Integrating Engineering and Humanities in Higher Education
Integrating Engineering and Humanities in Higher Education
The Bologna Process is a revision of the European higher education system. A stimulating panel about this process at a recent AGLS conference (Association for General & Liberal Studies) opened possibilities for international cooperation on improving higher education, particularly through better integrating curricula in the professions with study of the humanities and social sciences. The Bologna Process, we realized, becomes increasingly beneficial as such possibilities are considered. Thus, from the ideas and interest generated by that AGLS panel, this Darmstadt Conference has been born.
The Darmstadt Conference, organized cooperatively by AGLS, a leader in U.S. higher education, DAAD (Deutscher akademischer
Auslandsdienst - German Academic Exchange Service), and the DGPF (Deutsche Gesellschaft für phänomenologische Forschung-a German philosophical society), will bring together college and university educators and administrators from both sides of the Atlantic. The academic host institutions are TU Darmstadt and Virginia Tech. Presentations and discussions will focus on the learning outcomes of the general education of engineers in the U.S. and Germany. Innovative ways of successfully integrating humanities studies in the education of engineers will be exemplified.
The conference will take place at the new Darmstadt Conference Center at TU-Darmstadt, a short bus-ride from the Frankfurt International Airport.
