Title :
On the importance of systems-oriented education in engineering
Author :
Yurtseven, MK ; Buchanan, WW
Author_Institution :
Dogus Univ., Istanbul, Turkey
Abstract :
This paper addresses one of the important dilemmas in engineering education: how to educate engineering students in the area of systems thinking or systems approach. A framework is presented in which the authors describe how the systems-oriented topics can be integrated into an engineering program to enable students to design "messy" socio-technical systems from a systems point of view.
Keywords :
engineering education; social aspects of automation; systems engineering; teaching; engineering students; messy socio-technical systems; systems approach; systems thinking; systems-oriented engineering education; Computer aided manufacturing; Design engineering; Engineering education; Engineering students; Knowledge engineering; Power engineering and energy; Sociotechnical systems; Systems engineering and theory; Systems engineering education; Technology management;
Conference_Titel :
Africon Conference in Africa, 2002. IEEE AFRICON. 6th
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7570-X
DOI :
10.1109/AFRCON.2002.1146877
