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Introduction and Motivation

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The purpose of engineering education is to provide the learning required by students to become successful engineers—technical expertise, social awareness, and a bias toward innovation. This combined set of knowledge, skills, and attitudes is essential to strengthening productivity, entrepreneurship, and excellence in an environment that is increasingly based on technologically complex and sustainable products, processes, and systems. It is imperative that we improve the quality and nature of undergraduate engineering education.

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  1. Aeronautics and Astronautics, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow Oblast, Russia

    Edward F. Crawley

  2. Product and Production Development, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Johan Malmqvist

  3. Department of Solid Mechanics, KTH—Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Sören Östlund

  4. Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Doris R. Brodeur

  5. Education and Communication in Engineering Sciences, KTH—Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Kristina Edström

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Crawley, E.F., Malmqvist, J., Östlund, S., Brodeur, D.R., Edström, K. (2014). Introduction and Motivation. In: Rethinking Engineering Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05561-9_1

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