Showing papers on "Engineering education published in 1968"

Education for innovation

Abstract: Engineering education should encourage students to strive for a mastery of fundamentals and the cultivation of excellence?but this is not enough. Engineering education must be kept alive and relevant; and, to encourage creativity, it must stimulate the imaginations of students. The typical educational yard-stick of a student's performance, however, is the accuracy with which he can repeat, by rote, information obtained from a lecture or text. Original or unconventional approaches to problems are discouraged, and their proponents often penalized, thus discouraging and depressing the student. Must inventiveness be sacrificed to education?

Goals of Engineering Education, Final Report of the Goals Committee.

Abstract: OF EN61NEERIN6 EDUCATION The Final Report of the Goals of Engineering Education study is published in the Journal of Engineering Education so that every member of the American Society for Engineering Education will have a copy and will be made aware of the importance of the report as it relates to trends for the future. It is also the hope of the Goals Committee that the report will generate constructive discussion. Eric A. Walker, Director of the Goals study, says, "This Final Report will remain on the desk of every engineering teacher for many years to come. Like the previous studies of engineering education, it will have an impact on curricula, staff, and students, as well as on industry and government, the employers of our graduates."

The New University

Abstract: Editors’ Preface ... The papers collected here share a concern with the problem of authority in the university its changing bases, uses, emergent forms, and prospects. On the orle hand, the relation of the university to society is changing; on the other hand, the internal constitution, the character of the university, is also changing. The main question is: Can a form of authority be found which will at once accommodate these changes and insure the freedom essential to teaching, learning, innovation, and communication? The authors offer no

The Use of Video-Tape Recording and Micro-Teaching Techniques to Improve Instruction on the Higher Education Level.

Abstract: EDRS PrIce MF -$0 25 HC -V 05 Descriptors -Classroom Participation, Engineering Education, Feedback, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, *Microteaching, Student Attitudes, *Student Teacher Relationship, Teacher Administrator Relationshlp, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Behavior, Teacher Improvement, Teacher Motivation, Teaching Models, Teaching Styles, *Teaching Techniques, *Video Tape Recordings

Education for Electric Power Engineering

Abstract: This invited paper was presented at the Second Panamerican Congress of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. A one-year graduate program in electric power engineering has been in operation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute since the fall of 1962; it has been quite successful, with the number of participating students increasing tenfold in this five-year period, from three students in 1962 to thirty-five students in 1967. Among a total 10 percent of students from outside the United States in the program, some are from South American countries. This program is based on engineering education, with emphasis on the electrical phase, acquired in studies leading to a first degree on the bachelor level. Completion of the program results in the Master of Engineering degree. The students devote about half of their time to electric power engineering topics, and the other half to advanced studies covering engineering economics, mathematics, and applied physics. A suggested syllabus includes a variety of recommended courses which enable the student to develop a coordinated program that is general enough to provide a well-rounded foundation for continued studies in specialized areas.

Engineering Approach to Engineering Education

Abstract: Various suggestions for modification of the electrical engineering curricula are briefly reviewed; importance of the laboratory is discussed; and guidelines for a new curriculum, based on a reasonably equal division between theory and laboratory, are presented.

Education for the engineering mission

Abstract: Engineering involves such a wide range of human endeavor that it demands diversity and innovation in the preparation of its practitioners. Engineering effort can be divided into three major categories: engineering technology, engineering practice, and engineering science. The qualifications of individuals whose activities would fall into each of these mutually interdependent categories are examined, as are the problems involved in training these individuals.

Science as a Constituent of University Education

Abstract: Professor Pippard, a member of the Swann working group on scientific manpower, argues for a pattern of university education based on two years of general study and further years of specialization.

The Advising Function in the School of Engineering

Abstract: This paper justifies the need for an advising system in an engineering school and defines the objectives of academic advisement, in general Suggestions for successful advisement are given to faculty advisors, and eleven specific recommendations for administering a successful advising program are submitted

The Role of Communication in Continuing Engineering Education

Abstract: The application of communication devices based on technology to undergraduate engineering education is accelerating. A question may be raised to what extent such devices are being used and can be used in continuing engineering education. A federal interagency committee is looking at this question. Herein is a synopsis of data developed through the activity of the committee. This paper is a challenge to educators, employers, officials of engineering and scientific societies, and government, in their combined efforts to improve the availability and quality of continuing engineering education.

University Education in Electronics in the United Kingdom

Abstract: Although the overall aims of university engineering education in the U. S. A. and the U. K. are broadly similar, the means of achieving these aims in the two countries are rather different. This paper discusses teaching methods and philosophies in the Department of Electronics at the University of Southampton and compares them with attitudes in the U. S. A. First, high-school curricula in the U. K. are reviewed, as they determine the quality of students at university entry. Then, the probable future pattern of industry, and the aims of a university education are discu sed. The courses devised to train both "systems" and "device" engineers, including the all-important laboratory training, are outlined together with examination and assessment techniques. Postgraduate activities include a new type of postgraduate Master's degree course in semiconductor product technology and industrial techniques.

Biomedical engineering: A critical re-appraisal

Abstract: L’Auteur considere que le role actuel du Genie Biologique et Medical consiste a entretenir la cooperation entre plusieurs disciplines, et conclut que cette fonction pourrait etre transitoire.