Engineering Education

Units: 3

This course in engineering education focuses on evidence-based pedagogical methods that improve learning for undergraduate engineering students. Other topics include engineering accreditation, diverse groups, and how to create effective teaching resources. The class will culminate with a micro-teaching module for each student. Topical areas will be supported with readings from the engineering education literature.

Offered in Fall Only

Units: 3

This course in engineering education focuses on course design or redesign by considering course design to be an engineering design problem. Students will use an engineering design process, as they consider the constraints and criteria of designing an engineering undergraduate course. Areas covered will be writing learning outcomes that link to specific course goals for undergraduate engineering courses, how to establish course goals [explicit and implicit], ways to assess whether learning outcomes and course goals are being met, and innovative pedagogical approaches, including online and blended learning. Topical areas will be supported with readings from the engineering education literature.

Offered in Spring Only

Units: 3

This course covers issues related to gender, race, class, sexuality, culture, and ethnicity as associated with recruiting, persistence, and retention of a diverse population of engineering students. In addition, this course will examine methodologies and pedagogies that can help eliminate barriers to success for these groups. The course will also provide insight as to the disparate impacts of structural inequities as related to access to resources for underrepresented populations across the various engineering disciplines.

GEP: U.S. Diversity, Equity, and In

Offered in Fall Only

Units: 3

The course will focus on the importance of ethical decision-making in the education and instruction of engineering students. Additionally, it will provide a platform to facilitate the examination and interpretation of complex issues from the perspective of ethical leadership as it relates to the various engineering disciplines.

GEP: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Offered in Fall Spring Summer

Units: 3

This course in engineering education focuses on evidence-based pedagogical methods that leverage teaching methodologies that can be used to link across cultures, classrooms, and various learning environments. Students will learn how engineering interplays with other subject areas and learn how to teach these subject areas through engineering activities. Other topics include how to teach in under-resourced settings, how to teach diverse groups, and how to create effective teaching resources under suboptimal conditions. Students will work to understand how engineering impacts economic advancement in relation to their course of study.

Offered in Fall and Spring