Prof. Illesanmi Adesida delivered a public lecture at the United States International University - Africa on Engineering Education in the 21st Century." The former Provost at the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign (UIUC), described the adventure that engineering has become in recent years, and the everyday technology that has been birthed at UIUC.

1. Engineering Education
for the 21st Century
Ilesanmi Adesida and Andreas Cangellaris
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, IL
USA

2. 2
Electrification
Automobile
Computers and Internet
Radio & Television
Household
Appliances
Health
Technologies
Nuclear
Technologies
High Performance
Materials
Laser and Fiber
Optics
Ag. Mechanization
Imaging
-Water Supply
Distribution
-Petroleum &
Petrochemical
Technologies
20th Century’s 20 Greatest Engineering
Achievements

3. “The Fourth Industrial Revolution”
World Economic Forum
Annual Meeting
20-23 January 2016, Davos-Klosters, Switzerland

4. Unleashing the power
of a cyber-physical world.
Prof. Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairmano Building upon the digital (third
industrial) revolution,
o thanks to today’s exponential
pace of breakthroughs,
o leveraging global, wireless
connectedness; unprecedented
processing power; and
ubiquitous access to information,
o riding on emerging advances in
nanotechnology, materials
science, energy storage, 3-D
printing, robotics, AI, the Internet
of Things, and biology,
The
the Fourth Industrial Revolution will disrupt every industry,
and has the potential to improve quality of life at global scale.

5. “The death of innovation, the end of growth.”
o The explosive growth caused by
the past three industrial
revolutions is over.
o “Four headwinds impede growth”
o Demographics
o Education
o Debt
o Inequality
To counter these head winds,
we need innovation at a much
faster pace than before.
Robert Gordon, TED2013

6. We prosper through innovation;
and through education we put prosperity
to good use.

7. Innovators, founders, and builders
of the third industrial revolution.
1947 – Transistor.
Nobel Prize in Physics 1957.
1958 – Integrated Circuit.
Nobel Prize in Physics, 2000.
1962 – Visible LED.
2015 NAE Draper Prize.
John Bardeen, Co-Inventor
Jack Kilby
Nick Holonyak, Jr.

8. World-Wide-Web

9. Inspiring the world’s digital infrastructure.

10. NAE’s grand challenges are global challenges.

11. Nanotechnology-enabled water desalination
Nanopores in nanometer-thick sheet of
molybdenum disulfide. Prof. N. Aluru, MechSE, UIUC.

12. IT-enabled management of
the nitrogen cycle.
Instrumented
Field
Seed type
Fertilizer rate
Pesticide choice
Fungicide timing
Sensor-
enabled
field
Regional
weather
conditions
Predictive
analysis

13. Building the foundation for Medicine’s
computer age.

14. Biocompatible, biodegradable electronics.
Prof. John Rogers, MatSE, UIUC.

15. Biocompatible nanobots

16. President Obama’s “cancer cure moonshot”
“For the loved ones we’ve lost, for the
family we can still save, let’s make
America the country that cures cancer
once and for all.”

17. Slide title.
UIUC’s moonshot:
An engineering-based College of Medicine

18. The PayPal mafia made its fortune in
software
Elon Musk
Peter Thiel
Forbes Magazine

19. …but, now, it is the hard problems that get
them excited.
“If we are serious about replacing
fossil fuels, we are going to need
nuclear power, so the choice is stark:
We can keep on merely talking
about a carbon-free world, or we
can go ahead and create one.”
THE NEW ATOMIC AGE WE NEED
By PETER THIEL: Nov. 27, 2015
The New York Times – Opinion Pages

20. Elon Musk’s Space-X & reusable rockets.
ORBCOMM-2 First-Stage Landing, December 2015

21. Elon Musk’s & the future of transportation.

22. The car industry on the brink
of major disruption.

23. U.S. D.O.T pledges $4B to establish “common
multistate framework for connected and
autonomous vehicles”.
January 11-26, 2016

24. “… only one in ten of
us would survive a
year into a nationwide
blackout…”

25. Electrification!
Earth at Night

26. Tom Siebel’s C3-IoT Energy:
“Big Data Meets the Smart Grid”

27. Excellence in interdisciplinary research
Micro & Nanotechnology Lab Coordinated Science Lab
Beckman Institute
Materials Research LabWoese Institute for
Genomic Biology
NCSA - Blue Waters
Petascale Computer

28. Breakthroughs are not enough!
• Top 10 for venture deals per capita.
• 30+ engineering startups in Research Park.
• 100 invention disclosures and 124 patents filed in 2014;
61 patents issued.
• #11 startup city (Popular Mechanics).

29. “Education is the broader development of the mind
and personality – a guided enlargement of creativity
and understanding.” William Everitt

30. “Training is the inculcation of methods of procedure, the
development of adequate vocabularies and skills through the
general procedure of explanation and demonstration.”
William Everitt
Training

31. “Instant” access to knowledge everywhere.

32. Ubiquitous access to information prompts us to store
information about where a particular piece of knowledge is
likely to be found rather than the knowledge itself.
The
effect
e.g., Sparrow et al, Science, 333(6043), 776-778, 2011.

33. Interplay of education & training.

34. “You have to understand people to build
the next generation of technology.”
Genevieve Bell
Vice President, Intel Labs
Director, User Experience Research
Intel Fellow

35. Personalized learning.

37. “Grown-ups stick with the tried and true; 4-year
olds have the luxury of looking for the weird and
wonderful.’’ - Alisson Gopnik

38. Innovation and entrepreneurship hub
in the Grainger Engineering Library.

39. CS + X: A new family of degrees that fuses a strong
grounding in computer science with education/training
in the arts and sciences.

40. UIUC’s Design School:
Preparing innovators across the disciplines.

41. Global partnerships, global impact.
Advanced Digital Sciences Center
Fusionopolis, Singapore
International Institute for
Carbon-Neutral Energy Research
Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Engineering Joint Institute with
Zhejiang University,
Zhejiang Int’l Campus
Haining, China
Collaboration with
National Taiwan University
on “Smart Cities, Healthy Cities”

42. The future is ours to see.