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International Collaboration in the Reform of Engineering Education. By D. Brodeur, E. Crawley, I. Ingemarsson, J. Malmqvist, S. Östlund In October 2000, with support from the Wallenberg Foundation, four universities launched an international collaboration designed to improve undergraduate engineering education in Sweden, the United States, and worldwide. This is a closely coordinated program with parallel efforts at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Linköping University in Linkoping, Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The vision of the project is to provide students with an education that stresses engineering fundamentals set in the context of Conceiving-Designing-Implementing-Operating real-world systems and products. The collaboration calls for three face-to-face meetings per year, alternating venues among the four institutions. Videoconferencing, email, and a dedicated Web page facilitate collaboration between meetings. This paper describes the results of the first year of the collaboration, the impact of the reform efforts, and the plans for the next three years.
Presented at the ASEE Conference, Montreal, Canada, 16-19 June 2002.Available here through the courtesy of the American Society of Engineering Education.
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International Engineering Education Reforms: The Implications of the Conceive - Design - Implement - Operate Program on South African Undergraduate Engineering Education. By Z. Mbanguta The South African Minister of Education’s release of the National Plan for Higher Education (2001) that has led to A New Academic Policy for Programmes and Qualifications in Higher Education, has indicated the way forward for the development of the National Qualifications Framework-based programs and qualifications for higher engineering education in South Africa. This research briefly outlines for South Africa the: a) current performance of the higher education system; b) history of engineering education and c) governance, control and support and efforts to promote industry-educational institutions collaboration. The conclusion drawn is that skills demanded by both the European and American markets are the same skills that are outlined by the South African market economy and are dealt with in full in the SA National Plan for Higher Education and A New Academic Policy for Programmes and Qualifications in Higher Education. Published by Chalmers University as a Research Report, December 2002. Available here through permission of the author.
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Student involvment in principled change: Understanding the student experience. By K. Edström, M. Engström, Å. Wiklund, J. Törnevik The CDIO Initiative is an international collaboration to reform engineering programs of participating institutions. Student representatives are actively involved in the process together with faculty and staff. In order to better represent a majority of students, the student representatives initiated and carried out a survey of learning experiences among their peers. In the three participating Swedish engineering programs, students were interviewed about their study experiences. Presented at the 2003 Improving Student Learning Conference, England.
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