Friday, June 02, 2006

Tubas and Test Tubes

Recently ran into this chapter from Thomas L. Friedman's book "The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century"

In this chapter he uses the Georgia tech model to education in describing the new type of engineers that are required for top notch jobs. He recognizes the need for broader thinking individuals, who have the capacity to realize the needs of a diverse class of communities into reality through technical experties comibned with the necessary communication and integration skills.

Some excrepts

Don't send me engineers who can be duplicated by computers, I am sending that work to India. Send me engineers who are adaptable, who can think across disciplines.
What the Georgia Tech model recognizes is that the world is increasingly going to be operating off the flat-world platform, with its tools for all kinds of horizontal collaboration

The full chapter is here:

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