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Dixon, John; Girifalco, Tony; Yakabosky, Walt – Community College Journal, 2008
This article describes the Applied Engineering Technology (AET) Career and Educational Pathways Program, which helps local manufacturers find quality workers. The program features 32 high schools, three community colleges, and 10 four-year institutions offering an integrated regional system of applied engineering education. The goal is to enroll…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Engineering Technology, Engineering, Technical Education
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Shields, C. J. – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 2007
Technology education (TE) has come to encompass many facets of curriculum, ranging from industrial arts (IA) to integrating problem-solving and engineering concepts into the curriculum. For technology educators who have chosen the pre-engineering problem-solving route there is a pre-engineering curriculum called Project Lead The Way (PLTW), that…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Engineering Technology, Engineering, Statistical Analysis
Engineers' Council for Professional Development, New York, NY. – 1968
In 1964, the Engineers' Council for Professional Development appointed a standing subcommittee to establish a basis for accrediting programs of technical institute type--now designated as engineering technology. Curricula in the following educational institutions were considered: technical institutes (endowed or publicly supported), junior…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Curriculum Evaluation, Engineering Technology, Technical Education
Burnham, Rich – 1999
An engineering technique invented in the 1920s remains unused by most engineers today because their instructors are unaware that software applications have simplified the exceedingly complex calculations required. The technique is called the design of experiments (DOE), a method that optimizes products and processes. This process outshines…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Engineering Technology, Higher Education, Teaching Methods
Freund, C. J. – Eng Educ, 1970
Author calls upon engineers to combine with their technical competence a sense of human values and ethical understanding. (IR)
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Engineering Technology, Ethics, Moral Values
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Lucci, William, Jr. – Tech Directions, 2005
In this article, the author describes Stafford Technical Center's Engineering Technology Academy (ETA), in which students pursue a variety of educational and career options for anything connected to construction technologies--including drafting and design, architecture, and even work in historic preservation. In addition to technical skills,…
Descriptors: Architecture, Technical Writing, Preservation, Engineering Technology
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Laforcade, Pierre – Journal of Learning Design, 2007
Present Educational Modelling Languages are used to formally specify abstract learning scenarios in a machine-interpretable format. Current tooling does not provide teachers/designers with some graphical facilities to help them in reusing existent scenarios. They need human-readable representations. This paper discusses the UML4LD experimental…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Models, Courseware, Computer System Design
Antrim, John D. – Engineering Education, 1975
Describes how a newsletter was used to continue communications between the former students and the instructional staff of an engineering technology program. (MLH)
Descriptors: Alumni, Communications, Engineering Education, Engineering Technology
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Lake, Gordon J.; Houghton, John E. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1975
Article provided a well-known example of creative invention, that of the hovercraft, which served well as a highlight of the problems facing the student of creativity. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Creative Art, Creativity, Engineering Technology
Cable Television Information Center, Washington, DC. – 1972
Basic geographic, demographic, economic, historical, and marketing facts and figures for cable television are presented in this short booklet. The data is succinctly arranged for easy reading and is intended to provide background information for state and local officials who might possibly be required to make public interest decisions in regard to…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Cable Television, Commercial Television, Engineering Technology
Guiraudon, Jean-Claude – Out-of-School Scientific and Technical Education, 1971
Descriptors: Aerospace Technology, Engineering, Engineering Technology, Physics
Reese, Susan – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers, 2001
The South Carolina Advance Technological Education Center is helping to meet the need for skilled technicians and proving that education goes beyond the traditional curriculum. The classroom setting simulates the high-tech workplace. (JOW)
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Engineering Technology, Postsecondary Education, Technological Advancement
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Branoff, Theodore J. – Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 1999
Studies the effectiveness of adding coordinate axes to mental rotations tasks. Assesses the effect of the coordinate axes, the effect of pretest sensitization, and interaction between the pretest and posttest conditions. (Author/CCM)
Descriptors: Engineering Graphics, Engineering Technology, Higher Education, Visual Perception
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Herkert, Joseph R. – Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 2006
Mainstream science, technology, and society scholars have shown little interest in engineering ethics, one going so far as to label engineering ethics activists as "shit shovelers." Detachment from engineering ethics on the part of most STS scholars is related to a broader and long-standing split between the scholar-oriented and activist-oriented…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Subcultures, Engineering, Ethics
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Zhao, Yiping; Chen, Li; Zhang, Yufeng – International Education Studies, 2008
As viewed from two sides such as teacher and student, in this article, we explore the human-based teaching reform for the college professional course of materials Science and Engineering, point out the qualities and conditions that professional teacher should possess in the process of human-based teaching reform of professional course and the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Engineering Education, Engineering Technology, Teacher Qualifications
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