As UNESCO undertakes a new engineering initiative you may wish to review the major report on world engineering introduced in the World Engineers Convention in 2008 and published in 2009.
Thank you for this very extensive report that highlights important issues in our future. I think that, in part, engineers have done such a great job of obfuscating their own hard work that people are not even certain of what engineers do.
Part of the solution to the brain-drain and the low enrollment in engineering should be to show more clearly how exciting engineering is, to include truth-windows into our work, and to remove the myth that you must be great at math to consider engineering as a path.
An even bigger part of the solution should be to use engineering to bring context to K-12 classes. Students now, more than ever, are clamoring for context... a reason to be learning. I have found that real engineering problems or opportunities, with real clients, around the world or in your own community, are a fitting, exciting, energizing reason to learn.
Thanks again for the report and thanks for the recognition of Appropedia.org as a place for sustainable design and engineering knowledge to be shared around the world.
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Thank you for this very extensive report that highlights important issues in our future. I think that, in part, engineers have done such a great job of obfuscating their own hard work that people are not even certain of what engineers do.
Part of the solution to the brain-drain and the low enrollment in engineering should be to show more clearly how exciting engineering is, to include truth-windows into our work, and to remove the myth that you must be great at math to consider engineering as a path.
An even bigger part of the solution should be to use engineering to bring context to K-12 classes. Students now, more than ever, are clamoring for context... a reason to be learning. I have found that real engineering problems or opportunities, with real clients, around the world or in your own community, are a fitting, exciting, energizing reason to learn.
Thanks again for the report and thanks for the recognition of Appropedia.org as a place for sustainable design and engineering knowledge to be shared around the world.
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