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Hewitt, Bill; Kidd, Moray; Smith, Robin; Wearne, Stephen – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
The paper reviews the lessons of planning and running an "Engineering Management" practitioner development programme in a partnership between BP and the University of Manchester. This distance-learning programme is for professional engineers in mid-career experienced in the engineering and support activities for delivering safe,…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Management Development, Program Development, Engineering
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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
Salamzadeh, Aidin; Azimi, Mohammad Ali; Kirby, David A – Online Submission, 2013
The purpose of this research is to investigate awareness, intentions/support, and the contextual elements among higher education students in the University of Tehran (UT) in order to find the gap(s) in social entrepreneurship education in Iran. The authors used Ajzen's theory of planned behaviour as the theoretical framework. The research…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Developing Nations
Armsby, Henry H. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1946
More than 1.5 million men and women received special training during the period from October 9, 1940 to June 30, 1945 in short, intensive college-level courses designed to prepare for technical and scientific work in war industries. These courses were conducted by colleges and universities under the sponsorship of the U. S. Office of Education.…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Engineering Education, Institutional Autonomy, Engineering