Quiet No Longer: Birth of a New Discipline
Quiet No Longer: Birth of a New Discipline
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不再安静：新学科的诞生
DOI：
10.1002/j.2168-9830.2005.tb00862.x
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发表时间：
2005
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
K. Haghighi
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作者：
K. Haghighi
他们说，明天的毕业生将在一个以快速创新为动力、以惊人的技术突破速度为标志的新兴全球经济中竞争。工程师将驾驭一个不断变化的社会框架，该框架由延长寿命的技术增强;实现尚未想象的通信手段;通过加速产品开发周期创造财富和经济增长;在新兴领域需要多学科的努力;并将来自全球各地的虚拟工程团队联系起来。技术与社会的彻底融合将挑战工程师的分析技能、创造力和领导力;要求工程师参与公共政策;并要求在道德上适应发展中国家的限制。国与国之间的政治和经济关系、全球市场、国家安全问题以及多语言的影响将极大地影响工程实践。但是，我们的高科技部门是否有准备好竞争并成为公元前世界的领导者的天才工程师呢？不幸的是，有据可查的转型唤醒呼吁也概述了令人担忧的趋势，即兴趣下降，准备不足，缺乏多样化的代表性，以及我们当前和未来的美国工程专业学生的持久性低。
Tomorrow's graduate, they said, will compete in an emerging global economy that is fueled by rapid innovation and marked by an astonishing pace of technological breakthroughs. Engineers will navigate a shifting societal framework enhanced by tech-nologies that lcngthcn life spans; enable yet-to-be imagined means of communication; create wealth and economic growth through accelerated product development cycles; require multi-disciplinary efforts in emerging areas; and link virtual engineering teams from global locations. The thorough integration of technology with society will challenge the analytical skills, creativity, and leadership of engineers; demand participation ofen-gineers in public policy; and require ethical adaptations to constraints of developing countries. Political and economic relations between nations, the global marketplace, national security issues and multilingual influences will dramatically shape engineering practice.But will our high technology sector have the talented engineers prepared to compete and be lcaders in this world to bc? Unfortu-nately, the well-documented wake-up call for transformation also outlined alarming trends of declining interest, poor preparedness, a lack of diverse representation, and low persistence of our current and future US engineering students.