(DOWNLOAD) "Let Engineers Go to College (Engineering Education)" by Issues in Science and Technology " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Let Engineers Go to College (Engineering Education)
- Author : Issues in Science and Technology
- Release Date : January 22, 2006
- Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 158 KB
Description
The challenges that engineers will face in the 21st century will require them to broaden their outlooks, have more flexible career options, and work closely and effectively with people of quite different backgrounds. Yet engineering education focuses narrowly on technical skills rather than broadly on the full role that engineers must play in the world. Engineering education needs to develop a more comprehensive understanding of what engineers will do as their careers open up to management responsibility in business or to involvement in other areas. And if engineers are to have time for a greater variety of courses in their college years, the professional engineering credential will have to be a postgraduate degree, as it is in law, business, and medicine. The environment for engineers and the nature of engineering careers in the United States are changing in fundamental ways. The issues with which engineers engage have become more and more multidimensional, interacting with public policy and public perceptions, business and legal complexities, and government policies and regulations, among other arenas. This is the natural result of technology becoming more and more pervasive in society and politics. Examples abound in areas such as energy, the environment, communications, national security, transportation, biotechnology, the service sector, food supply, and water resources. The engineer must now look outward and interact directly with non-engineers of many different sorts in many different ways.
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