Engineering Education Practice

Position paper/proposal This is a paper where the authors want to raise some issue for discussion among the EER community or propose something new to be considered in engineering education practice or EER ... 

Recent advances in engineering education practice, scholarship, and research have brought ample evidence on the importance of various recormnendations for enhancement of engineering education. While the majority of engineering institutions in the MENA region follow classical approaches for engineering education, some... 

Engineering Assessment Research on, and the development of, assessment methods, instruments, and metrics to inform engineering education practice and learning. 

The aim of this virtue is to promote a meditative state in which we do not react to the world from our habitual tendencies that could be driven by internalized biases that may create more social injustices in the world, even if we do not wish so. Rather, we are aware of what is going on internally and externally to fully exercise our power of choice and wisdom, and direct it toward social justice in our engineering and engineering education practice. 

From this beginning there has evolved a series of texts surpassing by far the scope and longevity envisioned by the founding Editorial Board. The McGraw-Hill Series in Chemical Engineering stands as a unique historical record of the development of chemical engineering education and practice. In the series one finds the milestones of the subject s evolution industrial chemistry, stoichiometry, unit operations and processes, thermodynamics, kinetics, and transfer operations. 

Thermodynamics and kinetics can surely be counted—along with transport phenomena, chemistry, unit operations, and advanced mathematics—as subjects that form the foundation of Chemical Engineering education and practice. Thermodynamics is of course a very old subject. For example, it was the same Rudolf Clausius, who in 1865 coined two immortal sentences (1) "The energy of the universe is constant" and (2) "The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum," that developed the famous Clausius-Clapeyron equation, one of the most basic physico-chemical relationships. Classical thermodynamics was largely complete in the 19th century, before even the basic structure of the atom was understood. 

Before the war, formal R D cooperation between universities and industry was rare. To be sure, early leaders like Arthur D. Little at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Charles E. Burgess at the University of Wisconsin built industrial chemical corporations on the foundations of their academic research, and academic engineering education was quite closely related to industrial practice. 

C What is the value of the engineering software packages in (r ) engineering education and (fc) engineering practice ... 

In this presentation, the authors seek to address some of these questions by reference to current trends in educational practice and the apphcation of active learning principles that have been developed, deployed and assessed at institutions in Australia, Israel and elsewhere. In most cases these approaches have found extensive use over many years. It is vital that the debate is centred not just on individual, isolated courses that touch on some aspects of the CAPE issue, but that we start with holistic or systems thinking on curriculum development that provides integration and cohesion in the curriculum and leads to graduate attributes and skills necessary for the next generation of engineers. 

Our main goal of this book is to provide a framework for companies to adopt sustainable business practices to demonstrate how businesses can translate sustainability strategies into action. Our focus is how to operationalize sustainability, and we seek to be relevant to not only managers in industry, but also to future managers in business and engineering educational programs. 

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