PPT Slide
Challenges for 21st Century Engineers
- Increasing pace of technological innovation
- Post-cold war international politics
- New kinds of military conflicts and economic partnerships
- Shift from defense development to commercial competition; merging of defense and commercial industrial base
- Vastly improved global communications, intelligent information technology, and low-cost computing power
- Increasing number and strength of U. S. trading partners
- Changing demographics, expanding social infrastructure
- Environmental concerns increasingly important