Beyond technicalities: Expanding engineering thinking
Beyond technicalities: Expanding engineering thinking
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超越技术细节：拓展工程思维
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1999
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S. Beder
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工程学似乎正处于一个转折点。它正在从为雇主和客户提供有效技术建议的职业演变为以对社会负责的方式为社区服务的职业。传统的工程教育迎合了前一种理想，而工程师本身及其专业协会越来越渴望后者。雇主对工程员工的要求也不仅仅是技术熟练程度。需要一种新的教育方法来满足这些不断变化的要求。试图向学生灌输全面的技术知识，希望他们能够在整个职业生涯中完成所需的任何工程任务，这已经不再足够，甚至也不实际。需要一种更广泛、更通用的方法，不仅可以帮助学生理解基本的工程原理，还可以让他们在需要时获得更专业的知识。
Engineering appears to be at a turning point. It is evolving from an occupation that provides employers and clients with competent technical advice to a profession that serves the community in a socially responsible manner. Traditional engineering education caters to the former ideal, whereas increasingly both engineers themselves and their professional societies aspire to the latter. Employers are also requiring more from their engineering employees than technical proficiency. A new educational approach is needed to meet these changing requirements. It is no longer sufficient, nor even practical, to attempt to cram students full of technical knowledge in the hope that it will enable them to do whatever engineering task is required of them throughout their careers. A broader, more general approach is required that not only helps students to understand basic engineering principles but also gives them the ability to acquire more specialized knowledge as the need arises.