Key EEIC Programs
The EEIC is the focal point for the College’s innovative instructional programs, building upon our outstanding reputation for and commitment to creative undergraduate education. It will provide academic as well as personal and professional activities designed to enrich the undergraduate student experience both inside and outside the classroom. And it will create new courses and programs and strengthen existing ones to ensure that students are well prepared for an ever-expanding range of career and entrepreneurship opportunities in a changing employment environment.
Key programs administered through the new center include the following:
- The highly successful First-Year Engineering Program, teaching basic engineering skills to prepare students for future courses and careers and exposing them to the different engineering disciplines
- Multidisciplinary capstone programs with industry involvement, to give students experience within their discipline
- Core and multidisciplinary engineering programs: product realization, including engineering entrepreneurship; Technical Communications Resource Center, offering writing courses and consultation; and engineering-based multidisciplinary minors
- Technology literacy courses and minors for non-engineers, in response to recent reports of the National Academy of Engineering, National Research Council and National Science Foundation, highlighting the need for improved technological literacy for all students
- Professional development and enhancement experiences including service learning, international study programs and leadership development, to help Ohio State engineering students distinguish themselves
- Faculty professional development and scholarship for teaching and learning
- Further development of technologically enhanced and enabled instruction, supported through central funding of projects, faculty and staff development activities and coordination of programs across the college
