A DESIGN-BASED VISION ON FUTURE ROLES IN ENGINEERING

A DESIGN-BASED VISION ON FUTURE ROLES IN ENGINEERING

R. Klaassen, M. van Dijk, R. Hoope, D. Ceulemans, A. Kamp, M. Jacobs, et al (2018).  A DESIGN-BASED VISION ON FUTURE ROLES IN ENGINEERING. 13.

In this paper, we present a vision on how engineers can play different roles in future society 2030. First we predicted how society in the Netherlands (in relation to Europe and the rest of the world) is going to develop and how future engineers will behave, act and take their position in this future world. We used the ‘Vision in Design’ methodology to unravel the complexity of future society step-by-step and to understand the diversity of engineer(ing)-behaviour: 260 relevant future conditions for 2030 were derived from 10 interviews with visionaries in society, experts in the field of engineering education and from literature search. Clustering these factors into ten driving forces helped us to discover three independent determining dimensions, defining eight possible engineer-behaviours in 2030. As a result of this rich contextual research, these eight roles are further illustrated with accompanying skills and pathways to support role development. The vision and roles have been developed in co-creation and validated in a series of workshops with a wide variety of people within and beyond academia and within the professional world of engineering. 

Authors (New): 
Renate Klaassen
Matthijs van Dijk
Roald Hoope
Daniëlle Ceulemans
Aldert Kamp
Martin Jacobs
Maarten van der Sanden
Pages: 
13
Affiliations: 
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Keywords: 
Engineering education
Vision in Design
Engineering Roles
higher education
Behaviour
CDIO Standard 1
Year: 
2018
Reference: 
van den Akker, J. (1999). Principles and methods of development research. In J. van den Akker, R. M. Branch, K. Gustafson, N. Nieveen, & T. Plomp (Eds.), Design approaches and tools in education and training (pp. 1-14). Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.: 
Dorst, K (2013), Academic Design, Inaugural Lecture 23 October 2013, TU/e: 
Hekkert, P. & van Dijk, M. (2011), Vision in Design, a guidebook for innovators, Bis Publishers, Amsterdam : 
Hekkert, P. & Tromp, N. (2014), Social implication design (SID): A design method to exploit the unique value of the artefact to counteract social problems, Proceedings of the DRS 2014: Design's big debates, Umea, Sweden, 16-19 June 2014: 
Hooimeijer, F.L. (2016), T. Kuzniecow Bacchin, F. Lafleur, F.H.M. van de Ven, F.H.L.R. Clemens, W. Broere, S.J. Laumann, R.G. Klaassen, C. Marinetti, Intelligent SUB-surface Quality: Intelligent use of subsurface infrastructure for surface quality, http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6eff83a8-d0c6-438e-aa42- 0dbd03835ac9: 
Kamp, A. & Klaassen, R.G. (2016), Impact of global forces and empowering situations on engineering education in 2030, The 12th International CDIO Conference Proceedings, ISBN 978-952-216-610-4 (pdf): 
IGEM 2017, Team TU Delft, http://igemtudelft.nl/: 
Go to top