Role and need of Mechanical Engineering during Modern Interdisciplinary Engineering Education Era
The world will always need engineers. Who else could design the things that improve and make our lives easier? But with such a wide range of technical specialisations, it’s probably hard to decide which engineering branch would suit you best. The future is uncertain. However, one thing is clear: Engineering will not operate in a vacuum separate from society in 2020, any more than it does now. Both on a macroscale, where the world’s natural resources will be stressed by population increases, and on a microscale, where engineers need to understand how to work in teams to be effective, consideration of social issues is important to engineering. Interdisciplinary Engineering Education allows the student to learn by making connections between ideas and concepts across different disciplinary boundaries. Students learning in this way are able to apply the knowledge gained in one discipline to another different discipline as a way to deepen the learning experience. The most effective...