My comment of Prof Seeram Ramakrishna's article

Briefly speaking, to think and analyse systematically and critically for an engineer, the curriculum and pedagogical approach is important and fundamental, but the understanding to knowledge and practices to apply the abilities is the more important ability for an engineer.

There are handful of methods for an engineer to be trained analyse systematically. The main and fund mental method is to get and digest one's own core modules. Also, one is required to learn modules from other departments and faculties. This a chance to learn some other useful information to open one's mind and broaden one's vision. All these are the basic requirement for critical thinking and systematically analysing.

In the whole education, students are suppose to design projects , which require students to arrange the procedure of the projects and come out suitable researches to approach the problems on his own, and in the process of fulfilling projects, students can learn how to think and analyse the reality problems in a systematical way. More over, students can involve some organisations ,such as NOC , to develop their skills to think and analyse.Through the discussion and process, students can not only learn how to arrange one's own work, but also learn how teamwork can assistant one to get work done easily.

The universities prepare every students bulks of available resources and e-resources, which contain essays and articles written by wise people in the world. Students should take advantage of these beneficial materials and read them to understand what wise people are thinking about and to apply these useful advice to one's own work.

In a nutshell, to develop an mind which can think and analyse systematically needs a lot of work, and fortunately, the universities involve mostly of the resources for one to develop this mind.