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Educating Engineers: Preparing 21st Century Leaders in the Context of New Modes of Learning: Summary of a Forum
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Every year the National Academy of Engineering holds a three- hour forum at its annual meeting on a subject of pressing impor- tance, and in 2012 the forum was on educating engineers for the 21st century. I am deeply interested in education and have written and spoken often on the subject during my six years as NAE President, but my enthusiasm for the topic was not universally shared before the forum. “We have been talking about education for decades, but very little has changed,” was one comment made at the forum. “What more can we say about education than has already been said?” By the end of the forum the tone had completely changed—I heard nothing but excitement. The vision laid out by the six speakers was breathtaking. They described a future that marks a profound break with the past. The ongoing revolution in computing and communications is part of the story, but the transformation is institutional and societal as well. New kinds of colleges and universities have been designed to take advantage of the unique opportunities created by the confluence of new technologies, modern markets, and social needs. Minorities now account for 40 percent of college-aged Americans, which means that the engineering community will soon be much more diverse than it has been in the past. A new generation of leaders in education and industry has emerged with the courage to do things differently, measure the results, and find out what works.
Steve Olson, Editor; National Academy of Engineering - Personal Name
978-0-309-26770-0
NONE
Information Technology
English
2013
1-45
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