Liberal Education in Twenty-first Century Engineering
Liberal Education in Twenty-first Century Engineering

Author: David F. Ollis

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780820449241

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Twenty-first century engineering education must meet radically revised national accreditation standards, known colloquially as EC2000. This book shows paths forward for all faculty involved in the «liberal education» of engineering undergraduates. Beginning with an exhortation for liberal education, it includes the EC2000 criteria and its historical origin, as well as example institutional and individual responses to these criteria - which include topics in communication, ethics and professional responsibility, contemporary issues, art and aesthetics, and the integration of engineering and the humanities. The variety of curricular responses presented indicate that this is a formative - perhaps even revolutionary - period in engineering education.

Final Report
Final Report

Author: United States. Federal Interdepartmental Task Force on the Potomac. Sub-task Force on Water Quality

Publisher:

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13:

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Enabling American Innovation
Enabling American Innovation

Author: Dian Olson Belanger

Publisher: Purdue University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9781557531117

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Traces engineers' struggle to win intellectual, financial and organizational recognition within the National Science Foundation. This book analyzes the tools and arguments, how they altered over time, and how budgetary and philosophical debates were played out through organizational manipulation.

Bulletin
Bulletin

Author: United States. Office of Education

Publisher:

Published: 1931

Total Pages: 1044

ISBN-13:

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Engineering Education
Engineering Education

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1995-06-30

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 0309176514

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Traditionally, engineering education books describe and reinforce unchanging principles that are basic to the field. However, the dramatic changes in the engineering environment during the last decade demand a paradigm shift from the engineering education community. This revolutionary volume addresses the development of long-term strategies for an engineering education system that will reflect the needs and realities of the United States and the world in the 21st century. The authors discuss the critical challenges facing U.S. engineering education and present a plan addressing these challenges in the context of rapidly changing circumstances, technologies, and demands.

Engineering Labour
Engineering Labour

Author: Peter Meiksins

Publisher: Verso

Published: 1996-08-17

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9781859841358

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Engineers, often perceived as central agents of industrial capitalism, are thought to be the same in all capitalist societies, occupying roughly the same social status and performing similar functions in the capitalist enterprise. What the essays in this volume reveal, however, is that engineers are trained and organized quite distinctly in different national contexts. The book includes case studies of engineers in six major industrial economies: Japan, France, Germany, Sweden, Britain and the United States. Through a comparison of these six cases, the authors develop an approach to national differences which both retains the place of historical diversity in the experience of capitalism and accommodates the forces of convergence from increasing globalisation and economic integration. Contributions from: Boel Berner, Stephen Crawford, Kees Gispen, Kevin McCormick and Peter Whalley.