Twenty-First-Century Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities

3 Twenty-First-Century Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities 

In the framework of globalization and knowledge-based economy posed by the twenty-first century, the challenges and opportunities of engineering education in these coimtries are quite similar to what is happening in other countries of the 

In addition to the grand ehallenges listed above, the world of today and tomorrow confronts other challenges of an ever-changing technology landscape and information, knowledge production, and the result of faster, efficient, and new modes of communication and interconnectedness. 

Perhaps the lack of attention to the educators themselves is the key oversight in this system. About 50 % of industry and academia respondents in an Engineering 2020 survey (Palmer et al. 2011) dissent from the assertion that the current undergraduate engineering education is sufficiently flexible to adequately meet the 

There are five main actions required to reduce the gap between professionals graduating from universities and the needs of society and private/public enterprises, namely  

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