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Engineering Education
Curriculum, Pedagogy and Didactic Aspects
1st Edition - September 5, 2014
Editor: J Paulo Davim
eBook ISBN:9781780633589
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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 emphasises curriculum development, pedagogy and didactic aspects of engineering education, covering relevant aspects from more classical engineering courses such as mechanical, manufacturing, industrial, chemical, environmental, civil and systems courses, to more contemporary courses including nano-engineering and bioengineering along with information on sustainable development in the context of engineering education.
Rigorously covers this timely and relevant area
A diverse range of subjects examined by international experts
Written by highly knowledgeable and well-respected experts in the field
Engineering students, Human resource professionals, Teachers and Lecturers of engineering courses
List of figures and tables
Figures
Tables
Preface
About the editor and contributors
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
1: The influences of personality traits on academic performance through imaginative capability: the differences between engineering and science
Abstract
Introduction
Engineering and science
Engineering imagination and scientific imagination
The effects of personality traits on imagination
Method
Results
Discussion
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
2: Developing a personalized and adapted curriculum for engineering education through an ambient intelligence environment
Abstract
Introduction
Ambient intelligence environments
Brain dominance and thinking styles
Research model
Prototype design
Results, interpretation, and recommendations
Research model validation
Conclusion
3: Evaluation to support stakeholder-centered design and continuous quality improvement in higher education services
Abstract
Introduction
Evaluation and self-evaluation in the Italian higher education context
The conceptual approach to evaluating education service performance
Fuzzy ServQual-based methodology for reliable service evaluation
Evaluation of Palermo Management Engineering Program education services
Conclusion
Appendix
4: Software engineering education: from dysfunction to core competency
5: The most central occupation requirements for engineering jobs: engineering education implications
Abstract
Introduction
The O*NET database
Methodological approach and results
Conclusion
6: Energy engineering: an emerging discipline
Abstract
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
Index
No. of pages: 220
Language: English
Published: September 5, 2014
Imprint: Chandos Publishing
eBook ISBN: 9781780633589
JD
J Paulo Davim
J. Paulo Davim is a Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He is also an honorary professor in several universities/colleges in China, India and Spain. He has more than 30 years of teaching and research experience in manufacturing, materials, mechanical and industrial engineering, with special emphasis in machining and tribology. He has worked as an evaluator of projects for the European Research Council (ERC) and other international research agencies as well as an examiner of Ph.D. theses for many universities in different countries. He is the editor-in-chief of several international journals, guest editor of several journals, series editor for Elsevier’s Woodhead Publishing Reviews: Mechanical Engineering book series, and scientific advisor for many international journals and conferences. Presently, he is an editorial board member of 30 international journals and acts as reviewer for more than 100 prestigious journals. In addition, he has also published as editor (and co-editor) more than 150 books and as author (and co-author) more than 15 books, 100 book chapters and 500 articles in journals and conferences. He has published more than 280 articles in prestigious journals.
Affiliations and expertise
Full Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal