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Collofello, Jim; Fox, Derek; Jamieson, Leah H.; Johnson, Bart M.; Loughman, Joshua; Morgan, Jim; Oakes, William C.; Schoepf, Jared; Smith, Crystal – Advances in Engineering Education, 2021
The EPICS Program was created in 1995 with the dual purposes of improving engineering education and addressing compelling needs within our communities. The model broke with many traditional academic traditions, involving students in multidisciplinary teams of students from first-year to fourth years for multiple semesters or even years on projects…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Service Learning, Higher Education, Undergraduate Students
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Bertel, Lykke Brogaard; Askehave, Inger; Brohus, Henrik; Geil, Olav; Kolmos, Anette; Ovesen, Nis; Stoustrup, Jakob – Advances in Engineering Education, 2021
Since its establishment in 1974, Aalborg University has aimed to deliver cutting-edge research and innovative practices in engineering education. However, increasing complexity related to rapid developments in digitalization and emerging societal challenges offer new opportunities, requirements, and expectations across disciplines for educational…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Problem Based Learning, Student Projects, Active Learning
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Iyer, Rupa S.; Wales, Melinda E. – Advances in Engineering Education, 2012
The increasingly interdisciplinary nature of today's scientific research is leading to the transformation of undergraduate education. In addressing these needs, the University of Houston's College of Technology has developed a new interdisciplinary research-based biotechnology laboratory curriculum. Using the pesticide degrading bacterium,…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Scientific Research, Biotechnology, Undergraduate Study