Showing Non-Engineers the Ropes: An Introductory Engineering Course for Future Army Officers

摘要

"Army Leaders must be sophisticated users of advanced technologies and comfortable in employing scientific, mathematical, and engineering concepts to solve national security problems". Excerpt from the Operational Concept for the Academic Program of the United States Military Academy The complexity and ever-changing nature of the world in which our future army officers will be leading soldiers' demands that each graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point be a disciplined problem solver who has internalized the engineering thought process. In fact, Engineering and Technology is the first of six domains of knowledge listed under the Academy's Academic Program Goals (Page 6 -Educating Future Army Officers for a Changing World). As such, every future "army leader" at West Point must take an engineering sequence, or "track," as part of their academic program regardless of major or field of study.