PERTANIKA JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

 

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The Roles of Social Sciences in Engineering Education

Sarkar, A. K.

Pertanika Journal of Social Science and Humanities, Volume 20, Issue 4, December 2012

Keywords: Education, Social Sciences, Humanities, Engineering

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Engineering, particularly in India, is a very technical form of education, with very little emphasis on social science and liberal arts related subjects. It produces a large number of quality engineers from different institutions every year, who are highly capable of solving engineering problems in their chosen fields, but quite often find its difficult to effectively participate in the developmental activities in the country as they are unable to comprehend correctly the societal needs. The present society and the education system do not provide enough opportunities to explore nature and the society at large and thus quite often, the experts in various engineering fields become isolated and are unable to understand the real needs of the people. One option to bridge the gap is to introduce a few humanities, social sciences and ethics related courses in the engineering curricula. The paper discusses various possible methods to implement such a plan, evaluates them and concludes that at this point of time, the most appropriate solution would be to make these topics in-built into the engineering subjects. However, in order to implement this, the engineering professionals must get convinced about the need and the initiative should come from them.

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e-ISSN 2231-8534

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JSSH-0513-2011

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