Holistic Engineering: A Concept Exploration in a Cross-Disciplinary Project Course Experience
Holistic Engineering: A Concept Exploration in a Cross-Disciplinary Project Course Experience
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整体工程：跨学科项目课程体验中的概念探索
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2020
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通讯作者：
Abhik Roy
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作者：
V. Pyrialakou;Kakan C. Dey;D. Martinelli;John A. Deskins;J. Fraustino;L. Plein;Md Tawhidur Rahman;Karen E. Rambo;Abhik Roy
整体工程是一种接近工程专业的方法，而不是一种工程学科，如土木工程、电气工程或机械工程。它的灵感来自于意识到传统工程学在解决问题的技能方面没有充分利用专业技能。整体工程要求工程师向外看，超越数学和科学领域，寻找整个问题的解决方案。虽然工程学毕业生在工程专业的技术方面做好了充分的准备，但他们缺乏非技术性的专业技能(例如，战略沟通、从社会科学角度看待工程问题等)，无法帮助他们思考当前复杂的工程重大挑战带来的各种社会方面。在这篇文章中，我们回顾了整体工程的概念和起源，并介绍了这个概念在作为国家科学基金(NSF)资助一部分开发的整体工程项目课程(HEPC)中的应用。HEPC的开发方式是，工程专业的学生与社会科学专业的学生合作，解决复杂的、开放式的工程学重大挑战问题。我们假设，这样的合作可以显著改善全面、有效的工程师的专业形成。论文还借鉴了该课程的经验教训，该课程于2020年春季学期在沃兹沃斯土木与环境工程系与约翰·钱伯斯经济系和西弗吉尼亚大学里德媒体学院合作开设，题为《技术创新：工程、经济学和公共关系》。
Holistic engineering is an approach to the engineering profession, rather than an engineering discipline such as civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering. It is inspired by the realization that traditional engineering does not adequately harness professional skills in its problem-solving repertoire. Holistic engineering asks engineers to look outward, beyond the fields of math and science, in search of solutions to entire problems. While engineering graduates are well prepared in the technical aspects of the engineering profession, they lack non-technical professional skills (e.g., strategic communication, social science perspective of engineering problems, and others) that can help them think through diverse social aspects posed by current complex engineering grand challenges. In this paper, we review the concept and origins of holistic engineering and we present an application of this concept in a Holistic Engineering Project Course (HEPC) developed as part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant. HEPC is developed in such a way that engineering students work with social science students on a complex and open-ended engineering grand challenge problem. We hypothesize that such collaborations can significantly improve the professional formation of well-rounded, and effective engineers. The paper also draws lessons learned from the first offering of the course, titled Technology Innovations: Engineering, Economics, and Public Relations, which was offered in the spring semester of 2020 in the Wadsworth Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in coordination with the John Chambers Department of Economics and the Reed College of Media in West Virginia University.
开发全面的跨学科项目课程经验作为工程师专业培养的研究平台
DOI：
10.18260/1-2--34446
发表时间：
2020
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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference & Exposition
影响因子：
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作者：
Dey, K.;Rahman, M.T.;Pyrialakou, V. D.;Martinelli, D.;Rambo-Hernandez, K.;Fraustino, J. D.;Deskins, J.;Plein, L. C.;Roy, A. R.
通讯作者：
Roy, A. R.