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The Need for an Improved Wind Engineering Curriculum to Address Natural Disasters
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Claudia Calle Müller; Ioannis Zisis; Amal Elawady; Mohamed Elzomor – Journal of Civil Engineering Education, 2025
The field of wind science and engineering (WSE) in relation to civil engineering (CE) applications is still considered relatively young and thus has been taught only for about 50 years in some academic institutions. Therefore, it is unsurprising that there are limited wind engineering (WE) tracks within CE programs worldwide, and no semblance of a…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Engineering Education, Civil Engineering, Energy
Declining Quality of Technical Education in India: An Evidence from Punjab State
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Pooja Choudhary; Neeraj Kumar; Alam Ahmad; Samreen Akhtar – Quality in Higher Education, 2024
After the mushrooming growth of the institutions providing technical education in India, questions are being raised about the quality of education dispensed to technical graduates. The purpose of this study is to recognise the various factors, in order of their importance, that are responsible for declining quality of technical education in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Technical Education, College Students
Impact Evaluation of Institutional Evaluation and Programme Accreditation at Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest (Romania)
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Bejan, Andrei-Stelian; Damian, Radu Mircea; Leiber, Theodor; Neuner, Iohan; Niculita, Lidia; Vacareanu, Radu – European Journal of Higher Education, 2018
The article reports on a case study of impact evaluation of external quality assurance, i.e. institutional evaluation including programme accreditation, which was carried out by the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education at Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest in the form of a methodological before-after…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Accreditation (Institutions), Educational Quality
Building Degree Profiles. The Tuning Approach
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González, Julia; Yarosh, Maria – Tuning Journal for Higher Education, 2013
The development of degree profiles is an important art which has become quite specialized in recent years. This article concentrates on the analysis of the importance of the role of degree profiles in the design of degrees and, as a consequence, in Higher Education in general. It analyses, particularly, the work of the Tuning Project and its main…
Descriptors: Profiles, Alignment (Education), Higher Education, Educational Cooperation
Evaluation of the Centres of Excellence in Higher Education
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Kettunen, Juha Matti – Tertiary Education and Management, 2011
This study presents an evaluation of the centres of excellence in higher education in Finland. This approach is an example of enhancement-led evaluation aiming to improve the long-term development of education. The study presents the Degree Programme in Civil Engineering of the Turku University of Applied Sciences, which was awarded the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Active Learning, Civil Engineering, Foreign Countries
Evolution of Technical Writing in Senior Design--A Case History
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Gnanapragasam, Nirmala – Advances in Engineering Education, 2010
Seattle University has an industrially sponsored, yearlong, senior design program that has been in existence for more than 20 years. Students work in teams of three or four under the guidance of a liaison from the sponsoring agency and a faculty advisor. The students prepare a proposal in the fall quarter detailing their plan and a design report…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Engineering Education, Design, Student Projects