Modular Approach and Innovations in an Engineering Program Design

Abstract

The review and restructure of the undergraduate Engineering program at Macquarie University created an opportunity to consider the basic structures and intentions of the degree program. The opportunity to move away from the traditional standard approach of large, disconnected units with little overlap or continuity and the potential for redundancy and duplication within the curriculum, was informed by an increasing awareness of and exposure to the principles of threshold concepts in contemporary education theory.