Promoting interdisciplinarity in engineering teaching

Interdisciplinarity in Engineering Research and Learning

Disciplines are distinguished partly for historical reasons and reasons of administrative convenience (such as the organization of teaching and appointments) and partly because the theories which we construct to solve our problems have a tendency to grow into unified systems. But all this classification and distinction is a comparatively unimportant and superficial affair. We are not students o...

Innovative teaching methods in Engineering

Second, structures, practices and methodologies of the current educational systems are not suitable enough to support the learning needs of the Knowledge Society. During the latter half of the past century, international thinking about education began to shift to a new paradigm. This shift was driven by an awareness of massive and on-going social, economic and technological changes, and the exp...

Teaching Engineering Ethics

There is general agreement that engineering students should receive ethics instruction as a part of their undergraduate education. However, there are diverse opinions on how engineering ethics instruction should be carried out. Philosophy of ethics, the original approach, emphasizes normative ideals and abstract principles. The new case studies approach focuses on a number of real and hypotheti...

Interdisciplinarity in Osteogenesis Imperfecta

Teaching Security Engineering Principles

The design and construction of secure systems cannot be entirely captured in textbooks or class notes, but must be taught as an art which is learned through apprenticeship and practice. This paper describes a course in Secure Systems that uses the Flaw Hypothesis Methodology for penetration testing as a vehicle for motivating and teaching students fundamental principles of security