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The first-year program at Michigan Technological University emphasizes an active, collaborative learning environment. Students are grouped into teams of 3-5 students to work on class activities and projects. The success of this program relies on the students learning to work together and numerous activities in the class are designed to help build these teamwork skills. For example, teams are expec...Show More
In 2000, we introduced an undergraduate engineering curricular option to serve as an alternative to the traditional two-semester senior capstone experience, and intended to better meet the needs of students and industry. Initially funded through NSF, this program offers teams of students from varied disciplines the opportunity to work for several years in a business-like setting solving real-world...Show More
IIT, Lehigh, Michigan Tech, and Rice universities are piloting a strategy based on the book by Jones & Ferrill, The Seven Layers of Integrity (2006), to teach ethical awareness to engineers and scientists. Students at the four universities are expected to prepare a code of ethics for their own project or course problem context. These codes are evaluated and each code of ethics must have an over-ar...Show More