Engineers' 'wicked' problem solving skills

This paper looks at the ‘T-shaped’ engineer as a response to ‘wicked’ problems – the need for engineers to not only demonstrate technical capabilities (the vertical part of the ‘T’), but also to develop horizontal capabilities to be effective wicked problem solvers and cope better with paradoxes in a VUCA world.

Written by Perspectiv’s Nikki Barker, this paper was published in the conference proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education held in Dublin, Ireland.