Educating Engineers Preparing 21st Century Leaders in the Context of New Modes of Learning: Summary of a Forum (2013) / Chapter Skim
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II: Applying the Vision
II: Applying the Vision
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But sentiment is growing in Chile for a fouryear program in engineering, as in the United States, with a fraction of students going on to the master's and doctoral levels. Khan thought that good engineers could graduate from college in less than four years, so long as they are exposed to good projects and develop the can-do attitude that top engineering students have.
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competency and having a portfolio of works." Continuing education will be Salman Khan, Khan Academy critical in a world where knowledge is growing so quickly. Stephens said that the Boeing Company spends $100 million on sending 22,000 of its employees to school, and overall it spends three-quarters of a billion dollars on training and education.
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The students will have it in context." Miller told a story about the Stanford economist Paul Romer's work on "charter cities" -- cities designed and built essentially from scratch to take advantage of 21st century opportunities while serving the objectives and meeting the needs of their occupants. Olin College put together an interdisciplinary team of about 30 students, including students from
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"If we put the student at the center and if we start looking at everything through that lens, then our decisions will be totally different." IS THE UNITED STATES PRODUCING ENOUGH ENGINEERS? Several panel members observed that the United States is not producing enough engineers to meet future needs, particularly in high demand fields.
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"A good trend is that those computer science incomes are now becoming at parity with doctors, lawyers, and hedge fund analysts, which will hopefully equate things." HOW CAN US SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY BE IMPROVED? As science and technology become ever more entwined with major public policy issues, the public needs to engage in policy discussions that have a scientific and technological component.
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For example, Aalto University has taken the idea of a Masters of Art exhibition from the design school and turned it into a Masters of Aalto exhibition, where master's-level engineers and designers showcase the products of their graduate work. "They get ideas from each other, but not least, they get to meet potential future employers.
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Some people will prefer online learning, while others will opt for more practice-based learning. "We are going to have a whole portfolio of ways of learning, and people will be commuting between the different ways." Katehi agreed that online interactions cannot replace human interactions.
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They want to change the world." Traditional engineering education provides stu dents with large amounts of con tent; then, toward the end of their "A lot of kids want to change educational experiences, they get their lives. They want to change the world." to start designing things.
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They will get the computer skills when the time is right." He said that it is more "It's amazing what kids can important for young children to do if you approach the same get hands-on experience in the real content in the form of play as opposed to a didactic, world. Academic experiences can mathematics type of thing." then help children understand their Salman Khan, Khan Academy experiences.
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Teeri agreed that engineering education starts too late. When children are young, they have no idea what scientists or engineers do.
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Some of the best science fiction "is about extrapolating science to what it can be." THE COMING CHANGE NAE president Charles Vest closed the forum by thanking the speakers and calling attention to how quickly the world is changing. The new world of engineering education is "coming down the pike so fast that it's going to hit everybody like a ton of bricks," he said.
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