Promoting Systems Thinking in Engineering and Pre-Engineering Students

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-1-2009

Journal / Book Title

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings 2009

Abstract

The context of engineering is one dominated by systems. In order to better prepare graduates with a systems perspective and the competencies to be effective in system design, we discuss initiatives to promote the development of systems thinking, both in undergraduate and K-12 communities. This paper describes vertically-integrated curriculum innovation, in which graduate-level coursework spawned a pilot program to embed systems in a core engineering design course for undergraduates with its resulting adoption and extension to a core design thread, and a resulting high school curriculum development and dissemination effort which has followed. These efforts have also prompted educational research to develop the academic underpinnings of the relatively under-developed scholarly foundations of systems engineering.

DOI

10.18260/1-2-1153-50375

Journal ISSN / Book ISBN

ISSN: 21535965

Published Citation

Jain, R., & Sheppard, K., & McGrath, E., & Gallois, B. (2008, April), Promoting Systems Thinking in Engineering and Pre-Engineering Students Paper presented at 2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference, Washington, D.C.. 10.18260/1-2-1153-50375

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