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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academy of Engineering. 2010. Engineering Curricula: Understanding the Design Space and Exploiting the Opportunities: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12824.
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Workshop Agenda

Engineering Curriculum Workshop: Understanding the Design Space

National Academy of Engineering: March 23rd - 24th, 2009


Day 1:


Plenary Session: (Lecture Room)

8:30 a.m.

Opening Comments

Charles M. Vest: President, National Academy of Engineering

8:45

Comments of Organizing Committee Chair

Eli Fromm: Drexel University

9:00

Presentations by invited speakers with moderated discussion

 

Theme: How we arrived at the current curriculum

Joseph Bordogna: University of Pennsylvania

 

Theme: A stretch vision for engineering education

Woodie C. Flowers: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

10:15

Break

10:30

Theme: Engaging students through grand challenges

Geoffrey Orsak: Southern Methodist University

11:00

Panel Discussion: Curricular implications of emerging trends in engineering: 15-minute presentations followed by 30 minutes of moderated discussion

 

Theme: Engineering at the interfaces with other disciplines

David Goldberg: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Theme: The engineer’s role in a global economy

Norman Fortenberry: National Academy of Engineering

 

Theme: The engineer’s role in developing countries

Benjamin Linder: Olin College

 

Theme: Teaching leadership within engineering

Lesia Crumpton-Young: National Science Foundation

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academy of Engineering. 2010. Engineering Curricula: Understanding the Design Space and Exploiting the Opportunities: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12824.
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12:30 p.m.

LUNCH

Breakout Sessions:

1:30

Overview of breakout sessions and expected outcomes

1:45

Breakout sessions (identifying barriers and enablers to innovation)

 

  1. Engineering education research findings that inform curricular innovation (Lecture Room)

 

Led by Barbara Olds, Colorado School of Mines

 

  1. Models of enacted curricular innovation efforts and their lessons learned (Board Room)

 

Led by Stan Napper, Louisiana Tech

 

  1. Working with non-engineering faculty to achieve breadth and depth in engineering education innovation (Room 180)

 

Led by Deborah Hughes Hallett, University of Arizona

3:45

Break

4:15

Report back from Breakout Groups

10 minutes per group to allow for Q &A

5:00

Adjourn Day 1

Day 2:


Plenary Session: (Lecture Room)

9:00 a.m.

Summary of Day 1

9:15

Presentation by invited speaker with moderated discussion

 

Theme: Using the liberal arts model as a template for engineering education

James J. Duderstadt: University of Michigan

Breakout Session: (Board Room, 180)

10:15

Breakout sessions (overcoming barriers to innovation, developing implementation strategies, and identifying information resource needs)

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academy of Engineering. 2010. Engineering Curricula: Understanding the Design Space and Exploiting the Opportunities: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12824.
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Workshop Agenda


Engineering Curriculum Workshop: Understanding the Design Space

National Academy of Engineering: March 23rd - 24th, 2009


Day 2:

11:30

Breakout groups report back

15 minutes per group

12:30 p.m

Adjourn – Closing comments from Eli Fromm

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academy of Engineering. 2010. Engineering Curricula: Understanding the Design Space and Exploiting the Opportunities: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12824.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academy of Engineering. 2010. Engineering Curricula: Understanding the Design Space and Exploiting the Opportunities: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12824.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academy of Engineering. 2010. Engineering Curricula: Understanding the Design Space and Exploiting the Opportunities: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12824.
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In April 2009 a workshop was held to explore how engineering curricula could be enhanced to better prepare future engineers. The workshop, summarized in this volume, included individuals from industry, academia, government agencies, and professional societies.

During the workshop participants addressed the rationale for the scope and sequence of current engineering curricula, considering both the positive aspects as well as those aspects that have outlived their usefulness. Other topics of discussion included the potential to enhance engineering curricula through creative uses of instructional technologies; the importance of inquiry-based activities as well as authentic learning experiences grounded in real world contexts; and the opportunities provided by looking more deeply at what personal and professional outcomes result from studying engineering.

General themes that appeared to underlie the workshop attendees' discussions included desires to (a) restructure engineering curricula to focus on inductive teaching and learning, (b) apply integrated, just-in-time learning of relevant topics across STEM fields, and (c) make more extensive use and implementation of learning technologies. During breakout discussions, many additional suggestions were offered for means by which to facilitate curricular innovation.

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