Engineering Technology, and the University

The historically unprecedented interpenetration of the human, societal, and technological spheres has created a theoretical and intellectual challenge for engineering and the university as a whole. A greater interdependence between the social sciences and humanities on the one hand, and the professional, applied science, and engineering on the other, continues to be an urgent problem. Engineering education can make a decisive contribution by developing a complementary science that will relate to the social sciences and humanities the way the applied sciences relate to the natural sciences. A similar approach may be taken by other sectors of the university, permitting them to remain vital in a technological age.