Drawing the Connections Between Engineering Science and Engineering Practice

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  • Faith A. Morrison Michigan Technological University

Abstract

A need has emerged in the curriculum for more teamwork experience, for the development of better communication and critical thinking skills, and for the acquisition of specialized knowledge. A focus on the processes by which problems are solved has served our discipline well and can continue to serve us if in the classroom we make appropriate connections between fundamentals and engineering practice; the change implied need not require a wholesale revamping of the curriculum, nor of individual professors teaching styles. 

Author Biography

Faith A. Morrison, Michigan Technological University

Faith Morrison is Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Michigan Tech. where she has taught for 15 years. She is also the author of Understanding Rheology (Oxford. 2001). an undergraduate textbook on non-Newtonian flows. and is the undergraduate advisor for chemical engineering at Michigan Tech. Her research is in polymer rheology and viscoelastic phenomena. This paper is dedicated to Professor Philip W Morrison of Case Western Reserve University, who passed away in 2002.

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2005-04-01

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