The power of perspective dialogue: Unlocking transformative reflection in engineering education

Engineers need to be socially responsible, ethically aware and deliver positive contributions to the wicked problems² of today's global challenges. In navigating these challenges, being able to reflect is a necessary prerequisite. But if we simply ask students reflective questions, they tend to give us mostly socially desirable...

Cross curricular Comparison of Professional Capabilities in Engineering Education

In this paper we studied the student’s perception of the acquisition of professional capabilities in Challenge based learning environments with a strong reflective component.<br/>The results show students feel the relevance of personnel development from the very moment the enter their master studies. However, they only truly acquire all the...

Design requirements to educate and facilitate junior design professionals to reflect more effectively on critical situations and conflicts at work

Junior designers are not trained to cope with critical situations and conflict at work. Most design schools do not educate their design students to prepare them for (potential) conflict. As a result, junior designers often do not have conflict-handling skills to handle critical situations and conflicts. While some tools and methods exist to...