Project PROCEED: A Department-Wide Curriculum Reform Program in Project-Centered Education
DATE & TIME: Thursday, October 21st from 12:00 to 1:00 pm. The seminar will be presented in the Large Conference Room located on the 10th floor in the ECJ building.
Lunch will be provided. If you plan on attending please RSVP to Terri Lavorgna or call the Academic Affairs Office at 471-7995 by Wednesday, October 20th
OVERVIEW: PROCEED is a major curriculum reform effort in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UT which was formally inaugurated in the fall of 2000. Overall curriculum goals were outlined and 13 development projects were initiated by the ME faculty. These projects, most of which have now been fully implemented, cover the entire range of the curriculum, from the freshman introduction-to-ME course through the senior capstone design course. They include a number of reforms, including development of new labs closely integrated with core theory courses, integration of computing throughout the curriculum, using reverse-engineering of commercial products and systems to motivate analysis and computer modeling, development of an on-line student portfolio system to showcase project-centered work, live-videoconferencing with corporate engineers, and implementation of an automated online course assessment instrument. Dr. Phil Schmidt, director of PROCEED and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Programs in ME, will present the background, motivation, and strategy behind PROCEED, how it is being implemented, examples of PROCEED projects, and implementation issues and challenges.