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II. ENGINEERING AT THE MILLENIUM: A NEW VISION
II. ENGINEERING AT THE MILLENIUM: A NEW VISION
Pages 12-18
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While some industrial sectors appear healthy, nevertheless it is a recovery that may be threatened by its unevenness between and within nations and by the great dispersion of purchasing power and personal demand across the global population. Increasingly austere federal budgets and restricted industrial expansion in many sectors have become chronic.
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In the United States, a demographic shift is occurring on a scale equal to those of the early twentieth century, as immigration from Latin America and Asia together with the growing population of resident Hispanic and African Americans alter the traditional U.S. view of "minority" and "major ity." Along with the entry of large numbers of women into the workforce over the past two decades, these demographic shifts mean that engineering -- traditionally a bastion of white males -- must re shape many of its cultural foundations if it is to remain strong and relevant to the society it serves.
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All these aspects of the changing context of engineering affect engineering education in various ways. The engineering education system is feeling the stress of changing external conditions but has undergone only limited and sporadic changes in response; like all established enterprises, it resists large-scale change.
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Content-based learning alone must not drive engineering education. The primary aim will be to instill a strong knowledge of how to learn while still producing competent engineers who are well-grounded in engineering science and mathematics and have an understanding of design in the social context.
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The role of accreditation in such experimentation will be a central one. Performance- or output oriented accreditation will be developed to encourage the diversity in educational formats that the BEEd believes is vital for the future of engineering education.
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from an engineering education, engineering schools will At the core of the BEEd's vision is a institute mechanisms that ensure that the diversity of set of imperatives that have been their student body and faculty reflects the changing recognized by a growing number of demographics of the national and regional population engineering educators in recent years. from which they draw their students.
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The education system, including curricula, must continually change to reflect the emerging directions of the engineering profession and the evolving needs of the "customer" -- the engineering student and practitioner. To that end, the BEEd considers adaptability to be an essential attribute of engineering education in the twenty-first century.
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