What changes (if any) should we make in our curricula?

There have been a number of ideas tossed out about international exchange programs, including international students in senior design teams, addressing globalization in various lecture courses, etc. While I think these have merits, my personal opinion is the most important skill we need to provide to our students is to become very adaptable to change. Friedman discusses several ways to be successful in the "flat world" by being special, specialized, anchored, or reall adaptable. I don't feel that we can do very much about the first three of these except make sure we offer relevant degree programs for the future but I do think we have the capability to develop in our students the understanding that they must be innovative and constantly seeking new skills/abilities to make them more competitive. In my experiences, I think this is the one area that has kept the U.S. at the forefront of technology development. We often develop the ideas but aren't always successful in capitalizing on them. In many ways, I think we are already addressing innovation in many of parts of our curricula by trying to include project-based learning experiences that foster innovative thinking and elective courses that teach methods of innovative product design. I think we probably need to look at changes that further integrate this type of content into the core curricula of all our programs. Almost all of the programs have life-long learning mentioned somewhere in their program objectives. I think it would be valuable to develop ideas on how we really pass this on to all of our students.