Contextualizing a New General Engineering Curriculum in the Liberal Arts
Contextualizing a New General Engineering Curriculum in the Liberal Arts
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将新的通用工程课程融入文科背景
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2017
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G. Hoople
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Diana A. Chen;G. Hoople
自几十年前成立以来，我们的工程学院提供了具有广泛文科成分的BS/BA学位。在国家科学基金会IUSE/PFE的支持下：革命性的工程和计算机科学部门（IUSE/PFE：RED）拨款，我们现在将文科直接整合到我们的工程课程中，在新的通用工程课程中重新构建传统的工程内容。而不是专注于特定学科知识的学生可能需要一个特定的职业生涯，我们正在开发一个课程，重点是加强跨工程学科共同的关键技能，如设计，分析解决问题，沟通，并使跨学科的连接能力。此外，我们认识到，毕业生必须了解作为一名工程师所带来的深刻的社会责任。在与我们的天主教大学的使命对齐，我们正在注入我们的课程与人文的方法，以工程通过定向我们的部门围绕社会正义的核心。我们计划教育工程师，能够整合适当的角度-无论是全球，本地，环境或社会-到工程决策过程。在本文中，我们描述了我们的新部门的成立，并描述了制度背景，使之成为可能。我们还提出了我们建议的课程结构，并讨论了目前正在开发的几门课程。
Since its founding several decades ago, our School of Engineering has offered a BS/BA degree with an extensive liberal arts component. With support from a National Science Foundation IUSE/PFE: Revolutionizing Engineering and Computer Science Departments (IUSE/PFE: RED) grant, we are now integrating the liberal arts directly into our engineering courses in a new general engineering curriculum that reframes traditional engineering content around its broader societal contexts. Rather than focus on specific disciplinary knowledge students might need for a particular career, we are developing a curriculum focused on strengthening the critical skills common across engineering disciplines, such as design, analytical problem-solving, communication, and the ability to make interdisciplinary connections. In addition, we recognize that graduates must understand the profound social responsibility that comes with being an engineer. In alignment with the mission of our Catholic university, we are infusing our curriculum with a humanistic approach to engineering by orienting the core of our department around social justice. We plan to educate engineers that are able to integrate the appropriate perspective -- be it global, local, environmental, or social -- into the engineering decision-making process. In this paper, we describe the founding of our new department and describe the institutional context that made it possible. We also lay out our proposed curricular structure and discuss several courses currently under development.