TY - GEN
T1 - The Crucial Need to Modernize Engineering Education
AU - Long, Lyle N.
AU - Blanchette, Stephen
AU - Kelley, Troy D.
AU - Hohnka, Michael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/3
Y1 - 2019/3
N2 - This paper discusses the crucial need to modernize engineering education, and especially curricula. Engineering curricula have hardly changed over the last 30 years, while the world has been changing at an exponential rate. Students are being taught primarily applied physics, which is very mature, when they should also be learning about computing, software, systems, artificial intelligence, statistics, and big data. A review of job employment sites, federal reports, and industry needs supports these claims. Russia and China are modernizing rapidly, and educating millions of students in modern disciplines. The U.S. will be left behind if we do not change.
AB - This paper discusses the crucial need to modernize engineering education, and especially curricula. Engineering curricula have hardly changed over the last 30 years, while the world has been changing at an exponential rate. Students are being taught primarily applied physics, which is very mature, when they should also be learning about computing, software, systems, artificial intelligence, statistics, and big data. A review of job employment sites, federal reports, and industry needs supports these claims. Russia and China are modernizing rapidly, and educating millions of students in modern disciplines. The U.S. will be left behind if we do not change.
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U2 - 10.1109/AERO.2019.8741981
DO - 10.1109/AERO.2019.8741981
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85068312343
T3 - IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings
BT - 2019 IEEE Aerospace Conference, AERO 2019
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2019 IEEE Aerospace Conference, AERO 2019
Y2 - 2 March 2019 through 9 March 2019
ER -