team used movie posters as the boardbackground. The third team allowed users to change marble colors. The team that received

Conference Session

Creating a Technology Incubator and Creating a Seed Fund

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Laughlin, University of Maryland; Scott Magids, University of Maryland; David Barbe, University of Maryland

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

creation called VentureLab. VentureLab is a semester-long immersioncourse for graduate and select undergraduate students interested in first-hand experience with theissues faced by newly formed technology companies. VentureLab is limited to a small numberof students, typically between 8 and 12, drawn from both business and technical concentrations,and it focuses participants on a handful of problems faced by companies in the VA Program atthat time. Common VentureLab topics include a range of fundamental start-up issues includingmarket definition, customer buying behavior and financial forecasting.Once all primary research is completed, company leadership progresses through a set ofdecisions about the nature of the business that are designed to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Nelson Pearson, University of Nevada, Reno; Hector Enrique Rodriguez-Simmonds, Purdue Engineering Education; Jacqueline Ann Rohde, Clemson University; Dina Verdín, Purdue; Monique S Ross, Florida International University; Kyle Patrick Vealey, West Chester University of Pennsylvania; Benjamin P. Jackson, Purdue University; Swetha Nittala, Purdue University, Engineering Education Dept.; Tiantian Li, Purdue University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Building Supports for Diversity through Engineering TeamsProject OverviewEngineering is a globally focused career with the need to work with people from diversebackgrounds. Significant research and tools have been designed to develop and assess teammember’s effectiveness​1​; however, despite the emphasis on the importance of developingengineering students’ teaming skills, little research has been conducted on how students developsensitivity for students from different cultures and backgrounds within teams in first-yearengineering programs. Here we define diversity sensitivity as students’ multicultural openness(i.e., openness to other cultures

Conference Session

Committee on Educational Policy Presents: Pillars of Professional Development

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott R. Hamilton, P.E., York College of Pennsylvania

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

university is an effective place to provide this information. This was shown to betrue regardless of a student’s major and had a positive impact on a student’s ability to managetheir financial resources in the future [6]. Given other studies have shown that greaterknowledge leads to better financial decisions as well, it seems that encouraging and providingopportunities for our students to gain financial literacy will benefit both the students and oursociety at large [10]. While our small sample survey results, a limitation of this work to date, donot solidly confirm this, further work should be conducted to refine the teaching as well asincrease the sample size of the survey to demonstrate if there is a significant effect of this type

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knox; Randall Kolar; Leslie Fink; Kanthasamy Muraleetharan; Gerald Miller; David Sabatini; Baxter Vieux; Michael Mooney; Kurt Gramoll

. Recommendations of the New Millennium Engr Colloquium on the Future of Civil and Envir. Engr.Twenty-four participants from across the country attended the workshop, representing a wide- Page 6.852.2variety of institutions (public vs. private and large vs. small). Participants and their affiliations areProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationshown in the Appendix in Table 1.3. Session I - Pedagogical IssuesAs faculty members and colleges of engineering attempt to improve

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Ian A. Waitz; Edward C. Barrett

communications and other professional skills with advanced, small-group laboratory research. This paper describes the coupling of an undergraduate Experimental Projects Labwith a Communications Practicum. The two subjects are taught jointly by faculty members from the MITAeronautics and Astronautics Department and the MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies. The pairingof the experimental projects course and the practicum provides an environment for teaching communicationsskills in which the students are interested in the subject matter and motivated to learn. In addition, a variety ofmodern information technologies are applied to augment the effectiveness of the practicum. Several pedagogi-cal themes are interwoven into the two courses including

Conference Session

But I'm a Loner! Expanding capability and creativity by examining effective alliances

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shannon Ciston, University of California, Berkeley; Colin Cerretani, University of California, Berkeley; Marjorie S Went, UC Berkeley

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

teaching and learning experience. This paper provides guidelines for working withgraduate teaching assistants by applying the five principles of high-performance engineeringteams described by Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith,1 and adapted by Karl Smith andothers for collaborative learning:2 face-to-face promotive interaction, positive interdependence,group and individual accountability, teamwork skills, and group processing. Perspectives areshared from engineering faculty who work with graduate teaching assistants in lecture,laboratory, and professional skills courses, and consideration is paid to small teams (1-3) andlarge teams (8+) of teaching assistants. Best practices in organization, clarity of expectations,leadership, communication

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering and Liberal Arts

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Rania Al-Hammoud P.Eng., University of Waterloo; Maria Barichello, University of Waterloo; Christopher Rennick, University of Waterloo; Erin Jobidon, University of Waterloo; Richard Li, University of Waterloo

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Paper ID #28751Two Student Workshops on Identifying and Resolving Teamwork ConflictDr. Rania Al-Hammoud P.Eng., University of Waterloo Dr. Al-Hammoud is a Faculty lecturer (Graduate Attributes) in the department of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Al-Hammoud has a passion for teaching where she con- tinuously seeks new technologies to involve students in their learning process. She is actively involved in the Ideas Clinic, a major experiential learning initiative at the University of Waterloo. She is also re- sponsible for developing a process and assessing graduate attributes at the

Conference Session

Impacts of Public Policy on Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Richey, The Boeing Company; Paul Newton, The Boeing Company; Rick Stephens, The Boeing Company; George Backus, Sandia National Labs; Barry McPherson, Boeing - Learning, Training & Development

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

AC 2008-1063: THE S&T ECO-SYSTEM: PRESSURES FROM KINDERGARTENTO GLOBALIZATIONMichael Richey, The Boeing Company Michael Richey is a Boeing Associate Technical Fellow supporting the Learning Training and Development group. Michael has 30 years experience in tool design and metrology, analyzing commercial aircraft and has developed many advanced CAD/CAM and Product Lifecycle management standards and engineering educational programs. Michael is the industry representative for the FAA AMTAS Center of Excellent at the University of Washington and is the Chair of their A&A Department's Aircraft Structures Composite and Manufacturing Certificate Programs. Michael received his B.S. in

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Pamela Schmaltz; Kevin Schmaltz

choices, to increase studentretention and to provide basic computer skills. Recognizing the need to integrate designinto engineering programs as early as possible, and the value of project-based, multi-disciplinary team experiences, significant changes were implemented in the course in theFall 1999 semester. Many of the one-week discipline topics were removed in order tointroduce a team-based project that the students performed over one third of the course.We have gathered anecdotal information from student surveys at the conclusion of eachsemester and analyzed student retention data to assess the success of this course as amethod of teaching design and as a student retention aid.There are two aspects to student retention: keeping the students at

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators 3 - Grading: Grate or Great

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Timothy Aaron Wood, The Citadel; Dan D. Nale; Ryan Kent Giles P.E., The Citadel

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New Engineering Educators

enthusiasm for the fields of structural and geotechnical engineering. Dr. Wood aims to recover the benefits of classical-model, literature-based learning in civil engineering education.Dr. Dan D Nale PE, Dan D. Nale is Professor of Practice in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Citadel. Dan received a BS in Civil Engineering from The Citadel and both a MS and PhD in Civil Engineering from The University of South Carolina. Dan also earned a MBA from Mercer University. Dan worked in the aerospace industry for Grumman on the Space Shuttle before working for Gulfstream Aerospace for 35 years in Savannah, Georgia. At Gulfstream, Dan was responsible for Research and Development, Program Management

Conference Session

Promoting Communication Skills

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Gabrielle Orbaek White, Swansea University ; Patricia Xavier, Swansea University; Catherine Groves, Swansea University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

capstone assessment. Catherine works withPatricia to supervise Gabrielle’s PhD and continues to provide mentoring support for severalengineering faculty on the program. Catherine’s theoretical approach is characterized by anti-oppressive and liberal perspectives, and her writing and teaching have coalesced around criticalreflection, critical thinking and action learning.Patricia Xavier is an associate professor in the College of Engineering at Swansea University forProgramme Enhancement and Development. She is a Civil Engineer and prior to her academicappointment, Patricia worked as a flooding and drainage engineer in the water sector. Herindustrial experience has led her to seek a better link between theory and practice in engineeringeducation

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Audeen Fentiman, Purdue University; Susan Fisher, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

activities designed to get morestudents involved in scholarly and social communities within the departments are underway withthe support of the department heads. Three college-wide events have been held with the goals ofpromoting interdisciplinary communities and providing an opportunity for families of graduatestudents to get to know each other. Feedback following each activity has provided suggestionsfor improvements which will be implemented in the next round of college-wide events. It is tooearly to assess the success of the community building effort or its impact on the quality of thegraduate experience and retention. The fact that students who have participated are enthusiasticand eager to help improve the programs is encouraging.1

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stanley Greenwald, New York Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

engineering programs within the State. His early years in the aerospace field were followed by a position as Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of Cooperative Education at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. Author of professional articles, active in ASEE, ASME, NSPE, and a licensed Professional Engineer in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Florida, he is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, 1955; City College of New York, BME – 1960 and Manhattan College, MS – 1978. Page 12.684.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Smith

collaborative learning in large classes· Help assess learning outcomes Page 7.799.2 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”· Document learning gains at departmental and institutional levels· Provide learning resources directly to undergraduatesIn utilizing digital libraries, teachers must be concerned with the following:· How often will undergraduates access the DL?· What is the need for intelligent search techniques?· What techniques can be used to inspire and facilitate user

Conference Session

Research Methodologies – Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xingchen Xu, Arizona State University ; Li Tan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

the number of total iterations, which equals 1,000 in our case. Theaverage bias examines the systematic deviation between model estimates and the true value, anda small absolute value indicates good model performances. A model with high positive bias isindicative the model tends to generate overestimated values. Finally, the MSE, which is oftenregarded as the more important measure of estimation accuracy (Harvey et al., 1997), is definedas 𝑀𝑆𝐸 = √∑𝑁 𝑖=1(𝐸𝑖 − 𝑇)^2 /𝑁. MSE measures how much error the model makes in itspredictions, and penalizes models that make large errors for some predictions. A small MSEvalue indicates good model performance.Prior Distribution Settings for the Bayesian Method We present the prior

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Poster Session

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aja Rachel Bettencourt-Mccarthy, University of Cincinnati; Matthew Sleep, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

large, infrastructure projects as opposed to traditional prototyping and thedevelopment of models. Additional research is required to better understand why ‘creativity’ isperceived so differently between these two groups of students, though these results align withprevious research that highlights that there is room for additional skill development aroundcreativity in engineering [3] and that in some cases, divergent thinking and creativity stagnaterather than grow in engineering programs [20].Limitations & Future ResearchThe primary limitation of this study was the small sample size which provides a necessarilylimited snapshot of the students’ understanding of the definition of engineering design. Inaddition, all data were collected from a

Conference Session

Exploring Student Affairs, Identities, and the Professional Persona

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna C. Llewellyn, Boise State University; Patricia Pyke, Boise State University; Sharon Paterson, Boise State University; R. Eric Landrum, Boise State University; Arthur Scarritt, Boise State University ; Jocelyn B. S. Cullers, Boise State University; Don L. Warner, Boise State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

the participating students at the end of the summer. The same survey has nowbeen used for two years. It is being used as a tool of formative assessment to continue to improvethe program, as well as to start to measure the impact of this kind of research communityinitiative.The 12 evaluative questions that emerged from the qualitative research discussed above appearin Table 1. Additional questions about the value of different activities that occurred during the10-week experience were also asked as part of the post-SRC survey.After completing the 10-week SRC program, 40 survey responses (out of 103 participants;response rate = 38.8%) were received in 2014, and 45 survey responses (out of 151 participants;response rate = 29.8%) were received in

Conference Session

Best of the NEE

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Swartz P.E., University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

Classroom Culture that Paves the Way for LearningIntroductionMost college-level teachers in engineering were educated, themselves, in their technicaldiscipline, not in teaching. The teaching trade is learned on the job and often amidst pressure todo other things, specifically build research programs and serve the institution in various fashions.In this paper, the author shares lessons learned from the first five years in engineering education,hoping those experiences will help others starting their careers under similar circumstances. Thepaper combines the author’s own experiences and anecdotal evidence with established researchfindings and long-held truths in teaching and learning to present several clear recommendationsfor the new college-level

Conference Session

Computer-related Issues

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wangling Yu, Purdue University Northwest; Omer Farook, Purdue University Northwest; Jai P. Agrawal, Purdue University Northwest; Ashfaq Ahmed P.E., Purdue University Northwest

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

methodology of dividing the discipline into bifurcatedcourses. Rather, this approach prepares the student to pursue the discipline of System Designfrom at least four different perspectives, via: 1) PLD/FPGA centric system design, 2)Microcontroller-based Embedded System Design, 3) PC based / or System on the Chip (SoC)-based systems such as Beagle Bone Black-based Network-oriented Distributed System Design,IoT and cloud-centered programming, and 4) DSP-based Real-time Processing-Based SystemDesign. The paper will summarize the content of eight total courses that all have the commonvein of system design.Also examined in this paper is the origin of Outcome Based Education (OBE) as a philosophyand its implementation in our curriculum, designed and

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching and Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Davis; David Socha; Valentin Razmov

balance conflict with safety. Too much or the wrongtype of conflict can be detrimental to learning. The techniques we used, some of them borrowedfrom professional leadership training programs, had a positive impact on the students, asrevealed by their weekly reflective essays and by individual communication with them duringand after the course. Students, perhaps subconsciously, created conflicts that enabled them tolearn lessons they needed to learn.One aspect of safety is how to limit the damage of mistakes while encouraging learning frommistakes. To that end, we chose not to have a real-world customer whose dependence on theproject success would have increased the damage from a potential project failure. Our focus wason the learning – in the

Collection

2025 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Alexander Aronov; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Angela Bielefeldt; Joseph Polman; Fabiola Palomar

-alonecourses focused on engineering.Student Artifacts in STEM AssessmentWithin the secondary curriculum of the SCENIC program, the learning culminates with a postersymposium. Students are provided a template and examples from university students whorecently conducted similar inquiry projects, and then create their own posters. Artifacts such asstudent-created posters can serve as rich sources of evidence for evaluating inquiry-basedprojects. These artifacts capture not only the data collection and analysis aspects of scientificinquiry but also the iterative design and problem-solving processes inherent in engineeringpractices [17]. Analyzing posters allows researchers to assess how students integrate theoreticalexplanations with practical applications

Conference Session

Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ranky

programs(supported by active code spreadsheets, often with embedded 3D objects, video-clips andanimations) that the students can interrogate to understand either the question(s) or theanswers better. Furthermore, in our assessment programs graphs are shown illustratingindividual vs. group/class benchmark assessment results. This is very useful, in particularfor distance learning students, because they feel that they are equal members of the class.(Traditional, as well as e-mail, web-collaborative, telephone and personal-appointment-based tutorial support is available if required, [24] to [31]).The entire education process is more suited to satisfy individual needs. Since failure isnot exposed in Open Learning situations, fear is not part of the

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Fundamental: K-12 Student Beliefs, Motivation, and Self Efficacy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael A. de Miranda, Colorado State University; Karen E. Rambo-Hernandez, West Virginia University; Paul R. Hernandez, West Virginia University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division

program. AmericanUniversities typically lose 50% of engineering freshmen and sophomore during the first twoyears of their engineering program. This trend is continuing in the foreseeable future and it canbe attributed to (at least) several factors:  The traditional teaching of math, physics, and engineering concepts are isolated. Each discipline operates within its own silo. Students do not see the relationship of what is taught to what they are interested in learning.2  Early engineering students fail to identify with and become part of the engineering community through practice, inclusion, and engagement.3  Only small populations of high school students find themselves attracted to engineering schools and

Conference Session

Green and Sustainable Manufacturing Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso; Richard Chiou, Drexel University; Radian G. Belu, University of Alaska Anchorage; Oscar H. Salcedo, University of Texas, El Paso; Aditya Akundi, University of Texas, El Paso; Eric D. Smith, University of Texas, El Paso

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Manufacturing

undergraduatestudents in industrial processes, energy assessment procedures, and energy managementprinciples.Evaluation Method for Workshop/Seminar Series:Participants: The targeted program participants were undergraduate and graduate master’sstudents at various stages of their program with major emphasis on upperclassman. The majorityof participants (85%) were undergraduates with 65 percent reporting being in their senior yearand 38 percent of the participating students were female. More than 75% of the studentsreported Industrial Engineering as their area of concentration or major.Research Design: The research design used to address this evaluation questions was a cross-sectional design that allows for the gathering of individual and group’s perceptions and

Conference Session

Eco-Car Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel van Lanen, University of Waterloo

Tagged Topics

Eco-Car Poster Session

. Page 26.1352.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Safety training system design for student teams van Lanen Daniel1, Ellsworth Patrick2, Gaffney Ben2, Keillor Peter1, MacDonald Lauren1, Fowler Michael1, Fraser Roydon2 1 Deparment of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo 2 Deparment of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of WaterlooAbstractMany approaches exist for the creation of safety training programs. Systems have been createdfor both large and small businesses that vary in complexity. Few of these approaches howeverare simple enough to be used on student design

Conference Session

SPECIAL SESSION: Interdisciplinary Course Design Opportunities for Chemical Engineers

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph J. Biernacki, Tennessee Technological University; Christopher D. Wilson, Tennessee Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

, Page 22.958.2mathematics, physics, chemistry and medicine, etc. was followed by a large number of hybridprograms of studies: biochemistry, agribusiness, engineering management, etc. We are nowlooking at a reintegration of sorts; not a fusion of subject matters to form super-disciplines butrather the refinement of processes that bring disciplines together in ways that create synergisticoutcomes which drive our understanding of increasingly complex sociological, economic andtechnological codependences. It will likely come as a surprise, that organized interdisciplinaryprograms of study are traceable to the early 20th Century in the origins of the general educationcurriculum movement1. Today, most major universities have degree granting programs