Liberal arts and engineering

There has been a tendency over the years to keep separate the liberal arts and engineering curriculum, recognizing the differences in thought processes, students, and interests. This has enabled the students to follow different paths, and over time, we have found that rarely do the two meet. The separation has had different labels to describe the different path of each right brain vs. left brain, feelers vs. thinkers, creative vs. structured, liberal arts vs. engineering and technical degrees, etc. 

In another dimension, engineering occupies Pasteur s quadrant as a field in which research is inspired by use. In American higher education, particularly in the research universities, a place was created for the practice or applied fields. The applied fields, while they seemed to repeat the separation of basic from applied science, have in fact provided an institutional home for research that is driven by the goals of understanding and use. The distinction between basic and applied science was simple drawn within universities (Stokes, 1997,45). The research university tent was large enough to provide space for the liberal arts and for those fields inspired by use or practice. 

Some major curricular reform elements that have been recently instituted indued that a Bachelor of Arts in Engineering program intended to serve as a bridge between engineering and the liberal arts and to provide opportunities for students who want to learn how to think like engineers but would like to pursue other careers (e.g., medicine, law, finance), and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Science to allow students to pursue interdisciplinary studies in multiple engineering areas... 

Derrick Hudson B.S., Humanities (United States Air Force Academy), M.A. Political Science (University of Central Oklahoma), Ph.D. International Relations (University of Denver). Assistant Professor of International Relations, Liberal Arts and International Studies, and Director, Master of International Political Economy of Resources (MIPER), Colorado School of Mines. Current research and teaching areas African pohtics, globalization, religion and international relations, and engineering education. 

If the hours required for graduation were close to those required in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (128 hr.), more students would be attracted to engineering, and... 

College of Science and Technology, Nihon-University, Department of liberal arts and science 7-24-1 Narashino-dai, Funabashi-shi, Chiba 274-8501, JAPAN College of Science and Technology, Nihon-University, Department of civil engineering 1-8-14 Kandasuruga-dai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8308, JAPAN... 

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Chemistry and Chemical Engineering... 

We now have the opportunity for an incoming freshman to become an electrical and computer engineer. They can declare themselves as... [an engineering major] right off the bat or they can be in the college of liberal arts and sciences at which point they can make a degree determination... 

The notion of a broad liberal arts education goes back to the Greeks and Romans and has been at the center of the modem secular university. Engineering education has a somewhat shorter history, but the perception that engineering education is extremely narrow by comparison misses several key points ... 

O. I Of Chemical Engineering and the Liberal Arts An Inaugural for the Olaf Hougen Visiting Professorship October 3, 1979... 

OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING AND THE LIBERAL ARTS AN INAUGURAL FOR THE OLAF HOUGEN VISITING PROFESSORSHIP OCTOBER 3, 1979... 

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