A Workshop on Redefining Mechanical Engineering

一群机械工程系主任建议举办一个为期两天的研讨会，以发展新的想法，扩大机械工程专业所依赖的基础。 研讨会的目标是通过增加机械工程的广度来重新定义机械工程领域，从传统的基于物理学的机械工程到基于其他科学和工程领域的机械工程，如生物科学，信息技术，材料科学和医学。工程的不断变化的性质，一个不再与其他学科和技术有明确界限或界限的学科，要求在机械工程的研究和教育领域，还没有被认为是传统学科的一部分新的重点。是探索如何使机械工程教育和研究更好地响应其他技术和学科的变化，并使其对最优秀和最聪明的人更具吸引力，包括女性和传统上代表性不足的学生和教师群体。

A group of Mechanical Engineering Department Heads proposes to hold a 2-day workshop to develop new ideas by which to broaden the basis upon which mechanical engineering profession has relied. The goal of the workshop is the redefine the field of mechanical engineering by increasing the breadth of mechanical engineering from one that is traditionally based on physics to one that is based also on other fields of science and engineering, such as biological sciences, information technology, material science, and medicine.The changing nature of engineering, one that no longer has clear demarcations or boundaries with other disciplines and technologies, requires new emphasis in mechanical engineering on areas of research and education that have not been considered as part of the traditional discipline.The objective of the workshop is to explore ways by which we can make mechanical engineering education and research more responsive to the changes in other technologies and disciplines, and also make it more attractive to the best and the brightest, including women and traditionally underrepresented, groups of students and faculty.