Challenges In Engineering Education Research Articles

Challenges of Engineering Education in Digital Intelligence Era

The rise of the digital intelligence era signifies a new paradigm of digital technology and intelligent applications, bringing fresh opportunities and challenges to engineering practice. This paper focuses on the analysis of nine key challenges, encompassing the enhancement of complex engineering problem-solving abilities, the shortening of knowledge half-life, coping with the competition from intelligent machines, the role of engineers in industrial digitalization, the dual transformation of digitization and sustainability, effective engineering practice training, attracting outstanding young talent, digital transformation of engineering education, and the refinement of quality assessment standards for engineering education. These challenges reflect the complexity and diversity of engineering education in the digital intelligence era, requiring engineering education institutions to continuously adjust their curricula and teaching methods to cultivate engineers with comprehensive competencies and interdisciplinary skills. At the same time, the digital intelligence era also brings new opportunities for engineering education, including the application of digital technologies, emphasis on interdisciplinary learning, and the importance of sustainability. Effectively addressing these challenges will contribute to improving the quality of engineering education and provide critical support for the sustainable development of society and the environment. The future of engineering education in the digital intelligence era is promising, but it requires us to confront challenges to actively promote progress and innovation in engineering.

Challenges in Engineering Education in India- Some Thoughts

Every year large number of engineering graduates and diploma holders pass out of engineering colleges and universities. However, a sizeable number of them are not simply employable. Again, the growth of the manufacturing sector has almost become stagnant globally, so also in India. And economic recession is still looming large in different walks of life. Direct effect is that employment opportunities of engineering students are on the wane. Moreover, appropriate skilling and training are not provided to students pursuing engineering education in many of the institutions having lack of laboratory facilities and suitable man power to impart desired education and training. Result of these combined effects is alarmingly poor admission of students in engineering institutions, particularly in distance private colleges far off from the state capitals. The AICTE, New Delhi has put large number of such institutions in the list of possible closure or no-admission category. In this backdrop, this brief write up outlines some of the glaring facts that are plaguing engineering education in reality nowadays.

Opportunities and Challenges for Engineering Education in India

The Engineering Education system in India has several distinctive features --- such as huge size; considerable diversity of many types; several strengths and weaknesses; several policy pronouncements; several pending Bills; a small number of institutions of quality in a sea of mediocrity; the emergence of the private sector as a major player ; etc. There are several national policy initiatives for laying down the roadmap for the future, such as the National Policy on Education 1986, revised in 1992; the Science Policy Resolution, The Technology Policy Statement, The Science and Technology Policy, The Science , Technology and Innovation Policy; The Twelfth Plan Document ;National Knowledge Commission Recommendations; Yash Pal Committee Recommendations; National Higher Education Policy (RUSA) etc. With a change in government at the centre, it is hoped that several pending bills such as , establishment of National Council for Higher Education (NCHER); National Accreditation Regulatory Authority (NARA); Entry of Foreign Universities; etc will be cleared, and also the promises made in the poll manifesto would be acted upon. These are the emerging Opportunities for Change - for the better.

Advanced multimedia engineering education in energy, process integration and optimisation

In the new education and technology era, there are many challenges for Engineering education in the field of energy especially to enhance the effectiveness of teaching and learning process via structured multimedia. The universities across Europe are currently adopting the new Bologna three-cycle study system and most of engineering related departments have already developed new study programs accordingly. Several issues have to be addressed in order to provide high-quality education with improved efficiency and minimal cost. These are related to the foundation skills and knowledge for engineers. They should be supplemented by new engineer curricula empowering energy engineers to manage solving their problems in a sustainable way. The current contribution is based on years of practical teaching and involvement in the formation of the policy for engineering education in Europe. It discusses how the application of the Bologna system, appropriate and wise use of multimedia, and innovative introduction of novel communication means into the education can help in achieving the above goals. The discussion includes the development of methods and tools, multimedia internet-based teaching and learning programs, and cyberinfrastrucure-based virtual libraries.

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10-106 北海道大学工学研究院における産学連携の現状と課題((23)地域貢献,地場産業との連携-II,口頭発表論文)

A Hybrid Imagination: Science and Technology in Cultural Perspective

This book presents a cultural perspective on scientific and technological development. As opposed to the story-lines of economic innovation and social construction that tend to dominate both the popular and scholarly literature on science, technology and society (or STS), the authors offer an alternative approach, devoting special attention to the role played by social and cultural movements in the making of science and technology. They show how social and cultural movements, from the Renaissance of the late 15th century to the environmental and global justice movements of our time, have provided contexts, or sites, for mixing scientific knowledge and technical skills from different fields and social domains into new combinations, thus fostering what the authors term a imagination. Such a hybrid imagination is especially important today, as a way to counter the competitive and commercial that is so much taken for granted in contemporary science and engineering disc urses and practices with a sense of cooperation and social responsibility. The book portrays the history of science and technology as an underlying tension between hubris -- literally the ambition to play god on the part of many a scientist and engineer and neglect the consequences - and a hybrid imagination, connecting scientific facts and technological artifacts with cultural understanding. The book concludes with chapters on the recent transformations in the modes of scientific and technological production since the Second World War and the contending approaches to greening science and technology in relation to the global quest for sustainable development. The book is based on a series of lectures that were given by Andrew Jamison at the Technical University of Denmark in 2010 and draws on the authors' many years of experience in teaching non-technical, or contextual knowledge, to science and engineering students. The book has been written as part of the Program of Researc on Opportunities and Challenges in Engineering Education in Denmark (PROCEED) supported by the Danish Strategic Research Council from 2010 to 2013. Table of Contents: Introduction / Perceptions of Science and Technology / Where Did Science and Technology Come From? / Science, Technology and Industrialization / Science, Technology and Modernization / Science, Technology and Globalization / The Greening of Science and Technology

Special Session â??Challenges in Engineering Education within Control Automation

Special Session â??Challenges in Engineering Education within Control Automation

Viewpoint: Adding Sustainability to the Engineer's Toolbox: A Challenge for Engineering Educators

The next generation of engineers must be able to design with natural resources that have very different constraints for a wider variety and greater number of end users.

Discussion of “The Continuing Challenge of Engineering Education”

Discussion of “The Continuing Challenge of Engineering Education”

The Technology of Information Systems-Another Challenge for Engineering Education

The proper functioning of the world in which we live is becoming more and more dependent on information and how we use it. With methodologies and machines that are becoming available to information systems technology, we are, indeed, entering the Age of Information-an age of promise in business, in government, and in the military that can have as profound an effect on the world as the harnessing of the atom, the development of electric power, or the Industrial Revolution of the Nineteenth Century. The purpose of this paper is to delineate the broad technology of information systems in order to provide a basis for estimating the impact of this technology on future engineering education. Suggestions for modifying under-graduate engineering curriculums are made in order that future engineering graduates will be prepared to contribute to the continuing development of the technology and to utilize the technology in performing other engineering work. This paper discusses such topics as: What is an Information System?; Functions of a Generic Information System; Men in Information Systems; Machines in Information Systems; Methods in Information Systems; How Information Systems Are Created; Major Problems Facing Information Systems Technology; and The Challenge for Engineering Education.