Future for Engineering Education: Linking the Grand Challenges and Technical, Social, Political and Economic Leadership
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Professional Development |
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Community-based Service Learning Engineering Ethics Engineering Mechanics General Engineering, Engineering Science Green Design and Sustainable Engineering International Engineering Education Manufacturing Engineering Mechanical Engineering Teamwork |
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ASEE Distinguished Speaker |
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Teaching - Lecture/Presentation |
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Robert Warrington |
| Description: | Distinguished lecture at ASEE 2010. Presentation Title: "The Future for Engineering Education: Change, Linking the Grand Challenges with the Need for Technical, Social, Political and Economic Leadership from the Engineering Workforce." This plenary will briefly overview the work of the ASME Task Force - Vision 2030: Creating the Future of Mechanical Engineering Education and put it into perspective with respect to other recently completed or ongoing studies. This talk will focus on the compelling need for pervasive change within the context of the Grand Challenges. Data from mechanical engineering department heads and industry surveys and from focus meetings with these groups will be presented along with initial curricula recommendations from these constituencies. The current growing energy crisis, global warming, unsustainable waste deposits, growing Particular focus will be placed on the role of engineering education and the engineering workforce in solving our grand challenges, not only technically but through much needed leadership by engineering educators and our graduates, and the engineering workforce as a whole. The lecture will be based on the work of the ASME task force but should be of interest to all engineering and engineering technology disciplines. Following the lecture several members of the Vision 2030 Task Force would be available as a panel to answer questions from the audience. |
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(a) Apply mathematics, science, and engineering (b) Design and conduct experiments, analyze and interpret data (c) Design a system, component, or process (d) Work effectively in multi-disciplinary teams (e) Identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems (f) Understand professional and ethical responsibility (g) Communicate effectively (h) Understand global, economic, environmental, and societal context (j) Integrate knowledge of contemporary issues Professional Skills |
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Dr. Robert Warrington is sponsored by the Mechanics Engineering Division. Dr. Warrington is currently Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies and an Associate Director for the Center for Wireless Integrated Microsystems (an NSF Engineering Research Center) at Michigan Technological University. He currently leads the Vision 2030 study looking at the future of mechanical engineering education. He is a member of the Board of Directors for ABET after serving a number of years as a member of the Engineering Accreditation Council and the Executive Committee of the EAC. Dr. Warrington is a Fellow of ASME and AAAS. He was an associate editor (now emeritus) for the ASME/IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems and has over 150 technical publications and numerous presentations (35 invited), and 49 research grants from foundations, government and industry. |
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Medium |
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| Publication Date: | June 2010 |
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WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://blogs.asee.org/annual2010/ |
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IEEE LOM Record |
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