Open-ended teaching methods bring a work place atmosphere into the classroom

Abstract

Industries have complained about poorly trained engineering graduates. The demand for higher qualified graduates is due to the fact that global competition has been intensified. It seems that the old fashion of extensive lecturing and evaluation of students' performance do not match with industries' needs in the competition of world markets. To resolve the existing mismatch between engineering curricula and industries' expectations, academia should take proper action. This paper is intended to present an alternative method of teaching, the "open end", a new approach of teaching engineering courses that brings the industrial atmosphere into the classroom.