Contextualizing enginering education

The author investigated the possibility of integrating ideas of context into the engineer´s image of engineering education in order that engineering education will more accurately reflect engineering practice. He suggests that this can be done without major curricular overhaul by contextualizing some textbook problems, which can be done by modifying a portion of assigned problems to have them include contextual issues. The contexts in which the problems are to be embedded will reveal numerous features of real engineering practice