Holistic Engineering Education: Beyond Technology is a compilation
of coordinated and focused essays from world leaders in the
engineering profession who are dedicated to a transformation of
engineering education and practice. The contributors define a new
and holistic approach to education and practice that captures the
creativity, interdisciplinarity, complexity, and adaptability
required for the profession to grow and truly serve global needs.
With few exceptions today, engineering students and professionals
continue to receive a traditional, technically-based education and
training using curriculum models developed for early 20th century
manufacturing and machining. While this educational paradigm has
served engineering well, helping engineers create awe-inspiring
machines and technologies for society, the coursework and
expectations of most engineering programs eschew breadth and
intellectual exploration to focus on consistent technological
precision and study. Why this dichotomy? While engineering will
always need precise technological skill, the 21st century
innovation economy demands a new professional perspective that
recognizes the value of complex systems thinking,
cross-disciplinary collaborations, economic and environmental
impacts (sustainability), and effective communication to global and
community leaders, thus enabling engineers to consider "the whole
patient" of society's needs. The goal of this book is to inspire,
lead, and guide this critically needed transformation of
engineering education. "Holistic Engineering Education: Beyond
Technology points the way to a transformation of engineering
education and practice that will be sufficiently robust, flexible,
and systems-oriented to meet the grand challenges of the 21st
century with their ever-increasing scale, complexity, and
transdisciplinary nature." -- Charles Vest, President, National
Academy of Engineering; President Emeritus, MIT "This collection of
essays provides compelling arguments for the need of an engineering
education that prepares engineers for the problems of the 21st
century. Following the National Academy's report on the Engineer of
2020, this book brings together experts who make the case for an
engineering profession that looks beyond developing just cool
technologies and more into creating solutions that can address
important problems to benefit real people." -- Linda Katehi,
Chancellor, University of California at Davis "This superb volume
offers a provocative portrait of the exciting future of engineering
education...A dramatically new form of engineering education is
needed that recognizes this field as a liberal art, as a profession
that combines equal parts technical rigor and creative design...The
authors challenge the next generation to engineering educators to
imagine, think and act in new ways. " -- Lee S. Shulman, President
Emeritus, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
and Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus, Stanford
University
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