Interdisciplinary
Interdisciplinary Committee
The Interdisciplinary Committee is to support interdisciplinary education at Cal Poly by helping students develop a technical understanding of other disciplines and empathy for other disciplines. This committee performs the following functions:
- Develop ideas and strategies which will allow for a greater level of collaboration across multiple industry-related disciplines
- Interact with the faculty, as well as other departments and schools to educate our goals and create related learning opportunities
- Report to the Managing Directors Committee strategies and initiatives which may be considered for implementation
2-Year Goal
- Support curriculum (Technical Understanding of other Disciplines)
- Collect Metrics (a survey) – Reach out to alumni who took the interdisciplinary courses and get their feedback – what worked, what didn’t
- Support recreation of EDES 101 (15K-20K / year budget required)
- Create a “Cohort” of interdisciplinary study
- Support connections/relationships (Develop Empathy for other Disciplines)
- Support Interdisciplinary Club fundraising and help students advertise
- Co-host mixers between CAED
- Create interdisciplinary committees within other departments << No committees in the other departments yet
- Get Department Heads unified in promoting the understanding of interdisciplinary study and interaction between the schools
- Both:
- Interdisciplinary Guest lectures
Curriculum and Programs-Interdisciplinary Committee-May 2020 Report
20201106-Interdisciplinary Committee-Report-Curriculum-and-Programs
Committee Members
Role | Name | Company |
Interdisciplinary Lead | Kyle Spitznagel | Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company |
Faculty Representative | Phil Barlow | Cal Poly Construction Management Department |
Enrique Ivers | Dragados | |
Interdisciplinary Co-Lead | Charlie Mallers | Largo Concrete, Inc. |
Matthew Susank | Webcor | |
Ryan Brown | XL Construction |