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NEEDS is a digital library designed for engineering faculty and students of all ages with links to online learning materials in engineering and related areas of science and math.

As we focus on the Engineer 2020 Phase II Report, NEEDS invites you to learn more about engineering.

The Engineer of 2020: Adapting Engineering Education to the New Century

"...many people are unclear about what engineers do, and high school students have no idea what an engineering education offers.

If the United States is to maintain its economic leadership and sustain its share of high-technology jobs, it must prepare for future technological and societal changes.

We need to make engineering, as a career choice, more attractive."

- G. Wayne Clough, President,
Georgia Institute of Technology

The Engineer of 2020:

Phase I Report

Comment on Phase I Report

Phase II Report

Comment on Phase II Report

Written from the perspective of engineering practice, the Phase II report of The Engineer 2020 focuses on the discussion of the action steps for changing and improving the education and training of engineers in order to ensure their ability to face the complexities future technologies hold.

The Phase II report outlines 14 specific recommendations to change the way engineering education is approached, including encouraging participation in a coordinated national effort to promote public understanding of engineering and technology literacy of the public. This may make easier to solve what the NAE sums up as the major concern for the future of engineering: "The undergraduate engineering experience needs to be reshaped to attract students to the profession, prepare them to compete in the global marketplace, and ensure that America's pre-eminence in engineering is not lost..."

--National Acadamies June 23, 2005 press release "Engineers of Tomorrow Need Broader Training Today".

FUTURE THEMES

Mobile Learning

MEMS/Nano Technology

Bio-/Medical Engineering

Hispanic Engineers

Women and Information Technology

PAST THEMES

Premier Award Call for Submissions

Service Learning

African American Engineers

Engineer 2020 - Phase I

Premier Courseware of 2004

Pre-Engineering in K-12

100 Years of Flight

Premier Courseware of 2003

Gender Equity

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