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503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)
Description
We are in transition from the ‘industrial age' to a ‘knowledge age': advances in science, engineering and technology (SET) together with people skilled in these areas have never been more crucial to success. And then there is the nature of the engineering enterprise in the ‘knowledge age'. We increasingly recognise that we inhabit an interdisciplinary environment; I express this as follows:
"Real world problems do not respect the boundaries of established academic disciplines - nor indeed the traditional boundaries of engineering."
The need is for a seamless interdisciplinary approach to major engineering and technology challenges of the day. In one sense it was ever thus, but the bar has been raised considerably by the pace of change and the intimacy of interaction today. This will be illustrated by way of a wide and diverse set of illustrative examples from across the engineering and technology spectrum (micro and nano technology to systems complexity, optical fibres to perceptual coding, scale-free networks to immunologically-inspired software, . . .). Applications selected both for their importance and because they offer particularly demanding challenges for the future are highlighted along with the way in which many companies are increasingly forming strategic frontier research partnerships with universities to address the challenges of SET, the agenda for the knowledge economy.
"Real world problems do not respect the boundaries of established academic disciplines - nor indeed the traditional boundaries of engineering."
The need is for a seamless interdisciplinary approach to major engineering and technology challenges of the day. In one sense it was ever thus, but the bar has been raised considerably by the pace of change and the intimacy of interaction today. This will be illustrated by way of a wide and diverse set of illustrative examples from across the engineering and technology spectrum (micro and nano technology to systems complexity, optical fibres to perceptual coding, scale-free networks to immunologically-inspired software, . . .). Applications selected both for their importance and because they offer particularly demanding challenges for the future are highlighted along with the way in which many companies are increasingly forming strategic frontier research partnerships with universities to address the challenges of SET, the agenda for the knowledge economy.
