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Olga V. Galustyan; Galina P. Zhirkova; Wang ?an; Saida S. Gamisonija; Igor I. Boldyrev; Olga V. Khripunkova – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2024
Higher education is immersed in unpredictable environments and is facing challenges during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. It needs to adapt to external changes constantly, especially to the level of development of science and technology as the most important component of education courses for future engineers are facing…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Engineering Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Maware, Catherine; Parsley, David M.; Huang, Kun; Swan, Gerry M.; Akafuah, Nelson – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: Online learning has recently surged due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. Because of the pandemic, many universities were forced to move to online learning, and various online teaching and learning environments emerged, both asynchronous and synchronous. Objective: This study explores how a large university in the Southeastern United…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Online Courses, Higher Education
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De La Hoz, Enrique; Zuluaga, Rohemi; Mendoza, Adel – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2021
This research uses a three-phase method to evaluate and forecast the academic efficiency of engineering programs. In the first phase, university profiles are created through cluster analysis. In the second phase, the academic efficiency of these profiles is evaluated through Data Envelopment Analysis. Finally, a machine learning model is trained…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Engineering Education, Multivariate Analysis
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Khelifi, Adel; Khlifi, Slaheddine; Khelifi, Nabil; Essaieb, Hamdi – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2020
Purpose: This study aims to propose a national frame of reference for the accreditation of engineering programs (EPs) in Tunisia. It uses as a benchmark the structure used by the world's leading accreditation systems such as the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) and Commission des Titres d'Ingénieur. It provides a…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Engineering Education, Higher Education, Program Effectiveness
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Pettersen, Inger Beate; Åmo, Bjørn Willy; van der Lingen, Elma; Håvåg Voldsund, Kari; Johnstad Bragelien, Judit – Education & Training, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore creativity and how it changes over time among engineering students in practice-based entrepreneurship in higher education. This change was examined in students over a one-semester course in entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship courses that use creativity tools for practice-based learning are expected…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Higher Education
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Lo, Chung Kwan; Hew, Khe Foon – Journal of Engineering Education, 2019
Background: The flipped classroom has become more widely used in engineering education. However, a systematic and quantitative assessment of its achievement outcomes has not been conducted to date. Purpose: To address this gap, we examined the findings from comparative articles published between 2008 and 2017 through a meta-analysis to summarize…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Homework, Video Technology, Program Effectiveness
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Webster, Webster; Kopp, Richard – Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 2018
An antique phone booth was converted into an interactive Virtual Reality (VR) booth to use for potential student recruitment, current student demonstrations, and community outreach. Satisfaction data was collected using a HappyOrNot Smiley Terminal™. In total, 215 users provided feedback on their VR experience over 142 consecutive days. Eighty…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Simulated Environment, Student Recruitment, Outreach Programs
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Cheng, G.; Zhang, C.X.; Fan, Y.C.; Li, F.F.; Lin, L.; Zhu, X.B. – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2019
A plan for national education to train outstanding engineers has been put into practice at Henan Polytechnic University (HPU). Practical education is a basic characteristic of engineering education. This paper proposed ideas and models to reform the mineral processing engineering education system and also described the discipline and the objective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Engineering Education, Mineralogy
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Liang, Dong; Chen, Guanbo; Tian, Hailin; Lu, Qi – Advances in Engineering Education, 2020
This article describes how the Sichuan University - Pittsburgh Institute has embraced new methods and new technologies to ensure high-quality laboratory teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. Taking Mechanical Measurements 1 course as an example, this paper introduces two lab projects that were successfully transferred into online experiments…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, COVID-19
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Henri, Maria; Johnson, Michael D.; Nepal, Bimal – Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
Background: Over the past decade, there has been a shift in science, technology, engineering and math education, especially in engineering, towards a competency-based pedagogy. Competency-based learning (CBL) is an outcome-based, student-centered form of instruction where students progress to more advanced work upon mastering the necessary…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Engineering Education, Student Centered Learning, Higher Education
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Dennis, Zara R.; Wilson, Kate; Boyson, Toby; Kasmarik, Kathryn – Teaching Science, 2019
This paper presents a multi-year study on the impact of attending an engineering summer school on girls' confidence that they could become an engineer. While it is relatively easy to recognise and address tangible barriers to entering an engineering profession -- such as a lack of preparedness in terms of a mathematics or physics background --…
Descriptors: Females, Engineering Education, Engineering, Career Choice
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Euphrasio, P. C. S.; Faria, L. A.; Germano, J. S. E.; Hirata, Daisy – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2020
This article describes the implementation of a remote access experiment, called Web-lab 1553B (Digital Data Bus Lab), for courses in the Avionics Systems Program. Its main objective is to present a study about the use of two rotation model subgroups: 1) rotation laboratory and 2) station rotation. In the "rotation laboratory" subgroup,…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, Teaching Methods
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Herman, Emilia; Stefanescu, Daniela – Educational Studies, 2017
This paper approaches the issue of higher entrepreneurship education in motivating young people to start their own business as a viable alternative to the successful integration of university graduates on the labour market. The fundamental question of this research is if, currently, entrepreneurship education influences students' entrepreneurial…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Stimulation, Entrepreneurship, Engineering
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Poole, Heather; Khan, Ayesha; Agnew, Michael – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2017
More and more Canadian post-secondary institutions are introducing a fall break into their term calendars. In 2015, a full week fall break was introduced at our university in order to enhance academic performance and improve mental health amongst students. Our interdisciplinary team surveyed undergraduate students at our university about their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Undergraduate Students
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Chuchalin, Alexander; Malmqvist, Johan; Tayurskaya, Marina – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
The paper presents the approach to complex training of managers and faculty staff for system modernisation of Russian engineering education. As a methodological basis of design and implementation of the faculty development programme, the CDIO (Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate) Approach was chosen due to compliance of its concept to the purposes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Professional Development, Faculty Development
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