Tomorrow's civil systems engineer - The master integrator

The context for change in civil engineering education is shaped by society's increasingly integrated, complex civil systems and the engineer's task as society's master integrator. This encompasses a range of issues: understanding civil infrastructure as a system, the critical importance of human capital, the concept of the "functionaI core of engineering," components of a holistic baccalaureate education, the goals of engineering education, the purpose of postbaccalaureate education, and, finally, the reasons for it all: enabling the nation's capacity to perform and ennobling the engineering profession.