Talk:Engineering Education in 2050/Professional Relationship Building

Writing method
Since wikibooks is fairly new to our group, we collaborated on Google Docs before copying our sections. William Belcher (discuss • contribs) 17:13, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

This chapter is a contribution to a vision of engineering education in 2050
Responding to the question about whether this chapter is intentional: While this chapter is still in development, it is an important contribution to a wikibook about how engineering education must evolve over the next two decades if we as a species are to manage the problems we face. Effective engineers must work together, both with other engineers and with other professionals, yet engineering education has generally not guided students in the essential skills of professional relationship building – to the point that they are even caricatured in popular culture as incompetent at relationship building (see, e.g. the 1999 film Office Space). Unless we get this right, engineers' opportunities to help us all successfully manage global threats, such as out-of-control AI, ecosystem collapse, and climate change. For these reasons and others, "Professional Relationship Building" is an important contribution to the wikibook called Engineering Education in 2050. Norton (discuss • contribs) 15:01, 19 December 2023 (UTC)