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University education is experiencing an enormous breakdown. An increasing number of students, employers, faculty, business executives, management specialists, public officials, and taxpayers have declared their dissatisfaction with the education and research that is available in most of our universities. Commentators say that we do not know how to educate graduates who know how to succeed in the new kinds of organizations and shifting worldwide markets that are emerging. These complaints have a special poignancy for those of us who devote our lives to information technology, for information technology animates the very changes that drive the critics ’ dissatisfactions. Our institutions and businesses are experiencing a radical revision of the basic assumptions in which our practices and world views are rooted. These roots are visible in the traditional answers to the six basic questions underlying engineering education and research: • What is a profession?
Peter J. Denning (Tue,) studied this question.