Abstract
In various fields of science and technology, Japan has almost reached the stage of the “Front-runner”, after finishing up, what is called, the “Catch-up” era. However, engineering education and its social system, which have contributed to science and technology, now cannot meet our very different requirements for the “Front-runner” era. In this essay, it was pointed out that the “Knowledge-based Society” should be appropriate for the “Front-runner” era, and was also indicated specifically that the old engineering education in the “Catch-up” era is insufficient to create the “Knowledge-based Society”. In addition to this, I argued how important the engineering education reform is in order to improve engineers' intelligence and their status in the “Knowledge-based Society”.
