Integrated First-Year Engineering Curriculum

一个大胆的，新的，综合的，第一年的工程课程是 正在开发中。 学生们正在准备一个 它既发展了概念之间的关系， 培养学生有效解决问题的方法。 由有关的 通过广泛的， 统一概念，学生正在建立清晰，有效的心理 物理世界的图像。强大的工作站增强了 学生应用物理定律的能力， 数据和符号操作。 学生分析能力 和综合是通过应用广泛适用的搜索来培育的 在整个课程中的化学。 新课程 三个目标：1）注入广泛的概念，2）改进技术， 3)培养有效和高效的搜索引擎。 受赠方为该项目提供的资金 比奖。

A bold, new, integrated, first-year engineering curriculum is being developed. Students are being prepared by a curriculm which both develops relationships among concepts and demands that students develop effective problem-solving methods. By relating the many topics in a first-year curriculum through broad, unifying concepts, students are building clear, effective mental pictures of the physical world. Powerful workstations strengthen students' abilities to apply physical laws by minimizing manual data and symbolic manipulation. Students' abilities to analyze and synthesize are nurtured by applying widely applicable search heuristics throughout the curriculum. The new curriculum has three goals: 1) infuse broad concepts, 2) improve techniques, and 3) cultivate effective and efficient search heuristics. The grantee is providing funds for this project that are greater than the award.