The military institute of Engineering in the XXI century

Abstract

This paper presents strategies for preparing a military engineering college, The Military Institute of Engineering (IME), to meet the challenges of this century head on, in a scenario of quick scientific and technological moves of a globalized world. Facing the current environment, it analyzes the Technological Revolution, the role of education, psychosocial, economics, political and military aspects of the globalization phenomenon. It therefore aims at adapting the college to the information momentum, synthesized by the exponential capacity of man’s accomplishment, through the creation of research and projects centers to
coordinate the implementation of interdisciplinary activities. In this environment, the importance of humanistic vision of
the engineer is highlighted as an attribute of the current Age of Knowledge. There is an approach to topics addressed to military
technology in the contemporary and future combat, to the future scientific and technological ambience, to the dual innovation,
to the human resources training and finally to the challenges of adaptation so that IME can exercise the power of knowledge.