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Canan Mesutoglu; Dury Bayram; Annemieke Vennix; Anne Limburg; Jan van der Veen – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2024
Higher engineering education programmes increasingly include courses characterised by real-world problems and student collaboration in multidisciplinary teams. Research findings demonstrate that students remain limited in perceiving and meaningfully bridging disciplinary differences in these course contexts. Drawing on the literature on boundaries…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Physics, Engineering, Engineering Education
Helen Durand; Saad Balhasan – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2023
This work describes an international collaboration experience carried out between our process design and petroleum property evaluation courses. This collaboration was developed as part of a partnership between the American University of Ras Al Khaimah (AURAK) in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, and Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan,…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Engineering Education, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries
Ziyi Wang; Robert Leicht; Ryan Solnosky – Journal of Civil Engineering Education, 2025
Interdisciplinary learning plays a vital role in the education fields of the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. According to the literature, interdisciplinary studies are often associated with professional skills that should be taught in engineering and other similar programs. Knowing the attributes and scope of…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Learning Processes, Architecture, Construction Industry
Designing Electric Cars: A University-Based Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration with Elementary Schools
Cynthia Lima; Nikolaos Gatsis – Connected Science Learning, 2024
This article describes the creation of a university-based cross-disciplinary collaboration with elementary schools to address the challenges faced by teacher preparation programs in providing preservice teachers opportunities to design integrated STEM learning environments. The partnership focused on the design of an electric car unit and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
Oliveira, Sonja; Olsen, Luke; Malki-Epshtein, Liora; Mumovic, Dejan; D'Ayala, Dina – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2022
This paper reflects upon the mechanisms that enable development of curricular approaches to multidisciplinary architecture/engineering higher education. Building upon recent calls for integrated multidisciplinary building design practice, academics at UCL, industry partners and respective professional bodies embarked upon developing a new course…
Descriptors: Architectural Education, Engineering Education, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Genfu Wu; Kejie Wu – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
Course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) exposes an entire class of students to scientific research and is thought to increase students' knowledge retention in science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. Microbial engineering is an interdisciplinary subject that combines science and engineering. We transformed a…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Engineering, Microbiology, Science Instruction
Eva Ellederová; Valeriia Denysenko – TESL-EJ, 2025
This study examines the attitudes of teachers and students towards the implementation of content and language integrated learning (CLIL) in the interdisciplinary study program English in Electrical Engineering and Informatics at Brno University of Technology (BUT). It aims to explore the benefits, challenges, and strategies for CLIL in the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Engineering, Information Science, Teacher Attitudes
Guanghui Qian; Fei Qiu; Jie He; Lu Zhang – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Promoting interdisciplinary development is an inevitable requirement for the advancement of science and education, as well as an internal need for disciplinary growth and a necessary choice for building world-class universities. In this paper, high-quality academic outputs from China's first-class comprehensive universities are used as a data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Interdisciplinary Approach, Natural Sciences
Susanne Hilger; Angela Schmitz – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2024
Contribution: The article describes an innovative concept to create authentic application examples for mathematics courses in an engineering degree program in order to illustrate the relevance of mathematics for engineering. Background: It can be difficult and time consuming for mathematics instructors to find and understand authentic…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Engineering Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, College Students
Cathleen S. Jones – Marketing Education Review, 2024
Interdisciplinary courses and activities are becoming more popular as the benefits of collaboration have become apparent. For example, collaboration between different disciplines in organizations, such as engineering and marketing, has been shown to significantly enhance the product development process. Various strategies have been used to…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Interdisciplinary Approach, Engineering Education, Business Administration Education
Oti, Akponanabofa Henry; Farrell, Peter; Berrais, Abbes; McMahon, Paul; Boulbibane, Mostapha; Paschalis, Spyridon; Osman, Yassin; AL-Faraj, Furat; Duncan, Malcolm – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2022
Purpose: In line with business goals of customer satisfaction, higher education institutions of learning consider excellent student experience a priority. Teaching and learning are important aspects of satisfaction that are monitored annually by universities using tools such as the National Student Survey (NSS). The NSS results are useful for…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Engineering Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Student Projects
Robert J. Fisher – Chemical Engineering Education, 2025
Strategies are proposed that promote use of an Integrated Applied Mathematics (IAM) approach to enhance teaching of advanced problem-solving and analysis skills. Three scenarios of 1-dimensional transport processes are presented that support using Error Function analyses when considering short time/small penetration depths in finite geometries.…
Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, Mathematics, Problem Solving, Skill Development
Feng, Xiaoqi; Ylirisku, Salu; Kähkönen, Elina; Niemi, Hannele; Hölttä-Otto, Katja – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2023
Engineering education has become increasingly multidisciplinary in order to prepare future experts to transcend disciplinary boundaries and to co-construct solutions to solve grand challenges. However, faculty members' perspectives and experiences have been largely ignored in the literature. To understand and support faculty members, the present…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Engineering Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Tembrevilla, Gerald; Nesbit, Susan; Ellis, Naoko; Ostafichuk, Peter – Journal of Engineering Education, 2023
Background: For engineers who aim to address sustainability challenges, participating in transdisciplinary teams is key. Yet developing transdisciplinary knowledge, including systems thinking, metacognition, and empathic thinking, is not well supported in traditional engineering programs. Purpose: The extent to which selected learning activities…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Engineering Education, College Freshmen, Metacognition
Qian Wang; Shiwang Hou; Sixian Wan; Xin Feng; Hao Feng – European Journal of Education, 2025
To prepare undergraduates for complex careers, interdisciplinary higher education is gaining popularity. However, implementing interdisciplinary learning in engineering management is challenging due to the complex and intertwined knowledge structures. While smart education platforms provide access to extensive knowledge bases, the intricate web of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Engineering Education