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Integrated Curriculum Design

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We have now reached a transition point in our discussion. In Chap. 2, we posed the two central questions that any approach to improving engineering education must address

This chapter is written with the support of authors Svante Gunnarsson und Göran Gustafsson.

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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). Integrated Curriculum Design. In: Rethinking Engineering Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05561-9_4

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