NEW ERA IN WATER ENGINEERING EDUCATION - A PROPOSAL FOR NEW TRENDS

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to establish the didactical principles of teaching of the curricula of 'Water Engineering' in the context of European culture, with the actual tools. "Water engineering" is a curriculum in the educational field of Engineering and Environmental Protection in Industry. The aim of this curriculum is to give to the students the knowledge which could form lots of abilities to work on water projects. The profile of a water engineer is to assume a wide range of technical or nontechnical range of duties in their responsibility of supplying, managing and maintaining clean water, waste water and preventing flood damage. Typical responsibilities of water engineering are: producing designs, presenting project details and technical information, using a variety of specialist computer application computer software, etc. The question of this work is: 'which are the didactical principles of the triangle 'teacher -student - learning tools' for an effectiveness education in water's science and technology?'. The method used to answer at this question is the descriptive analytic review. The educational objectives are: to cultivate basic knowledge of natural science, of hydrology science, of engineering science, of social science, etc.; to cultivate the creative abilities and self- learning, to cultivate the abilities of collaboration and communication. The result of this work is a learning scenario applied to exemplify the influence of the didactical principles adapted to new learning conditions. The use of this triangle ('teacher - student - learning tools') is important for transpose the scientific and technological content in an educational language model to assess the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of an adaptive e-learning.