UM Todayengineering curricula – UM Today https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca Your Source for University of Manitoba News Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:13:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 CTV Winnipeg: U of M creating standalone engineering education department https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/ctv-winnipeg-u-of-m-creating-standalone-engineering-education-department/ https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/ctv-winnipeg-u-of-m-creating-standalone-engineering-education-department/#respond Fri, 03 Jan 2025 20:50:21 +0000 https://news.umanitoba.ca/?p=209532 U of M creating standalone engineering education department]]> An upcoming overhaul of the University of Manitoba’s faculty of engineering will make way for a standalone department dedicated to an emerging discipline within the field – engineering education.

Marcia Friesen, professor and dean of the Price Faculty of Engineering, described the new department as a “natural evolution.”

“It goes back to understanding that there are a set of engineering skills and competencies that all Canadian engineering curricula are required to teach, and they go beyond any core department,” she said in an interview on Thursday.

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