Intersections of Humanities and Engineering: Experiments in Engineering Specific Humanities Electives and Pedagogies

作者：Alan Chong, Lydia Wilkinson, Deborah Tihanyi · 年份：2020 · DOI：10.18260/1-2--20694 · 被引用次数：14 · 研究领域：Cognitive Science and Education Research、Empathy and Medical Education、Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration

Abstract Intersections of Humanities and Engineering: Experiments in Engineering Specific HumanitiesElectives and PedagogiesA significant amount of research, as well as with the 2000 ABET requirements, has acknowledged theimportance of a broad-based, liberal education for engineering students’ critical reading and thinkingabilities. Yet the question of how to integrate that education into already bursting engineering curricularemains a challenge. For engineering students, many of whom still define themselves in opposition tothe “artsies” residing on the other side of campus, the opportunity to take a humanities elective inanother program is often fraught with anxieties about academic expectations, unfamiliar pedagogicalapproaches, and engineering vs. arts student stereotypes. In some universities, engineering students arealso given lower priority in registering for humanities courses, making selection of desired subjects andcourses even more challenging.At the Univ. of [name redacted], the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering has taken analternative approach to these challenges by developing in-house humanities and school scienceelectives designed specifically to appeal to engineering students. The courses operate at theintersections between humanities and engineering, and are staffed by faculty members from theEngineering Communication Program (ECP). Although the ECP’s main responsibility is to teachcommunication skills to engineering students, their faculty’s diverse ...