Cultural change at Texas A&M: from the engineering science core to the foundation coalition

Author

Malave, Cesar O. ; Watson, Karan L.

Author_Institution

Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1996

fDate

6-9 Nov 1996

Firstpage

1366

Abstract

The paper describes a curriculum innovation process at Texas A&M-College Station (TAMU) with emphasis on the foundation coalition project. Lessons learned from the engineering science core project-a predecessor to the foundation coalition (FC) at Texas A&M, funded under the NSF Undergraduate Curriculum Program-is presented. The paper looks at faculty, administrator and student “buy-in” to the program and at curriculum development strategies that have been implemented on the TAMU campus. The processes developed for successful institutionalization of the foundation coalition programs is presented

Keywords

educational courses; engineering education; management; teaching; College Station; TAMU; TAMU campus; Texas A&M; cultural change; curriculum development strategies; curriculum innovation process; engineering science core; engineering science core project; foundation coalition; foundation coalition programs; Agricultural engineering; Cultural differences; Curriculum development; Design engineering; Education; Educational institutions; Fluid dynamics; Industrial engineering; Technological innovation; Thermodynamics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 1996. FIE '96. 26th Annual Conference., Proceedings of

Conference_Location

Salt Lake City, UT

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3348-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.1996.568518

Filename

568518