文档介绍：Global Congress on Engineering Education © 1998 UICEE
Cracow, Poland, 6 - 11 September, 1998
Introducing freshmen students hands-on experience in engineering design
Erol İnelmen
Boğaziçi University
Bebek, İstanbul, Turkey
ABSTRACT: Educational methods applying the traditional disciplinary boundaries are not adequate anymore to solve the industrial expectations of today. The mendations on engineering education suggested by various researchers and reported in this paper, were implemented by the author in an introductory course for freshmen students and the findings are reported in this paper. The power of person-to-person contact with the students and the synergetics between peers is evident: an environment where students work by doing research together with the academic staff, provide the new will-be-graduates with the skills needed to cope with the changes we are expecting to face in ing century.
INTRODUCTION
This paper describes the experience gained by the author since 1967 -when started as an instructor in the university he is currently affiliated- while teaching engineering at the undergraduate level. At the start of his career author came across with the American Society for Engineering Education report on the “Characteristics of Excellence in Engineering Technology Education” published in the year 1962, where the need to “interrelate the material covered in variou