FIU-NSF Workshop 1 Workforce for the 21 st Century – The Morphing of Engineering Education March 8, 2012 Keynote Address: Joseph Bordogna A Metaphor: The World Turns on its Axis - The "This" in "We Can Do This" Core Thread: Pathways vs Pipelines Subtitles: Orchestrated Cacophony Symphonic Eclecticism The Snorri Story Flat World, Spiky World, Round World Conceive/Design/Implement/Operate Integrative Holism STEM and Pathways ENGINEERING! Integrating All Knowledge to Some Purpose
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FIU-NSF Workshop
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Workforce for the 21st Century – The Morphing of Engineering EducationMarch 8, 2012
Keynote Address: Joseph Bordogna
A Metaphor:The World Turns on its Axis - The "This" in "We Can Do This"
The Snorri StoryFlat World, Spiky World, Round WorldConceive/Design/Implement/Operate
Integrative HolismSTEM and Pathways
ENGINEERING!
Integrating All Knowledge to Some Purpose
Source: José Ortega y Gasset, Mission of the University, Princeton University Press, 1944
• "The need to create sound syntheses and systemizations of knowledge...will call out a kind of scientific genius which hitherto has existed only as an aberration: the genius for integration.
• Of necessity this means specialization, as all creative effort does, but this time, the (person) will be specializing in the construction of the whole.
• The momentum which impels investigation to dissociate indefinitely into particular problems, the pulverization of research, makes necessary a comprehensive control - as in any healthy organization - which is to be furnished by a force pulling in the opposite direction, constraining centrifugal science into a wholesome organization...the selection of professors will depend not on their rank as investigators but on their talent for synthesis."
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The 21st Century Kernel
Source: The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written By Himself, 2nd American Edition, Philadelphia, Printed For Benjamin Johnson, No. 147 High Street, Philadelphia, 1794
Knowledge Diffusion Infrastructure
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"It is in the regions of ignorance that tyranny reigns. It [tyranny] flies before the light of science. Let the citizens of America, then, encourage institutions calculated to diffuse knowledge amongst the people; and amongst these, public libraries are not the least important."
18th Century
21st CenturyCyberinfrastructure
The U.S. EngineerEnabling the Nation’s Capacity to Perform
Reductionism-fractionization Integration: connecting the parts
Develop order Correlate chaos
Understand certainty Handle ambiguity
Analysis Synthesis
Research/conceive Design/process
Solve problems Formulate problems
Develop ideas Implement ideas
Independence Teamwork
Technological-scientific base Societal context
Engineering science Engineering
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Seeing by Looking
"I never predict. I just look out the window and see what's visible but not yet seen."
Peter Drucker
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Seeing What’s Visible21St Century Academe
Conventional Emerging
Department based Topic based
Campus centric Global reach
Building-block courses Holistic curriculum
Few links to industry Robust industry partnership
Research vs education Integration of research and education
Isolated from community Community engagement
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Innovation System – Concurrent IntegrationThe dynamic integration of talent, investment and infrastructure
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InnovationWealth Creation
Jobs
Analysis Reduction
Synthesis Integration
Discovery of New Knowledge
Societal NeedsThe Public GoodNatural Capital
DevicesProcessesSystems
IdeasInformationInfrastructure
Capital Formation & InvestmentMarket PlaceSkilled Workforce
DesignMaking & MovingSustenance
PEOPLE
IDEAS TOOLS
Technoloy
Policy Context
ScienceEngineering
Economic Context
"What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?”
Source: James Madison (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/james_madison_4.html)9
