Bulleted Slide: Components of a Holistic Engineering Education
Caption:
- Vertical (in-depth) thinking
- Abstract learning
- Reductionism-fractionization
- Develop order
- Understand certainty
- Analysis
- Research
- Solve problems
- Develop ideas
- Independence
- Technological-scientific base
- Engineering science
- Lateral (functional) thinking
- Experiential learning
- Integration-connecting the parts
- Correlate chaos
- Handle ambiguity
- Synthesis
- Design / process / manufacture
- Formulate problems
- Implement ideas
- Teamwork
- Societal context
- Functional core of engineering
Background Collage for all slides: Converging Frontiers, Research and Education and Public Policy
Caption: An abstract graphic depicting these three themes includes an artistic perspective of a face illustrating a perspective from the eye to graphs, numbers and equations. With a grid in the background and colors of red, orange and yellow, the entire slide is illuminated to depict modern technology and its thought process.
Source: NSF, Sara Raimo
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