Digital imaging for engineering students

A multidisciplinary team of engineering faculty members at Rowan University are integrating digital imaging technology (DIT) into their undergraduate engineering curriculum. This exciting effort is based upon the experience and interest of faculty to promote new topics and innovative methods of teaching. The work is an effort to provide students with digital imaging experiences that make them ready for the marketplace. Projects involve the development of digital imaging experiements and curriculum and also the creation of a leading edge digital imaging laboratory/studio. This studio will facilitate the use of nontraditional learning approaches that encourage interactive learning, team building, and creative problem solving among students and instructors. A number of hands-on visual experiments are being developed and used to introduce students to the multidisciplinary engineering principles and use of DIT. Activities have also been developed for K-12 outreach.