ABSTRACT

Undergraduate students in engineering face a future in which they need more than just a solid technical background (ASEE 1994; Dahir 1993; Valenti 1996). In setting the goals for any system they are asked to design, they will be expected to communicate and work effectively with people of widely varying social and educational backgrounds. They will then be expected to work with people of many different technical backgrounds to achieve these goals. They thus need educational experiences that can help them develop the skills required by such expectations.