Building a 21st-century Renaissance Engineer

摘要

"By creating a college from scratch, we can approach education in a whole new way that will best serve the engineers of the new millennium." It seems to me lately that whenever U.S. industry isn't bemoaning the dearth of young people interested in engineering careers, we're disusing the ones who do enter the workforce as woefully unprepared. It's a common lament: Graduates of the country's 300 or so undergraduate engineering programs often emerge well-grounded in theory - almost to the exclusion of other competencies - but lack the practical experience, the communication skills and the business sense needed to hit the ground running upon entering the real world.