- Conference Session
- Educational Strategies in Architectural Engineering
- Collection
- 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
- Authors
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Gouranga Banik, Tennessee State University
- Tagged Divisions
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Architectural
making, ethics and professionalism, public policy, diversity, projectmanagement, risk management, and dispute resolution.Skill Sets Needed for the 21st Century EngineerWhile engineers remain strong in terms of their technological skills, they are generally weak interms of their management and communication capabilities. They do not fully understand theconcept of globalization; they may not have a firm grasp of the issues confronting the 21st-century engineer; they lack the competencies that would enable them to rise to leadershippositions within government and industry; and they are not developing curricula that would trainengineers to anticipate and focus on the rapid changes by which the 21st century will be at leastpartially defined (NAE