Collection

CoED

Authors

Bahaa Ansaf; Neb Jaksic

thinking re-quired of them in future courses. At sophomore, junior and senior levels, courses were selected toemphasize critical thinking and professional ethics. The students were encouraged to use criticalthinking skills to analyze requirements and constraints which would apply for advanced real-worldproblems. Significant improvement in the critical thinking skills of students has been achievedthrough this sequence.An integrated thinking approach is adopted by Katz [3] to bridge the educational gap betweenanalytical and design thinking for mechanical engineering students. The suggested approach isimplemented by reforming science engineering courses by stressing the physical interpretationof mathematical derivations to analyze and design simple