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ing. Look at transport—the ability to get from one place to another quickly. The movement to personal- izing devices and communication from the time we were able to have personal access to computers— and that’s only in the 1980s. Move back to the advent of computers to today’s personal, carry-around smartphones that have more power than some of the things we had access to in the late 1970s. That’s a relatively short period of time, 30 years and 25 years. So when you look at that, from Morse code and the telegraph to now, that movement is telling me that the next 25 to 50 years will be wow! We’re already talking about the use of people in things we had people doing before. The factory


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worker is almost a thing of the past. What will we do with this whole business of artificial intelligence (AI) and drone-type, robotic-type of things as we are moving toward driverless vehicles? I tell you, the next 25 to 50 years are going to be amazing!”


4 TIPS FOR THE ROAD AHEAD


1. People will have to be more globally in tune.


We’ll have to understand and appreciate not just our similarities but also our differences. If we don’t do that, if we can’t accommodate each other, then it’s going to be very challenging.


2. We’ll have to morph. We’ll have to be more like engineers in our


thinking—have more abilities, more languages, and more knowledge of other cultures. I see engineering as a merging together and more balancing of the cultures.


3. We’ll go extraterrestrial.


We’ll have to expand to other habitats. This planet will not be able to hold us as we’ve come to know this planet. I see space travel very strong in 50 years. It’s trying to look back and go forward—find ways


to grow, expand, and communicate in the universe— because we cannot have a lack of appreciation for the rights of others.


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4. We’re going to have to coexist.


With man—coexist with the environment, and


societies are going to have to be network-focused systems. Instead of growing apart, come together. Between technology and all this knowledge of things we were talking about, nations rising and people, how do we cope with all that as a world? I think the United States and engineers will take a greater role and more people will trend in the direction of the knowledge base and artificial intelligence we have created to minimize attacks but maximize the best of how we project forward if we are to survive. Education will be more personalized, and people will be able to access the knowledge base much more, not just in university.


Dr. Eugene M. DeLoatch retired as dean of the School of Engineering in July 2016 after 32 years at the helm.


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ver the last 50 years certainly, and over the last 30 years, and my time as a dean, the field has had such a tremendous impact on the lives of people around the world. Look at the feats of engineer-


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