Transforming Undergraduate Education
in Engineering/Computer Science (TUEE)
The Proposed TUEE Collaboratory Model
Creating and establishing the TUEE Collaboratory is an independent effort being conducted by Corporate & University Relations Group. The TUEE Collaboratory is also in the process of being established as a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation that should be announced in August 2024. Corporate & University Relations Group (CURG) and its senior associates are solely dedicated to providing breakthrough systemic experiential learning solutions for the slowly emerging national effort to Transform Undergraduate Education in Engineering/Computer Science (TUEE).
The proposed TUEE Collaboratory model is a systemic student-centered experiential education model. The model includes a design spine of curricular design projects and a variety of student-centered co-curricular professional and career development programs, activities & events. The model also includes ongoing student-centered diversity/inclusion solutions and new standards for higher education/industry collaboration, applied across the entire undergraduate experience.
Harvey Mudd College and Olin College of Engineering have been doing very well at student-centered, active project learning throughout the undergraduate experience for decades but they have a combined enrollment of only 1,400 students.
The University would engage its own alumni as the source of practicing professionals to develop, then implement the proposed comprehensive TUEE Collaboratory model pilot through June 2026. The University would immediately invite major local companies to become Strategic Corporate Partners (SCPs). The founding SCPs would host The University alumni chapters by mid-October 2024.
Release of Phase I (industry input) in 2013 of the five-year multi-phase NSF-funded ASEE TUEE initiative stimulated an emerging national movement to transform undergraduate education in engineering. However, a viable transformation model that could be implemented throughout the undergraduate experience, especially at large universities, has failed to materialize.
The long-awaited option for a viable comprehensive model to begin Transforming Undergraduate Education in Engineering (TUEE) is now here, including at large universities. It is anticipated that up to six, major, large universities will be selected by mid-August 2024, to begin preparing for full implementation of three regional comprehensive pilots throughout the 2025-2026 academic year. Regional pilots are in the process of being established in the Pacific Southwest (AZ, CA, NV) the Gulf Southwest (LA, TX, NM) and Rocky Mountain (CO, UT, WY) Regions. The model is designed to enable regional Collaboratories to be established across the nation within a few years. It seems unlikely for another comprehensive transformation model to be forthcoming in the foreseeable future, especially, at major large universities.
Please direct any inquiries and comments to Paul Jones. Currently, I am especially interested in responses from 1) Deans (and direct reports) of Engineering/Computer Science from Universities in the Western, Mountain, and Southwestern states, 2) CTOs and Vice Presidents (and direct reports) of major companies with headquarters and/or major operations in those same states.
Paul M. Jones
President
Corporate & University Relations Group
Email: paul@curg.net
Interim Executive Director
TUEE Collaboratory
Website: www.curg.net
Transforming undergraduate education
in engineering/computer science (TUEE)
Website: www.tueecollaboratory.org
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