ERIC Number: EJ1010982
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 10
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Teaching Problem Solving: Don't Forget the Problem Solver(s)
Ranade, Saidas
M.; Corrales, Angela
European Journal of Engineering Education, v38 n2 p131-140 2013
The importance of intrapersonal and interpersonal intelligences has long been known but educators have debated whether to and how to incorporate those topics in an already crowded engineering curriculum. In 2010, the authors used the classroom as a laboratory to observe the usefulness of including selected case studies and exercises from the fields of neurology, artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences and social psychology in a new problem-solving course. To further validate their initial findings, in 2012, the authors conducted an online survey of engineering students and engineers. The main conclusion is that engineering students will benefit from learning more about the impact of emotions, culture, diversity and cognitive biases when solving problems. Specifically, the work shows that an augmented problem-solving curriculum needs to include lessons on labelling emotions and cognitive biases, "evidence-based" data on the importance of culture and diversity and additional practice on estimating conditional probability. (Contains 3 figures.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Design, Case Studies, Problem Solving, Cognitive Science, Online Surveys, College Students, Engineering Education, Cultural Pluralism, Probability, Data, Emotional Response
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Colombia
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