Discussion of ‘Integrating the liberal arts into the body of knowledge for civil engineering systems engineers’ by Gordon G. T. Masterton and Paul Jeffrey

ABSTRACT Systems engineers require breadth. Three approaches are discussed. The first is to develop a clear goal in the form of the attributes of a well-educated civil engineering systems specialist (CESS) – what such an engineer would be like. The second, complementary to the first, proposes a goal in terms of what the ideal CESS could do well as a series of tasks or actions. The third is to produce a list of books whose reading would result in a well-educated CEES.