Austin Business Journal: Five Minutes with Dean Fenves

What does engineering education look like in the 21st century, and how has teaching evolved?

Engineering education will continue to have a primary focus on science and technology as it evolves, and at the same time nurture innovative thinking and leadership skills. Our teaching must combine the fundamentals with the creative side of engineering — inventing new products, systems and services through entrepreneurial thinking and action.

The Engineering Education and Research Center will include an impressive new teaching laboratory for students to learn hands-on through team and individual projects. This style of learning, collaboration among the engineering disciplines and teaching critical thinking will ready our students for the fast-paced and competitive world that awaits them.

Dean Fenves wrote an editorial that appeared in the Austin American-Statesman on March 5 and The Dallas Morning News on March 4. Download a printer-friendly version of Fenves’ editorial (PDF).