Industry and Academic Relations - Engineering Education and the Future of the Engineering Workforce 2010-01-2300
With the current increase in concern and awareness regarding sustainability and energy, a new focus has been placed on the field of engineering. In this realm of focus, how to educate engineers, more specifically how to continually educate engineers to keep up with technology and the changing workforce has become a very important topic of interest. There exists a gap between graduate studies and professional implementation of technology which the Energy Systems Engineering [ESE] program currently in deployment and development between the University of Michigan and General Motors seeks to address. This work outlines current efforts in encouraging new engineers to enter the field, but focuses primarily on continuing and re-educating the workforce to meet the needs of new technologies. Examples of academic-industry cooperation will be discussed, with some focus on the benefit and experience of the student.
Citation: Malek, A., "Industry and Academic Relations - Engineering Education and the Future of the Engineering Workforce," SAE Technical Paper 2010-01-2300, 2010, https://doi.org/10.4271/2010-01-2300. Download Citation
Author(s):
Alisyn Malek
Affiliated:
General Motors
Pages: 4
Event:
SAE Convergence 2010
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Related Topics:
Systems engineering
Education and training
Sustainable development
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