Contents: Foreword. Introduction. I. Redefining Engineering Education : 1. Humanizing Engineering Education for the Twenty First Century/Josef Rotter. 2. Engineering Education : Finding the Meaning/Mariana Ruiz Morales. 3. Collaborative Writing Tools in Engineering Education : Challenges for Knowledge Management and Sharing/Joao Batista Bottentuit Junior and Clara Pereira Coutinho. 4. Design and Production Engineering : Some Moving Frontiers of the Engineering Education in Brazil/Beany Guimaraes Monteiro and Roberta Bartholo. 5. The Contribution of Socrates Thematic Networks to Mutual Recognition of Engineering Study Programmes Across Europe/Claudio Borri, Elisa Guberti and Francesco Maffioli. 6. Technology and Education for Human Resource Development in Asia-Pacific/Anjana Pair a and Rajarshi Roy. II. Innovative Approaches in Engineering Education : 7. Classroom Usage of Science Fiction to Enhance Engineering Education : Thoughts and Techniques/A.E. Segall. 8. Improving Teaching and Learning Process through Computational Resources : New Approach/Edson Pedro Ferlin, Nestor Saavedra and Valfredo Pilla Jr. 9. Using Theory of Change and Team Teaching to Evaluate and Improve Teaching Practice in a Control Engineering Department : A Case Study/J.A. Rossiter, L Cray and G. Diercks-O'Brien. 10. Understanding Effective Models of Audio Feedback/Andrew Middleton and Anne Nortcliffe. 11. Mediation in and Out of Class for Fostering Teaching and Learning Basic Sciences in Engineering/J.B. Lopes, C. Viegas and J.P. Cravino. 12. Formative Situation : A Framework for Fostering Teaching and Learning Basic Sciences in Engineering/J.B. Lopes, J.P. Cravino, C. Viegas and C.M. Marques. 13. Discovery Based Classroom Projects with Auvs and Rovs/Rustam Stolkin, Richard Sheryll and Liesl Hotaling. 14. Study Branches Innovation at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering/Milada Hlavaekova, Petr Horyl and Dagmar Juchelkova. III. Organizational Climate And Ict In Engineering Education : 15. In Search of the Academic and Organizational Change in Spanish Universities/Monica Edwards and Luis M. Sanchez-Ruiz. 16. Quality Evaluation of the Engineering Education in Brazil : The Method Applied at the Polytechnic School of the University of Sao Paulo/Giuliano Olguin, Haydee Svab, Ana Cecilia Pontes Rodrigues and Cecilia Carmen Cunha Pontes. 17. A New Way to Teach Mathematics in Engineering : New Challenges, New Approaches/Alonso Felix, Rodriguez Gerardo and Villa, Agustin De La. 18. Clients in Student Software Engineering Projects/Juha Taina. 19. Learning Process Evolution Enhanced by ICT and Educational Technology : Universitat De Valecia Case Study and Open and Collaborative Software Experiences/P. Moreno Clari, V. Cerveron Lleo, Dario Roig and Agustin Lopez. 20. Enhancing Teaching and Facilitating Learning Using ICT/Shyamal Majumdar. IV. Revisiting Curricula And Allied Issues In Engineering Education : 21. Pre-Engineering Degree Programmes in USA : An Investigation/Xin-Ran Duan. 22. Engineering Undergraduates-Development Communication Skills in English : An Analysis of the Structural and Interactional Aspects of Teleconferences in the Ideels Telematics Simulation Project/Penny Macdonald and David Perry. 23. Transitional Changes as Driver for Reengineering Curricula for Electrical Engineering Education in Serbia : Case of the Autonomy Province of Vojvodina/Djuro Kutlaea and Vojin Senk. 24. Engineering Education : From European to Polish Perspective/Lidia Zakowska. 25. Spiral Curriculum to Facilitate Student Learning and Development/M.L. Wolfe, T. Wildman, K. Mallikarjunan, V.K. Lohani and J. Connor.
Irrespective of discipline and trade-boundaries, pedagogy of engineering-education demands specialty in most of the cases. Teachers' style of teaching [rather to assist students in the process of learning] accords influence of sequels of factors and variables. A bulk of empirical studies across national boundaries proved that engineering education possesses direct causal-effect relationship with the economic development, which further influences the gestalt development of any nation.
Engineering education in the globalized perspective undergoing metamorphic changes in changing paradigms, and India has an opportunity to share the experience of the advanced nations and thereby, through juxtaposition, can adopt appropriate policies for strengthening the existing system of engineering education, best suits for national situations and interest.
The studies into engineering education have resulted in producing many educational benchmarks and yet not addressing the core issues of dissatisfaction.
The book addresses such pertinent issues for the engineering practitioners, educators, planners and the cross section of the population, concerned with engineering education across globe for the development in its true sense.
