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Improving Systems Thinking Skills Of Second Year Engineering Students By An Introductory Project

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  • Aharon Gero

    (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)

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In 2011, the course Introductory Project in Electrical Engineering took place for the first time at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. The course was devised to expose sophomore students to the discipline of electrical engineering and improve their systems thinking skills. The core of the course was a design project of a window cleaning robot. This task was carried out by teams of five students, with personal instruction by a mentor, a senior engineer in the Department. The present research, which used quantitative tools alongside qualitative ones, indicates significant improvement in systems thinking skills of students who took the course.

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  • Aharon Gero, 2014. "Improving Systems Thinking Skills Of Second Year Engineering Students By An Introductory Project," Balkan Region Conference on Engineering and Business Education, Sciendo, vol. 1(1), pages 95-98, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:brcebe:v:1:y:2014:i:1:p:95-98:n:20
    DOI: 10.2478/cplbu-2014-0020
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    1. Moti Frank & David Elata, 2005. "Developing the capacity for engineering systems thinking (CEST) of freshman engineering students," Systems Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 8(2), pages 187-195.
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