The Problems
The present approach to engineering education is driving capable students away. We say to first year students, “You have studied physics, chemistry, mathematics, humanities and social sciences in high school and gained admission to our college. Now go away and study the same subjects for two more years. Then we’ll let you study engineering.”
The present curricula require students to learn in unconnected pieces, separate courses whose relationship to each other and to the engineering process are not explaiend until late in the undergraduate education.