Pre Eminence In First Year Engineering Programs
L.P.B. Katehi, Kamyar Haghighi, Heidi Diefes‐Dux, Katherine Banks, J. Gaunt, Robert E. Montgomery, William Oakes, P.K. Imbrie, Deborah Follman, Phillip C. Wankat
Abstract
The Department of Freshman Engineering (FrE) at Purdue University is currently celebrating its 50 th Anniversary. For five decades the Department has slowly evolved, reacting to nationwide trends and advances by incorporating new pedagogical approaches to engineering education, and adopting engineering technologies appropriate to the time. The Department is now looking towards taking a leadership role in engineering education reform. Such a step will create opportunities to reform the first-year engineering program, long the centerpiece of FrE.
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