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Impact of global forces and empowering situations on engineering education in 2030
A. Kamp,R.G. Klaassen +1 more
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In this article, the authors discuss the results of an exploration by a Think Tank of academic staff about "what future engineers should learn in higher engineering education in 2030" and discuss the embedding of personal development in a meaningful way -the teaching of the whole engineer, the creation of purposeful engineering profiles for society, keeping them specific enough to create in-depth learning.Abstract:
Over the last couple of decades the world around us has changed at a dizzying pace by the globalisation and digitalisation, the horizontalisation of the socio-economic world, and the blending of technical, economical and societal cultures. The ways we communicate, work, play, travel and do business have changed dramatically, and are expected to change at an even faster pace in the future. We have entered an era where higher engineering education has to move from content coverage to content mastery. Are our programmes good enough to absorb the changes in the world 10 to 15 years from now? This paper discusses the results of an exploration by a Think Tank of academic staff about “what future engineers should learn in higher engineering education in 2030”. Key issues are the embedding of personal development in a meaningful way - the teaching of the “whole engineer”, the creation of purposeful engineering profiles for society, keeping them specific enough to create in-depth learning.read more
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Navigating the Landscape of Higher Engineering Education
TL;DR: Aldert Kamp as discussed by the authors made a plea for outward looking: "Open the windows and look around in the world; let the world flow in" and so he did, travelling around, visiting the leading conferences and being a well-respected key note speaker, recognized by the great institutions like MIT.
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Navigating the Landscape of Higher Engineering Education
TL;DR: Aldert Kamp as discussed by the authors made a plea for outward looking: "Open the windows and look around in the world; let the world flow in" and so he did, travelling around, visiting the leading conferences and being a well-respected key note speaker, recognized by the great institutions like MIT.
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Professional competencies in engineering education: the PREFERed-way
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Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers
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Rethinking engineering education
TL;DR: The necessity of restructuring engineering education has been recognized for many years, but for a number of reasons reform is becoming increasingly urgent as discussed by the authors, it is not just that current engineering education methods are increasingly obsolete; student cognitive patterns are changing in unpredictable ways, and the complexity of the environment within which engineering is practiced is also increasing dramatically.
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The Missing Basics and Other Philosophical Reflections for the Transformation of Engineering Education
TL;DR: In the United States, the National Academy of Engineering has published two reports, one specifying characteristics of the engineer of our times and one calling for changes in the ways young engineers are educated as discussed by the authors.