Lifelong Learning Imperative in Engineering: Sustaining American Competitiveness in the 21st Century.

摘要

The Lifelong Learning Imperative (LLI) project was initiated to assess current practices in lifelong learning for engineering professionals, reexamine the underlying assumptions behind those practices, and outline strategies for addressing unmet needs. A project-framing workshop was organized by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in partnership with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in June 2009 to examine the issues relevant to lifelong learning in engineering. A UIUC research team then conducted a survey-based assessment of the issues identified in the 2009 workshop. Preliminary findings from the UIUC study were presented at a second workshop in October 2011 at which these issues were examined more fully. This monograph reflects the opinions of the authors based on the UIUC teams survey analysis and learning from the discussions at the 2011 workshop.