Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Rashmi Jain; Keith Sheppard; Elisabeth McGrath; Bernard Gallois

undergraduates. Nevertheless, itwas felt that starting to introduce systems approaches early and reinforcing them with appropriateapplications would be beneficial in building the systems perspective, even though the true realization oftheir significance might not become really apparent until students were out in the business world. Thatsaid, approximately 40% of engineering undergraduates at Stevens participate in Cooperative Educationand most of the remainder have multiple industrial summer internship experiences prior to graduation –providing at least some real-world context for systems pedagogy.In the summer of 2005, two of the authors (Jain & Gallois) lead the development of the first pilot stage ofintroducing a systems thread into the core