Engineer of the Future
What: A Workshop on the Engineer of the Future
When: Wednesday • September 5 • 8:00am to 12:30pm
Where: NCSA Auditorium, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana
Register: Click www.engr.uiuc.edu/engineerofthefuture
Motivation: We live in increasingly fast-paced, competitive times in which modern transportation and communications technologies have increased returns to creativity and reduced returns to routine engineering labor. This workshop initiates a campus conversation to examine the views of the National Academy of Engineering and other views on these topics and to consider their relevance to the Illinois engineer.
Downloads: Unofficial event photos here, pdf announcement flyer here, ppts & videos see below.
Schedule & Program
7:30 Registration and coffee
8:00 Welcome (video)
Dean Ilesanmi Adesida (PDF of remarks here)
Provost Linda Katehi (PDF of remarks here)
8:30 William A. Wulf, National Academy of Engineering
Educating the Engineer of 2020 (video, PDF of remarks)
Two things, both explored by the National Academies in recent reports, are providing impetus for revision of ngineering education—one is the pace of technological change and the other is continued prosperity in a globalized economy. The engineer we are educating today will be in early mid-career in 2020, so it is reasonable to consider what that engineer will be doing in 2020 as we consider what the engineering curriculum should be today. The talk will cover some aspects of the NAE’s deliberations on this as well as the speaker’s “color commentary” on them.
9:30 Sherra E. Kerns, Olin College
Designing Engineers – Ideas on Excellence and Engagement (Video here, PDF of presentation here)
Ideally, an engineering education engages students in a set of challenges that expands their perspectives on opportunity and responsibility while preparing them to contribute to the global society in which they’ll live. This presentation will begin a conversation on attributes of curricula that stimulate student enthusiasm while providing environments for student acquisition of the knowledge, skills and behaviors characteristic of
excellent engineers.
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Panel discussion:
Industry & University of Illinois Perspectives (Video here; For position presentations in ppt form, click on participant below). Participants: Drs. Wulf & Kerns will be joined by Andreas Cangellaris (University of Illinois), David Goldberg (University of Illinois), Michael Loui (University of Illinois), Carl Loweth (Deere & Co.), David Opferman (Armored Computing), Ray Price (University of Illinois)
12:30 Close
William Wulf received his B.S. in Engineering Physics (1961) and MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering (1963) from the University of Illinois and the first Computer Science Ph.D. (1968) awarded at the University of Virginia. After holding a variety of academic positions he Founded Tartan Laboratories serving as Chairman and CEO until 1988 when he became Assistant Director of the NSF. In 1990, he returned to Virginia as AT&T Professor and University Professor. Wulf is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1997 he was elected President of the National Academy of Engineering.
Sherra E. Kerns received her A.B. from Mount Holyoke College, M.A. from the University of Wisconsin, and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, all in physics. She currently is Vice President for Innovation and Research at Olin College. Dr. Kerns is Fellow of the IEEE and ASEE, Past President of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and IEEE representative on the ABET Board of Directors.
Engineer of the Future. This workshop is jointly sponsored by the Dean’s Office, College of Engineering, and ETSI. For more information about the Engineering, Technology, and Culture series, go to the ETSI website at http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/ETSI. For more information about the iFoundry initiative and relevant educational links, go to the iFoundry website here.
Register: Click www.engr.uiuc.edu/engineerofthefuture
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