Principal Investigator Susan Silbey
This study seeks to expand our previous work on engineering education with a carefully designed comparative study. We seek to develop a model that explains the impact of educational innovations in technical education. To produce any reliable model, however, requires that we look not only at new initiatives but at established programs as well. This study follow a cohort of students in three universities in Singapore from entry into college through graduation and beyond to trace the effects of innovative engineering and design education, comparing the student's performance, aspirations, and careers to those of comparable students in Singapore and the US. Comparison samples serve as controls for the innovations at newly established engineering programs in the US and Singapore. Is it possible to engineer education to produce extraordinary creativity?