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APPENDIX C 179

5. External Influences and Constraints on Engineering Education

a. How can engineering education adapt to and engage an increas-
ingly diverse student population?

b. How can engineering education better accommodate fluctua-
tions in domestic and global economic cycles?

c. How can information technologies that allow the blurring of
time and place best be exploited to provide flexible and continuing
education?

d. How do we best anticipate and exploit consolidation within
higher education?

e. What strategies will be necessary for the survival of engineering
education in political environments where states (and corporations)
invest less and less in higher education, but expect ever higher re-
turns on their investments?

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