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A preliminary study on the integral relationship between critical thinking and mathematical thinking among practicing civil engineers

Mathematics and engineering are inexorably and significantly linked and essentially required in analyzing and accessing thought to make good judgment when dealing in complex and varied engineering problems. A study in the current engineering education curriculum to explore how the critical thinking...

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Main Authors:	Osman, Sharifah, Mohammad, Shahrin, Abu, Mohd Salleh
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Published:	2015
Subjects:	TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/59115/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4915748
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spelling	my.utm.591152021-12-07T07:53:29Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/59115/ A preliminary study on the integral relationship between critical thinking and mathematical thinking among practicing civil engineers Osman, Sharifah Mohammad, Shahrin Abu, Mohd Salleh TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Mathematics and engineering are inexorably and significantly linked and essentially required in analyzing and accessing thought to make good judgment when dealing in complex and varied engineering problems. A study in the current engineering education curriculum to explore how the critical thinking and mathematical thinking relates to one another, is therefore timely crucial. Unfortunately, there is not much information available explicating about the link. This paper aims to report findings of a critical review as well as to provide brief description of an on-going research aimed to investigate the dispositions of critical thinking and the relationship and integration between critical thinking and mathematical thinking during the execution of civil engineering tasks. The first part of the paper reports an in-depth review on these matters based on rather limited resources. The review showed a considerable form of congruency between these two perspectives of thinking, with some prevalent trends of engineering workplace tasks, problems and challenges. The second part describes an on-going research to be conducted by the researcher to investigate rigorously the relationship and integration between these two types of thinking within the perspective of civil engineering tasks. A reasonably close non-participant observations and semi-structured interviews will be executed for the pilot and main stages of the study. The data will be analyzed using constant comparative analysis in which the grounded theory methodology will be adopted. The findings will serve as a useful grounding for constructing a substantive theory revealing the integral relationship between critical thinking and mathematical thinking in the real civil engineering practice context. The substantive theory, from an angle of view, is expected to contribute some additional useful information to the engineering program outcomes and engineering education instructions, aligns with the expectations of engineering program outcomes set by the Engineering Accreditation Council. 2015 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Osman, Sharifah and Mohammad, Shahrin and Abu, Mohd Salleh (2015) A preliminary study on the integral relationship between critical thinking and mathematical thinking among practicing civil engineers. In: International Conference on Mathematics, Engineering and Industrial Applications, ICoMEIA 2014, 28-30 May 2014, Penang, Malaysia. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4915748
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spellingShingle	TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Osman, Sharifah Mohammad, Shahrin Abu, Mohd Salleh A preliminary study on the integral relationship between critical thinking and mathematical thinking among practicing civil engineers
description	Mathematics and engineering are inexorably and significantly linked and essentially required in analyzing and accessing thought to make good judgment when dealing in complex and varied engineering problems. A study in the current engineering education curriculum to explore how the critical thinking and mathematical thinking relates to one another, is therefore timely crucial. Unfortunately, there is not much information available explicating about the link. This paper aims to report findings of a critical review as well as to provide brief description of an on-going research aimed to investigate the dispositions of critical thinking and the relationship and integration between critical thinking and mathematical thinking during the execution of civil engineering tasks. The first part of the paper reports an in-depth review on these matters based on rather limited resources. The review showed a considerable form of congruency between these two perspectives of thinking, with some prevalent trends of engineering workplace tasks, problems and challenges. The second part describes an on-going research to be conducted by the researcher to investigate rigorously the relationship and integration between these two types of thinking within the perspective of civil engineering tasks. A reasonably close non-participant observations and semi-structured interviews will be executed for the pilot and main stages of the study. The data will be analyzed using constant comparative analysis in which the grounded theory methodology will be adopted. The findings will serve as a useful grounding for constructing a substantive theory revealing the integral relationship between critical thinking and mathematical thinking in the real civil engineering practice context. The substantive theory, from an angle of view, is expected to contribute some additional useful information to the engineering program outcomes and engineering education instructions, aligns with the expectations of engineering program outcomes set by the Engineering Accreditation Council.
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author	Osman, Sharifah Mohammad, Shahrin Abu, Mohd Salleh
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title	A preliminary study on the integral relationship between critical thinking and mathematical thinking among practicing civil engineers
title_short	A preliminary study on the integral relationship between critical thinking and mathematical thinking among practicing civil engineers
title_full	A preliminary study on the integral relationship between critical thinking and mathematical thinking among practicing civil engineers
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