Faculty committee leadership for an interdisciplinary engineering program

This paper describes committee leadership in an undergraduate program in electromechanical engineering. The program is designed to incorporate all the essential elements in an electrical and mechanical engineering curriculum and program criteria for both programs must be met. By adopting and empowering a faculty committee, the electromechanical program at Wentworth Institute of Technology has enjoyed some unique benefits. The purpose of this paper is to describe some distinct advantages of a committee governance structure in an interdisciplinary program.