Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rashmi Jain, Stevens Institute of Technology; Keith Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology; Elisabeth McGrath, Stevens Institute of Technology; Bernard Gallois, Stevens Institute of Technology

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is one dominated by systems. In order to better prepare graduates with asystems perspective and the competencies to be effective in system design, we discuss initiatives topromote the development of systems thinking, both in undergraduate and K-12 communities. This paperdescribes vertically-integrated curriculum innovation, in which graduate-level coursework spawned apilot program to embed systems in a core engineering design course for undergraduates with its resultingadoption and extension to a core design thread, and a resulting high school curriculum development anddissemination effort which has followed. These efforts have also prompted educational research todevelop the academic underpinnings of the relatively under-developed scholarly