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Resumen de A review of outcome-based education and the use of engineering design competitions to improve underrepresented attributes

Roger Carrick, Aleksander Czekanski

  • Engineering as a profession is becoming increasingly complex and competitive. New technologies (advanced telecommu-nications and computer-aided engineering), and reduced barriers to international trade have allowed corporations to moveengineering activities into emerging economies. These factors have allowed corporations to ‘‘unlock’’ traditional forms oforganizational integration and undergraduate engineering programs in universities in these developing countries arequickly approaching the quality of programs in western countries, vastly increasing the pool of engineers from whichcompanies can draw. The reduced cost of operation in these emerging economies has put pressure on western countries toproduce engineers that can encourage companies to keep high quality, technical engineering jobs local, instead ofoutsourcing. This raises the question: what are the attributes of a high-quality engineer, and what changes to theengineering curriculum need to occur to emphasize these attributes? In this paper, we examined the history of modernengineering education and the push toward an outcome based evaluation of graduate skills. We identified which where themost important graduate outcomes in engineering practice, and outlined how engineering design project courses can beused to emphasize these attributes. Engineering design competitions were highlighted as an ideal source for projects whencoupled with the teaching techniques of problem based learning (PBL) and cooperative learning (CL).


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