Educating the future leaders: integration of engineering, science and management paradigms

• Main Author: Arora, Vijay Kumar
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: National Institute of Technical Teachers' Training & Research 2010
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/37522/2/paper2.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/37522/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

A quality global organization accentuates the design, nurturing, and modification of the behavioral and emotional intelligence of people comprising the association of the people, by the people, and for the people. This can be done by taking into account the shifting paradigms in the business practice and varying societal needs. Synthesising character of engineering emphasizing holistic thinking, analytical character of scientific management, and applicable implementation character of behavioral sciences has been draft with in this paper. Embedded higher-order life, professional, and technical skills in training professionals for a global organization have also beer enumerated. The professionals so trained distinguish logic from tradition, tradition from prejudice, prejudice from common sense, and common sense from nonsense. The paper thrashes out making and renewal of a global organization comprising quality professionals with life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness for the people it serves, no matter what the ethnic make up and location in the world. A course on Quantitative Analysis and Programming Methods, following this paradigm, in educating professionals for a global organization has been described.