DocumentCode
3148635
Title
Contextualizing enginering education
Author
Moriarty, Gene
Author_Institution
San Jose State Univ., CA, USA
fYear
1993
fDate
6-9 Nov 1993
Firstpage
112
Lastpage
116
Abstract
The author investigated the possibility of integrating ideas of context into the engineer´s image of engineering education in order that engineering education will more accurately reflect engineering practice. He suggests that this can be done without major curricular overhaul by contextualizing some textbook problems, which can be done by modifying a portion of assigned problems to have them include contextual issues. The contexts in which the problems are to be embedded will reveal numerous features of real engineering practice
Keywords
educational courses; engineering education; teaching; Curricula; assigned problems; context; contextualizing; engineering practice; enginering education; textbook problems; Algebra; Circuits; Concrete; Design engineering; Engineering education; Equations; Face; History; Humans; Problem-solving;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Frontiers in Education Conference, 1993. Twenty-Third Annual Conference. 'Engineering Education: Renewing America's Technology', Proceedings.
Conference_Location
Washington, DC
ISSN
0190-5848
Print_ISBN
0-7803-1482-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/FIE.1993.405557
Filename
405557
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