Integrating the Humanities and Global Engineering

FAIN: AKB-291057-23

Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN 47907-2040)
Lori Czerwionka (Project Director: September 2022 to present)
Kirsten Davis (Co Project Director: May 2023 to present)

Implementation of a two-year curricular revision to integrate humanistic method and inquiry into the engineering program

The project, Integrating the Humanities and Global Engineering, significantly expands the role of the humanities in engineering degree options and also offers new interdisciplinary learning opportunities to all students at Purdue University. We will raise the stature of the humanities at the local level of campus and community, as well as at the national and international level. The proposed humanistic-engineering approach will be implemented through a series of five courses that intersect with students’ international experiential learning activities and an invited speaker series. Through educating students to be critically thinking people who have greater appreciation for learning from cultural products (e.g., literature, film, arts) and local perspectives (e.g., via history, narrative), this project will shape the choices that students make as people and professionals, as well as the future of higher education.