Josh Fischman: Does Engineering Education have to Change to Stem the Dropout Rate?
Josh Fischman of the Percolate blog reports from the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on the movement to re-evaluate engineering curricula to keep undergraduates from dropping out before finishing their programs.
Alarmed by the tendency of engineering programs to hemorrhage undergraduates, at a time when the White House has called for an additional million degrees in science, technology, engineering and math fields — known as STEM — education researchers... proposed ways to improve the numbers. At a symposium on engineering education, one group outlined a broad revamping of curriculum, while another proposed more modest changes to pedagogy.
