Engineering curricula future

Green Chemistry and Green Engineering In Future Curriculum... 

What content should a core engineering curriculum have in the future ... 

First, we comment HELENA methodology. Second, from HELENA results, we question the issue of interdisciplinarity in engineering curriculum. Third, we provide ideas for future research. 

Because of the two intended audiences, this book can be used as either a textbook for students or a reference book for young professionals. Instructors might use Engineering Your Future as the textbook for a capstone course. Another option is for students to use the book as a reference for many of their courses as they proceed through the curriculum from their freshman year to graduation with a baccalaureate or graduate degree. 

The revitalization of chemistry education has received much recent attention and taken many forms. Modes of teaching, textbooks, laboratory instruction— all aspects of the chemistry curriculum have undergone scrutiny for reform. A recent National Science Foundation report, Shaping the Future New Expectations for Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology characterizes the nature of the most successful curricular and pedagogical improvements ... 

The next speaker in this session was Dr. Cliff Davidson from Carnegie Mellon University s Environmental Institute. Davidson divided his talk into four topic areas (1) skills and attitudes that future engineers will need (2) environment across the curriculum initiative (3) case studies in green engineering and (4) center for sustainable engineering A three-university consortium comprising Carnegie Mellon, University of Texas at Austin, and Arizona State University. 

Education received considerable attention at the 6th World Congress, from the discussion of its historical role in the development of the profession presented in Chapter 2, to consideration of the new curricula required to equip us for various visions of the future. The tone was set by Lord May (Chapter 1) in offering this as part of his future vision I believe the widening sweep of the Biotechnological Revolution has implications for Chemical Engineering practice beyond the dreams of its wildest chauvinists , and he goes on to suggest some elements of an appropriate curriculum. 

The role of manufacturers interests was also influential in the curriculum. At UCL, the department owed its very existence wholly to the generosity of industrialists, who funded the establishment of a chemical engineering laboratory in 1923. A further appeal four years later to secure the financial future of the department called upon the services of eight leading industrialists from companies such as ICI, Shell, Lever Brothers, Dunlop, and the Gas, Light Coke Co. 

As educators, we have an obligation to help students develop coimnunication and critical thinking skills that will better prepare them to become the leaders of tomorrow. Each engineering program should evaluate its curriculum to search for possible areas to implement various active learning methods and prepare for the future challenges in engineering education. 

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