TY - GEN
T1 - Chalmers program in turbulence; a proposed model for higher level undergraduate education in general
AU - Johansson, T. Gunnar
AU - George, William K.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - The trend in engineering education has been to move in the direction of a more broad based and general education in the final year of study. We believe that it is preferable for the students to specialize. By doing so, the students benefit from an intellectually challenging program in which they develop working skills and study discipline, learn to focus on important issues, and develop critical reasoning skills. It is also important that the students are exposed to real world difficulties, whereby they will learn how to proceed in the common engineering cases where not all the required knowledge is at hand. In our view, if a student gains confidence in his/her ability to become really good at one intellectually demanding area, then that confidence makes him/her far better at rapidly acquiring knowledge from any other area than he/she would have gained from the shallow survey approach where a little is learned about a lot, but not much about anything.
AB - The trend in engineering education has been to move in the direction of a more broad based and general education in the final year of study. We believe that it is preferable for the students to specialize. By doing so, the students benefit from an intellectually challenging program in which they develop working skills and study discipline, learn to focus on important issues, and develop critical reasoning skills. It is also important that the students are exposed to real world difficulties, whereby they will learn how to proceed in the common engineering cases where not all the required knowledge is at hand. In our view, if a student gains confidence in his/her ability to become really good at one intellectually demanding area, then that confidence makes him/her far better at rapidly acquiring knowledge from any other area than he/she would have gained from the shallow survey approach where a little is learned about a lot, but not much about anything.
KW - Education for real world problems
KW - Final year education
KW - Intellectual stimulation
KW - Specialization
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/33845288304
U2 - 10.1109/ITHET.2005.1560253
DO - 10.1109/ITHET.2005.1560253
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33845288304
SN - 0780391411
SN - 9780780391413
T3 - ITHET 2005: 6th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training, 2005
SP - T4A-12-T4A-17
BT - Proceedings - Thirteenth International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning, TIME 2006
T2 - ITHET 2005: 6th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training, 2005
Y2 - 7 July 2005 through 9 July 2005
ER -