DEC: STATUS & ACTIVITIES
Leadership team
- New provost appointed
- Vice provost for DEC curriculum development appointed
Development and implementation
- DEC Coordinating Committee established, as well as other committees to implement DEC
- Additional engineering and management faculty hired with DEC philosophy
- Hired three interdisciplinary faculty in SBA related to growing fashion merchandising/marketing
- Charrettes designed and conducted; used to develop curriculum
- Institute for Independent Aging – Aging Summer Research collaborative project underway
- NSF CCLI grant proposal
External and internal review
- Foundation curriculum reviews to be completed by spring 2010. EC curriculum reviews underway. Planning for College Studies/DEC curriculum review for fall 2010.
- Planning for engineering curriculum
Integration of Fashion majors
- Planning and review underway
DEC programs/curriculum
- Bridge program launched Summer 2009 and continuing – provides integration of business and design disciplines and business basics for designers (link to powerpoint)
- Collaborative courses in betatesting phase (see Collaborative Projects)
- Senior Design Show now incorporates all design programs and features numerous collaborative projects
- Fashion Show now features increased collaboration among fashion design, fashion merchandising, textile design and architecture students
- Industrial design and fashion design students collaborated to create special fashion show podium for the Academy of Music