Shaping our world: engineering education for the 21st century

INDICE: Foreword (Charles M. Vest). Preface (Diran Apelian and Grétar Tryggvason). The Need and Context. 1.Meeting New Challenges: Transforming Engineering Education (Grétar Tryggvason and Diran Apelian). 2. One World: Preparing Engineers for the Global Economy (Michael J. Dolan). 3. Engineers: Leaders, Innovators and Builders (Diran Apelian). 4. Holistic Education: Learning and Doingin context (Dennis B. Berkey). Effective Practices. 5. Ignition: The Great Problems Seminars (Arthur C. Heinricher and Kristin Wobbe). 6. Global Citizenship: Students Solving Real Problems Around the World (Richard F. Vaz, Natalie A.Mello, and David DiBiasio). 7. Fostering Citizenship and Advocacy through theHumanities and Arts (Svetlana Nikitina and David Spanagel). 8. The Capstone Project: An Integrated Experience (Fred J. Looft and Yiming Rong). 9. TechnicalEducation in the Innovation Economy (Curtis R. Carlson and Jerome J. Schaufeld). 10. A New Discipline for a New Century: Robotics Engineering (Michael A. Gennert, Fred J. Looft and Grétar Tryggvason). 11. Graduate Education for the Professional Engineer (Richard D. Sisson and Nikolaos Gatsonis). 12. Holistic Graduate Education: Fire Protection Engineering (Kathy A. Notarianni). Outcomesand Implications. 13. Forty Years of Outcomes Based Project Centric Education: Lessons Learned (John Orr). 14. So Much Accomplished So Much to be Done (EliFromm). Biosketches.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-92974-2
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 340
• Fecha Publicación: 14/10/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés