Story Telling as an Effective Mean for Stimulating Students' Passion in Engineering Classes

Storytelling was employed as a powerful tool in stimulating students' interest in the classroom of a sophomore level course in engineering design. Over two years, students’ assessment of the methodology was obtained through a survey that incorporated students that have and not have taken the course. The outcome of students’ satisfaction and support of telling stories by the instructor was overwhelming among both groups of students. The impact was not targeted towards just creating passion in the classroom, but the active participation and reflection on the stories was sought to lead to ethical values pedagogy. To gain multi-cultural awareness and global experience, stories from international magazines were addressed along with the instructor’s experience in higher education (abroad) and consultancy in international companies.