December 14, 2007
Make Engineering a Liberal Art With Social Relevance, Report Suggests
The pace of change in engineering education is "glacial" and needs to accelerate greatly for American engineers to compete economically and solve society's pressing problems, writes James J. Duderstadt, a leading advocate of change, in a new report.
In particular, engineers should receive a liberal-arts education as undergraduates and then pursue graduate degrees as a standard route into the profession, says Mr. Duderstadt, a president emeritus of the University of Michigan at
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