Educating the Engineer of 2020 Adapting Engineering Education to the New Century (2005) / Chapter Skim
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REENGINEERING THE ENGINEERING EDUCATION SYSTEM Given the changing landscape sketched in the Phase I report, a number of possible implications for engineering education were evident. Supplemented by discussions at the Summit and deliberations by the Phase II committee, these "implications" formed the basis for the recommendations set forth below.
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The engineering education establishment must also adopt a broader view of the value of an engineering education to include providing a "liberal" engineering education to those students who wish to use it as a springboard for other career pursuits, such as business, medicine, or law. Adequate depth in a specialized area of engineering cannot be achieved in the baccalaureate degree.
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ABET should ensure that evaluators look for innovation and experimentation in the curriculum and not just hold institutions to a strict interpretation of the guidelines as they see them. Based on the curricular experiments that have been conducted under the National Science Foundation (NSF)
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It is a recommendation that departments need to more closely examine the mix of skills and experiences possessed across their cadre of faculty to determine how best to provide students with the knowledge and experiences essential to engineering practice. The engineering education establishment should strengthen the ties binding engineering education to practice not only through curricular design and provision of co-curricular activities, but through the experiences of engineering faculty in industrial research, product design, and/or production.
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This dooms future engineers to make the same mistakes. The management of knowledge is somewhat better in the case of successes, but it is questionable whether the real elements of success are identified separate of the marketing "spin" for the product or service.
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At the same time, however, they cannot afford to neglect domestic students. Indeed, improvements in engineering education that energize the undergraduate experience may encourage more domestic students to pursue advanced degrees.
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In the spirit that the engineering community must "sell" the value and excitement of an engineering education, the community must make every effort to help interested students make an informed choice. The American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE)
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58 EDUCATING THE ENGINEER OF 2020 student, for example, about program philosophy -- engineering up front, availability of team design activities, etc., and about student outcomes in terms of retention, years to degree completion and securing jobs at graduation.
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