The field of engineering involving computer-based hardware and software systems, and communication systems, to enable the acquisition, representation, storage, transmission, and use of information.
Challenges Facing Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century Ami Zusman The twenty-first century has brought with it profound challenges to the nature, values, and control of higher education in the United States. Societal expectations and public resources for higher education are undergoing fundamental shifts.
Contemporary Examples. 1  The problem, of course, is that democracy can itself become an impediment to peace. 2  Our need for a national story, a one-size-fits-all number, is an impediment to dealing with very real issues that affect us. 3  Only to find that weather was an impediment to lots of folks.