WHAT SKILLS WILL FUTURE ENGINEERING GRADUATES NEED IN GLOBAL ORGANIZATIONS?

摘要

The globalization of the marketplace is rapidly transforming business organizations, the nature of the products they sell, product design teams, and the skills and knowledge required to operate effectively in this environment. These changes include global distribution of talent within international organizations, an increasing reliance on virtual collaboration in design teams, greater need to make usable products, and the rise of new markets in emerging economies which have very different needs from tradition markets. This paper discusses the additional knowledge and skills engineers will need to succeed in global organizations, how these skills may be introduced into curricula, and challenges in making these changes. While change is difficult, educational organizations that can do so rapidly will become leaders in future engineering education.