This piece is for everyone involved in engineering practice. The article I have cited below brings out a major issue in how engineering is taught everywhere. Dr. Kevin C Craig mainly criticizes how in the engineering curriculum we teach skills in isolation and very little attention is paid to "playing the game". By playing the game he compares it with training of a baseball player where a rookie learns all the skills as well as how to use them together to play. In case of an engineer it will be actually engineering things while using all the skills he learns in isolation, without a good feel of how they are to be used together. How to use the skills learnt individually and in combination is vital to creating good engineers.
In our context, the situation is even more pathetic. The so-called engineers we churn out every year are woefully short on those individual skills. Capability to use them together is something they are not very capable of . We, the trainers are to blame for that I would think.
Take engineering education in context - 2011-04-21 10:00:00 | EDN
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