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

Tagged Divisions

Council of Sections

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 engineering curriculum2. The vehicle for this thread was to bethe core design