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George Mason’s mechanical engineering program is the newest to be established in the Volgenau’s School of Engineering. Added in the fall of 2014, themes for the curriculum and program focus on strategies to increase student access through multiple pathways and to enrich their learning experiences once they become part of the department. Using assessment collected in the ASME’s vision 2030 report and engagement with its advisory board on curriculum design, improvements in the curriculum are presented. Specifically, continuous improvement to produce a more curriculum flexibility, to expose students to a faculty with a more diverse professional background, and to address the need to expose students to additional professional core skills rather than enhance their abilities in engineering science and design, are presented. Content of the modified senior seminar course, now titled “Developing the Society EngineerTM”, has been created to address some gaps in professional skills absent in well-established engineering programs for instance. End-of-semester feedback from students and faculty will be used to evaluate how these changes affect the attainment of student outcomes.
Author(s):
Oscar Barton, Jr
Mechanical Engineering
George Mason University
United States
Robert Gallo
Mechanical Engineering
George Mason University
United States
Cindy Dupree
Agile Systems Design and Engineering
The Mitre Corporation
United States