Workshop: Engineering Education in the 21st Century; Honolulu, Hawaii; June 22, 2009

该奖项支持举办一个名为“21世纪工程教育”的研讨会。该研讨会将与美国国家科学基金会土木、机械和制造创新部门2009年受助人会议同时举行。它将针对当前的工程课程，特别是寻找课程薄弱或缺乏的领域，并将建议应该得到重视的领域。讨论的主题将包括21世纪工程师的角色，文科在工程课程中的作用，系统推理和多学科未来的组织。这次研讨会可能会影响教育家，他们将是未来十年重构国家工程课程的人。它将成为富有成效的变革方向的信息和思想来源，它将帮助实现更有效的变革，从而使国家受益。

This award supports the conduct of a workshop entitled "Engineering Education in the 21st Century." This workshop will be held concurrent with and co-located with the NSF Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation 2009 Grantees Conference. It will address the current engineering curriculum, particularly looking for areas where the curriculum is weak or lacking, and it will suggest areas that should receive emphasis. Topics that will be discussed will include the role of the engineer in the 21st Century, the role of liberal arts in an engineering curriculum, systems reasoning and organizing for a multi-disciplinary future.The workshop is likely to influence educators who will be the people who restructure the engineering curricula of the nation over the next decade. It will serve as one source of information and thought on fruitful directions of change, and it will benefit the nation by helping to effect more efficacious change.