Rowan?s Mechanical Engineering Receives ASME Curriculum Innovation Award
Rowan?s Mechanical Engineering Receives ASME Curriculum Innovation Award
October 24, 2001
Glassboro- Rowan University?s Mechanical Engineering Department won a Curriculum Innovation Award honorable mention from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
The award is based on Rowan?s Engineering Clinic, an eight-semester course sequence in which students learn the art and science of design in a multi-disciplinary team environment, working together to solve open-ended problems.
The design problems in the junior and senior years are largely derived from local industries, many of which are using the clinics as a vehicle to perform engineering as well as research and development activities. Thus, the clinics service the industries while educating future engineers.
<+>This award provides national recognition for the innovation that Rowan Engineering has threaded throughout the curriculum,<+> said Dr. Dianne Dorland, dean of the College of Engineering. <+>Students may take great pride in this accomplishment, since the results of our program wouldn?t be apparent without their participation.<+>
The award will be presented at the 2001 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in New York in November. Also, the faculty from the department will make a presentation about the engineering clinics to a committee of mechanical engineering department heads at the ASME Congress.
The criteria for selecting an innovative program include a significant advancement in engineering education, the ability to be adapted by many schools in an affordable and effective manner and the likelihood of the innovation being widely adopted.
The award is based on Rowan?s Engineering Clinic, an eight-semester course sequence in which students learn the art and science of design in a multi-disciplinary team environment, working together to solve open-ended problems.
The design problems in the junior and senior years are largely derived from local industries, many of which are using the clinics as a vehicle to perform engineering as well as research and development activities. Thus, the clinics service the industries while educating future engineers.
<+>This award provides national recognition for the innovation that Rowan Engineering has threaded throughout the curriculum,<+> said Dr. Dianne Dorland, dean of the College of Engineering. <+>Students may take great pride in this accomplishment, since the results of our program wouldn?t be apparent without their participation.<+>
The award will be presented at the 2001 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in New York in November. Also, the faculty from the department will make a presentation about the engineering clinics to a committee of mechanical engineering department heads at the ASME Congress.
The criteria for selecting an innovative program include a significant advancement in engineering education, the ability to be adapted by many schools in an affordable and effective manner and the likelihood of the innovation being widely adopted.