An integrated first-year curriculum in science, engineering, and mathematics: Porgress, pitfalls, and promise

Computers Have Taken Us to the Brink in Mathematics … and We Have Balked

“…One year, we were in the chemistry laboratory of our Integrated First-Year Curriculum in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics (Winkel & Froyd, 1992), having just finished studying gas laws and the actions of gasses in liquids, and so we thought we would simply ask the students for this lab to: Define fizz and conduct an experiment to measure fizz by your definition. We had in mind something akin to what we were actually doing in the chemistry laboratory.…”

The NSF Foundation Coalition: The First Five Years

“…In 1993-1994 the FC consciously focused its attention on the development of a freshman year that utilizes the FC thrusts. All institutions began with the Rose-Hulman model, 6 which existed prior to the FC, and adapted it for their campus at the same time. Likewise, when campuses focused on the development of a sophomore year, FC faculty across the Coalition used the pre-Coalition Texas A&M model 7 and, simultaneously, adapted it for their campus.…”