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Special session: utopia university - building a roadmap for educating the next millennium's engineers

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Lindsay, Euan
Cheville, A.
Benson, L.
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2009
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Lindsay, Euan and Cheville, Alan and Benson, Lisa. 2009. Special session: utopia university - buillding a roadmap for educating the next millennium's Engineers, in Froyd, J. (ed), 39th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Oct 18 2009, San Antonio, Texas: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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FIE09: Imagining and Engineering Future CSET Education
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39th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference
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Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Ailing multibillionaire P. Oscar Utopia wishes to endow a university in honor of Rose B. Utopia, his beloved wife and long-practicing engineer. He will be at FIE to draw upon the expertise of our community to design the master plan for a university of the next millennium, unburdened by the assumptions of the present and the past. Conference attendees who subscribe to Utopia's vision are encouraged to participate in this workshop, challenge the assumptions inherent to the current practice, and brainstorm a plan for educating the engineer of 3030. During this session, we will identify and challenge assumptions that are inherent to the current practice of how we educate engineers. Participants will engage in a series of rapid planning sessions based on the “what if” scenario of being able to establish a new engineering schoolunfettered by standard constraints of money, facilities,or current educational practice.