Engineering Education and the Liberal Arts Tradition
Sample S.B.
1988
IEEE Transactions on Education
6
10.1109/13.2285
Over the past 150 years, engineering education has evolved from an apprenticeship method of instruction in which technical skills were learned by emulating practicing professionals, to a relatively fixed body of technology taught by men who were themselves closely identified with the engineering profession, to a scientifically based curriculum taught by men and women who are in some cases indistinguishable from applied scientists and mathematicians. Due in part to these changes in engineering education, and in part to the rapid rate of change in technology, today’s graduates of baccalaureate engineering programs are not really engineers at all. As a consequence, most true professional engineering education occurs after graduation from an undergraduate engineering program, either in graduate school or by apprenticeship on the job. Rather than try to cram more and more technical subjects into the undergraduate curriculum, engineering educators should instead broaden the curriculum to provide young engineers with a more liberal education which will serve as a solid base for a lifetime of professional development. © 1988 IEEE
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