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Engineering the End of Technology

Engineering the End of Technology. Domenico Grasso, Ph.D., P.E., DEE Dean & Professor. [video clip from Jurassic Park unavailable, but for commentary, see http://benlast.livejournal.com/10690.html . - Symposium organizers.]. The Power of Engineering Thought. Need to produce for 2012.

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Engineering the End of Technology

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  1. Engineering the End of Technology Domenico Grasso, Ph.D., P.E., DEE Dean & Professor

  2. [video clip from Jurassic Park unavailable, but for commentary, see http://benlast.livejournal.com/10690.html . - Symposium organizers.]

  3. The Power of Engineering Thought

  4. Need to produce for 2012 Grasso & Helble, IEEE 2007

  5. Engineering en·gi·neer·ing  P   Pronunciation Key  ( n j -nîr ng)n. • The application of scientific and mathematical principles to practical ends such as the design, manufacture, and operation of efficient and economical structures, machines, processes, and systems. • Necessary but not sufficient

  6. Public Perceptions of Engineering AAES/Harris Polls, 2003 Courtesy of Leah Jamieson

  7. Engineering Traditional EngineeringLinear Science & Math Humanity 85% 15% “If it weren’t for the people…always getting tangled up in the machinery…the world would be an engineer’s paradise.” Kurt Vonnegut

  8. Bioengineering Feats [listen to the podcast at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90014997 - Symposium organizers

  9. Biotech/IT Enivr./Energy Sputnik US Bachelor’s degrees in engineering by year Grasso & Helble, IEEE 2007

  10. Traditional Education Concept of equality 2 + 2 = 4

  11. Satisfaction 13 -8

  12. Algorithm Paralysis 1,000,003 -999,998

  13. The traditional approach to technological education starts when we are young

  14. The real world is more like this Without lifting pen from paper,connect the dots with four lines

  15. ?!?!? Algorithm Paralysis

  16. http://www.prosoundweb.com/fun/Photofun/43_thinkoutofbox.jpg

  17. Engineering Algorithm ParalysisDimensions First • 120 MIT ME Seniors • Provide Units Source: Woodie Flowers, “New Media’s Impact on Education Strategies”http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ffpiu016.pdf

  18. “Anthropogenic Impact on Global Geodynamics Due to Reservoir Water Impoundments” Benjamin Fong Chao, NASA Geophysical Research Letters 22 (24): 3529-3532, 1995 Length of a day -8 x 10-6 sec

  19. Austria Germany Japan Netherlands United States • Key Finding: • Between 1/2 and 3/4 industrial inputs are returned to the environment as waste within 1 year! Technological Algorithm Paralysis

  20. Today’s problems come from yesterday’s solutions. Peter M. Senge, “The Fifth Discipline”

  21. Corporate America Responding The center of gravity for innovation is shifting from solving narrow problems focused primarily on technology to issues and opportunities confronting us at the societal level. IBM Technology is not Enough

  22. Click here to view the presentation: https://umconnect.umn.edu/didyouknow/ - Symposium organizers

  23. . Shift to Services Top Ten Nations by Labor Force Size (about 50% of world labor in just 10 nations) A = Agriculture, G = Goods, S = Services 2008 2008 United States (A) Agriculture: Value from harvesting nature (G) Goods: Value from making products (S) Services: Value from enhancing the capabilities of things (customizing, distributing, etc.) and interactions between things The largest labor force migration in human history is underway, driven by global communications, business and technology growth, urbanization and low cost labor. >50% (S) services, >33% (S) services Courtesy of

  24. Employed individuals with engineering highest degrees whose jobs are closely related to field of highest degree, by years since degree: 2003 Grasso & Helble, IEEE 2007

  25. What We Teach What Students LearnWhat Engineers Need • MIT Mechanical Engineering Graduates 1992-1996 (10 years out) • 676 email requests • 308 completed the survey • 46% response rate Data source: Kristen Wolfe, 2004,“Understanding the Careers of the Alumni of the MIT Mechanical Engineering Department”, SB Thesis, MIT Adapted by Jun-Ki Choi – Center for Resilience, Ohio State University

  26. Elsewhere/ Didn’t learn at all Job Grad Where did you learn what you know? 100% 80% 60% 40% 20% 0% Undergrad

  27. Frequently Occasion Hardly ever Frequency of use 100% 80% 60% 40% 20% 0% Pervasively Never

  28. Click to view the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO8x8eoU3L4

  29. Source: “Tough Choices or Tough Times”

  30. University Education “… a movement away from subject matter toward to intellectual capacities as an organizing concept” Carol Christ • Intellectual Power • Critical thinking • Reasoned judgment • Engage in the great debates that define our times

  31. Unity of Knowledge “…integration between engineering and liberal arts must take place at fundamental intellectual levels” Stephen Ainlay • The greatest enterprise of the mind has always been and always will be the attempted linkage of the sciences and humanities • E.O. Wilson • Consilience, 1998

  32. A New Holistic Definition of Engineering The greatest enterprise of the mind The linkage of the sciences and the humanities Application of quantitative methods to serve humanity

  33. Engineering ThoughtUnityVisionMethods • Unity of knowledge (different modes of thought and reason) • Vision for making a difference in the world • Methods to make a difference “A cornerstone of any undergraduate education should be learning how to solve problems” Lance Schacheterle

  34. Computer Science & Info. Systems Industrial and Systems Engineering Organizational Change & Learning Business Anthropology Science and Engineering Economics and Social Sciences Humanities and Arts Business and Management SSME is an emerging multidisciplinary field Adapted Courtesy of

  35. Holistic Engineering Science & Math Humanity Engineering

  36. Multiple Ways Forward • Slim down ABET accredited degrees to minimum technical requirements • Create a BS in engineering science • Create a BA in engineering • Others???

  37. BA BS Curriculum EvolutionFitness Landscape Adapted from classes.yale.edu/.../FitnessLandscape.gif

  38. Engineering Practice and ResearchExpand the Solution Space http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/138784main_image_feature_460_ys_4.jpg

  39. Complex System “The greatest challenge today … is the accurate and complete description of complex systems. Scientists have broken down many kinds of systems… The next task is to reassemble them, … that capture the key properties of the entire ensembles.” Prof. E. O. Wilson, Harvard Consilience

  40. Research Analog to the Unity of Knowledge Complex Systems • System of Systems • Emergent behavior: • Behavior at a higher level is the result of many behaviors at lower levels. • Sometimes adaptive • Cannot predict from constitutive parts

  41. Simple Complicated Complex Simple, Complicated, Complex

  42. Holistic Engineering, Design, and InnovationHEDI • “The next century will be the century of complexity.” Stephen Hawking • “Chance favors the prepared mind.” Louis Pasteur

  43. Stockholm Traffic Problem http://www.seedforum.org/userfiles/Stockholm(1).jpg

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