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The Holistic Curriculum
Author(s) -
Shaeiwitz Joseph A.,
Whiting Wallace B.,
Turton Richard,
Bailie Richard C.
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.tb00129.x
Subject(s) - curriculum , teamwork , critical thinking , engineering , pedagogy , engineering education , engineering ethics , mathematics education , psychology , medical education , engineering management , management , medicine , economics
Abstract As with any well‐founded engineering program, the goal of the holistic curriculum is to prepare students to embark on a career in which their success is conditional on life‐long learning, critical thinking and decision making, teamwork, leadership, and commitment. Rather than assuming that these qualities will be instilled in our students as they travel through a well‐crafted sequence of challenging engineering courses, the faculty explicitly demands that these objectives be met by collaborating on courses, through coordinated design projects among as many as eight different courses and six different professors, and by continual assessment and improvement. Students are encouraged and required to teach other students concepts that they have mastered. While we are constantly changing, this culture existed in our department before any of the present faculty arrived, and we believe that it can be created in other departments.