Conference Session

Subjects in Renewable Energy and ET

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Peter Kuehn, The Urban Institute; Melvin L. Roberts P.E., Camden County College; Walter W. Buchanan P.E., Texas A&M University; Greg Pearson, National Academy of Engineering

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

meet the demands ofan increasingly “flat” world, where competencies that go beyond pure technical skills, includingcreativity, leadership, flexibility, and communication, are becoming more and more essential.3, 4Traditional engineering education is also being challenged to respond to emerging fields that blurdisciplinary boundaries, such as nanotechnology, synthetic biology, and biomemetics. Manyworry that the U.S. production of engineering graduates lags well behind that of some notablecompetitor nations, such as China, a shortfall not only in absolute numbers but also in the overallpercentage of college graduates who have an engineering degree.1What has been largely absent from most discussions of the future of the US technical workforceis