Influences on Engineering Instructors’ Emphasis on Interdisciplinarity in Undergraduate Courses

Lisa R. Lattuca, Professor of Higher Education at the University of Michigan, studies curriculum, teaching, and learning in college and university settings. Much of her work focuses on undergraduate engineering education, examining processes of curriculum development and revision at the course and program levels, including how faculty attitudes, beliefs, and cultures influence curricular and instructional practices affect student learning. She is also known for her work on interdisciplinarity; in her current engineering education research projects she is studying curricular efforts to promote interdisciplinary competence and students’ attainment of interdisciplinary skills.