Bridge-Curriculum System for Multidisciplinary Courses: Application to Biomedical Engineering

A bridge-curriculum system has been proposed for a sustained improvement of a curriculum in a multidisciplinary area. The system has been applied to the courses of "Biomedical Engineering". In the system, each course is taken by multiple teachers of variety of disciplines. A minor part, which bridges to another course, is taken by a teacher of the bridged course. Frequent communication between courses is guaranteed in the curriculum. The contents of each course are continuously reviewed by another teacher of the different discipline in the curriculum. The system is effective not only for an improvement of a curriculum but also for creation of a new discipline. The bridge-curriculum system works well to improve the courses of "Biomedical Engineering".