There is something wrong with engineering education. At root the problems stem from a mismatch between the aims of university courses and the needs of the profession.
After the second world war most engineering degrees were changed worldwide from a design based professional/technical education to a scientific/mathematical education which relied on industry to make engineers.
This basis for engineering education is now so established that many cannot imagine ever going back, but the future is not in a model inspired by the development of the atomic bomb, the space race, and supersonic passenger jets.
These are the future of the past. Today's problems need the practical problem solvers which the old model used to produce.
After the second world war most engineering degrees were changed worldwide from a design based professional/technical education to a scientific/mathematical education which relied on industry to make engineers.
This basis for engineering education is now so established that many cannot imagine ever going back, but the future is not in a model inspired by the development of the atomic bomb, the space race, and supersonic passenger jets.
These are the future of the past. Today's problems need the practical problem solvers which the old model used to produce.
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