Holistic Engineering Education: Beyond Technology is a compilation of coordinated and focused essays from world leaders in the engineering profession who are dedicated to a transformation of engineering education and practice. The contributors define a new and holistic approach to education and practice that captures the creativity, interdisciplinarity, complexity, and adaptability required for the profession to grow and truly serve global needs.
A 2nd edition of Brad McGehee's popular "career guide" for DBAs, designed to help new and prospective DBAs find their feet in the profession, and to advise those more-experienced on how they can excel at their jobs, and so become Exceptional DBAs.
What’s your MBA IQ? A combination of what you know and how much you’ve applied this knowledge on the job, your MBA IQ is what defines your management knowledge in today’s business climate. It’s what keeps you at the top of your profession, an expert in your specialized field with an understanding, as well, of cross-functional disciplines.
The benefits of the book would be to: 1) raise the consciousness level within the teacher education profession by having educators who are highly respected by their colleagues come forth and present their case; 2) present a well-conceived and clearly articulated statement of their case; 3) provide a vision of what an appropriate role of colleges and universities may look like in a bestcase scenario, to provide a framework for institutions to review their programs and engage in introspection regarding their practices, relevance, and outcomes; 4) pull together the respected leadership in the profession and engage them in a common cause for the common good. To open up dialogue regarding the nature of the involvement in the enterprise, as well as delineation of future steps that need to be taken as part of a broader plan of action; and 5) present for the role of the university the intellectual contribution it makes to creating a profession. Through this, Dr Roth believed, ‘We would be modeling exactly what we are proposing.’