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Hynes, Morgan; Swenson, Jessica – Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research, 2013
Mathematics and science knowledge/skills are most commonly associated with engineering's pre-requisite knowledge. Our goals in this paper are to argue for a more systematic inclusion of social science and humanities knowledge in the introduction of engineering to K-12 students. As part of this argument, we present a construct for framing the…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Student Attitudes, Humanities, Social Sciences
Porush, David; Benzon, William – ADE Bulletin, 1983
Defends the role of humanities instruction in the education of engineering undergraduates in the areas of problem solving, risk taking, and the synthesis of metaphors and symbols. (AEA)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Design, Decision Making, Engineering Education