Rowan?s Mechanical Engineering Receives ASME Curriculum Innovation Award

Rowan?s Mechanical Engineering Receives ASME Curriculum Innovation Award

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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.