Growing the national innovation system: Defining the characteristics of innovative professional graduate education at the Master, Doctor, and fellow level for technology leaders in industry

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

12-1-2003

Abstract

This is the third paper in the special panel session on reshaping professionally oriented graduate education to be more relevant to the needs of the practicing profession in industry to ensure a strong U.S. engineering workforce. This paper suggests a framework of guidelines for curricular design of innovative master, doctoral, and fellow level professional graduate programs crafted to meet the career-long needs of engineering professionals in industry and guided by the incorporation of five major attributes of high-quality graduate programs that positively affect the growth and development of working professionals. The guidelines are based on the functional requirements, tasks, and responsibilities that engineering leaders encounter throughout their professional careers. The paper presents a new vision for shaping integrated (holistic) professional graduate education for working professionals as a "system for lifelong learning" that enables their continuous professional development thereby continuously strengthening U.S. innovative capacity for competitiveness. Attention is drawn to the need to integrate graduate studies with experiential learning and the advanced practice of engineering for systematic development, innovation, and leadership of technology in industry.

Identifier

8744317061 (Scopus)

Publication Title

ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

ISSN

01901052

First Page

8845

Last Page

8874

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