Today, our manufacturing enterprises exist in a climate of accelerating change. This climate necessitates that engineers understand a systems approach and that they can function as integrators in the process of design and manufacture of products and services. Consequentially, it is incumbent upon our educational systems to see that the education and training of future work forces, as well as the retraining of present workers, include an interdisciplinary approach. Such an approach will produce engineers capable of imparting knowledge integrated from a holistic view and applying a systems approach to practical solutions. The old principles where one understands a single system and attempts to assemble the resulting systems from that perspective are no longer viable. To be the best no longer means building a manufacturing advantage around standard designs and mass production of products. Organizations must be both flexible and agile in order to achieve a level of quality that will enable them to benchmark against the best. Engineers of the 21st Century will face issues in an exploding environment, expanding their vision from the factory floor to interaction with businesses globally. Product sophistication, advanced tools, a global manufacturing environment, and a multitude of social and economic changes will add to the exploding scope of the engineer. All of this means the engineer must be educated to respond to these conditions.


    Access

    Check access

    Check availability in my library

    Order at Subito €


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    A SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE NEEDED FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    SAE 2004 World Congress & Exhibition ; 2004



    Publication date :

    2004-03-08




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




    A systems perspective needed for engineering education

    Mizdail,B.E. | Automotive engineering | 2004


    A SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE NEEDED FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION

    Mizdail, B. E. / Society of Automotive Engineers | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2004


    Safety education needed

    Seilheimer, H. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1928


    Columns - Engineering Input Needed!!

    Lefevre, Russell J. | Online Contents | 2002