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About Engineering Council for Undergraduate Education
(E-CUE)
Background
During the past five years,
increasing activity in education innovation across the
School highlighted the need for a new forum that focuses
on contemporary engineering education. In 2002, the School
of Engineering formed the Engineering Council for Undergraduate
Education, E-CUE. E-CUE is chaired by the Associate Dean
of Engineering and members include representatives from
all departments and divisions, as well as from
the office of the Dean
for Undergraduate Education (DUE).
E-CUE members work closely with the education
staff of the School’s Office
of Education Innovation and Assessment to:
Mission
To identify, develop, disseminate, and implement
best practices in curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment
in engineering education. To act as a forum for sharing
ideas, and for coordinating, facilitating, fostering,
and overseeing innovations and new curricula in engineering
education across the School and with other units within
and outside MIT.
Objectives
Founded with the thematic focus of rethinking
undergraduate engineering education, some near-term objectives
are to:
- Support the development and implementation
of innovative pedagogy and assessment methods and tools
across the School.
- Develop more uniform and effective
assessments of teaching and mentoring in the School.
- Examine and work to improve the
integration of general and discipline-specific curriculum
for undergraduate engineering students.
- Support the development of interdisciplinary/common
courses, instructional modules, and programs that enhance
collaboration and synergy within the School.
- Generate a comprehensive view
of undergraduate engineering education including department-level
innovations and co-curriculum activities, such as UROP
and UPOP, in meeting broad educational objectives and
career needs.
- Provide an effective platform
for interactions and collaborations with other units
within and outside MIT to achieve shared educational
objectives.
Activities
Each academic year, E-CUE
members discuss and choose key undergraduate engineering
education issues that impact the entire School. Recent
issues were:
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