CHANGING ENGINEERING EDUCATION THROUGH INTEGRATED CONSULTANT INTERVENTION

摘要

The question needs to be faced today how society can influence political developments and create political changes under conditions of ever increasing complexity of all social systems. This question leads to investigating the fundamental changebility of institutions. This paper deals with explaining the sluggish and superficial attitudes of institutions towards expected or required changes of their behaviour. Furthermore an intervention concept for institutional change is suggested. It is subsequently applied to processes of changing engineering education. These examples are taken from projects of improving engineering teaching and learning at the University of Technology (RWTH) Aachen, Germany, which is a fitting example of a fairly change-resistant social system.