Bringing the Liberal Arts to Engineering Education

Students in traditionally narrow disciplines sometimes overlook the value of the liberal arts but according to Lori Bordoloi and James J. Winebrake, “solving the problems of our time – eliminating hunger, preventing terrorism, minimizing our carbon footprint . . .-requires a multidisciplinary approach.”  They believe that integrating the liberal arts into engineering programs to provide the “. . .missing basics of engineering education including design and creativity teamwork and interdisciplinary thinking, and understanding the social, political, historical, and economic context of a project” is essential to a 21^st century engineering education.  Read more at  //chronicle.com/article/Bringing-the-Liberal-Arts-to/229671/