INFUSING TECHNOLOGY INTO ENGINEERING EDUCATION

Technology is transforming science education. Likewise, it has the potential to bring transformative changes to engineering education. In this paper, we present a set of cutting-edge technologies we have developed as novel cognitive and design tools. We propose several mechanisms based on these tools that may help solve critical problems in design-based learning for engineering education. Our work focuses on the topic of energy and power in thermal systems, which is an important engineering field in the green economy.

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