Systems must drive engineering degrees
18 Feb 2014
Former IChemE president Sir William Wakeham calls for the process systems community to take a greater role in delivery of the chemical engineering curriculum.
Systems engineering is a discipline that has the widest possible application in designing, managing, controlling and operating complex plants and projects such as process plants, manufacturing systems, bridge building, spacecraft design and robotics.
Increasingly systems engineering is the solution to the grand challenges that face society – which are large, complex and systemic in nature – and to which engineering can contribute.
However, in chemical engineering undergraduate courses, systems engineering is rarely used as the framework for the discipline. It is taught as yet one more topic, and introduced late in the course.
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