The Influence of the University/College/Department

MissionHow your university and department’s missions influence your engineering degree requirements

Origins of the Curriculum – Connecting the Pieces

What is Your University’s Mission & Vision?

Your University seeks to be … (Mission Statement)

What does this mean to you?

The vision for your university is…

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How does your department help to fulfill your university’s Mission?

Your university’s Mission Statement:

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Our educational goals reflect university & ABET learning outcomes

Our graduates will …

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Star Student, 20XX Engineering Award

Star Student, 20XX Engineering Award

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Your engineering curriculum has general education, common, & discipline specific components

Engineering Degree

Requirements

Common Engineering Requirements(XX credits)

Discipline Specific Requirements

(XX credits)

General Education Requirements(XX credits)

Total credits for graduation: XXX

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Explain why students are required to take General Ed

Your university community is required to take…

Area #1(XX credits): Why?• Answers why

Area #2(XX credits): Why?• Answers why

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Highlight the common courses in your engineering curriculum

Sophomore: Engage in …, enter into the engineering community & …

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Use key words to describe your program emphasis…

Freshman: Explore engineering profession, build on foundations in math

and science

Junior: Focus on discipline core, synthesize fundamentals, apply

engineering concepts to solve problems

Senior: Mastery of material, open-ended design projects, engage in

teamwork activities

If you have common classes throughout program, highlight these here. It may be that you only have common freshman

and sophomore (e.g., math, physics) and senior design. Even if different majors

take different versions of the same course (e.g., computer programming),

this is a chance to show the commonalities between different

disciplines.

The XX Engineering curriculum …

Area 3 (XX credits) Why?• Highlight #1• Highlight #2• Highlight #3

Area 2 (XX credits): Why?• Highlight #1• Highlight #2• Highlight #3

Area 1 (XX credits): Why?• Highlight #1• Highlight #2• Highlight #3

Elective courses (XX credits): Why?

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These are the pieces that make up your curriculum!

Engineering Degree

Requirements

Common Engineering Requirements

(XX credits)

Discipline Specific Requirements

(XX credits)

General Education Requirements(XX credits)

Total credits for graduation: XXX

Bringing together the University Mission, the Department Mission, and ABET Goals…