Goldberg, David E. (2008) What Engineers Donʼt Learn and Why They Don Learn It: and How Philosophy Might Be Able to Help. [Preprint]

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This paper presented at WPE-2008 uses an industrial-based senior design as an opportunity to understand what what students don't learn in a fairly traditional cold war engineering curriculum. The paper identifies seven deficient skills: questioning, labeling, qualitative modeling, decomposing, visualizing/ideation, empirical testing, and communicating. The talk also identifies five reasons why engineers don't learn these things, and philosophy plays a prominent role in recifying the problem by aiding in providing conceptual clarity and offering alternative models of rigor.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Goldberg, David E.
Keywords:	qualitative thinking, category error, engineering epistemology, scalability
Subjects:	General Issues > Science Education
Depositing User:	David E. Goldberg
Date Deposited:	23 Mar 2009
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2010 15:17
Item ID:	4531
Subjects:	General Issues > Science Education
Date:	November 2008
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/4531

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