Abstract According to the National Academy of Engineering, the messages we have
designed for younger children try to convince them that math and science are easy and fun; …

Over the last decade, there has been an increased focus on developing critical thinking (CT)
skills within the engineering curriculum. Typically, the practice of CT occurs fragmentarily in …

Critical thinking is considered a necessary learning outcome for all college students and
essential for academic and career success. There are many challenges to developing a …

Critical thinking extends to all aspects of professional engineering, especially in technical
development, and, since the introduction of the ABET 2000 criteria, there has been an …

Critical thinking is generally recognized as an important skill, and one that is a primary goal
of higher education. However, there is surprisingly little in the literature regarding critical …

The experts in pedagogical and curriculum development such as John Heywood and others
have advocated that the liberating element of liberal studies are vocational elements of …

Abstract According to the Washington Accord, skills to solve complex problems in
engineering are important in the curriculum of engineering education. To fulfill the …

Abstract The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology in 2000 revised
accreditation criteria to require program assessment according to eleven outcomes that all …

The purpose of this chapter is to present a student-centered view of learning that derives
from the philosophy of John Dewey. Dewey's pragmatism is less important to this discussion …

In this research-to-practice full paper, the results of an approach for transforming topic ideas
into questions for developing research questions are presented. The first step in developing …