What is missing for traditional design-centric engineering education to better prepare newly graduated engineers for the global era?

• Autores: Fernando Martini Catalano, Álvaro Martins Abdalla, Fulvio Luiz Delicato Filho
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 28, no. Extra 4, 2012, págs. 852-858
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper presents an analysis of the capacity of design centric methodologies to prepare engineering students to succeed in themarket. Gaps are brainstormed and analyzed with reference to their importance. Reasons that may lead the newly graduatedengineers not to succeed right from the beginning of their professional lives have also been evaluated. A comparison among the two subjects above was prepared, reviewed and analyzed. The influence of multidisciplinary, multicultural and complexenvironmental influences created in the current global business era is taken into account. The industry requirements in terms ofwhat they expect to ‘receive’ from their engineers are evaluated and compared to the remaining of the study above. An innovativeapproach to current engineering education that utilizes traditional design-centric methodologies is then proposed, aggregating newdisciplines to supplement the traditional engineering education. The solution encompasses the inclusion of disciplines from HumanSciences and Emotional Intelligence fields willing to better prepare the engineer of tomorrow to work in a multidisciplinary,globalized, complex and team working environment. A pilot implementation of such an approach is reviewed and conclusions aredrawn from this educational project.