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A Learning Experience: The Technology Innovation Program
Author(s) -
Jackson Barrie,
Gordon John R. M.,
Chisholm James D.
Publication year - 1996
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.2168-9830.1996.tb00250.x
Subject(s) - curriculum , bridge (graph theory) , work (physics) , discipline , engineering , engineering education , engineering management , management , engineering ethics , pedagogy , psychology , sociology , mechanical engineering , medicine , social science , economics
The Technology Innovation Program (TIP) is a cooperative educational venture between the Department of Chemical Engineering and the School of Business at Queen's University at Kingston, Canada. First incorporated into the curriculum of senior year business and chemical engineering students in the 1994–1995 school year, TIP provides an invaluable opportunity for these students to work together in multi‐disciplinary teams on real projects for industry clients. An academically rigorous exercise, TIP uses non‐traditional instructional means such as problem‐based learning, multi‐disciplinary teams, and self‐directed project work to create a learning environment paralleling that of the professional engineer or business person. Although it is still evolving, the Technology Innovation Program provides a model for other educational ventures seeking to bridge engineering and business, and to establish valuable links between the university and industry, while simultaneously easing the graduating student's transition into the workplace.