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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