American engineering education

Building quantitative-reasoning skills should still be a top priority for American engineering education, but that rigor should be complemented with developing students ability to think powerfully and critically in many other disciplines. To be sure, it will be a challenge, but a challenge with tremendous benefits. 

Akera, A. (n.d.). Rhetoric and engineering science ideology in American engineering education reform, 1952-1955. Unpublished manuscript. 

Seely, B. E. (1999b). European contributions to American engineering education Blending old and new. Quadrens d historia de Venginyeria, 3,25-50. 

Meritocracy, Technocracy, Democracy Understandings of Racial and Gender Equity in American Engineering Education... 

Reformers, however, faced an uphill battle in their desire to integrate social inquiry about technology in the making of new engineers. Universities are both notoriously resistant to change and almost continuously involved in crisis and reform. Whatever vision to which they aspired, reformers had to navigate bureaucracy, financial constraints, local traditions, and the students they wished to mold. More to the point, champions of a socio-technical perspective worked in the shadow of one of the most successful reform movements in the history of American engineering education. 

James B. Fair, Ph.D., P.E., Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas National Academy of Engineering Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Member, American Chemical Society, American Society for Engineering Education, National Society of Professional Engineers (Section 14, Gas Absorption and Gas-Liquid System Design)... 

Branan, C. R., Development of Short-cut Equipment Design Methods, ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Computer Aided Engineering, American Society for Engineering Education, 1985. 

Dr. Woods R. and Kodatsky, W. K., Dept, of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Discovering Short Cut Methods of Equipment Sizing and Selection, presented at 1985 Annual Conference (Computer Aided Engineering) of American Society For Engineering Education, Atlanta, Georgia, June 16-20, 1985, V ol. 1. 

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