Open AccessThe Elephant and the Mouse: making a large department feel small and a small department feel large
Author(s) -
Andrew Trivett
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
proceedings of the ... ceea conference
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2371-5243
DOI - 10.24908/pceea.v0i0.10689
Subject(s) - quarter (canadian coin) , accreditation , medical education , cohort , engineering education , academic department , class (philosophy) , psychology , mathematics education , higher education , engineering , medicine , geography , engineering management , political science , computer science , archaeology , law , artificial intelligence
Engineering Education in Canada is carried out at 44 currently accredited university programs. Collectively, the system graduates more than 12,000 new engineers each year. One quarter of those students study at a large schools having more than 1000 students in each yearly cohort. Many more study in medium-sized classes having more than 300 students each year. There also campuses where an engineering class is fewer than 30 students. How does the student experience differ from the opposite ends of this size spectrum?