Tuesday, November 20, 2012

IB6


Alright, so I'll just be going back to my original topic for this paper - that is the discrepancies between the work of engineers and doctors. The issue in this way is that, as a mentioned in my first paper, that collaboration begins as early as pre-college education - where efforts in the United States to increase the emphasis on teaching STEM in primary and high schools throughout the country. Not only is there an issue with college and higher education students changing their majors or simply dropping out of their programs in a STEM related field, but as I did mention, it does start long before the decision to even explore the fact of college.

Many of the stakeholders should understand that the issue does stand moreso in the continued education to intertwine the two fields effortlessly. It sands by the doctors in their patients and the education to evade certain conditions, but more importantly between doctors and engineers in understanding their purpose in aiding one another.

In our schools, we're taught facts about sciences, histories, but optionally we're taught machinery and the things that are pushing society forward - especially in terms of medicine. But, whether or not students decide to invest in STEM majors, the jargon of both fields - medicine and engineering - should be considered in teaching so that the disconnect is avoided further on down the line. A great way to alleviate the issue is to consider that students are almost literally thrown into fields that matter the most to the society their tailored to, and curriculum, as it has shown seem to glorify or leave out important details such as current events in the field or immersion.

2 comments:

  1. Lars, I think your first paper topic is a good topic for this project. How you plan to approach it will be critical. But I think this could be a really interesting topic to discuss. Your question that your challenging is how schools are teaching kids about science? Or is it how STEM is taught?

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  2. Dear Lars,
    I am happy that you are going back to your original topic for I did not get to read any of your last paper. I completely agree with what you are saying that pre-college programs assist in realizing what you want to do. In my case, I had none of these engineering or medicine classes available to me. However, I had music so I was sure I was going to be a music performance major but then as it became a reality at ASU I realized that engineering was what I wanted by the spur of the moment, and I WISH I had realized it earlier. So the problem in your Paper 3 assignment will be that not enough of these programs are in schools, and our solution is to get some instilled both medical and engineering related in High Schools in Arizona maybe through ASU. That would be an awesome proposal paper! If you want you can even use my instance as proof and I can tell you more about it in detail if youd like to use it in your paper.

    Hope I helped!
    -Joana Sipe

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