Dr. Moshe Kam, 2011 President and CEO of IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional association, says engineering education must undergo significant transformation in the next decade to continue to push innovation forward, or global economic expansion will slow. Kam believes engineers of all disciplines need a deeper understanding of computing and networking, cross-disciplinary education, and sharper analytical skills.
Dr. Kam is the Robert Quinn Professor and Department Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University.
Additional curriculum areas that are likely to undergo significant changes include:
• Incorporation of considerations from economics, psychology, law, and even advertising in engineering design.
• International opportunities to study and work abroad.
• Engineering applications of life sciences and biology.
• The shift of many engineering enterprises from products to services.
• Progress in automated computing tools and symbolic computation.
“The engineering and computing education system is the backbone for key industries,” says Kam. “There would be no Silicon Valley without Stanford. No high-tech Route 128 in Boston without Harvard, MIT and Tufts. The dramatic advances by India’s information technology industry wouldn’t be possible without the 15 Indian Institutes of Technology, and it is not a coincidence that Europe’s technology centers are found where a major university is located (e.g., Silicon Fen near Cambridge University, and Technopolis Innovation Park Delft near Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands).”
Read the full article here: IEEE President Calls for Engineering Education Transformation
See Prof. Kam’s presentation: Transformating Engineering Education Summary during the conference titled ‘Transforming Engineering Education: Creating Interdisciplinary Skills for Complex Global Environments‘ co-hosted by IBM and IEEE.
The American Society for Engineering Education with additional support from the U.S. National Science Foundation has been engaged in an extended conversation on creating a more vibrant U.S. engineering academic culture through scholarly and systematic innovation in engineering education.
Their recommendations and suggested actions are contained in the report, “Creating a Culture for Scholarly and Systematic Innovation in Engineering Education (PDF: 6.91MB).” This report was subsequently shared with a broad and representative sample of U.S. engineering programs in the spring 2010 for their review and comment. An analysis and synthesis of that feedback is now underway and a second and final report will be issued in late 2010 incorporating the results of this extended dialogue.
Please return to this site later this fall to learn more about making our already world-class engineering programs even better.
The SMETE Digital Library is a dynamic online library and portal of services by the SMETE Open Federation for teachers and students. Here you can access a wealth of teaching and learning materials as well as join this expanding community of science, math, engineering and technology explorers of all ages. SMETE provides access to numerous web based learning resources in many disciplines including science and engineering areas.
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and abstract of our paper in SMETE Digital Library: Learning Resource: Innovative approaches to information literacy instruction for engineering undergraduates at Drexel University
Source: Digital Libraries for Global Distributed Innovative Design
The project proposes the development, implementation and use of a testbed to improve the teaching and learning of students partaking in global team-based design projects. The project combines the use of digital libraries with virtual design studios.
Founded in 1893, the American Society for Engineering Education is a nonprofit organization of individuals and institutions committed to furthering education in engineering and engineering technology.
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Journal of Engineering Education [electronic resource] / American Society for Engineering Education.
ASEE’s full text papers from conferences are available from 1996 to 2007. You can search by keywords for papers, authors and session types. Or browse authors, papers and sessions by conference.
Search and access ASEE conference papers at:
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conferences Searchable Database.
It can also be accessed from: Databases/Article Indexes for Engineering and then click on American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conferences Searchable Database.
INDO-US LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE BEGINS. The 2008 Indo-US Engineering Faculty Leadership Institute commenced on the Infosys campus in Mysore, India on May 26, 2008. The goal of the partnership is to improve the quality and global relevance of engineering education in the U.S. and India.
Souce: ASEE Action Newsletter, June 2008 (will be available online soon)
See also: INDO-US Collaboration for Engineering Education and IUCEE Initiative
Several white papers on topics such as collaboration, curriculum development and teaching engineering through case studies are available at: White Papers
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), along with academic and business leaders from leading US and Indian universities have launched an initiative to build US-India collaborations in order to make engineering education and research more relevant to the needs of the global society and to the aptitudes and aspirations ofnew generations of youth.
