Not much, currently. In management there are modules that deal with ethics, for instance, and there is some art in the Design module.
I wish there was more, but how to fit that in an already crammed course?
Art pivots the field of engineering and must be woven in all the courses taught. Yet, it is sad to reckon that few traces of Art is in engineering. However, for the training of engineers to be effective, there is the need to take students rigorously through the principles of design, layout, construction, colour schemes, molding and forming techniques, idea development, and all the elements in engineering that requires deep thinking. Indeed, the issue is not with percentages of Art in engineering courses but art should be intertwined in all the modules and courses taught.
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Dickson Adom
I would rather rephrase your question as what should be the percentage of design thinking in the engineering courses?
As for many art is considered as a gift and hard to be learned while design is a practice and experience which can replace the shortcomings of art.
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Omar Amireh
In my opinion would be nice to let the students understand that from the historical point of view, art and science have been part of the same educational background. Pianters knew the geometrical rules of optics and perspective, engineers and architects were involved in learning how to read the classics (Vitruvius and the Greek engineers texts). Engineers manuals from Middle Ages and Renaissance contain wonderful images of machines: they are both works of art and ascience.
The separation between the "two cultures" is a result of the modern industrialized world.
In brief: in my opinion would be nice a short historical overview
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Giovanni Di Pasquale
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