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I: A Vision of the Future
I: A Vision of the Future
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Yet together they outlined a new vision for engineering education based on flexible, interactive, lifelong learning and the merger of activities long held to be distinct. REVISIONING ENGINEERING EDUCATION: OLIN COLLEGE When Richard Miller, the president of the Franklin W
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Students spend a substantial portion of their time doing projects in interdisciplinary courses that emphasize teamwork and communication skills. The curriculum combines a rigorous engineering education with entrepreneurship, the arts and humanities, and the social sciences, with an overall goal of creating well-rounded "Renaissance engineers." For more information: www.olin.edu Olin College does not want its students to have to know what scientific or engineering discipline they are learning.
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They are no longer technology problems. They are societal problems." "We deliberately want to mix the DNA of engineering Yet engineering education students and entrepreneurial today often works against this real- business students." ity.
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But the way we are thinking about engineering is attracting them." Miller observed that half of the incoming students are women. Finally, a major goal of Olin College is to advance engineering education in the United States and throughout the world.
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For more information: www.aalto.fi/en engineering education, we should begin to give a lot more responsibility to our students, because, after all, they are the ones who are going to build our future." Engineering education in inland is traditionally a five-year pro F gram, where students begin studying engineering on their first day in the program and continue doing so until their last day. Aalto University has been changing this formula by "Our students are powerful thinking about the skills that future entrepreneurs -- they have a huge capacity, much more engineers are going to need.
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The university will still play a critical role in organizing and overseeing this information, since online information is not always accurate, and in teaching students to be critical thinkers. The university also will promote student learning by engaging companies and other employers.
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. By 2009, traffic on the site was so great that he quit his job at a hedge fund firm to focus on what he hoped would be an investment with Salman Khan, founder, Khan Academy.
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The next year, several prominent companies, foundations, and capital investment firms began to invest in the project, and Khan started hiring "some of the smartest people I knew to build out this thing." The Khan Academy reached 7 million students in the month before the forum, and its growth remains explosive. "We "Engineering is just as creative keep trying to push the envelope on as being an architect or a designer, because it's all about what we can be." [developing]
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a portfolio of creative works." SCALING UP ONLINE EDUCATION: EDX In the spring of 2012, a joint venture of Harvard and MIT called edX offered an open online course entitled "Circuits and Electronics." More than 150,000 students worldwide signed up to take the course, even though it required knowledge of advanced calculus and complex analysis, and more than 7,000 students passed it. "That's as many students as would take the class at MIT in 40 years," said Anant Agarwal, the president of edX and a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT.
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Toward that end, it has been creating online laboratories "Bringing technology to in which students can manipulate learning and applying it in a components on a screen to build concerted manner would truly devices and conduct experiments. revolutionize the world." Electrical engineers, for example, Anant Agarwal, edX and MIT might be given electrical compo nents and told to build a device, while civil engineers might be given members and beams.
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"People around the world are modifying each other's stuff," said Agarwal. "What we are trying to do is bring the creativity and the community into it in a big way." PROMOTING K–12 ENGINEERING EDUCATION AT THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING Linda Katehi, chancellor of the University of California, Davis, has always been acutely aware of how few women and minorities pursue engineering.
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The best way to change this statistic is to begin teaching ngineering e very early in children's learning experiences -- even before kinder arten, g said Katehi, who chaired the NAE Committee on K–12 Engineering Education (see Box 5)
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K–12 engineering education can boost student achievement in science and mathematics, raise awareness of engineering and the work of engineers, and increase interest in engineering careers, the committee stated. Engineering education could even act as a catalyst for a more interconnected and effective system of K–12 education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
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" said Richard Stephens, senior vice president for human resources and administration for Boeing (see Box 6)
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Similarly, many engineers who are nearing the end of their careers were inspired as students by the challenge of Sputnik and reclaiming the American lead in aerospace. Producing engineers with these traits will require providing students with role models and mentors to help them through the first few years.
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Finally, engineering need as a nation? " schools should ensure that their Richard Stephens, Boeing Company students have internships between at least their sophomore and junior years.
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