Conference Session

Systems Engineering Pedagogy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas H. Bradley, Colorado State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

oftechnical content. In CSU’s SE curriculum, the student is expected to develop deep expertise incomplicated and mathematical subjects (defined in the INCOSE SE Handbook as technicalprocesses), as well as in qualitative analysis and soft-skills (defined in the INCOSE SEHandbook as project, enterprise, and agreement processes)16. Research indicates that inmathematical disciplines, teaching activities are more focused and instructive, with the primaryemphasis being on the teacher informing the student. In contrast, teaching and learning activitiesin “soft” disciplines tend to be more constructive, and reflective17,18,19. We had hypothesized thatthis effect would realize itself in the SE program in that more technical process-derived courseswould have