[WayneS]

Based on the description at Purdues’s web-site it appears to me that this “department” is involved in the education of first-year (freshman) engineering students.

This would be the curriculum which used to be called “Fundamentals of Engineering” back when I was a student in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, several decades ago.

[NorthMountain]

Academics at the College of Engineering.

I missed this particular paragraph last time around:

First-Year Engineering

The School of Engineering Education's First-Year Engineering Program is the entry point for all beginning engineering students. The mission of this student-oriented program is to recruit, advise, teach, and retain outstanding students for Purdue's College of Engineering. First-year engineering classes are taught in Purdue's i2i Learning Laboratory which offers an innovative and hands-on learning environment to prepare first-year engineering students for real world challenges.

That's a problem, no doubt.