Integrating the Engineering Curriculum: Careers and Concentrations, Toolboxes and Technology

该计划拨款旨在全面更新利哈伊大学工业与系统工程本科课程，以简化和整合课程，为学生提供机会，迎接未来工程师的挑战。他们计划开发和协调职业轨道选择，以增加传统学位。职业包括专业/技术，专业/管理，政府，研究和教学导向的轨道。这些课程将与研究生课程紧密结合，因为越来越多的初级工程师需要具备比4年制学位更高的技能。此外，专注于工业和系统工程的领域，如物流、金融或制造业，将进一步帮助学生专注于他们的教育。这些变化取决于在院系层面提供综合课程，教导学生批判性思考。许多课程整合的努力依赖于学生记忆以前课程的能力，在这个过程中几乎没有其他支持。学生将在整个本科及以后的职业生涯中使用技术工具箱，这些工具的使用将被整合到课程中。在一门课程中开发并放置在工具箱中的工具（例如一个软件）可以在以后的课程中调用。学生的工具箱因此成为他们教育的一个有凝聚力的中心。这些工具箱将应用于创新的“现实世界”学习模块，这些模块是我们课程的基础。这些模块还将帮助学生学习何时使用工具箱中的每个工具。在毕业之前，学生可以帮助设计新的学习模块，供后续学生使用，或用于6-12年级学生的推广项目，或分发给其他大学。此外，当学生毕业并进入劳动力市场时，他们将更好地为他们的项目和社会做出实质性贡献。

The planning grant is to develop a comprehensive renewal of the undergraduate curriculum in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lehigh University to streamline and integrate the curriculum in order to open opportunities for the students and meet the challenges of the future engineer. They plan to develop and coordinate career track options with programs that augment the traditional degrees. The careers include professional/technical, professional/managerial, government, research, and teaching-oriented tracks. The tracks will be closely aligned and integrated with graduate school options as there is a growing need for entry-level engineers to have greater skill sets than feasible with a 4-year degree. Additionally, areas of concentration specific to industrial and systems engineering, such as logistics, finance, or manufacturing to further help students focus their education will be developed. These changes hinge on delivering integrated programs at the department level that teach students to think critically.Many curriculum integration efforts depend on the students' ability to remember previous coursework, with little else to support them in this process. The use of technology toolboxes, which students will populate and utilize throughout their undergraduate careers and beyond will be integrated into the curriculum. A tool developed and placed in the toolbox in one course (such as a piece of software) can be called upon in later courses. The student's toolbox thus becomes a cohesive center for their education. These toolboxes will be applied to innovative, "real-world" learning modules, which are fundamental to courses throughout our curriculum. These modules will also help students learn when to use each tool in their toolbox. Before they graduate, students can help design new learning modules that can be used by subsequent students, or in outreach programs to grade 6-12 students, or for distribution to other universities. Furthermore, as students graduate and enter the workforce, they will be better equipped to make substantial contributions to their projects and to society.