Resumen de Educating engineers for the near tomorrow
Dirk Schaefer, Jitesh H. Panchal, J. Lane Thames, Sammy Haroon, Farrokh Mistree
In this paper, we present an educational approach to facilitate Learning how to Learn, that is, to equip our students withcompetencies needed to become lifelong learners and succeed in the job market of the near tomorrow. Our approach is anchored in educational and instructional theory and closely tied to current professional practice. The approach is implemented in a graduatelevel engineering design course that is offered in a distributed collaborative distance learning setting.
