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Engineering education
About: Engineering education is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 24293 publications have been published within this topic receiving 234621 citations.
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TL;DR: To significantly reduce the cost of installing a huge number of real prototypes in labs and to fulfill the distance requirements of the exchange students, a remote laboratory architecture, i.e., simPROCes, has been designed.
Abstract: The seven engineering degrees of the Higher Technical School of Design Engineering (ETSID), Technical University of Valencia, include in their formation programs, subjects, and laboratory projects to instruct students in the aspects of the design, development, and validation of applications for process control, automation, industrial informatics, and embedded systems. Moreover, the authors participate in European projects of education such as the International Network of Embedded System (INES) and the European Project Semester (EPS), where exchange students remotely perform the first phase of their projects at ETSID from their home universities. To significantly reduce the cost of installing a huge number of real prototypes in labs and to fulfill the distance requirements of the exchange students, a remote laboratory architecture, i.e., simPROCes, has been designed. simPROCes not only permits the teleoperation of simulators/real prototypes but also allows that complete control applications be remotely tested and validated. simPROCes is precisely specified to be independent of the model of computer, data acquisition card, programming language, and operating system, and is transparent to the programmer and easy to use. This system is useful both for the education and development of control application purposes. A water tank process shows the installation procedure of simPROCes to test and validate control applications. The experience of applying simPROCes in the electronic engineering degree and within the framework of INES and EPS has been successfully rated by student surveys.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the role of online training courses, within continuing professional development strategies, in promoting sustainable human development in engineering degrees, and suggest that online courses can be an effective approach for continuing professional learning of academics.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the nature of those management and innovation skills through presentation of some original research on a community of innovative engineers and managers and some published research on personality differences between engineers, managers, and entrepreneurial innovators.
Abstract: Research on ways to improve engineering education has identified management and innovation skills as important to success in an engineering career. This paper explores the nature of those management and innovation skills through presentation of some original research on a community of innovative engineers and managers and some published research on personality differences between engineers, managers, and entrepreneurial innovators. This paper suggests the key to producing engineering graduates with a penchant for managing and innovating lies in developing a special kind of individuality (authenticity) in engineers toward the end of their tertiary studies. It suggests this individuality involves the courage to break with one's engineering paradigm as required and to operate pragmatically and "unscientifically" in the "public world" rather than theoretically and "scientifically" in the "special world" of engineering. It outlines an optional new curriculum for engineers and scientists developed by an Australian university to encourage authenticity and to prepare science and engineering graduates for careers in management and innovation.
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01 Jan 2004
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss some of the steps that we within the broader technical community (industry, government and academe) can and should take to assure an adequate future supply of well-prepared engineering graduates for the full range of employers who have need for such talent.
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to discuss some of the steps that we within the broader technical community (industry, government and academe) can and should take to assure an adequate future supply of well-prepared engineering graduates for the full range of employers who have need for such talent. While presented from an aerospace industry perspective, and thus from that of a `mature industry' (at least in some major traditional product areas), it is believed that the issues to be addressed have far wider relevance, because the evolution of engineering (and specifically design) practice in the `airplane business' provides a lens for discerning future trends and requirements for both university and post-employment engineering education programs. Although much has been accomplished in the past decade to enhance engineering education, we, as both educators and practitioners, have much to do to cooperatively create a strong and vivid vision of our future and assure the proper development of a future generation of engineers with the skills and motivation to meet society's needs in our always evolving and ever-volatile enterprise.
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01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: Llewellyn Mann, University of Queensland LLEWELLYN MANN is a PhD student in the School of Engineering at UQ and a member of the Catalyst Research Centre for Society and Technology.
Abstract: Llewellyn Mann, University of Queensland LLEWELLYN MANN is a PhD student in the School of Engineering at the University of Queensland and a member of the Catalyst Research Centre for Society and Technology. He has a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical & Space) and a Bachelor of Science (Physics) from UQ, as well as a Graduate Certificate of Education (Higher Education). Major research interests include; Engineering Education, Sustainability, Teaching and Learning, Engineering Design, Technology and Society.
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