Tuesday, February 14, 2012
How my engineering field incorporates critical thinking
My engineering field does a really good job of incorporating critical thinking. Many of the times, the professor only gives a simple explanation of a problem in class, requiring us to figure out the more complex homework problems ourselves. This requires a lot of critical thinking on our part. Also, the hands-on projects also require us to apply our learning to real-life problems. This requires us to critically analyze these problems and relate what we learned in class to solving them. I feel like my engineering classes could do more though in this respect; however, this could just be due to the fact that I am only in introductory classes at this point.
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I agree, I feel that to be successful in engineering, one must carefully balance creative critical thinking processes with the technical and scientific factual knowledge that one must utilize for every problem.
ReplyDeleteI find that having homework problems that are nothing like what we learned in class is valuable. However, while this process may develop critical thinking to some degree, sometimes a little more direction from the teacher is even more useful.
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