A broader perspective
Engineering educators should be challenged to devise an engineering-based “liberal education” for students of the next century.
Engineering principles and modes of thought should be the centerpiece of what the liberally educated person should be expected to know in the world of the future.
We should develop and promote a new kind of engineering education as a primary option for a “liberal education” for the 21st Century.
We will produce many more leaders–in politics, finance, industry, law–with an education attuned to the issues and challenges of the century, most of which have dominant technical themes.