Excellence In Engineering Education Research Articles

Quality Practices and Accreditation in Higher Education Institutions: A Roadmap for Excellence in Engineering Education

In the current scenario of educational system, there is an increasing demand for higher education in India. Particularly, there is exponential growth and competition visible among Engineering Institutions in coming days. To stand out, it is very important for undergraduate educational institutions to maintain high-quality standards. Accreditations like NAAC and NBA has emerged as potential tool for assuring the quality of educational institutions in India. Stakeholders started believing in these scores to judge the performance of the Institutions. Hence, it is mandatory for Higher Educational Institutions to maintain the high-quality standards will not only help in getting accreditation but also helps in the growth of the Institution. This paper presents the quality practices to be followed by the educational institutions to achieve maximum accreditation scores. A new mantra which has 10 key points are proposed in this paper which will help the higher educational institutions to follow it as a road map for achieving excellence in Engineering Education. Keywords— Quality practices; Accreditations; Engineering Education; Quality standards; Higher Education.

Evaluation and Analysis of the Implementation Progress of the "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan" in Universities

Evaluation and Analysis of the Implementation Progress of the "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan" in Universities

The Application of Adaptive Analytic Hierarchy Process Driven by Multisource Big Data in the Training of School-Enterprise Joint Engineering Ability

The Chinese government has pointed out in relevant literature that by 2020, China is in short supply of high-level innovative technology talents, and China’s engineering education will face unprecedented challenges. Based on the needs of China’s future economic development, the Ministry of Education urgently launched the “Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program” in 2010, which aims to cultivate a large number of solid theoretical foundations, strong practical skills, and high innovation capabilities for the industry, the world, and the future. An outstanding engineer is the one who can quickly adapt to the needs of economic and social development. The program is divided into three levels of undergraduate, master, and doctoral training. The undergraduate level focuses on training in a series of high-quality applications capable of not only being competent in the management and marketing of the production site but also in the design, development, and operation of engineering projects. Talent: to achieve this training goal, the in-depth cooperation between schools and enterprises has become the key. In order to achieve the undergraduate-level training goals of the “Excellence Program,” various local colleges and universities have adopted the method of school-enterprise cooperation, combined with their own school positioning, trying to explore a training path suitable for their own development. This research takes China’s local application-oriented universities as the research object and uses the literature method to sort out and summarize the status quo of the school-enterprise cooperation in training outstanding engineers in China’s local application-oriented universities. Select two different application-oriented universities located in areas with large economic development gaps, analyze their common problems, and try to put forward countermeasures and suggestions.

Education Process Re-engineering through Spectral Pyramid Framework to Achieve Excellence in Engineering Education

The Global challenges are capturing the interest and focus of Indian Higher Education institutions to update their systems and appraise the criteria of rankings. And it is difficult to justify the Indian Higher education institutions’ unique excellence parameters and its scalability to meet the criteria of rankings, because of its diversity in institutions’ size, nature of courses, disciplines, population, etc. Initially, the local challenges for Indian graduates which include appropriate employment, Career in further Studies, Entrepreneurship opportunities, etc. do not have a unique framework. The other focus area is lack of awareness and expertise in mezzanine technologies like Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Renewable energy, Agricultural Technologies, Machine Learning, Data Science, Block Chain Technologies, Cyber Security, IoT, Virtual Reality, 3D Printing, Robotics, Design Thinking, etc. This paper has focused on these issues to collect the processes and designing a unique framework model to be adapted by higher educational institutions especially technical institutions in India. As the number of technical institutions is rising year on year, the demand is primarily dependent on quality and excellence outcomes. The proposed model is tested with current higher educational functions by implementing it in two higher educational institutions. The results are adaptable and applicable to any of technical higher education institution who are seeking excellence in processes. Keywords— Higher Education, Reengineering, Spectral Pyramid, Total Quality Management.

The Process of Bringing Excellence in Engineering Education by Nurturing and Engaging High Performing Faculty Teams

In a globalized and knowledge-based economy engineering institutes need high performing, intrinsically motivated, and outstanding faculty team members who have to concentrate on establishing interdisciplinary research programs leading to Ph.D. degrees, global publications, establishing multidisciplinary postgraduate programs, developing outstanding instructional packages, bidding for global consultancy projects under International Development Agencies, and offering services to diverse global faculty members. However, most of the affiliated institutes don’t enjoy administrative, financial, and academic autonomy. Under these tough environments, the educational administrators have to nurture excellent faculty teams and motivate them to undertake complex projects and problems to solve, develop diverse global participants programs, and bid for research and development projects under various International Development Agencies.This research work centers on the feedback of 255 faculty members on the process of achieving excellence through setting goals, creating an academic eco for excellence, counseling, coaching, mentoring, supporting, collaborating, sharing in the resources, inquiring about the development process, and resolving all bottlenecks and resistance. The educational administrators have to follow appreciative inquiry, recognize the outstanding contributions of the highperforming faculty teams, and reward them. This will create an environment for many other faculty teams to follow the best path for creating excellence. Ultimately, the colleges can reach excellence and their contribution and accomplishment will be rewarded. Further research on this transformation process is suggested. Keywords: Nurturing, mentoring, motivating, facilitating, faculty autonomy, scaffolding, high performing faculty teams.

Building Excellence in Engineering Education in India

Building Excellence in Engineering Education in India

Reform of mechanical manufacturing experiment teaching based on Excellence in Engineer Program

This paper will expound the new demand of talent training based on Excellent engineer education and the significance of experimental teaching, as well as analyze the current situation of experimental teaching. Then, the reform countermeasures of mechanical manufacturing experimental teaching based on “Excellent Engineer Education” have been put forward, so as to provide reliable reference for relevant teachers.

Preliminary results of the project implementation EXTEND «Excellence in Engineering Education through Teacher Training and New Pedagogic Approaches in Russia and Tajikistan»

Preliminary results of the project implementation EXTEND «Excellence in Engineering Education through Teacher Training and New Pedagogic Approaches in Russia and Tajikistan»

Training PhD students for teaching of engineering disciplines: Study of Russian Universities Experience

Abstract The paper contains several findings of the study of the Russian universities’ system related to pedagogical training of PhD students, which has been carried on in the framework of the ERASMUS+ Capacity Building for HE project EXTEND (# 586060-EPP-1-2017-1-RO-EPPKA2- CBHE-JP) - “Excellence in Engineering Education through Teacher Training and New Pedagogic Approaches in Russia and Tajikistan”. The project itself is devoted to the training of new personnel for the engineering universities. The strengths and weaknesses of the Russian system of pedagogical training of young teachers are under discussion in this article. The Introduction part of the paper describes the Russian system of education, EXTEND project main activities, Project Consortium participants, objective of the analysis of curriculum contents of PhD programs in engineering in Russian universities, including courses and internships on pedagogy, learning outcomes and PhD student’s teaching competences and motivation. The methodology part of the paper draws the four stages of the research. The main part of the paper presents the results of the analysis of the 22 PhD programs collected by Russian universities’ team. The Discussion part consists of four recommendations on how to enhance the Russian teacher preparation.

Reform and Practice of Teaching Method of "Process Parameter Measurement and Instrument" Aiming at Training Excellent Engineers

Based on the Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program, aiming at the problems existing in the teaching method of "process parameter measurement and instrumentation" at present, focusing on the train of engineering practicing ability and innovation ability, this paper and around the train of thought of engineering practice ability and innovation ability, this paper puts forward the reform measures of classroom teaching methods including teachers' engineering practice knowledge, utilization of open laboratories and practice bases, and methods of cultivating students' continuous learning ability, so as to lay a solid theoretical and practical foundation for training excellent engineers. The award-winning data proves that these measures are in line with the excellent engineers training target and meet the requirements for students' engineering practice ability and innovation ability.

Commentary: Paradigms, Axiology, and Praxeology in Medical Education Research.

This supplement includes 11 research papers accepted by the 2018 Research in Medical Education Committee. In this Commentary, the authors draw the attention of medical educators and researchers to questions about the researcher's philosophical paradigm. Such questions fundamentally guide research-the choice of conceptual frameworks, methods, and methodology. The authors provide a brief overview of research paradigms and the related concept of axiology and praxeology in medical education research. The authors map the 11 accepted research articles, describing the researchers' stated or implied worldviews and the impact on chosen methods. The authors close by encouraging researchers to state the research paradigm behind their research, comment on how they ensured that the methods used displayed consistency with that paradigm, and highlight the value the research adds to everyday education.

Establishment the Scoring System of Metalworking Practice Based on “Excellent Engineers Education Training Plan”

In order to try to fulfill the cores and keystones of the “Excellent engineers education training plan” and the new teaching objectives of Metalworking Practice Course, the scoring system of Metalworking Practice Course was established to restrict the students’ compliance with the relative rules, and to really cultivate their engineering practice ability and innovation ability. The teaching practices have proved that: Firstly the implementation and operation of the scoring system provides an effective support for metalworking practice smoothly carrying out and safely developing, secondly provides a foothold for the Excellent engineers education training plan indeed operating and thirdly actively promotes to cultivate students’ engineering practice ability and innovation ability. Moreover, the ideal teaching effect has been achieved.

Mode Analysis and Deepening Path of the Collaborative Education between Local Engineering Universities and Enterprises

At present, China’s local engineering universities have basically formed five modes of collaborative education between Engineering Universities and Enterprises, namely the mode relied on university-enterprise alliance, the mode centered on the “Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program”, the mode rooted in key disciplines，the mode based on the innovation and entrepreneurship education activities and the mode of carrying out international joint training, etc. However, in the process of university -enterprise collaborative education, there are still some shortcomings such as long-term deficiency, low fit and insufficient system. Therefore, three main ways to deepen the university-enterprise collaborative education are proposed: The first is to improve and implement the local government’s policy guarantee system and incentive measures, fully mobilize and stimulate the enthusiasm and initiative of enterprises to participate in university -enterprise collaborative education; The second is to innovate the long-term operation mechanism of university-enterprise collaborative education, and to open up the last mile of educating and employing people; The third is to innovate the university-enterprise joint university-running mode and build a system of engineering talents that integrates innovation and practical capabilities.

The Reconstruction of the Teaching System and the Effect of Practice of Engineering Surveying Course on the Backing of Excellent Engineer Education

At present, the increasing higher education in our country has exposed the more serious problem of employment. Education is essentially an industry. Market oriented employment mechanism inevitably make higher education to reform in the idea of running a school, professional settings, teaching content, the construction of teaching team and so on to adapt to the needs of the market initiatively. The state has timely launched the strategic decision of "excellent plan" in compliance with the development of the times. This article reconstructs the teaching system of engineering surveying course in view of the problems in the teaching of engineering surveying, based on the background of the excellent plain and guided by the requirements of the excellent plan training. We have achieved good results through implementation.

Restructuring Examination System of Institute of Engineering for Establishing Center of Excellence in Engineering Education

There exists different parameters that act as influencing factors to measure the quality of technical education. Nature of examination with its process and activities has direct and indirect relationship towards quality product and result status in any academic institution. Institute of Engineering (IOE) is continuously enhancing the examination process with the objective to increase the quality and pass rate in the semester examination. Being to conduct several bi-annual exams, Examination Control Division (ECD) of Institute of Engineering (IOE) is mostly the busy organization that has to manage examinations for bachelor, masters and PhD degree programs throughout the year. ECD conducts by-annual semester exams for regular and back exam of bachelor of engineering students having 10 streams (Civil, Computer, Electronics, Electrical, Mechanical, Geomatics, Agriculture, Industrial, Architecture and Automobile) in its four constituent campuses and ten affiliated colleges. Similarly, ECD also conducts bi-annual exams for masters of engineering programs having seven streams and 24 sub-streams. There are more than 16,000 examinees in the bachelor exam including regular and back. Additionally, successful conduction of BE/BArch/ M.Sc. entrance examinations is also an integral duty of ECD. The student pass rate in the semester exams of IOE is below expectations. This study is mostly focused on finding the factors affecting the quality results and approaches of optimizations for better education at IOE. After reviewing several factors, we proposed “restructuring of regular and back paper examinations" as one of the major approach that will help to increase the quality of education and consequently increase the pass rate in the semester examination system of IOE.Journal of the Institute of Engineering, 2018, 14(1): 75-81

Discussion on Teaching Reform about the Course of Communication Principle Based on Excellent Engineer Training

According to the requirements of "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan", this paper analyzed the teaching problems about the course of Communication Principle, and put forward the corresponding teaching reform scheme. The teaching methods of the course were improved from the aspects of teaching content and practice learning. Thus, students can firmly grasp the basic content of communication principle, and improve their theoretical learning and practical ability.

Key Problems and Solutions for Developing “Excellent Engineer Education Plan” Based on Government-university-enterprise Synergism

Key Problems and Solutions for Developing “Excellent Engineer Education Plan” Based on Government-university-enterprise Synergism

A Blueprint for an Ecosystem for Supporting High Quality Education for Engineering

This paper presents the idea and a proposed implementation of a network of Gurukuls or Centers of Excellence for engineering education in India. Facilitated by Indo Universal Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE) in partnership with institutions in India, the IUCEE Gurukuls for Learning and Outcomes Based Education (iGLOBE) program addresses a vital need for institutions to develop self-reliance towards achieving excellence in engineering education. The primary role of the Gurukul in an institution is to provide an ecosystem for faculty development in a manner that will directly contribute to enhance students' learning experience. The mission of the Gurukul is to guide and mentor its faculty in improving their teaching and learning methods, in implementing outcomes based education and in conducting engineering education research. There is a large body of literature available on effective teaching and learning through engineering education conference proceedings and journals, and in wider outlets.However, one of the key observations over the last two decades is that adoption of research based instructional techniques into engineering classrooms is extremely low. We believe that the main reason for such non-adoption is that potential adopters are unable to contextualize the pedagogical research. The paper lays out a vision for a network of discipline-based education researchers to contextualize and coordinate efforts between the Gurukuls and participants/practitioners. The paper considers lessons learned and best practices from efforts in the United States and lays out a blueprint for catalyzing high quality instruction in engineering colleges in India.

Incorporating Learning by Doing into the Software Engineering Curriculum

This paper explores how to share and improve the integration of Learning by Doing into the academic curriculum in the context of two software engineering programmes from universities in China and the UK. In recent years the use of software has permeated almost every aspect of the economy of developed countries, even in sectors that traditionally did not engage the use of computers or software. As a discipline software engineering holds great potential for the establishment of a successful and rewarding career for the individual as well as for enhancing the competitiveness and progress of the country as a whole. In order to remain competitive we must educate sufficient numbers of students with the competencies required to be able to fill the positions needed in the economy. In addition, the software engineering workforce is increasingly becoming a global one. It is therefore of mutual benefit to understand and incorporate the best ideas of educating software engineers from all over the world. In China the reform of undergraduate engineering education has received much attention in recent years. In order for students to not only recognize the sometimes complex concepts of software engineering but also to enable them to fully comprehend and thus be able to actively apply these students need to be given sufficient opportunity to practically explore and experiment with the concepts while they are studying. The importance of Learning by Doing has been recognized in China as well as in the West. For example, the Conceiving—Designing— Implementing—Operating (CDIO) framework, which emphasises the teaching of engineering fundamentals in the context of real‐world systems and products, is an integral part of the “Excellent Engineer Education Training Program lead by the Chinese Ministry of Education. This paper outlines and compares the efforts undertaken by two software engineering programmes, the Software Engineering programme at Shenyang Institute of Engineering in Shenyang, China and the BSc (Hons) Software Development for Business at Glasgow Caledonian University in Glasgow, UK. A comparison of both programmes of study shows that both programmes recognise the significance of Learning by Doing and have undertaken steps to integrate it into the curriculum. This paper makes recommendations for the integration of Learning by Doing into the curriculum. It also highlights the opportunities for collaboration in the process of Learning by Doing, the need for a new type of practice-based learning outcome and a framework to further formalise their integration into the curriculum. The findings are potentially applicable to other disciplines.

Reform of the Training Program on Bisheng Excellent Engineer Education of Printing Engineering

In this paper, some reform ways and practice processes were introduced in detail, which involved cultivating jointly excellent talents, revising training program of excellence class, reforming the ways of teaching and examining, strengthening the international communication and training, improving the quality assurance systems for practical teaching. At the same time, it gave a brief summary on the recent four years works for Bisheng excellence class. The future plans were also drawn up at last.