Introductory Engineering Decision-Making: Guiding First-Year Students to Relativism in Software Design

Contribution: null A semester-long, open-ended design project was implemented to promote intellectual development of first-year students while reinforcing event-driven/procedural programming principles. This paper describes this approach, and an evaluation strategy using Perry’s model for intellectual development. The results show that students can reach the relativism stage of Perry’s model in their first year of studies. null Background: null...