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APPENDIX D: TOWARD A PROGRESSIVE NEW ENGINEERING CURRICULUM
Pages 77-79

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... (This broad purpose makes engineering education a prime vehicle for encouraging wider participation by women and minority students in engineering, and it broadens the opportunities for employment of graduates during periods of limited hiring of engineers.) Third, it must make students aware of the relationships between engineering and industrialized society, encouraging and preparing them to assume a stronger and more visible leadership position as engineers in society and as productive citizens.
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From page 78...
... MEANS Suggested means to achieve these principles of the new under graduate engineering curriculum are 1. Integrate new material and different perspectives into the under graduate engineering curriculum using approaches such as: • offering a first-year course on the transformation of society by engineering, giving concrete examples; • introducing engineering illustrations into the mathematics and science courses taken by engineering students; • introducing case studies into the engineering science courses to illustrate how the principles of the subject, including their math and science roots, have developed; • encouraging a better integration of liberal arts into the curricu lum; • increasing the emphasis, especially in upper-division courses, on engineering practice through the study of contemporary innova tions and problems; and
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From page 79...
... 2. Integrate into the curriculum a number of important concepts, such as: • enjoyment and fun in the learning process; • design experience; • team research/design experience, with oral reporting by teams; • academic study of engineering practice; • globalization of technology, understanding other cultures, and appreciation of the liberal arts; • exposure to the concepts of business, economics, marketing, and manufacturing, and risk; • sustainable development of the environment; and • engineering management, including effective interaction with shop-floor and technical support personnel.
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