Graham, J., & Welch, K. C., & Hieb, J. L., & McNamara, S. (2012, June), Critical Thinking in Electrical and Computer Engineering  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--21127

\bibitem{asee_peer_21127}
  Graham, J., \& Welch, K. C., \& Hieb, J. L., \& McNamara, S. (2012, June), \emph{Critical Thinking in Electrical and Computer Engineering}
  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas.
  10.18260/1-2--21127

James Graham, Karla Conn Welch, Jeffrey Lloyd Hieb, and Shamus McNamara.  "Critical Thinking in Electrical and Computer Engineering".  2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2012.  https://peer.asee.org/21127 Internet.  01 Jun, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_21127}
  James Graham, Karla Conn Welch, Jeffrey Lloyd Hieb, and Shamus McNamara.
  "Critical Thinking in Electrical and Computer Engineering".
  \emph{2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2012.
  https://peer.asee.org/21127 Internet.  01 Jun, 2024

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AB  -             Critical Thinking in Electrical and Computer EngineeringAbstractIn evaluating how the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) will meet therequirements of a recently launched, University-wide, quality enhancement program (QEP), ECEfaculty were questioned about the role of critical thinking in their teaching and in the professionof engineering. There was unanimous agreement that critical thinking is an importantrequirement to be successful within the engineering profession. However, at the present, criticalthinking is not an explicit component in course lectures, syllabi, or objectives, assuming instead,that students understand critical thinking and its role in the practice of engineering. In an effortto help students become better critical thinkers and appreciate the importance of its practicethroughout their education and careers, critical thinking and engineering reasoning will beincorporated in selected courses throughout the ECE curriculum.As part of the School of Engineering’s response to the University wide quality enhancementprogram (QEP) all incoming freshman are given explicit and implicit instruction in criticalthinking in Introduction to Engineering (XXXX XXX), a compulsory course for all freshmanengineering students. In XXXX XXX students are taught explicitly about critical thinking byusing the Paul-Elder model of critical thinking to define and operationalize critical thinking. Theinstruction is followed by explicit critical thinking exercises. Also during the course, several casestudies are presented where students learn about and explore the practice of engineering ingreater detail. Both the instructor’s discussion of case studies and related assignments includeimplicit and explicit critical thinking elements. The critical thinking instruction in XXXX XXXprepares students to embrace more elaborate critical thinking required of them in future,discipline specific, courses and begins associating critical thinking with the practice andprofession of engineering.At the sophomore level, the XXX XXX Network Analysis I and XXX XXX Logic Designcourses have been selected for critical thinking emphasis. Students will be encouraged to use thecritical thinking skills which were developed during XXXX XXX, to analyze requirements andconstraints which would apply in real-world design projects using the material covered in thesetwo courses. At the junior level, similar use of critical thinking will be applied in XXX XXXEmbedded Systems, which looks at the design and application of microcontroller systems. Atthe senior level, critical thinking skills will again be strengthened and assessed in the XXX XXXCapstone Design Course and the XXX XXX Professional Issues and Current Topics Seminar.The latter course emphasizes understanding of professional ethics and current topics in electricaland computer engineering. At the present, the instructors for XXX XXX are developingbenchmark data about critical thinking abilities, against which future students, having the fullexposure to critical thinking instruction, will be compared. A summary of this initial data will bepresented and discussed in the full paper.
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AU  - Karla Conn Welch
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