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Continuing Engineering Education Who Needs It?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-20)Amongst practitioners there are inherent uncertainties and instabilities associated with CEE, which out of enthusiasm or commitment, it is all too easy to down play or overlook. Some of these issues and their impact are ... -
Building a Continuing Education Program for Embedded Systems with Labs and Distance Support
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-20)In spring 2000 the University of Colorado Electrical Engineering department and CAETE (Center for Advanced Engineering and Technology Education) launched an Embedded Systems Certificate program with two new courses taught ... -
Web-Based Supplemental Training in Continuing Engineering Education Courses
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-20)A continuing engineering education course on process burners used in the hydrocarbon and petrochemical industries contained some basic theory that proved to be a concern for many students. Recent graduates felt too much ... -
Strategies for Engaging Engineering Faculty in Continuing Education
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-20)Engaging engineering faculty at a large research university in continuing education is a challenge because faculty choose to invest their time and talents in other activities which are perceived to have higher benefits. ... -
Formal and Informal Technology Enhanced Learning for Initial and Continuing Engineering Education
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-20)The results of two empirical surveys among students and the experiences from an interdisciplinary course show that the success of stimulating informal learning by formal learning offers is a matter of educational design ... -
Programs Development Aiming at Interfacing Different Engineering Disciplines
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-20)With eleven bachelor departments and seven diplomas, the Faculty of Engineering, Diponegoro University is experiencing individualism of departments in offering trainings and short courses for external community. In order ... -
CEE as Customized Seminar Devoted to Enterprise’s Needs: Practice of CEE in WISCO
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-20)Nearly three decades have passed since the Wuhan Iron & Steel Corporation (WISCO for short) first started CEE in a well-planned manner. WISCO has recently put out a new CEE model called customized seminar, the core of which ... -
Engineering’s Role in the Evolutionary Understanding of Complex Service Systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-20)In the United States, over 70% of the labor force is engaged in services, and an estimated 75% of the GDP in 2005 was derived from services. Industrialized countries around the world share similar statistics, while emerging ... -
The Development of Internet-Based Experiment System and the Utilization of Practice Teaching Resources for Continuing Engineering Education
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-20)In the perspective that practice teaching resources is urgent to be extended for continuing engineering education, this paper analyzes several problematic issues in the development of advanced engineering education in ... -
Understanding the Global Marketplace - a UK Perspective
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-21)Within the UK context, I will share the experiences of the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford in developing short professional-updating courses and part-time modular MSc programmes in the ... -
Going Global: How to Develop Your Continuing Engineering Education Strategy for a World without Borders
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-21)As companies attract and develop talent across the globe, continuing engineering education providers will follow suit – creating and delivering programs that both address the implications of a global strategy and are ... -
Innovative Tool for Custom Course Building and Delivery
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-21)Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) has a strong commitment towards practicing professionals in the industry. MSOE's Applied Technology Center regularly offers professional education seminars in the field of Fluid Power ... -
Semantic Network as a Knowledge Base in Training Systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-21)Training system (TS) is a subclass of expert systems, i.e. knowledge based information systems. Knowledge representations in TS may differ depending on their purpose and the topic. Simple TS implement computerized ... -
A Collaborative Educational Program Involving the Reuse of Timbers from the Old Farm Houses Damaged by the Earthquakes in Niigata
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-21)In this educational program, students, inhabitants and professionals worked together discussing the planning and design for wooden arcades, called locally Gangi, and actually built them together as a part of various town ... -
eUreka: Web-based Tool for Collaborative Problem Solving and Project Work - Documentation of Knowledge Creation and Discovery
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-21)Building on the implementation of project work in Singapore schools at the K-12 level, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) explored an extension of eLearning that will move the original purpose of knowledge creation, ... -
Technology Entrepreneurship in Engineering Education: Harnessing the Technology Entrepreneurs in Filipino Engineering Students
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-21)The eventual career path of the young Filipino engineer after college graduation is employment with a multinational corporation. This traditional mindset has been molded over the years through the relentless and aggressive ... -
A Tentative Study on Technical Problems Solving Oriented Training Modes of Continuing Education for Petroleum and Petrol-Chemical Technical Engineers
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-21)Continuing education for Technical Engineers should be focused on adaptability and applicability. This article discusses the technical problem-solving oriented three-phase methodology, which includes organizing study ... -
Study on the Development of Continuing Education in Universities in China
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-21)Currently in China, the gradual mainstreaming of continuing education is the most significant indication of lifelong education evolving from ideal to practice. As the main providers of continuing education, universities ... -
Upgrading Teachers’ Competences Together with the Industry
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-21)The working life relevance is constantly mentioned in relation to higher education. Higher education institutes are expected to provide education that answer to the competence requirements of the working life. Answering ... -
Study on Deepening the Reform of Agricultural Continuing Education and Boosting the Development of Agriculture, Rural Area and Farmer
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-21)This paper expounds the characteristics, the importance and the necessity of continuing education, and analyzes the guidelines, the objectives, the training system and modes of agricultural continuing education (ACE). In ...