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Suvannatsiri, Ratchasak; Santichaianant, Kitidech; Murphy, Elizabeth – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2015
This paper reports on a project in which students designed, constructed and tested a model of an existing early warning system with simulation of debris flow in a context of a landslide. Students also assessed rural community members' knowledge of this system and subsequently taught them to estimate the time needed for evacuation of the community…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Student Improvement, Emergency Programs
Al-Nasra, Moayyad M. – Online Submission, 2012
The engineering profession is very sensitive to the new changes in the engineering job market demand. The engineering job market is changing in a much faster rate than the engineering/engineering technology education. A 13-year study will be presented. The study focuses on the factors affecting the survival rate, student academic performance,…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Educational Change, Civil Engineering, Labor Market
Babcock, Daniel L.; Eppelsheimer, Daniel S. – 1974
Public Technology has been defined as a technology "explicitly responsive to the policy goals and operational requirements of civil governments." The Council of State Governments found in a recent study that "state universities have a major potential to bring applied science to the service of state governments, and that this…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Civil Engineering, Engineering Technology, Extension Education
Edwards, Timothy I.; Roberson, Clarence E., Jr. – 1979
A survey of 470 graduates of the six engineering technology programs at Wake Technical Institute--Architectural, Chemical, Civil Engineering, Computer, Electronic Engineering, and Industrial Engineering Technologies--and 227 of their employers was conducted in October, 1979, to determine the science and mathematics topics most needed by…
Descriptors: Architectural Education, Chemical Technicians, Civil Engineering, Computer Science