Emerging high technology fields and thoughts on reshaping the engineering211 curriculum

摘要

In the early part of this workshop, I believe Dr. Bergles made a statement211u001eindicating that certain schools in America are planning to take the traditional 211u001eheat transfer and fluid mechanics courses out of their curriculum and that some 211u001emay have already done so. That statement created some excitement, and I did 211u001erespond to that in some fashion and make some suggestions. Then Dr. Bergles said 211u001e'well maybe these matters should be included in a separate discussion period' 211u001ewhich is this forum. Because I am working at the Advanced Photon Source at 211u001eArgonne National Laboratory, I have the opportunity to witness the type of 211u001eresearch being done in high technology areas today with the most advanced x-rays, 211u001ewhich gives me some sort of advantage for telling you what I see as future 211u001eresearch directions. Hence, I would like to reflect on all of this along a 211u001edifferent avenue, and really my presentation will stress the educational side: 211u001eessentially engineering education and what our role should be at the universities 211u001ein teaching the next generation of students coming in and also what our role 211u001eshould be in retraining researchers for the demands of the emerging fields and 211u001emarkets.