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Title: Liberal Education in Twenty-First Century Engineering

Liberal Education in Twenty-First Century Engineering

Responses to ABET/EC 2000 Criteria

by David F. Ollis (Volume editor) Kathryn A. Neeley (Volume editor) Heinz C. Luegenbiehl (Volume editor)
©2004 Textbook XXXII, 354 Pages
Education
Series: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI Studies) , Volume 23

Summary

Twenty-first century engineering education must meet radically revised national accreditation standards, known colloquially as EC2000. This book shows paths forward for all faculty involved in the «liberal education» of engineering undergraduates. Beginning with an exhortation for liberal education, it includes the EC2000 criteria and its historical origin, as well as example institutional and individual responses to these criteria – which include topics in communication, ethics and professional responsibility, contemporary issues, art and aesthetics, and the integration of engineering and the humanities. The variety of curricular responses presented indicate that this is a formative – perhaps even revolutionary – period in engineering education.

Details

Pages
XXXII, 354
Year
2004
ISBN (Softcover)
9780820449241
Language
English
Keywords
Accreditation standards Communication Professional responsibility Undergraduate Ethics
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 2004. XXXII, 354 pp.

Biographical notes

David F. Ollis (Volume editor) Kathryn A. Neeley (Volume editor) Heinz C. Luegenbiehl (Volume editor)

The Editors: David F. Ollis, Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University, is a past program chair and division chair of the Liberal Education Division (LED) of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). Kathryn A. Neeley, Associate Professor of Technology, Communication and Culture at the School of Engineering, University of Virginia, is past chair of both LED/ASEE and the Humanities and Technology Association, and author of Mary Somerville: Science, Illumination, and the Female Mind (2001). Heinz C. Luegenbiehl, Head of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Professor of Philosophy and Technology Studies at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana, is a former chair of LED/ASEE and vice president of the Humanities and Technology Association, and has held various visiting professorships, most recently at Kanazawa Institute of Technology in Japan.

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