Student-focused
Engineering is a professional practice. What students need to learn in order to be effective engineers in today’s workplace are:
- Strong engineering fundamentals
- A capacity for creative problem solving and innovation
- Demonstrated abilities to work in teams
- Clear and effective communication
- Ethics and civility
- A commitment to remote, on-line and continuous learning
Innovative Curriculum
Anderson University proposes an innovative engineering curriculum that embraces the following educational philosophical elements:
- Comply with the core AU Gold liberal arts tradition of debate
- Establish entrepreneurship/entrepreneurism as a central thread throughout the delivery of engineering content
- Use inverted classes with hands-on engineering experiences in the first year
- Use flipped classrooms that emphasize independent learning and group problem solving, much like the real world
- A required internship
- a commitment to remote, on-line and continuous learning
Graduates
Graduates will be prepared for placement in local engineering-intensive industry. Internship placement is expected to emphasize and impart skills training and not just serve as a long company interview. Industry partners must therefore have an approved skills training plan for each intern.