Fostering Global Talents in S&T:

Engineering Teaching & LearningStrategies from the Point of View of DTU

President Lars PallesenTechnical University of Denmark

World-Class Education Crosses Borders

A Short Introduction to DTU

Den Polytekniske Læreanstalt

HC ØrstedChemistry

ElectricalEngineering

New Campus inaugurated

Civil Renamed

Merger with:

Risø National Laboratory

Danish National Space Center

The Danish Institute for Food and Veterinary Research

Danish Institute for Fisheries Research

Danish Transport Research Institute

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HC Ørsted

Mech. Eng.

1857 19031994

1995

Merger with DIA

20011974 20071970

IT

Civil Engineering

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2008

Life-scienceEngineering

13-09-2011

Renamed

DTU-Act & autonomy

Research Institute

Leiden Ranking Crown Indicator 2010

DTU # 1 among the Nordic countries

DTU # 7 in Europe (THE Engineering# 4)

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DTU # 55 in the World

DTU # 7 in Europe (THE Engineering# 4)

(THE Engineering # 30)

Teaching the Next Generation of Engineers

World-Class Science and Technology Education is not achieved by offering excellent courses in science and technology in a superbly coordinated fashion and delivered by brilliant professors.

This is necessary but not sufficient.

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This is necessary but not sufficient.

Learning for the Next Generation of Engineers

World-class Science and Technology Education is not achieved even if –in addition – the curriculum is carefully designed to allow the students to be brought to the forefront of human knowledge within their individual fields of study and communicated in a way so as to make the students understand the process of acquiring new knowledge through further research.

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further research.

This is important but more is needed.

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The ABC of Engineering

Action

Active interplay between science and technology must in its most fruitful form lead to Action.

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The ABC of Engineering

Boldness

Such Action should in its most endeavoring form be Bold in challenging conventional wisdom and established tradition.

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The ABC of Engineering

Creativity

Such Bold Action must in its most productive form be Creative in synthesizing new valuable solutions, products or processes.

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Fostering the Next Generation of Engineers

A student does not become a world-class engineer alone by mastering science and technology in his or her field.

A world-class engineer must have ingrained the ABC of engineering in the very exercise of his or her profession.

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Action, Boldness and Creativity

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