FORUM: Balancing basics and applications in teaching environmental and water resources engineering

Chin Y. Kuo

International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, 2010, vol. 10, issue 3/4, 400-401

Abstract: This short forum suggest that engineering practitioners, asked about what they expect out of a fresh engineer immediately after their graduation in terms of on-job skills and technical training, prefer that an engineer be able to hit the road and run without too much on-job training. It suggests that engineering undergraduate curricula need to have a good balance in offering both basics and applications to satisfy students who may enter a professional career right away or elect to pursue their graduate studies. The challenges to this are briefly considered.

Keywords: engineering education; environmental education; environmental engineering; water resources engineering. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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