Global Engineering Education for a Small Planet

摘要

The engineering profession must embrace a new mission statement-to contribute to the building of a more sustainable, stable, and equitable world. Global engineers are needed to address a multitude of global complex challenges faced by humanity today. The world calls for it, the engineering profession calls for it, and students desire a more meaningful education. There is indeed a need to question the orthodoxy of traditional engineering education in general as it is out of context with the challenges society is facing today and out of touch with what its customers (students and professionals) are demanding. Global engineers need to have the tools and skills necessary to operate in a complex world.