Educating engineers for a flat world

• Autores: Clive L. Dym
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 24, no. Extra 2, 2008 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Design and Engineering Education in a Flat World), págs. 214-220
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper encompasses and extends remarks made at the opening of a workshop on engineering and design education in a flat worldby the workshop's organizing committee's chair. Held at Harvey Mudd College in May 2007, and supported by Mudd's Center forDesign Education, Mudd Design Workshop VI brought together engineers and designers–in their roles as educators, researchers andpractitioners interested in learning and in design–to identify and articulate important flat world issues in design and engineeringeducation. The remarks detailed below were intended to highlight some of the issues that arise due to globalization and a developingflat world, as well as to raise some questions about what engineering educators might do that could be addressed by the workshop'spresentations and discussions. While some aspects of these remarks may well have been in the vein of preaching to the converted aboutissues of design teaching, it is also noted herein that the many benefits associated with teaching design–which are increasingly seen asmeeting many of the primary goals of engineering education–are equally relevant–if not more so–in the context of engineeringeducation in a flat world.