面向未来的学生: 创新引领新的跨学科产品
大约一年 一年半以前，教务长. James Zhang led the deans of the colleges of engineering, 自然科学及文科, 管理学院和研究生院, 以及其他正规赌博十大网站的顶尖教员, in an ambitious effort “to re-shape the institution to better meet the needs that we know industry of the future is going to require.”
为了创造面向未来的产品, Kettering needed to develop an interdisciplinary approach with connections to the mobility industry and add others already in the curriculum, 比如机器人和网络安全, 哪些有更广泛的应用.
无论是设计更智能的汽车还是机器, 发展替代能源, becoming a tech entrepreneur or launching a med-tech venture, the University is intent on future-proofing students’ careers against the only certainty in today’s professional world: change.
最终, the deans and faculty identified five interdisciplinary perspectives—advanced mobility, 新能源汽车, 智能制造, artificial intelligence and sustainability—that can be paired with engineering, 计算机科学, and management disciplines to allow students and graduates to be nimble as the careers of the future unfold.
这一套创意, 甚至是革命性的, initiatives is only the latest in a variety of curricular changes that we have made in recent years in recognition of the fact that skill sets can quickly become obsolete,大学校长博士. 罗伯特K. 麦克马汉说. 展望未来, 预见变化并接受适应性, they embody a dynamic—present relevance and future readiness—that we must instill in our students to prepare them for a future that is both here and ever-changing.”
在阐述适应性的必要性时, 流动性和跨学科的重点, Zhang pointed out that “the automotive industry has evolved into a technology platform. Before, you had the OEMs like the Big Three automakers and a lot of suppliers. 如今，谷歌也加入了这个平台. 英特尔正在利用这一点. The automobile has essentially become an intelligent, 可移动的机器人, and technologies from many different industries contribute to that, 所以每个人都在平台上玩游戏.”
The first two focuses—advanced mobility and 新能源汽车—relate to Kettering’s traditional automotive (now mobility) priority. The three other categories—artificial intelligence, 智能制造 and sustainability—extend across the industrial spectrum. 这些, 张指出, “Artificial intelligence really is an overarching technology which can be used to advance many industries.”
5个学术重点领域
先进的移动
- 先进的驾驶辅助系统
- 环境感知的深度神经网络
- VR / AR /混合现实
- V2X通信系统
新能源汽车
- 电池开发和能源储存
- 电池管理系统
- Power electronics (charging devices, electric motor design, etc.)
- Battery materials (anode and cathode, separator, electrolyte, etc.)
- 燃料电池
智能制造
- 加法制造
- 工业机器人/数字孪生
- 大数据分析
- 工业物联网
人工智能
- 人工智能技术
可持续性
- 可持续材料
- 环境可持续性
- 可再生能源
Intelligent manufacturing is already represented in the curriculum within the Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree with concentrations in robotics and mechatronics systems, 它结合了力学, 电子和计算机创造更简单, 更智能的制造系统. To those two the committee has added focuses such as digital twinning (recreating a physical asset in a digital format), 大数据分析和增材制造, 类似于3D打印.
Finally, sustainability, which is a buzzword across all of industry, does 不 refer at Kettering to things like wind or solar energy but “to manufacturing processes which are clean and products, 比如塑料, which will 不 create pollution or an environmental hazard,张说.
例如, the evolving science behind the critical recycling of the batteries that support electrification may fall within the purview of sustainability.
It is important to understand how these recently developed areas of focus “logically interact with our majors,物理学家博士. 凯瑟琳·斯维纳里奇说. Svinarich was the Dean of the 理学院 and 文科 during the development work but now serves as Chief of Staff.
“We have a suite of courses focusing on those areas that students are able to combine as a minor,”她说。. “But they all require, like the world at large, a multidisciplinary approach.”
换句话说, a mechanical engineer can now have a specialized focus in sustainability, 智能制造 or artificial intelligence and can apply this knowledge to the latest developments in mobility or a variety of other industries.
Zhang believes Kettering to be the only academic institution that has integrated these five interdisciplinary focuses into its curriculum. It is an innovative approach designed to provide students, 跨和在各种专业和领域, additional capabilities now and abilities to adapt going forward to a rapidly changing future.
