• DocumentCode
    386736
  • Title

    On the importance of systems-oriented education in engineering

  • Author

    Yurtseven, MK ; Buchanan, WW

  • Author_Institution
    Dogus Univ., Istanbul, Turkey
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    2-4 Oct. 2002
  • Firstpage
    437
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Africon Conference in Africa, 2002. IEEE AFRICON. 6th
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7570-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/AFRCON.2002.1146877
  • Filename
    1146877