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50 Years of ERIC
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Learning as Acquiring a Discursive Identity through Participation in a Community: Improving Student Learning in Engineering Education
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Allie, Saalih; Armien, Mogamat Noor; Burgoyne, Nicolette; Case, Jennifer M.; Collier-Reed, Brandon I.; Craig, Tracy S.; Deacon, Andrew; Fraser, Duncan M.; Geyer, Zulpha; Jacobs, Cecilia; Jawitz, Jeff; Kloot, Bruce; Kotta, Linda; Langdon, Genevieve; le Roux, Kate; Marshall, Delia; Mogashana, Disaapele; Shaw, Corrinne; Sheridan, Gillian; Wolmarans, Nicolette – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2009
In this paper, we propose that learning in engineering involves taking on the discourse of an engineering community, which is intimately bound up with the identity of being a member of that community. This leads to the notion of discursive identity, which emphasises that students' identities are constituted through engaging in discourse. This view…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Teaching Methods, Vignettes, Discourse Communities
Teaching in Higher Education through the Use of Variation: Examples from Distillation, Physics and Process Dynamics
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Fraser, Duncan; Linder, Cedric – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2009
Contemporary learning research and development that is embedded in primary and secondary schooling is increasingly acknowledging the significance of a variation approach for enhancing the possibility of learning. However, the variation approach has so far attracted very little attention in higher education, but where it has, the results have been…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Computer Simulation, Physics, Chemical Engineering
How to Address the Volitional Dimension of the Engineer's Social Responsibility
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Heikkero, T. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2008
In this paper I argue that volitional aspects, i.e. ethos, attitude, pathos, will, underlying emotion, in engineering action need to be addressed when teaching social responsibility within the engineering curriculum. After presenting reasons for this claim, I look at two different, but not mutually exclusive, approaches to address volitional…
Descriptors: Engineering, Social Responsibility, Ethics, Teaching Methods
A Renaissance in Engineering PhD Education
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Akay, Adnan – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2008
This paper addresses the role of engineering PhD education and its relationship to innovation and technology, and the need to reconsider how we educate PhD engineers. Much of the effort on engineering education in the last two decades focused on undergraduate education with a few exceptions that relate to master degree programs. Doctoral education…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Doctoral Programs, Engineering, Specialization
Transdisciplinary Variation in Engineering Curricula. Problems and Means for Solutions
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Jakobsen, Arne; Bucciarelli, Louis L. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2007
An essential difficulty in solving practical problems that are not like the ones a student has solved before is discerning the core of the problem. It is claimed that discernment has to be trained by variation--by varying the context of the assignments in which students have to identify and grasp their "underlying form". A decisive challenge in…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, College Curriculum, Theory Practice Relationship, Interdisciplinary Approach
The Need for Alternative Paradigms in Science and Engineering Education
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Baggi, Dennis L. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2007
There are two main claims in this article. First, that the classic pillars of engineering education, namely, traditional mathematics and differential equations, are merely a particular, if not old-fashioned, representation of a broader mathematical vision, which spans from Turing machine programming and symbolic productions sets to sub-symbolic…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Engineering, Science Education, Modern Mathematics
How Can Engineering Education Contribute to a Sustainable Future?
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Pritchard, J.; Baillie, C. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2006
In the present paper we question how engineering education (and engineering) can support greater participation and inclusiveness in decision making and science and technology. We consider the work "relating" to engineering and society that is conducted by the scholars of science and technology studies, but which is rarely read or considered by the…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Citizen Participation, Science and Society, Engineering
Silk Flowers Are Just as Artificial as Plastic Ones: Value Engineering in the University Context
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Woodhead, R.; Ball, F.; Li, X. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2004
This paper moves beyond the competence focus of mainstream value engineering training (e.g. Miles 1989, "Techniques of Value Engineering and Value Analysis"; Kaufman 1990, "Value Engineering for the Practitioner"), such books achieve their training goal well but lack the pedagogic aim we argue in this paper. This paper achieves our aim by…
Descriptors: Innovation, Engineering, Epistemology, Engineering Education
Assessment of Complex Learning: The Engineering Professors' Council's New Thinking about First-Cycle Engineering Degrees
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Knight, Peter – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2004
In 2000 the UK Engineering Professors' Council (EPC) drafted an output standard to describe first-cycle engineering programmes that would prepare students for practice and further professional learning. The standard described what is authentic and worthwhile in engineering education--it identified complex outcomes of learning. This poses practical…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Undergraduate Study, Academic Standards, College Programs
The Renaissance Engineer: Ideas from Physics.
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Melville, Peter – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2003
Explains how individuals trained to be physicists take a path to become engineers and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of this transformation, particularly with regard to the term "renaissance engineer." Examines the system for registration of physicists as engineers in the United Kingdom. (Author/YDS)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Engineering, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
The Renaissance Engineer: Educating Engineers in a Post-9/11 World.
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Akay, Adnan – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2003
Examines the role of engineers and their responsibilities in society, especially after the events of September 11, 2001. Suggests the need for a renaissance in engineering education and recommends cultivating a new generation of renaissance engineers based on the recognition of individual talent and customizing education accordingly. (Author/YDS)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Engineering Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
The Renaissance Engineer: A Reality for the 21st Century?
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Jones, Mervyn E. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2003
Considers the issues involved in developing the concept of the renaissance engineer for the 21st century and offers reflections on areas and specific considerations for lifelong learning. Addresses the development of e-learning within the context of professional lifelong learning as a 'disruptive' development and discusses its future role.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Technology, Engineering, Higher Education
Evaluating the Use of ICT in Engineering Education.
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Christie, Michael F.; Jaun, Andre; Jonsson, Lars-Erik – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2002
Discusses the impact of information communication technology (ICT) on the provision of tertiary education and cites the course as an example of how it can be used at the subject level. Emphasizes that ICT is a powerful tool for teaching and learning and employs ICT in a number of different ways in the course. (Author/YDS)
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Engineering Education, Higher Education, Information Technology
Re-Engineering the Curriculum for the 21st Century.
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Grimson, Jane – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2002
Argues that the changes in the context of engineering requires new approaches within the curriculum and by promoting active learning and encouraging students to experiment and be more creative. eLearning is one of an important number of strategies for achieving the paradigm shift that is required. (Contains 14 references.) (Author/YDS)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Strategies, Educational Technology, Engineering Education
Mathematics in Engineering Education.
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Mustoe, Leslie – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2002
Describes some problems concerning mathematics instructors such as the effects of a less mathematically homogeneous entry of instructors. Outlines steps that are being taken to alleviate these problems. Introduces the Science and Engineering Foundation Studies (SEFI) Mathematics Working Group. (Author/YDS)
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Higher Education, Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
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