Interview with IEEE President Moshe Kam

Campus Technology magazine recently interviewed Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers president Moshe Kam (also department head of electrical and computer engineering at Drexel University).  Among the topics discussed was how engineering education had changed in the last 30 years.  Kam outlined the new inter-disciplinary nature of engineering education, systems engineering approaches, and computer-assisted design.  He compared US engineering education with that in India and China, while addressing the dwindling numbers of STEM students in the US, as well as their depleted entry skill level, which could result in importing large numbers of engineers to the US and/or the loss of engineering jobs to other countries.  Kam noted that the low percentage of women in engineering fields is a hugely untapped potential.  For access to the article, visit http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2011/05/24/Saving-Engineering-Education-An-Interview-with-IEEE-President-Moshe-Kam-Part-1.aspx?Page=1