Designing an Introductory Course for an Undergraduate Program to Address Global Economic Development Challenges Erol Inelmen Bogaziçi University October 2007

As a consequence of these old fashioned programs, students feel dissatisfied and we see cases of very talented brains dropping out from engineering. Introduction

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trying to create an environment where all the participants fill forming part of a team, the assessment of the performance is not easy task and subject to criticism Conclusion

Acknowledgment We remain in debt to Prof.Ozer Arnas for his support in making this work possible.