Educating the Engineer for the 21st Century

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Role of the Global Engineer in Meeting the Challenges of Society in the 21st Century

   1. Review of the Visions for the Global Engineering Education Workshops

      • F. William Stephenson

      Pages 3-5

   2. The Role of the Global Engineer

      • Torbjörn Hedberg

      Pages 7-13

   3. The Asian View on the Role of the Global Engineer

      • V.S. Raju

      Pages 15-21

   4. An American Viewpoint on Engineering Education

      • Pamela Kurstedt

      Pages 23-25

3. Internationality and Interdisciplinarity

   1. New Demands on Engineers

      • Martin Reuber, Fritz Klocke

      Pages 29-43

   2. Developing Leaders for Technology Intensive Companies

      • Pius Baschera, Nils Rickert

      Pages 45-52

   3. Challenges of a Virtual University Campus: University Policy as a Consistent System

      • Martin Polke

      Pages 53-64

   4. Interdisciplinary Training for Engineers — A Challenge Between Superficiality and Overspecialization

      • Y. J. M. Bréchet

      Pages 65-74

4. Engineering Education in Emerging Economies

   1. Present Engineering Education in India — An Emerging Economy — And a Glimpse of the Scenario in the 21st Century

      • R. N. Bhargava

      Pages 77-80

   2. Lebanon as an Engineering Educational Center in the Middle East

      • Saleh M. Chehade

      Pages 81-90

   3. Science and Engineering Education in Korea

      • Sooyoung Chang

      Pages 91-96

5. European Bachelor and Master Programmes

   1. The New Engineering Bachelor Programmes in Italy and at Politecnico di Milano

      • Roberto Negrini

      Pages 99-110

   2. Restructuring a University Level Engineering Curriculum — A Possible Response to the Bologna Declaration

      • Albert Kündig

      Pages 111-128

   3. An American Opinion of the European Adaptation of the B.S./M.S. Degrees

      • Stephen S. Melsheimer

      Pages 129-137

6. Developing Personal Skills to be a Global Engineer

   1. The Young Entrepreneur’s Experience or: “What Can the Universities Do to Make of a Student a Successful Global Engineer?”

      • Bernold Richerzhagen

      Pages 141-149

   2. Students’ International Perspective

      • Markus Püttner

      Pages 151-159

7. Successful Practice in Engineering Education-Programmes, Curricula and Evaluation

   1. Engineering the Future of Civil Engineering in the U.S.

      • Stuart G. Walesh

      Pages 163-172

   2. Three Years of Experience with an International Graduate Program at TU München

      • Joachim Hagenauer, Joã Barros, Christian Bettstetter, Silke Jauck

      Pages 173-180

   3. Future Developments of the European Mineral Programs

      • Hans De Ruiter

      Pages 181-188

Upspeeding technological evolution and globalisation characterise today’s and future lives of engineers. It is vital for all institutions involved in engineering education to keep pace and to anticipate future needs. The herein presented collection of papers results from the Workshop on Global Engineering Education (GEE’3) which took place at Aachen University of Technology, 18 – 20 October 2000. In this meeting more than 150 specialists from 25 countries discussed the topic “Educating the Engineer for the Century”. Which role to attribute to non-technical qualifications? How to integrate ethical aspects in education? Do we have to define international standards in education? What about quality control? What is the potential of new media for knowledge transfer? How to organise lifelong learning for engineers? - These are some of the questions discussed among representatives of industries, educational institutions, politicians and individuals during this meeting. According to the sessions of the workshop, the book is subdivided into chapters covering the areas “Role of the Global Engineer in Meeting the Challenges of Society in the Century”, ”Internationality and Interdisciplinarity”, “Engineering Education in Emerging Economies”, “European Bachelor and Master Programmes”, “Developing Personal Skills to be a Global Engineer”. Three chapters deal with successful practice in engineering education covering the topics “Programmes, Curricula and Evaluation”, “Educational Concepts”, and “University-Industry Partnership, Design Projects”.

• RSI
• Standard
• biomedical engineering
• communication
• design
• development
• knowledge transfer
• management
• mechanical engineering
• quality
• technology

• Aachen University of Technology, Aachen, Germany

  D. Weichert, B. Rauhut, R. Schmidt

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