First Year Engineering Themed Seminar – A Mechanism For Conveying The Interdisciplinary Nature Of Engineering | Zendy

Heidi DiefesDux | Zendy; P.K. Imbrie | Zendy; Tamara J. Moore | Zendy

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First Year Engineering Themed Seminar – A Mechanism For Conveying The Interdisciplinary Nature Of Engineering

Author(s) -

Heidi DiefesDux,

P.K. Imbrie,

Tamara J. Moore

Publication year - 2020

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

DOI - 10.18260/1-2--14837

Subject(s) - theme (computing) , field (mathematics) , perception , science and engineering , engineering ethics , engineering , computer science , psychology , mathematics , neuroscience , pure mathematics , operating system

A themed-seminar structure for first-year engineering students was developed to encourage students to see the interconnections between the engineering disciplines and move away from the notion of highly discrete fields of study. The selected theme was nanotechnology due to the highly interdisciplinary nature of this field and the drive to improve awareness of this field in the first-year. To assess the impact of this seminar structure, an Engineering-Awareness Survey instrument was developed to capture, both quantitatively and qualitatively, the nature of students’ perceptions of the interrelationships between engineering disciplines as well as their awareness of nanotechnology. This paper presents results of the impact of the themed-seminar structure as delivered in the Fall of 2003.

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