State of the GCSP: Updates & Best Practices Moderators: Jenna Carpenter, Campbell University, and Joe Hughes, Drexel University

GCSP History In 2004 the NAE report The Engineer of 2020 tried to look into the 21st century and predict the types of fields in which engineering graduates would be working, fields such as nanotechnology, information technology, bioengineering, and more, all of which involve some complex social and ethical challenges and operate under global competition in new and different ways than perhaps most of the engineering challenges of the 20th century did. To prepare graduates to meet this vision of the future, The Engineer of 2020 went on to call for a transformation of engineering education. One year later, in 2005, the companion NAE report Educating the Engineer of 2020 offered recommendations on how to go about this transformation of engineering education, namely by enriching and broadening the educational experience so that graduates would be better prepared to work in a constantly changing global economy. In 2008 the NAE published a report highlighting fourteen Grand Challenges for Engineering that focus on some of the most important and complex issues facing our world in the 21st century. Solving these challenges, too, will require that engineers integrate knowledge across multiple technical and non-technical areas, together with a healthy does of creativity and expertise in global and social issues.

GCSP History The Engineers of 2020 arrived on our campuses about 2 months ago, which means that time is all but up, and yet we haven’t really achieved widespread implementation of the type of curricular change that these reports suggest.

GCSP History In contrast, the GCSP model allows institutions to adapt existing curricular & co-curricular programs, as well as create new initiatives, to help students achieve these broader skill sets (research, interdisciplinary curricula, global awareness, entrepreneurial skills, service learning) without upending the core curriculum. The GCSP model is one way to educate the Engineers of 2020.

GCSP Update Since its endorsement by the NAE in 2009, the GCSP (led by Duke, Olin & USC) has produced 287 GC Scholars from 14 of the now 34 approved GCSPs. 12 more programs are under development. The GCSP (a voluntary and largely volunteer effort) had produced: 81 in 2016 vs. 43 in 2015, 47 in 2014, 59 in 2013, 30 in 2012, 14 in 2011, and 12 in 2010

GCSP Update In 2015, deans from 122 institutions signed a letter of commitment to President Obama, pledging to produce 20,000 GC Engineers in the next decade. That’s just 17 GCSP Graduates per institution per year for the next ten years – not a prohibitive number.

GCSP Update We’d now like to share with you some best practices from 3 of those 34 GCSPs, as well as thoughts from industry, to help all of us in our quest to reach that 20,000 goal. 17 at a time…