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第十二周? The Christian Science Monitor New college graduates: How well prepared to be global problem-solvers? Latest News By Stacy Teicher Khadaroo, Staff writer May 30, 2015 Kevin Lyman has a shiny new degree in computer and systems engineering. But instead of tossing a cap during Saturday’s commencement ceremony at?Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, N.Y., he was busy relocating a company that he started with fellow students to Mountain View, Calif. The business, Resumazing, uses artificial intelligence to knock down a hurdle for job seekers: Often the skills for doing a job well aren’t the same as the skills needed for landing a job. This tool will a help great engineer or a talented artist tailor her resume for particular jobs she’s pursuing. Mr. Lyman couldn’t have launched his career as a serial entrepreneur (yes, he’s already been involved with other startups) without the interdisciplinary teamwork cultivated among students and professors at RPI. Six-month jobs with multinational companies like Microsoft, through the school’s Co-op program, didn’t hurt either RPI is among a growing number of colleges and universities that have been redesigning their curriculum to prepare students to be problem-solvers for the world. While higher education has long sought to boost study abroad and promote cross-cultural understanding, an “emerging trend is a focus less on knowledge acquisition and more on applied and integrative skill development … in real-world settings,” says Debra?Humphreys, vice president for policy and public engagement at the?Association of American Colleges Universities (AACU) in Washington. “In a lot of the work we do, we’re exploring not just the solution to an individual problem, but how that problem fits into a larger picture,” says Jim Hendler, a professor and director of the Rensselaer Institute for Data Exploration and Application. The shift is happening in response to two main factors: Research has been showing a range of positive e