Educating Future Engineers by Learning about Design Processes

I had the pleasure of attending the Clive L. Dym Mudd Design Workshop at Harvey Mudd College earlier this month. There were many good talks about design research and some discussion of the  skills that engineering students in the future need to learn.

I was given the opportunity to present a poster based on an abstract that I submitted.  You can find the extended abstract here.  The short abstract follows: 

Engineers in the near future should have strong analytical skills, practical ingenuity, and creativity. These engineers should also be dynamic, agile, resilient, and flexible; that is, they should be able to adapt. Consistent with this view, this paper presents a specific vision of what these engineers should be able to do in the years ahead to adapt to the ever-changing needs of society and a vision of how design education should adapt as well.