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Cultivating Generic Capabilities To Develop Future Engineers: An Examination Of 1st Year Interdisciplinary Engineering Projects At The University Of Sydney, M West, Judy A. Raper
Cultivating Generic Capabilities To Develop Future Engineers: An Examination Of 1st Year Interdisciplinary Engineering Projects At The University Of Sydney, M West, Judy A. Raper
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Looking towards the future it was commented in 1994 that the professional engineer of the twenty-first century will require a degree of flexibility and a technical skills base difficult to imagine at this time. The educational system must be responsive to that need. From this response has emerged a collection of generic attributes and capabilities that are desired of graduates upon completion of their undergraduate engineering degrees. This paper examines some of the ways in which the Advanced Engineering Program at the University of Sydney and particularly the Interdisciplinary Projects undertaken in the first year foster some of these attributes …