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Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills in Western Education System and Engineering

Explore the impact of poor critical thinking skills on graduates in business schools and engineering. Case study on NASA's Challenger disaster due to lack of critical thinking. Learn the significance of developing critical thinking abilities.

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Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills in Western Education System and Engineering

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  1. Mr. Niall Douglas Week 7: Banking and FinanceTuesday 8th March

  2. Schedule for today • 9am-11am: Reading vocab and comprehension check • 11.20-12pm: Statistical analysis • 12pm-12.40pm: TOEIC prep • 12.40pm-1pm: Explain tonight’s reading • 1pm-1.20pm: Group Work Plan

  3. Critical Thinking • If you remember from yesterday I told you that the Western Education System (and Business Schools) is very bad at teaching critical thinking • This is despite constant and consistent complaints from Business about the poor quality of fresh Business School graduates

  4. Critical Thinking • Well they are not the only ones with problems!!! • Engineering also has a BIG problem with the low quality of Engineering and Physics graduates • Such low quality engineers costs billions of euro a year in mistakes, as well as thousands of lives lost

  5. Critical Thinking • One very famous example is a failure in Critical Thinking within NASA • In 1986 the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded during take off • Why?

  6. Critical Thinking • It turns out that there was a failure of critical thinking in NASA regarding the safety of the launch • What happened was that an “O-ring” failed causing the rocket to explode • Here is the graph used within NASA to show O-ring failure history ...

  7. History of O-ring failure

  8. Stupid graph • I have filled in the data from the stupid graph into a much more useful format

  9. So there you go, lack of Critical Thinking skills blows up Space Shuttles • Six (Eight?) People died in the explosion ... Some actually survived the explosion but were killed when craft hit the sea at 200km/hr • Space Shuttles are also not cheap ...

  10. TOIEC prep • TOIEC prep

  11. Tonight’s reading • Explain Tonight’s reading

  12. Group Task Work Plans • Check Group Task Work Plans

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