Educate new generations of future proof academic engineers 2016
The recurring concern with the future of the engineering profession illustrates the fact that
TU/e regards itself as a university with a mission. This university of technology aims to
educate new generations of future proof academic engineers, that is, engineers who are
able to make asignificant contribution.
Using state-of-the-art technology, they must be able to contribute
to solving societal problems, but also to the development of new chances and
opportunities. They must have an inquiring and creative attitude, a high degree of
creativity and societal responsibility, as well as the ability to look beyond borders and
to work as team players.3
The world, after all, refuses to be divided neatly into academic
disciplines.
society ten, twenty or forty years into the
future. Nobody is able to predict with any degree of certainty or accuracy what our society
will look like in the future. That is why engineers will have to excel in a number of
generic competences, i.e. competences that are necessary no matter how things turn out.
Engineers of the future must be professionals capable of thinking critically and
independently and must be able to keep developing and renewing their expertise
throughout their career.
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