Best teaching practices in database courses for engineering students

• Autores: A. Zeid, S. Kamarthi
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 24, no. Extra 5, 2008, págs. 980-989
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The National Academy of Sciences recommends adapting engineering education to the new century. One of its recommendations is that engineering schools introduce interdisciplinary learning at the undergraduate level. An area that lends itself well to interdisciplinary learning is information technology (IT). Sample IT courses are Computers and Information Systems and Databases. Teaching IT courses to engineering students is more challenging than traditional engineering. Here we focus on teaching a database course in a mechanical and industrial engineering curriculum, and on the best practices to teach such a course. We make a threefold contribution. First, we discuss the obstacles to teaching IT courses in engineering. Second, we provide a model to teach database courses to engineering students. Third, we offer a blueprint to engineering educators who are interested in or thinking about introducing such courses in their curricula.