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The Synthesis of Computers, Communication and Engineering Education
Author(s) -
Arden Bruce W.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of engineering education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.896
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 2168-9830
pISSN - 1069-4730
DOI - 10.1002/j.2168-9830.1994.tb00114.x
Subject(s) - intuition , component (thermodynamics) , engineering education , engineering design process , computer science , inclusion (mineral) , engineering ethics , engineering management , software engineering , engineering , psychology , mechanical engineering , social psychology , physics , thermodynamics , cognitive science
The use of computers for simulation and modeling is already being added to science, analysis, and experimentation as a fourth basic component of engineering education. This inclusion is driven by engineering practice where computer use is pervasive for many purposes, including the use of complex design programs which have been created by specialists. The fact that such designers can support a large clientele by means of computer produced designs raises the question of how the larger number of future engineers, the users of such programs, should be educated. The educational challenge is to broadly educate these engineers in several aspects of engineering and computing without sacrificing the development of physical intuition and design judgment, which are the essence of engineering.