What Is IEEE Multidisciplinary Engineering Education Magazine?

IEEE Multidisciplinary Engineering Education Magazine (MEEM) is a publication of the IEEE Education Society Student Activities Committee dedicated to engineering education content spanning multiple engineering disciplines. Its primary objective is the publication of useful and informative material on all aspects of multidisciplinary engineering education, addressing both students working across disciplinary boundaries and the educators who design and deliver such curricula. The magazine carries the ISSN 1558-7908 and operates as part of the broader IEEE Education Society publishing program.

MEEM was founded to give students and early-career educators a forum distinct from the research-oriented IEEE Transactions on Education, which targets established researchers and tenure-track faculty. The magazine fills a practical editorial niche by covering pedagogical practice, curriculum design, and cross-disciplinary project work at a level accessible to those still developing their professional expertise.

Editorial Mission and Audience

The editorial mission of MEEM is to facilitate publication of material that benefits students and young educators engaged in engineering education across disciplinary boundaries. This positions it within a distinct segment of the IEEE publishing portfolio: while the organization's flagship journals target senior researchers, MEEM explicitly serves those at the beginning of their engineering education careers.

Multidisciplinary engineering education, as defined by MEEM's scope, covers curricula and programs that integrate two or more engineering or technical disciplines in a coordinated way, rather than treating each discipline as a self-contained track. Examples include biomedical engineering programs that draw on electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering, as well as robotics programs that integrate software, mechanical, and electrical design.

Topics and Coverage

Articles published in MEEM address topics across the full range of engineering education practice with a multidisciplinary orientation. Coverage includes project-based learning approaches that require students to apply methods from several disciplines simultaneously, capstone design course structures, team-based problem solving, and educational research on how students develop integrated technical knowledge. The magazine also publishes reports from IEEE student competitions and special issues that accompany major IEEE Education Society conferences.

The IEEE Transactions on Education, the rigorous research counterpart within the same society, publishes empirical studies of educational effectiveness that frequently draw on MEEM for context about current practice. Authors in MEEM who develop their work beyond the practitioner level often find a path to subsequent submission in the Transactions, giving the two publications a complementary developmental relationship.

Transition to IEEE Technology and Engineering Education

MEEM was subsequently renamed IEEE Technology and Engineering Education (ITEE), reflecting an evolution in the publication's scope to include technology education alongside traditional engineering disciplines. The renaming acknowledged the growing integration of computing and information technology into engineering curricula and the increasing number of technology-focused programs, particularly at community colleges and technical institutes, represented in the IEEE Education Society's membership.

The IEEE Education Society continues to publish both the retitled magazine and the Transactions, maintaining separate forums for practitioner-level content and peer-reviewed educational research.

Applications

IEEE Multidisciplinary Engineering Education Magazine addressed educational contexts across a range of engineering and technology fields, including:

• Biomedical and bioinstrumentation program curriculum design
• Robotics and mechatronics capstone project pedagogy
• Civil and environmental engineering integrated with data science
• Electrical and computer engineering education for undergraduates
• Student branch and IEEE Educational Activities programming