DocumentCode :
1502892
Title :
Professional Skills in the Engineering Curriculum
Author :
Mohan, Ashwin ; Merle, Dominike ; Jackson, Christa ; Lannin, John ; Nair, Satish S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
Volume :
53
Issue :
4
fYear :
2010
Firstpage :
562
Lastpage :
571
Abstract :
Faculty from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the College of Education at the University of Missouri (MU), Columbia, developed a novel course for engineering graduate students emphasizing pedagogy and professional skills. The two-semester course sequence, titled “Preparing Engineering Faculty and Professionals,” includes readings from books that cover several different areas: How People Learn, with focus on the latest findings from cognitive science and their applicability to teaching; The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People for discussion of other professional skills; and The World is Flat for discussion of global trends and its effects on professionals. Other components of the course include lectures by guest speakers on topics ranging from how universities work and how to run successful research centers to leadership traits for engineers. A pilot survey of students at the end of the two-course sequence revealed that students had acquired little knowledge about pedagogy and professional skills from other courses in their undergraduate and graduate engineering curriculum; this course addresses such deficits by raising awareness and knowledge of these skills.
Keywords :
educational courses; educational institutions; electrical engineering education; College of Education; Columbia; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Missouri University; cognitive science; engineering graduate student course; pedagogy; professional skills; research centers; two-semester course sequence; undergraduate engineering curriculum; Books; Cognitive science; Computer science education; Educational institutions; Engineering education; Engineering management; Problem-solving; Project management; Proposals; Writing; Engineering education; global workplace; professional skills; proposal writing;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Education, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
0018-9359
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/TE.2009.2033041
Filename :
5290068
Link To Document :
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