Francis, N. and Norton, E. (2024) Educating civil engineers for the twenty-first century: the ‘new-model engineer. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engineering, 177 (2). pp. 63-71. ISSN 0965-089X
Abstract
Civil engineering has transformed the health, wealth and well-being of societies over the past 200 years but is also driving the global climate and environmental crises. This paper proposes the educational requirements for a ‘new-model engineer’, whose threshold knowledge of engineering fundamentals, outstanding connective skills and holistic systems thinking will empower them to be a responsible part of a more stable socio-ecological system. The approach represents a sea change in civil engineering education, which the authors believe represents the most exciting opportunity for the profession in two centuries.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Except as otherwise noted, this author-accepted version of a journal article published in Civil Engineering is made available via the University of Sheffield Research Publications and Copyright Policy under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Keywords: | Engineering; Engineering Practice and Education; Quality Education |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Civil and Structural Engineering (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 20 Dec 2023 14:18 |
Last Modified: | 25 Oct 2024 12:05 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Thomas Telford Ltd. |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1680/jcien.23.00108 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:206857 |
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