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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Lappalainen, Pia – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2015
Despite the changing global and industrial conditions requiring new approaches to leadership, management training as part of higher engineering education still remains understudied. The subsequent gap in engineering education calls for research on today's leader requirements and pedagogy supporting the inclusion of management competence in…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Intelligence, Personality Traits, Emotional Intelligence
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Lappalainen, Pia – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2011
The role of engineering in promoting global well-being has become accentuated, turning the engineering curriculum into a means of dividing well-being equally. The gradual fortifying calls for humanitarian engineering have resulted in the incorporation of social responsibility themes in the university curriculum. Cooperation, communication,…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Cooperation, Engineering, Foreign Countries
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Lappalainen, Pia – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2009
Engineering graduates are facing changing requirements regarding their competencies, as interdisciplinarity and globalization have transformed engineering communities into collaboration arenas extending beyond uniform national, cultural, contextual and disciplinary settings and structures. Engineers no longer manage their daily tasks with plain…
Descriptors: Organizational Communication, Global Approach, Engineering Education, Interpersonal Competence
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Markkula, Markku; Lappalainen, Pia – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2009
The Innovation University (IU)--to be called the Aalto University after Alvav Aalto, a famous Finnish architect and MIT professor--is a new university which will be created through a merger of three existing universities: the Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), the Helsinki School of Economics (HSE) and the University of Art and Design…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Education Work Relationship, Educational Technology, School Business Relationship