Engineering students are best prepared for the shift in gear, but they will need to learn to change lanes
‘s deaths, there has been a pivotal need for conversations about systemic racism and the injustices black people face daily.
Technologies and processes are evolving at an exponential pace and are increasingly becoming inter-related. Substantial disruptions will affect all industries and entire systems of production, management and governance and will undoubtedly transform all aspects of the 21st Century life and society. Personal assistants are primarily based on AI – a technology that makes machines intelligent.
Engineering students are probably the most equipped for this shift. The overriding advice is that people should not just stay in one lane or discipline. Crossing the road and exploring because the rapid disruptions to our society requires an integrated approach that may need people to draw on philosophy, literature, history, psychology, economics and other disciplines.
AI technology has already proved to be an efficient alternative approach to classical modelling techniques. In contrast to conventional methods, AI can deal with any uncertainties that may arise and is useful in helping to solve complex problems. Ultimately, this cuts down on the tedious aspects of engineering by making the process of decision making faster, reducing error rates, and increasing efficiency. The engineer of today is vastly different from the engineer of the 19th or 20th century.
It is becoming increasingly evident that the 4IR is fundamentally changing engineering. It is not only evolving many of the tasks involved in engineering, but it is also creating pockets of opportunity to do things that were not possible before. In fact, engineers will make up a substantial driving force of the 4IR. While there are undoubtedly fears that many jobs will be automated or made obsolete, there is room for entirely new careers and roles.
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