Beyond 2020: Preparing Engineers for the Future

The Future of Environmental Public Health Tracking: 2020 and Beyond.

Pediatrics in the year 2020 and beyond: preparing for plausible futures.

Although the future of pediatrics is uncertain, the organizations that lead pediatrics, and the professionals who practice within it, have embraced the notion that the pediatric community must anticipate and lead change to ultimately improve the health of children and adolescents. In an attempt to proactively prepare for a variety of conceivable futures, the board of directors of the American A...

Preparing for the Future

The European Tripartite Group composed of ESA, the European Commission and EUROCONTROL is implementing, through the EGNOS project, the European contribution to the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS-1). EGNOS, aimed at augmenting GPS and Glonass navigation, will provide and guarantee navigation signals for aeronautical, maritime and land mobile TransEuropean network applications. ESA is r...

Preparing Systems Engineers of Tomorrow

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics has documented a definite and remarkable shift in jobs away from emphasis on programming and logic design towards emphasis on systems, applications, and management. We need to reorient our curriculum and our students to develop systems design skills in these students. An engineering product designed in a vacuum without appropriate stakeholder input may fail in ...

Preparing future engineers for challenges of the 21st century: Sustainable engineering

The field of engineering is changing rapidly as the growing global population puts added demands on the earth’s resources: engineering decisionsmust nowaccount for limitations inmaterials and energy aswell as the need to reduce discharges of wastes. This means educators must revise courses and curricula so engineering graduates are prepared for the new challenges as practicing engineers. The Ce...