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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 ... -
Case Study Experiments of the Knowledge Practices Laboratory (KP-Lab)
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-22)KP-Lab is a five year research and development project financed by the EU 6th Framework Program. The aim of the project is to create a learning system which facilitates innovative practices of sharing, creating and working ... -
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 ... -
China’s Continuing Education in the Context of Economic Globalization
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-21)The economic globalization has provided a new drive to the development of the continuing education. With the strong support and promotion from the Chinese government, the continuing education in China has evolved into a ... -
Colegio de Ingenieros Tecnólogos de Costa Rica (CITEC). Experience of Professional Board in Continuing Education
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-22)Better tools for the performance of professionals. The guild vision of the needs of continuous improvement can be supported in strategic alliances with agencies specializing in engineering practices and standards at the ... -
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 ... -
Continuing Education at GSPE for Present and Future Professional Engineers
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-21)Engineers are by their nature inquisitive and live-long learners. Professional engineers (PEs) must be life-long learners if they want to maintain their professional licenses. After four (or more) years of college study, ... -
Continuing Education From High School to Postgraduate Studies: A Need of Telecommunication Industry in Colombia
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-23)In the project "Curricular, Pedagogical and Didactic Proposal for the Formation of Technicians, Technologists and Engineers in Telecommunications" (shortly called Forteti) several proposals of professional instruction ... -
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 ... -
Creating Means and Motivation for Networking—Continuing Education Programs for Engineers Based on Professional Standards (experience gained from projects implemented in a small country)
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-23)The paper outlines the experience of building partnerships and networking from three continuing engineering education development projects implemented in Estonia. The focus of the projects was creation of network between ... -
Critical Elements for Future Programs Seeking to Establish Excellence in Engineering Education Through Professional Qualification of Faculty Teaching in Higher Education
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-21)This paper presents three critical elements needed for any successful U.S. program seeking to establish excellence in engineering education through professional qualification of faculty teaching in higher education. ... -
Developing a New Second-Cycle University Program Curriculum According to the Bologna Process
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-22)This article describes how Rovaniemi University of Applied Sciences is building a new secondcycle university degree programme in the field of technology. The planning and implementation of this degree programme takes ... -
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 ... -
Development of Water Purification System by Magnetic Separation Technique and Its Application to the Education for Environment on the Course of Learn-by-Doing Program
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-21)A superconducting permanent magnet system capable of generating strong magnetic fields has been constructed by using bulk high temperatures superconductors HTS. The magnetic field in the open space between the ... -
Differences of Engineering Education Systems Between Japan and Germany - Consideration About Before and After Graduation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-22)Many Japanese universities normally have the educational system, which checks the students’ "knowledge" about theories and answers, but engineering education in Germany provides a system to check the students’ "understandings" ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
The Exploration and Practice of Continuing Education of China's Radio and TV Universities in the New Age
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-22)Based on the study entitled ‘The Investigation of the Status Quo of Radio and TV University’s Continuous Education’, some experience and practice of continuous education of CCRTVU in the 21st century is presented. Some ... -
Faculty Readiness for Defining and Facilitating CEE
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-21)In this paper we discuss the new demands put on university faculty for involvement in delivery of Continuing Engineering Education. CEE programmes are often composed in the same way as on-campus programmes – which means ... -
Financial Management PD Courses for Global Economy Engineers
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-21)Traditionally Russian engineers were responsible mostly for product design, shop technology and manufacturing processes development. Professional development courses served practical engineers to upgrade the knowledge in ...