Studies of Expert Engineers Show Us Why Engineering Education Needs to Change
Misunderstandings about what it means to be an engineer are outlined in James Trevelyan’s “The Making of an Expert Engineer”— a book based on extensive studies of several hundred engineers in four countries, several of them true experts in their own domains.
An unfortunate reality exposed by this research is that engineering education has become almost completely divorced from practice:
The separation of practice from the curriculum allows students to develop many misunderstandings, partly because real stories about practice are absent, and partly because of myths that are repeated without being questioned or critically examined.
Learn more about these misconceptions, here.