Understanding Curricular Approaches to Communication as a Global Competency: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Teaching and Learning of Communication
As society grows more global and interconnected, the challenges that must be addressed by the next generation of engineers are becoming more complex. Engineers need deep technical expertise, of course, but they also need what have typically been called 21st-century skills, for example, critical thin...
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| author | White, Christina Kay Breslow, Lori Hastings, Daniel E. |
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| description | As society grows more global and interconnected, the challenges that must be addressed by the next generation of engineers are becoming more complex. Engineers need deep technical expertise, of course, but they also need what have typically been called 21st-century skills, for example, critical thinking, problem solving, teamwork, and communication. Technical
knowledge and “soft” skills are complementary, and both are necessary if engineers are to help solve the most serious problems our societies face. This call for engineering education to position itself so students can meet modern challenges was laid out by the leaders of the National
Academy of Engineering (NAE) in their influential reports, The Engineer of 2020. There is now a need to reflect on how engineering education has positively changed in the decade since those reports, and to consider what still needs to be tackled. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1058092022-10-01T23:42:23Z Understanding Curricular Approaches to Communication as a Global Competency: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Teaching and Learning of Communication White, Christina Kay Breslow, Lori Hastings, Daniel E. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Singapore-MIT Alliance in Research and Technology (SMART) Sloan School of Management Hastings, Daniel E White, Christina Kay Breslow, Lori Hastings, Daniel E As society grows more global and interconnected, the challenges that must be addressed by the next generation of engineers are becoming more complex. Engineers need deep technical expertise, of course, but they also need what have typically been called 21st-century skills, for example, critical thinking, problem solving, teamwork, and communication. Technical knowledge and “soft” skills are complementary, and both are necessary if engineers are to help solve the most serious problems our societies face. This call for engineering education to position itself so students can meet modern challenges was laid out by the leaders of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in their influential reports, The Engineer of 2020. There is now a need to reflect on how engineering education has positively changed in the decade since those reports, and to consider what still needs to be tackled. 2016-12-13T16:41:13Z 2016-12-13T16:41:13Z 2015-06 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 978-0-692-50180-1 2153-5965 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105809 White, Christina, Lori Breslow, and Daniel Hastings. “Understanding Curricular Approaches to Communication as a Global Competency: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Teaching and Learning of Communication.” ASEE Conferences, 2015. 26.1621.1-26.1621.11. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0706-5184 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4421-5110 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.18260/p.24957 2015 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Proceedings Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Prof. Hastings via Barbara Williams |
| spellingShingle | White, Christina Kay Breslow, Lori Hastings, Daniel E. Understanding Curricular Approaches to Communication as a Global Competency: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Teaching and Learning of Communication |
| title | Understanding Curricular Approaches to Communication as a Global Competency: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Teaching and Learning of Communication |
| title_full | Understanding Curricular Approaches to Communication as a Global Competency: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Teaching and Learning of Communication |
| title_fullStr | Understanding Curricular Approaches to Communication as a Global Competency: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Teaching and Learning of Communication |
| title_full_unstemmed | Understanding Curricular Approaches to Communication as a Global Competency: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Teaching and Learning of Communication |
| title_short | Understanding Curricular Approaches to Communication as a Global Competency: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Teaching and Learning of Communication |
| title_sort | understanding curricular approaches to communication as a global competency an interdisciplinary study of the teaching and learning of communication |
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