Integrating Industrial Experience into the Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum Using Case Studies
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A case study on the design and implementation of a program to use case studies to integrate engineering practice across the Engineering curriculum at the University of Waterloo is presented. A key innovation of this program is the generation of case studies directly from student experience, via conversion of their co-op work term reports into case studies. The principles and practices used for this program are presented, along with a discussion of the successes and issues.
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