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The goal of the paper is to provide guidelines for building a comprehensive model that fosters humanitarian engineering education. The paper brings the voice of field practitioners and students, in addition to academic research, to determine the most ...
Mohammed Baaoum
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Engineering education for mechatronics [PDF]
This paper defines mechatronics, explains mechatronics philosophy, and describes characteristics of mechatronics products and systems. It reviews aspects of education and training for mechatronics and compares the two different approaches to engineering education: generalist engineering versus specialist engineering.
Memig Acar, Rob M. Parkin
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The paper presents an empirical study conducted in the context of an advanced power electronics design course in a technical university. In selected points of the lectures formative assessments were introduced and supported by the use of clickers.
Dimosthenis Peftitsis, Anna Mavroudi
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Evolution trend of engineering education in the world and in Iran
The history of engineering education has seen spectacular achievements which indicate evolution of engineering education. Awareness of the historical evolution of engineering education helps to understand its present situation as well as to improve and ...
Hossein Motahhari-Nejad
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Engineering in the Community: Critical Consciousness and Engineering Education [PDF]
The continually changing, contemporary global society has been placing new demands on the engineering profession. The complexity of today’s environmental, social and economic context has prompted engineering educators to call for a general reform in ...
Helena Trbusic
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Validating the Civic-Minded Graduate Scale in Engineering Education Using Mixed Methods
Civic-mindedness is a central aim of higher education, but strategies for assessing civic-mindedness in engineering education are limited. Thus, engineering educators must build on strategies employed across higher education while ensuring these ...
Athena Lin, Justin L Hess
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Educating the Humanitarian Engineer [PDF]
The creation of new technologies that serve humanity holds the potential to help end global poverty. Unfortunately, relatively little is done in engineering education to support engineers' humanitarian efforts. Here, various strategies are introduced to augment the teaching of engineering ethics with the goal of encouraging engineers to serve as ...
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Revaluation of engineering education
Concurrent with the dawn of the 20th century and emergence of a new millennium, numerous countries revaluate their higher education and consequently engineering education. Similarly, international organizations, and in their forefront, UNESCO, along with
Hossein Memarian
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Putting the Engineering into Software Engineering Education [PDF]
Based on over 20 years of teaching and research experience, the author provides his assessment of software engineering education. He then builds on the analysis to provide recommendations on how we need to diverge from computer science to increase our impact, gain credibility, and ultimately ensure the success and recognition of our young discipline. A
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Emotions in Engineering Education
Contrary to common stereotypes, engineering education and practice are not purely rational activities. Emotions, just like cognition, play important roles in teaching, learning, and professional practice. Today, there is a nascent body of research exploring emotions in engineering education (EEE).
Johanna Lönngren +3 more
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