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Magnell, Marie – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2020
Connections to research and professional practice are both essential components of engineering education, although handled differently across engineering programmes. The aim of this paper is to identify discourses on these components across three engineering programmes to in depth understand these variations. A discourse analysis was conducted on…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Engineering Education, Program Content
Hart, Maureen McArthur – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Within the past few decades, university-industry research centers have been developed in large numbers and emphasized as a valuable policy tool for innovation. Yet little is known about the heterogeneity of organizational structure within these centers, which has implications regarding policy for and management of these centers. This dissertation…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Research and Development, Research and Development Centers, Group Structure
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Steiner, Karl V.; Kukich, Diane S. – Industry and Higher Education, 1995
The Center for Composite Materials at the University of Delaware opens up new funding sources and collaborative research opportunities and enhances student skills. Government-sponsored research is focusing on real-world problems in close cooperation with industry. (SK)
Descriptors: Cooperation, Financial Support, Higher Education, Industry
Jarvis, Peter – 1999
This book examines the role of the professional practitioner-researcher and the relationship between practice, practical knowledge, and theory. It is divided into five parts. The three chapters of Part 1 review the emerging role of the practitioner-researcher, the education of professionals in light of the theory-practice relationship, and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Case Studies, Classroom Research, Epistemology
Etzkowitz, Henry, Ed.; Webster, Andrew, Ed.; Healey, Peter, Ed. – 1998
This collection of 10 papers provides a comparative analysis of the role of academic-industry relations in innovative educational systems in Eastern Europe, Ibero-America (Latin America, Spain, and Portugal), Russia, and Scotland, as well as in the United States. It arose from a series of conferences, beginning with a 1991 NATO workshop on…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cooperative Programs, Entrepreneurship, Foreign Countries
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1988
This guide is intended for use in teaching a capstone course in technology education at the 12th-grade level. The course is designed to lead students through a formal hands-on study of the research process as it is applied to development operations in an industrial setting. The first two sections discuss the guide's development within the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Grade 12, High Schools, Industrial Arts
McIntyre, John, Ed.; Barrett, Mary, Ed. – 1998
These proceedings consist of 46 papers on the influence of vocational education and training (VET) research on policy and practice. These papers are grouped into these categories: impact of research; equity in participation; partnerships and stakeholders; practice and practitioners; research and policy; learning, work, and organizations; and VET,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Community Study, Competency Based Education