Engineering Should be Included in Liberal Arts

• SHIBATA Kiyoshi

  千葉工業大学

• KUZUU Nobu

  福井大学

• KURODA Kotaro

  名古屋大学

• KOBAYASHI Yukiyoshi

  東京都市大学

• KOBAYASHI Shinichi

  広島大学

• TSUKAMOTO Kimihide

  有明工業高等専門学校

• HANABUSA Takao

  徳島大学

• HARADA Shoji

  九州工業大学

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 工学をリベラルアーツに位置付ける

Abstract

Liberal arts education is attracting great interest in term of source of innovation to comprehend social needs and acceptance of technologies. However, the engineering has not been sufficiently included in the conventional liberal arts education, despite of its significance in modern society. To incorporate engineering in the liberal arts education, the following approaches are discussed. Engineers should learn social science and humanities to understand social needs and to enhance communication skills, and acquire generic engineering principle which is common in all engineering field. General public should develop technological literacy to ascertain the possibilities and limits of technology. Public, including engineers, should know nature of engineering to communicate each other, and obtain ability to identify the risk and benefit of technology.

Journal

• Journal of JSEE

  Journal of JSEE 69 (6), 6_48-6_53, 2021

  Japanese Society for Engineering Education

Keywords

• Liberal Arts
• Literacy
• Innovation
• Engineering Ethics
• Nature of Engineering

Details

• CRID: 1390571782588034560
• NII Article ID: 130008125690
• DOI: 10.4307/jsee.69.6_48
• ISSN: 18810764
• ISSN: 13412167
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jsee/69/6/69_6_48/_pdf
• Text Lang: ja
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