Title: FORUM: Balancing basics and applications in teaching environmental and water resources engineering

Authors: Chin Y. Kuo

Addresses: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio 44115, USA

Abstract: This short forum suggest that engineering practitioners, asked about what they expect out of a fresh engineer immediately after their graduation in terms of on-job skills and technical training, prefer that an engineer be able to hit the road and run without too much on-job training. It suggests that engineering undergraduate curricula need to have a good balance in offering both basics and applications to satisfy students who may enter a professional career right away or elect to pursue their graduate studies. The challenges to this are briefly considered.

Keywords: engineering education; environmental education; environmental engineering; water resources engineering.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGENVI.2010.037285

International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, 2010 Vol.10 No.3/4, pp.400 - 401

Published online: 01 Dec 2010 *

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