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Holistic Engineering Education
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The article was published on 2010-01-01. It has received 90 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Engineering education.read more
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A Model of Empathy in Engineering as a Core Skill, Practice Orientation, and Professional Way of Being
Abstract: Background
Engineers are increasingly being asked to empathically engage with a broad range of stakeholders. Current efforts to educate empathic engineers, however, are hindered by the lack of a conceptually cohesive understanding of, and language for, applying empathy to engineering. Prior studies have suggested that research informed by long-standing traditions in other fields may provide the rigor, conceptual clarity, and expertise necessary to theoretically ground the education and practice of empathy in technical disciplines.
Purpose
This study examined three research questions: What are current understandings of empathy in engineering and engineering education? How do these understandings compare with conceptions of empathy in social work, a professional discipline that defines empathy as a core skill and orientation of its practitioners? What can engineering educators learn from social work to inform the education of empathic engineers?
Scope/Method
This article presents the findings from a sustained, four-year, interdisciplinary dialogue between engineering education and social work education researchers. This effort included an examination of productive tensions and similarities between the two fields, a critical synthesis of the literature on empathy in each discipline, and the development of a context-appropriate model for empathy in engineering.
Conclusions
We propose a model of empathy in engineering as a teachable and learnable skill, a practice orientation, and a professional way of being. Expanding conceptions of empathy in social work, this model additionally emphasizes mode switching and a commitment to values pluralism.
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Benefits of educational games as an introductory activity in industrial engineering education
Lynceo Falavigna Braghirolli,José Luis Duarte Ribeiro,Andreas Dittmar Weise,Morgana Pizzolato +3 more
TL;DR: This study evaluates the use of educational games as an introductory activity in the first year of undergraduate degree programs in industrial engineering, and shows that this activity motivated students to participate and to better understand the course content.
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Rethinking engineering education
TL;DR: The necessity of restructuring engineering education has been recognized for many years, but for a number of reasons reform is becoming increasingly urgent as discussed by the authors, it is not just that current engineering education methods are increasingly obsolete; student cognitive patterns are changing in unpredictable ways, and the complexity of the environment within which engineering is practiced is also increasing dramatically.
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Empathy and care within engineering: qualitative perspectives from engineering faculty and practicing engineers
TL;DR: The authors investigate how empathy and care look within an engineering context from the perspective of existing literature (e.g., existing literature, engineering faculty, and practicing engineers) and conclude that conversations and awareness of these two constructs may not often be explicitly stated within the literature or frequently addre...
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Emerging learning environments in engineering education
Roger Hadgraft,Anette Kolmos +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, three major challenges, sustainability, the fourth industrial revolution, and employability, will require new types of engineering programs, to help students develop skills in cross-disciplinarity.