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Design Engineering as a Means to Enhance Student Learning in Addressing Complex Engineering Challenges

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The engineer of the future is required to embody a wealth of knowledge and expertise that encompasses an array of hard and soft skills. Future engineers would be faced with addressing global issues and challenges and in addition to this, future engineers would need to be emotionally intelligent, practicing empathy and being self-aware of their own and of societies needs while attempting to address these issues. It is also noted that regulatory requirements insist that engineering.

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    Satesh Namasivayam, Mohammad Hosseini Fouladi, Douglas Tong Kum Tien & Jayasubamani Arvi S. Moganakrishnan

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Namasivayam, S., Fouladi, M.H., Tien, D.T.K., Moganakrishnan, J.A.S. (2019). Design Engineering as a Means to Enhance Student Learning in Addressing Complex Engineering Challenges. In: Schaefer, D., Coates, G., Eckert, C. (eds) Design Education Today. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17134-6_11

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