Disruptions of Progress
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Professional Development |
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Mechanical Engineering |
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Engineer 2020 |
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| Description: | Feature article in Mechanical Engineering on "Engineering's Next Frontier" by Ahmed K. Noor, Eminent Scholar, William E. Lobeck Professor of Aerospace Engineering, and the director of the Center for Advanced Engineering Environments at Old Dominion University in Hampton, Va. He is also adjunct professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Florida in Gainesville. The author summarises his mechanical and aerospace engineering perspective: "The engineering profession is in the midst of a substantial worldwide transformation. The next decades will reverse the trend followed in the 19th and 20th centuries of disintegrating the profession into specific disciplines. Instead, the years ahead will be times of integration, as the various disciplines of engineering and science converge. High-tech enterprises and academic institutions are at the crossroads. Successful enterprises will exploit the opportunities provided by today's emerging technologies and others yet to be discovered. They will better align themselves with the realities of the agile and flexible engineering processes, and be more resourceful in the use of new product creation tools to enhance innovation and reduce development time and manufacturing costs. Academic institutions need to better align the engineering curricula, and the nature of academic experiences, with the challenges and opportunities that engineering graduates will face in the future market-driven, competitive environment. Schools must work jointly with government, industry, technology providers, and professional societies to develop an infrastructure for facilitating rapid informal and lifelong learning, as well as innovative approaches of multidisciplinary engineering education that reflect the new business world and address the needs of society." |
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mechanical engineering faculty and researchers Interesting mechanical engineering perspective on Engineers in 2020 and the tools they will be using. |
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| Publication Date: | July 2005 |
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Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.memagazine.org/contents/current/features/disruption/di |
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