Sunday Afternoon Workshop: Teaching Safety as Capstone Design

Education is dedicated to developing a fundamentals foundation; and high-level integrative-, critical-, synthesis- and creative-thinking skills. Curricula are pressured by new-area emergence and industry. Design, the cornerstone experience to skill development, must become more inclusive, applicable, and responsive. Risk-focused safety courses apply to any industry and develop high-level thinking skills and integrate fundamentals. This workshop focuses on the development of capstone safety. Topics include the objectives, content, evaluation and ABET. Target participants are interested in teaching widely applicable skills and integrating fundamentals. The leader has taught design and safety for 22 years. He consults in process design/analysis and risk assessment.