Engineering education : curriculum, pedagogy and didactic aspects /
Information about engineering education is highly relevant for improving communication between professors, researchers and students in engineering schools, institutions, laboratories and industry. Technological change is fundamental to the development of education systems. Engineering Education emph...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Chandos Publishing,
2014.
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Colección: | Chandos learning and teaching series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Engineering Education: Curriculum, pedagogy and didactic aspects; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; Preface; About the editor and contributors; 1 The influences of personality traits on academic performancethrough imaginative capability: the differences betweenengineering and science; Introduction; Engineering and science; Engineering imagination and scientific imagination; The effects of personality traits on imagination; Method; Results; Discussion; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References.
- 2 Developing a personalized and adapted curriculum for engineeringeducation through an ambient intelligence environmentIntroduction; Ambient intelligence environments; Brain dominance and thinking styles; Research model; Prototype design; Results, interpretation, and recommendations; Research model validation; Conclusion; References; 3 Evaluation to support stakeholder-centered design andcontinuous quality improvement in higher education services; Introduction; Evaluation and self-evaluation in the Italian higher education context.
- The conceptual approach to evaluating education service performanceFuzzy ServQual-based methodology for reliable service evaluation; Evaluation of Palermo Management Engineering Program education services; Conclusion; Appendix; References; 4 Software engineering education: from dysfunction to corecompetency; Introduction; Phase I: Addressing the talent shortage problem; Phase II: improving software engineering core competency; Conclusion; Acknowledgment; References; 5 The most central occupation requirements for engineering jobs:engineering education implications; Introduction.
- The O*NET databaseMethodological approach and results; Conclusion; References; 6 Energy engineering: an emerging discipline; Introduction; The need for energy engineering courses; The development of undergraduate courses; The development of postgraduate courses; Assessment and practical work in academic courses; Perspectives for energy engineering courses and their graduates; Conclusion; References; Index.