ABSTRACT A revolution in engineering education is coming, but is civil engineering ready? Students learn differently from how they did a few generations ago and the rapid pace of technology change means that the goals of education need to change as well as the method. New engineering degree programmes are arising, and though they aspire to teach a new generation of interdisciplinary engineers, they do not seem to have been developed with civil engineers in mind. While the need for improvements in systems thinking by engineering students is acknowledged by various organisations, the uniqueness of a civil engineering response to the systems challenge is not recognised. Civil engineering education is distinct because of the large scale of the artefacts that need to be created by students, because the scope of civil engineering employment is broader, and because its need in terms of systems thinking is more than project management. The conclusions are that (1) civil engineering education needs rapid and major change, (2) a unique focus on systems is needed in civil engineering education, and (3) civil engineering education needs to follow a distinctive path from the forms that the revolution is currently taking.

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土木工程在工程系统思维和工程教育新模式中的独特性

摘要 工程教育的一场革命即将到来，但土木工程准备好了吗？学生的学习方式与几代人前不同，技术变革的快速步伐意味着教育目标和方法都需要改变。新的工程学位课程正在兴起，虽然它们渴望教授新一代的跨学科工程师，但它们似乎并没有考虑到土木工程师。虽然各种组织都承认工程专业学生需要改进系统思维，但并未认识到土木工程应对系统挑战的独特性。土木工程教育之所以与众不同，是因为需要学生创造的文物规模庞大，因为土木工程就业范围更广，并且因为它在系统思维方面的需求不仅仅是项目管理。结论是：（1）土木工程教育需要快速而重大的变革，（2）土木工程教育需要独特的系统关注，以及（3）土木工程教育需要从革命的形式走一条与众不同的道路。目前正在服用。