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How can engineering enhance the education of non-STEM students

How can engineering enhance the education of non-STEM students. Nathan R. Huntoon, Ph.D. Director Innovation Gymnasium Lyle School of Engineering Southern Methodist University. Texas Academy of Science Symposium St. Edwards University March 4 th , 2011. “How can. the humanities.

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How can engineering enhance the education of non-STEM students

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  1. How can engineering enhance the education of non-STEM students Nathan R. Huntoon, Ph.D. Director Innovation Gymnasium Lyle School of Engineering Southern Methodist University Texas Academy of Science Symposium St. Edwards University March 4th, 2011

  2. “How can the humanities engineering enrich the experience of a non- STEM student?”

  3. “College should produce well rounded individuals” • Humanities class teach interpretation analysis, i.e. how to think

  4. “College should produce well rounded individuals” • Humanities class teach interpretation and analysis, i.e. how to think • Developing new ideas requires creativity and imagination

  5. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,If all men count with you, but none too much;If you can fill the unforgiving minuteWith sixty seconds' worth of distance run,Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! RUDYARD KIPLING

  6. “How can engineering enrich the experience of a non- STEM student?”

  7. “College should produce well rounded individuals” • Humanities class teach interpretation and analysis, i.e. how to think • Developing new ideas requires creativity and imagination

  8. “College should produce well rounded individuals” • Humanities classes teach interpretation and analysis,STEM classes teach abstraction and observation, i.e. how to think • Developing new ideas requires creativity and imagination

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  10. “College should produce well rounded individuals” • Humanities classes teach interpretation and analysis,STEM classes teach abstraction and observation, i.e. how to think • Developing new ideas requires creativity and imagination

  11. “College should produce well rounded individuals” • Humanities classes teach interpretation and analysis,STEM classes teach abstraction and observation, i.e. how to think • Developing new ideas requires creativity and imagination Understanding the human condition requires analysis and synthesis

  12. Let’s look at some specific engineering curriculum activities

  13. Engineering ≠ Math

  14. Engineering ≠ Tool Use

  15. Engineering = Problem Solving The act of engineering design is taking ill-defined problems and generating well defined solutions “Develop commercial applications for military UAVs”

  16. Engineering =Data Synthesis

  17. Engineering =Methodical thinking

  18. Engineering =Teamwork

  19. Engineering = Creativity

  20. Problem Solving • Data Synthesis • Methodical Thinking • Teamwork

  21. Imaginative Creative • Analytical • Logical

  22. The goal of any education should be the development of the whole brain Imaginative Creative • Analytical • Logical

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