Shaping Our World

A look at engineering education today-- with an eye totomorrowEngineering education is in flux. While it is increasinglyimportant that engineers be innovative, entrepreneurial,collaborative, and able to work globally, there are virtually noprograms that prepare students to meet these new challenges.Shaping Our World: Engineering Education for the 21stCentury seeks to fill this void, exploring revolutionaryapproaches to the current engineering curriculum that will bring itfully up to date and prepare the next generation of would-beengineers for real and lasting professional success.Comprised of fourteen chapters written by respected experts onengineering education, the book is divided into three parts thataddress the need for change in the way engineering is taught;specific innovations that have been tested, why they matter, andhow they can be more broadly instituted; and the implications forfurther changes. Designed to aid engineering departments in theirtransition towards new modes of learning and leadership inengineering education, the book describes how to put into practiceeducational programs that are aligned with upcoming changes, suchas those proposed in the NAE's Engineer of 2020 reports.Addressing the need to change engineering education to meet thedemands of the 21st century head on, Shaping Our Worldcondenses current discussions, research, and trials regarding newmethods into specific, actionable calls for change.

FOREWORD ixCharles M. VestPREFACE xiiiCONTRIBUTORS xviiPART I THE NEED AND CONTEXT 11. MEETING NEW CHALLENGES: TRANSFORMING ENGINEERING EDUCATION3Grétar Tryggvason and Diran Apelian2. ONE WORLD: PREPARING ENGINEERS FOR THE GLOBAL ECONOMY19Michael J. Dolan3. ENGINEERS: LEADERS, INNOVATORS, AND BUILDERS 27Diran Apelian4. HOLISTIC EDUCATION: LEARNING AND DOING IN CONTEXT 39Dennis D. BerkeyPART II EFFECTIVE PRACTICES 535. IGNITION: THE GREAT PROBLEMS SEMINARS 55Arthur C. Heinricher and Kristin Wobbe6. GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP: STUDENTS SOLVING REAL PROBLEMS AROUND THEWORLD 77Richard F. Vaz, Natalie A. Mello, and David DiBiasio7. FOSTERING CITIZENSHIP AND ADVOCACY THROUGH THE HUMANITIES ANDARTS 107Svetlana Nikitina and David Spanagel8. THE CAPSTONE PROJECT: AN INTEGRATED EXPERIENCE 123Fred J. Looft and Yiming (Kevin) Rong9. TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN THE INNOVATION ECONOMY 151Curtis R. Carlson and Jerome J. Schaufeld10. A NEW DISCIPLINE FOR A NEW CENTURY: ROBOTICS ENGINEERING179Michael A. Gennert, Fred J. Looft, and GrétarTryggvason11. GRADUATE EDUCATION FOR THE PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER 201Richard D. Sisson and Nikolaos A. Gatsonis12. HOLISTIC GRADUATE EDUCATION: FIRE PROTECTION ENGINEERING225Kathy A. NotarianniPART III OUTCOMES AND IMPLICATIONS 24113. FORTY YEARS OF OUTCOMES-BASED PROJECT CENTRIC EDUCATION:LESSONS LEARNED 243John Orr14. SO MUCH ACCOMPLISHED: SO MUCH TO BE DONE 265Eli FrommBIOSKETCHES 283