In September 2003, the Department of Mechanical Engineering at City College of New York
in collaboration with ASME received a $1.5M grant from NSF to reform its curriculum.
The reform effort has three components, each designed to correspond to a current trend in the mechanical engineering profession. These
are:
incorporation of emerging technologies such as, MEMS, Advanced Materials, Computer Aided Engineering (CAE),
Intelligent Systems/ Electronics, Biotechnology, Nanotechnology and Nontraditional Energy, into the curriculum;
new teaching methodologies focused on student learning and
enhanced
efforts at
recruitment and retention of students to help increase the emerging technological workforce for industry.
All the reform elements are currently being implemented.
