A junior course in engineering design and society

Author

Nagurney, Ladimer S. ; Keshawar, M. Saleh ; Adrezin, Ronald S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Hartford Univ., West Hartford, CT, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Abstract

As part of an NSF grant, the College of Engineering at the University of Hartford is developing an interdisciplinary course in engineering practice. The purpose of the course is to introduce engineering students to the factors such as impact on society, political concerns, cultural concerns, that significantly affect their engineering design process, but are traditionally not part of a quantitative engineering design. A major focus of the course is communication. To be successful, an engineer must be able to communicate his/her results to a variety of interested individuals, stakeholders and bodies, both technical and non-technical. The paper discusses the course

Keywords

educational courses; engineering education; professional communication; teaching; University of Hartford; culture; engineering design course; engineering education; engineering practice; engineering students; interdisciplinary course; junior course; politics; professional communication; society; Auditory system; Bridges; Cultural differences; Design engineering; Educational institutions; Engineering education; Engineering students; Global communication; Mechanical engineering; Process design;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 2000. FIE 2000. 30th Annual

Conference_Location

Kansas City, MO

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6424-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2000.896590

Filename

896590