Towards a Community Vision of Integrated Engineering

What’s in a Name? General, Interdisciplinary, and Integrated Engineering Programs

“…Among ABET EAC accredited non-specialty programs, degree names included general engineering, interdisciplinary engineering, multidisciplinary engineering, and engineering. A new movement is emerging around the name Integrated Engineering with sessions held at the American Society for Engineering Education and Frontiers in Education conferences [20], [21]. Southern Utah University offered an Integrated Engineering degree [22], [23] from 2003 to 2011, whereupon the degree was renamed to Engineering (see [28] and is not ABET EAC accredited [19].…”

“…above). A degree program titled Integrative Engineering was recently started at Lafayette[24], in addition to the Integrated Engineering programs at Minnesota State University Mankato[20], the University of San Diego[25], and a renamed program in Integrated Design Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder[26]. The Wikipedia site on Integrated Engineering[27] also lists a program at Lehigh University; the Lehigh program is titled B.S.…”