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Undergraduate students in engineering face a future in which they will need more than just a solid technical background. In setting the goals for any system they are asked to design, they will be expected to interact 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 these skills.
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Jamieson, L.H., Oakes, W.C., Coyle, E.J. (2002). EPICS: Serving the Community Through Engineering Design Projects. In: Kenny, M.E., Simon, L.A.K., Kiley-Brabeck, K., Lerner, R.M. (eds) Learning to Serve. Outreach Scholarship, vol 7. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0885-4_19
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