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One Penn State: Streamlining Multi-Campus Course Offerings

Company: PSU Engineering Leadership Development

Major(s):
Primary: IE
Secondary: CMPSC

Non-Disclosure Agreement: NO

Intellectual Property: NO

The Engineering Leadership Development (ELD) program is housed with the College of Engineering's School of Engineering Design and Innovation, and they provide technical and professional educational opportunities specific to students in STEM majors. The majority of students that participate with ELD are pursuing a minor in Engineering Leadership Development. In recent years, the ELD program has expanded their course offerings to provide an opportunity for students at ANY Penn State campus to pursue the ELD minor. Cross-campus course "sharing" is facilitated through an online system called the Digital Learning Cooperative (DLC). The current process for listing and enrolling in courses on the DLC suffers from multiple problems which limits student enrollment. This includes, 1) manual and cumbersome listings, 2) limited student and administrator awareness of listings, 3) communications break downs, and 4) unclear timelines. The ultimate goals of this project are to make the process more efficient and to increase overall enrollments. A successful output from this project would be 1) a clear articulation of the current process required for promoting classes across the commonwealth, 2) a timeline of events, 3) suggestions for streamlining administrative duties such that the process is easily repeatable with minimal prior knowledge or experience, 4) Automated Tooling and/or Standard Operating Procedure generation.