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4 Trends in Undergraduate and Graduate Engineering Education
Pages 15-19

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... An open discussion moderated by David Walt followed the three presentations. A NOVEL APPROACH TO ENGINEERING EDUCATION For more than 500 years, said Richard Miller, an unquestioned assumption has been that the more a person knows, the better that person's life will be.
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From page 16...
... "It was later that we discovered the field of aeronautics," said Miller. He closed with his favorite quotation, from Charles Vest, former president of the NAE, who said, "Making universities and engineering schools exciting, creative, adventurous, rigorous, demanding, and empowering milieus is more important than specifying curricular details." A NEW APPROACH TO DOCTORAL EDUCATION To begin her presentation, Katherine Banks said that everything Miller spoke about with regard to undergraduate education should also occur at the graduate level.
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From page 17...
... As a final thought, Banks reiterated Miller's call to increase the focus on entrepreneurship in graduate engineering education, to allow students to focus on creation rather than just directed research on a specific topic. This idea is quite popular with graduate students at Texas A&M, she said, with the extra unintended benefit of increasing interactions between graduate students and engineering undergraduates.
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From page 18...
... Cangellaris also reiterated Banks's comment that education today might actually be suffocating creativity and stifling the ability to think about "weird things." What is needed, he said, is a system that encourages students to think about doing the impossible and to do the impossible in areas that matter to people who come from different backgrounds and geographic regions. As an example, he cited the Illinois Cancer Scholars program, which takes freshman engineering students who say they want to be engineers to cure cancer, assembles them into a cohort, and from the beginning of their time at the University of Illinois, gives them the opportunity to immerse themselves in oncology as well as their specific engineering disciplines.
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From page 19...
... Miller added that the infusion of design into engineering will require new metrics for evaluating both faculty and student performance. At his institution, faculty voted unanimously to revamp the reward system by doing away with the three traditional distinct performance areas -- teaching, research, and service -- and creating new categories that better reflect the overlap between building student success, building the institution, and producing nationally visible achievement.
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