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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elliot Douglas, University of Florida

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2009-139: THE PRACTICE OF CRITICAL THINKING AMONGENGINEERING STUDENTSElliot Douglas, University of Florida Elliot P. Douglas is Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. His educational research interests include qualitative methods, critical thinking, and active learning in the engineering classroom. Page 14.1240.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 The Practice of Critical Thinking Among Engineering StudentsKeywords: critical thinking, qualitative, constructivismAbstractCritical thinking is generally recognized as an important skill, and one that is a primary goal

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History of Aerospace Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Eberhardt, Boeing Company; Narayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Aerospace

into otheruniversities. It was decided to focus on those universities that already had fledglingaeronautics programsviii. The first endowments after NYU went to west coast schools,Stanford and Caltech. It was believed that assisting programs in the West would helpfoster aeronautical education in that region. The recent Nobel Laureate, Dr. RobertMillikan convinced Harry Guggenheim to fund Caltech because of its excellentreputation in physics and its proximity to some major aircraft companies, most notablythe Douglas Aircraft Company. The Caltech proposal was for $500,000 but was fundedat $305,000. One of the most notable accomplishments was luring Theodore VonKarman from Aachen, Germany to head the new Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory atthe