Engineering curricula at the University of Saskatchewan: eight programs with a common core

Engineering curriculum design at the University of Saskatchewan presents the universal challenge of providing a program of studies that develops technical excellence in mathematics, science, and engineering synthesis together with the breadth of knowledge, social awareness, ethics and humanitarian studies needed by today´s engineers. The College of Engineering also faces special challenges since it must offer studies in a number of engineering disciplines and also serve a constituent base of students from a provincial population that is relatively small. As part of the solution to the problems associated with limited resources distributed over eight rather wide ranging programs, a common core of courses for all engineering programs has been utilized. By stressing the common core nature of many engineering courses, curricula were developed which should cause no major teaching-related disruptions within the college. For theses curricula, the contents of many courses has been modified and course responsibilities have been shifted from the general program to departmental programs. Also, a number of courses have been dropped and there are a number of new courses