Preparing
THE Civil Engineer
of the Future
Engineering Education and
Practice for the Global Community
Jeffrey S. Russell, Ph.D., P.E. (Chair, CAP^3)
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Vision for Tomorrow
• A better prepared engineer
• More agile, flexible, global, and
competitive
A profession that attracts, retains, and
develops a diverse student body where
students find relevance, meaning, and
significance in the quest to improve the
human condition.
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A Profession*
Organization
Ethic of
Professional Service
Body of Knowledge
* Lawson, W.D. (2004). “Professionalism: The Golden Years.”
Journal of Professional Issues in Engr (ASCE).
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Knowledge, skills, and attitudes
necessary to become a licensed
professional civil engineer.
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BOK – The
BIG Picture
1. Fundamentals -- math, science, and
engr science.
2. Technical breadth.
3. Breadth in the humanities & social
sciences.
4. Professional practice breadth.
5. Specialization (Technical depth).
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Civil Engineering
Body of Knowledge
TECHNICAL
PROFESSIONAL
Technical core
Inter-disciplinary teams
Experimentation
Professional & ethical standards
Design
Communication
Engineering problems
Impact of engineering
Engineering tools
Life-long learning
Specialized area of civil
engineering
Contemporary issues
Project management,
construction, and asset mgmt.
Business & public policy
Leadership
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BOK Profile
The “Bottom Line”
Problem Statement
The Body of Knowledge (BOK)
necessary to enter the practice of civil
engineering at the professional level in
the future is beyond the scope of the
traditional 4-year bachelor’s degree
and required experience.
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Trend in Reduced
Total Credit-Hours
Credits
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“It is evident that the exploding body of
science and engineering knowledge can
not be accommodated within the context
of the traditional four year baccalaureate
degree.”
“The baccalaureate degree should be
recognized as the “pre-engineering”
degree . . . ”
Educating the Engineer of 2020
The National Academy of Engineering, 2005
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Vision of Full
Realization of PS 465
Practice of CE at the
Professional Level
Body of Specialized
Knowledge
Baccalaureate
Education
Add’l
Education
Experience
Licensure
More Experience
and
Lifelong Learning
and Possibly
Specialty
Certification
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Information and Knowledgeable
Points of Contact
www.asce.org/raisethebar
www.asce.org/raisethebar
For more information visit the ASCE website
If you have questions or comments, please contact
Jeff Russell: 608-262-7244
russell@engr.wisc.edu
Stu Walesh: 219-464-1704
stuwalesh@comcast.net
Tom Lenox: 800-548-2723
tlenox@asce.org
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Selected Global Trends
• Global Economy
– ~50% of the world’s population entered the market
economy in the last ~10 years
– Increasingly competitive at all technology levels
• Demographic changes
– Aging population, declining birth rates in developed
countries
– Will drive pressures for students and workforce
• Technology revolution
– Revolutionary innovation is occurring in all scientific
and technological fields
– Driven by accelerating exponential growth rate of IT
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IT Future Trends
• Everything will become connected
– Devices, systems, machines, business processes, even
networks
• Digital technology is making transactions ‘smarter’
– Tiny processors see, listen, and pass messages to one
another in sensor networks
• Digital technology is spawning new technical areas
and creating new sub-industries
– Molecular-level drug design, genomics – gene diagnostics and
therapies
Implications: continuing culture changes
Source: W. B. Arthur, Fortune, Nov. 2003 “:P. Saffo, Inst. for the Future
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Global Environmental Issues
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Global warming
Energy supplies
Population pressure
Other resource limitations
All are major engineering challenges
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Role of U.S. Research
Universities
• The standard of living and economic growth of
a nation is proportional to the education of its
population
• R&D investment and economic strength are
strongly correlated
• Technology and energy are the industries of
the 21st Century
• U.S. research universities have become the
basic research labs of the nation
Source: C. R. Barrett, 2004 NAE Annual Meeting
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International Competition in
Higher Ed
• International competition in higher education and to
U.S. research universities is increasing
– Nations want to keep their best and brightest at home
• Countries in the EU created the Bologna Accord
– All research universities in countries in the EU, and other
countries in Europe, will offer a three-year B.S., two-year M.S.
and a PhD by January 2010
– All courses will be taught in English
• China’s strategic intent: create 10 world-class
research universities by 2010
– Last year universities in Asia graduated ~six times as many
students with Bachelor’s degrees in engineering as U.S.
universities did
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Attributes of Engineers in
2020: NAE View
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Strong analytical skills
Practical ingenuity
Creativity
Good communication skills
Understand business and management
Understand principles of leadership
High ethical standards
Professionalism
Dynamic, agile, resilient, and flexible
Lifelong learners
Source: “The Engineer of 2020” NAE
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