TY - GEN
T1 - Work in progress - Prototyping the engineer of 2020
T2 - 39th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference: Imagining and Engineering Future CSET Education, FIE 2009
AU - Saddler, Tonya N.
AU - Trautvetter, Lois Calian
AU - McKenna, Ann F.
PY - 2009/12/1
Y1 - 2009/12/1
N2 - Highlighting two higher education institutions that have been identified as exemplary in preparing engineering undergraduates for 2020, this work in progress paper focuses on what these institutions are doing to prepare their students. Using case study approaches, findings suggest that engineering undergraduate students gain contextual competence, design and problem solving, and interdisciplinary competence skills through curriculum redesign efforts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Howard University. These design efforts include innovative teaching strategies, year-long undergraduate research opportunities, and extracurricular activities.
AB - Highlighting two higher education institutions that have been identified as exemplary in preparing engineering undergraduates for 2020, this work in progress paper focuses on what these institutions are doing to prepare their students. Using case study approaches, findings suggest that engineering undergraduate students gain contextual competence, design and problem solving, and interdisciplinary competence skills through curriculum redesign efforts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Howard University. These design efforts include innovative teaching strategies, year-long undergraduate research opportunities, and extracurricular activities.
KW - Engineering undergraduate curriculum
KW - Stem education
KW - Undergraduate research experiences
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U2 - 10.1109/FIE.2009.5350507
DO - 10.1109/FIE.2009.5350507
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77951495803
SN - 9781424447152
T3 - Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
BT - 39th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference
Y2 - 18 October 2009 through 21 October 2009
ER -