TEDxUIUC - David E. Goldberg - 7 Missing Basics of Engineering
David Goldberg talks about seven skills that engineers are missing, skills that are essential for them to be effective in the 21st century. David E. Goldberg is CEO of ThreeJoy Associates,...
========== Translator: Mohand Habchi
Reviewer: Tatjana Jevdjic So I'm David Goldberg,
and 51 days ago I resigned my tenure
at the University of Illinois, to start a consultancy
and an executive coaching firm to help transform engineering education
in this country and around the world. In the next 6 minutes,
I want to tell you a little story about why that's so important to me
and why this is important to you. The story begins
at the end of World War II, the beginning of what became
the Cold War. Engineering education
and engineering practice, realigned themselves with the perception
that physics won the war, and as a result design
and practical subjects were removed from engineering training
and in part from engineering practice. Fast-forward to our times,
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