Overview
- Presents an inspirational call to study engineering in the context of service to society and the need to address complex challenges of the 21st century
- Provides a blueprint for restructuring engineering education and practice to serve students, the engineering educator, industry, and the environment
- Broadens the goals of the profession for practicing engineers
- Includes essays by proven leaders at the highest levels of business, government, and education
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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About this book
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
-- 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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Holistic Engineering Education
Book Subtitle: Beyond Technology
Editors: Domenico Grasso, Melody Brown Burkins
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1393-7
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-1392-0
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8198-1
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-1393-7
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 301
Topics: Engineering, general, Systems Theory, Control, Complex Systems, Science Education, Complexity, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems