Interactive Aerospace Engineering and Design
International Conference on Engineering Education August 18--21, 2002, Manchester, U.K
Use of Interactive Multimedia in Engineering Education
Engineering in the Classroom
The unfortunate reality of the classroom today is that even the ones lucky enough to be “wired” realistically only have one or two computers in the room. In this format it is unlikely that every student will have the time to sit down and interact with an instructional Web page. The format for Web instruction, if it exists, can more easily come as a sort-of hyper-media overhead projector show.
International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education
Emerging Trends and Technologies for Enhancing Engineering Education
Improving and enhancing education has been a prime goal for higher learning institutions that seek to provide better learning techniques, technologies, educators, and to generate knowledgeable students to fulfill the needs of industries. A significant area where improvements are required is in the engineering field. In this regard, one approach is to review the delivery and pedagogies used in current education systems. This paper examines the problems faced by staff and students in the field of Mechanical Engineering, which are found in the literature. Finally, the authors explore new technologies that could help enhance and promote the learning process of students experiencing problems.
Aeronautical Engineering: A New Paradigm for Education
All engineering fields went through a tremendous change during the last ten years, when the new technologies brought about unpredictable supports to engineers. The tri-dimension printing is only one example among many. In the Aeronautical Engineering domain, however, some of these changes are shifting from being a conventional interface between the man and the machine to becoming an integral part of the system. (The embedded safety systems are just one example). Although such integration is widening the spectrum of the aeronautical engineering education, and calls for users to be more clever in using their systems, it also requires that they become more competent solvers of complicated machinery problems especially when they are left to their own. These changes are not only curricular. It is not enough to change the content of the curriculum, but it is more needed to go for new methodology for teaching, adopting a new paradigm by preparing the future engineers to deal with new trends of machinery and support systems. It calls for imparting them with the sense of readiness for change, for adaptation, and for initiative. This cannot be done through a classical curriculum approach. Adopting an educational system based on acquiring the needed competencies, on mastering High Mental skills, and on problem-based learning is the path we have to advocate for. The objective of this presentation is to show how this strategy can be adopted, what will its ultimate results and implication is on Engineering education.
42nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit
Recent Experiments in Aerospace and Design Engineering Education
D. J . Inman
International Journal of Engineering Education
The cockpit: an effective metaphor for web-based experimentation in engineering education
Academic institutions are increasingly interested in developing Web-based experimentation environments that support virtual and/or remote experimentation. Virtual experimentation corresponds to simulation and remote experimentation refers to manipulation over the Internet of distant laboratory equipment. The Web-based experimentation paradigm is typically deployed by both traditional and open universities for the main purpose of enhancing the offering of didactic resources designed to strengthen hands-on practice in ...
Emerging technologies in engineering education: can we make it work?
This paper deals with an explorative research into the use of emerging technologies for teaching and learning. An important stimulus for this research is the skills gap. The rapid changing demand puts a lot of pressure on education and the promise is that technology might help to solve the problem. The expectation is that indeed the next generation of technologies will affect education more profoundly, because of the increase and the vast integration of these technologies in our society at large. Engineering education has been reluctant in accepting technologies for learning, but the speed of change needs to be acknowledged and education cannot continue to say that the demand for new skills is a world we do not know yet. The exploration starts with an assessment about what kind of technologies are at stake and what their contribution might be for education. Recent research and reports are used to value the educational technological developments; representatives from industry and edu...
… Engineering Education
The future of engineering education II. Teaching methods that work
Ali Hassan Oun