We tend to think of engineering as a world very distant from the arts; and indeed, designing a highway and writing a poem are very different activities. Or are they? Might the skills required for one be useful in accomplishing the other? Professors Julio M. Ottino and Gary Saul Morson propose bridging engineering and the humanities in this February 2016 essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Read it here: Ottino & Morson, “Building a bridge between engineering and the humanities”