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An unfortunate premise is that neither the undergraduate Electrical Engineering (EE) nor the Mechanical Engineering (ME) degree programs can accommodate within their curriculum substantive EE or ME courses. Yet there is a natural intersection between EE and ME for professional opportunities in the 21st century. To break this seeming impasse a program of study between EE and ME has been initiated as one aspect of an Interdisciplinary Engineering (BSE) degree with plans of study for Electromechanical Engineering and Energy and Power Engineering at Temple University. Only existing courses in EE and ME were integrated into these plans of study for the BSE degree. The BSE program utilizes no new courses, requires no new faculty and only administrative resources. Interdisciplinary design objectives were promoted and utilized in discipline undergraduate course laboratories and the capstone design project for these students. The BSE program is uniquely administered by the College and not by a Department and has a Director and not a Chair. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Student Note-Taking Achieves Performance (SNAP) concept is presented here with its utilization, observations and analysis as an alternative to other methods, such as homework problems, proffered to enhance learning. This educational initiative attempts to address the question of the formative skill for the reading of text and lecture material by a student and the immediate translation then to problem solving. SNAP is a short (15 minute) quiz using only the student's handwritten notes but no text or references. SNAP has been vetted over several semesters in diverse undergraduate Electrical and Computer Engineering courses and assessed by the comparative performance of their respective Course Learning Outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]