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Kemppainen, Jyri; Tedre, Matti; Sutinen, Erkki – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2012
Information technology (IT) professionals face markedly different kinds of challenges in developing countries from the ones in developed countries. Based on the research literature and our fourteen years of fieldwork in Iringa, Tanzania, we have identified eight groups of technical characteristics of IT work that significantly affect the work of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Engineering Education, Work Environment
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de Brito, Afonso Henriques – European Journal of Engineering Education, 1985
Discusses: (1) continuing engineering education (CEE) in developing countries and particularly the Brazilian experience; (2) financial sources provided by legislation passed by the government of Brazil and their importance for CEE expansion; and (3) CEE in traditional classroom education and limitations due to schedules for working engineers in…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Engineering, Engineering Education, Higher Education
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Mende, Gottfried – European Journal of Engineering Education, 1989
Describes the organization of metrology, standardizations, and testing in the Federal Republic of Germany. Technical assistance programs for developing countries are also considered. (YP)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Engineering, Engineering Education, Foreign Countries