Conference Session

Tools of the Trade

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Niewoehner, U.S. Naval Academy; Craig Steidle, US Naval Academy; Eric Johnson, US Naval Academy

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

. We need a definition of Critical Thinking. Several would serve our purposes, but we areparticularly fond of David Moore’s: “Critical Thinking is a deliberate meta-cognitive (thinking about thinking) and cognitive (thinking) act whereby a person reflects on the quality of the reasoning process simultaneously while reasoning to a conclusion. The thinker has two equally important goals: coming to a solution and improving the way she or he reasons.”8[italics in original]The metacognitive piece of Moore’s definition is vital. If we consider many technical systemstoday, such as an airplane, the health of the aircraft’s systems are constantly monitored. Theflight control computers do not simply process the next surface

Conference Session

New Trends in Engineering Management Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Galloway, The Nielsen-Wurster Group, Inc

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

exam. It may also be possible for distance learning programs and corporate and government agency educational programs to substitute for traditional academic paths beyond the baccalaureate…. The Society hopes that the report will lead to a revision of current undergraduate and graduate programs to reflect the basic skills, knowledge, and attitudes that will be expected of professional civil engineers and that eventually new programs will be developed.ASCE continues its work on the Body of Knowledge and released a draft of the second edition in2007.8 The key differences between the first and second editions focus on the aspirational visionfor civil engineering, an increase in the number of outcomes and a more