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Many engineering students attend their classes and complete their school work for the week, but have little time to ponder their futures. With the help of internships, many students finally have time to realize that there is a much larger goal in their lives beyond just graduating. An internship benefits a student in ways that are not available in a classroom; with interactions among employees and a tremendous amount of experience in the real world career. The North American Pulp & Paper Industry has evolved the internship process into a vast and enlightening learning experience that is preparing future generations of industry engineers that will be vital for continued growth of this phenomenal industry.

Using computers for assessment can provide several benefits for educators and test-takers. However, in the literature, there is no consensus on the equivalence of paper-and-pencil and computer-based test environments. Accordingly, more evidences are needed especially for the engineering education. In this study, students' performance on different test modes was evaluated on 209 first year engineering students of a chemistry course. The results of this study showed that, there is no significant performance difference between paper-and-pencil and computer based tests. By comparing results with the previous studies, this study concludes that, personal characteristics of test takers, the features of computer-based testing systems and the test content are all possible confounding factors when comparing test modes and need to be considered by the implementers. The results of this study show that, once these factors are controlled, students' performance on computer-based tests and paper-and-pencil tests in chemistry courses for the engineering students will not vary. This finding is encouraging the educators to get benefits of computer-based tests without any affect on students' performance.

We present the methodology applied at the Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia, Lima, Peru, to develop research skills in undergraduate students starting at their first semester. The methodology includes training students since the first year to research in advanced topics. This methodology has been applied since 2012 and now there are two students in a MS program in the USA but before finishing their BS as part of a 4+1 collaboration. Also, there are two junior students in an exchange program in the USA but doing advanced research with grad students. The performance of the students that have had these research experiences is outstanding in terms of technical and soft skills.

In industry an engineer is often required to keep a logbook for recording developments within projects. In higher education, logbooks are a commonly used tool thought to be one that encourages active independent learning and reflective thinking. In School of Engineering, at University of Portsmouth, paper and more recently online logbooks have been in use for recording work for final year projects and project based learning tasks. The work presented here benefits from a unique opportunity within the School of Engineering, where online logbooks alongside traditional paper based logbooks are being used within final year projects. A recent cohort of students (N=127) on ENG600 project module was given the option, through their Supervisors, to use paper logbooks and or online logbooks for recording their work. This work aims to investigate the use of both paper and online logbooks. A mix of Qualitative Research methods and quantitative techniques will be used in this project. The use of content analysis will provide an insight into student reflections and their motivations for using their logbook. Furthermore focus groups, involving live editing of documents in an individual and collaborative fashion, will be used to gather more data for analysis. Quantitative methods (questionnaire, analytics and quantitative content analysis) will also be used in this study. When this work is completed, it will provide guidance and comparison on using the two types of logbooks, backed by knowledge of student motivations and approaches.

Educational paper crafts have an unfortunate reputation as "less than serious" intellectual enterprises, suited primarily for younger children. Over the past decade, the technological groundwork has been laid for a radical revision of this judgment: paper can now serve as the material substrate for a rich, challenging, aesthetically appealing branch of engineering education. This paper describes the notion of paper mechatronics as a multidisciplinary approach to paper-based engineering projects. We discuss the technological innovations that have made paper mechatronics viable; the remarkable range of potential projects and curricular materials that this approach can accommodate; and we illustrate the possibilities of paper mechatronics through several working projects created in our lab.

The Editorial Board for the IEEE Transactions of Education developed and published a new set of review criteria. The review criteria have been built on the foundation of the areas of scholarship offered by Ernest Boyer. The purpose of this workshop is to help authors address the review criteria.

In the recent past there has been a lot of discussion in the pulp, paper and power industries regarding the recruitment of young engineers. There is a growing concern of a shrinking talent pool and a pending human resources crisis. There are several published papers that discuss strategies for educating and recruiting up and coming engineers. This paper, however, discusses the expectations and perspective on the job market from the point of view of recent engineering graduates. A survey was conducted of 30 near-graduate and recent graduates of various engineering disciplines asking their motivations for choosing their particular field. From experiences on a university campus, the most effective recruiters are those who actively go after students by: providing meaningful co-op/internship experience as well as by being involved with on-campus information sessions and events. Furthermore, the pulp & paper industry has unique challenges and opportunities with regard to adapting new technologies and the potential benefits to the environment. These attributes of the industry, if presented compellingly, can be used to more effectively attract young engineers.

Louisiana Tech University in partnership with three local high schools has recently developed NASA-Threads, a high school curriculum that integrates engineering, mathematics, and physics. The curriculum uses hands-on projects that develop student ability to solve realistic multiple-step problems and bring excitement into the classroom. One of the projects implemented in the “Work and Mechanics” portion of the curriculum involves the design, fabrication and testing of a two dimensional (2D) paper truss. Tensile truss members are made of dogbone-shaped manila folder strips, compressive specimens are made from paper mat board, and joints are held together with aluminum screw posts. The truss geometry and testing configuration ensure that the truss will fail when the most heavily loaded tensile member reaches its breaking strength. Tensile testing of individual members prior to the design process provides the data needed for students to design a truss whose load carrying capacity can be accurately estimated. The 2D paper trusses are easy to fabricate when compared to other paper or wooden trusses and provide an excellent way to introduce high school students to structural mechanics.

This paper describes twenty-five-year experience of how I have been training Japanese research engineers in industry research laboratories to write proper technical papers and conference abstracts in English so that their papers and abstracts can be easily understood by native speakers of English. Since almost all these engineers have not been taught how to write technical papers in English, they try to translate from their Japanese research papers into English in a word-for-word fashion using Japanese-English dictionaries, resulting in poorly organized English. I have rewritten their papers according the following rules: (1) Stating conclusions first, then stating causes or giving explanations. (2) Following the three-step English writing style of introduction, body, and conclusion, instead of following the four-step Japanese writing style of ki-sho-ten-ketsu. (3) Translating from Japanese to Japanese first, and translating it into English. Most of the revised papers and abstracts have been accepted by journal editors or program committees of international conferences. In addition to training individual engineers on their writing, I have been teaching technical writing in English (English for Science and Engineering) at Hitachi's R&D Division and at Hitachi Institute of Technology using materials developed during my tenure at Hitachi.

The traditional paradigm of engineering education is not well suited to handle the ambiguity & high rate of change the Industries are facing currently. Only 30% of theory learn't in class is applicable in Industry or in Career. Whatever may be the physical infrastructure the engineering Institutions provide, it is intellectual asset i.e., human resource (faculty members) are the most crucial factors in the engineering education process. With rapid globalization, Institution should prepare the students to become future Entrepreneurs. This paper tries to elicit information about the drawbacks of the engineering education from observation & aiming at giving inputs to prepare new strategies to cater to the needs of challenges of tomorrow in engineering education in order to gain competitive advantage.

Many technical elective and graduate courses use a textbook as the sole source of information. While this is convenient and efficient for engineering fundamentals it prevents students from developing skill sets that enables young practitioners to interact with emerging research issues. A culminating paper assignment provides an excellent opportunity to strengthen both self-directed learning and technical communication skills. These paper overviews the scaffolding used to improve learning through the use of writing. Through the project, students gained confidence searching and interpreting the technical literature.

The paper provides an evaluative study of the impact of the Pro/ENGINEER designer's package on learning outcomes in a first year mechanical engineering design subject. It is concluded that such packages can be used successfully to replace traditional pencil-and-paper approaches, and that their impact will be to change the way spatial concepts and visualisation are taught and developed. >

This Innovative Practice, Full Paper describes a graduate course we developed to introduce students to the field of engineering education research (EER). The 3-credit course – EER 601: Foundations of Engineering Education Research – is the first required course of a brand new EER graduate program at the University of Michigan. The graduate program is part of a unique initiative that includes five tenured/tenure-track EER faculty who are embedded in traditional engineering departments. The primary area of scholarship for these faculty is EER, but they teach courses in and support the goals and mission of both their home engineering departments and the EER program. EER 601 is designed as a required course for students in the EER program, for other students supported by the EER faculty, and for interested students across the university. In this paper, we provide details of the course content, assignments, structure, and logistics for EER 601. We also present several sources of evidence to demonstrate how the course achieved two key course goals. Finally, we describe revisions we plan to make to the course.

The GoING Abroad program was designed by the project ELLI — Excellent Teaching and Learning in Engineering Science — at the Ruhr Universitat Bochum in Germany in order to increase the international mobility of engineering students. A regular information session combines subject-specific information with student experiences and introduces contact persons at the university and engineering faculties. The format is accompanied by information material such as a newsletter, a website and a brochure. Starting in spring 2013, over 350 students have participated in the sessions and subscribed to the newsletter. This short paper explains the special requirements and according setup of a program that aims at increasing outbound mobility by encouraging engineering students to spend a study semester or an internship abroad. It shows how different stakeholders in internationalization can be brought together with a common objective to reduce mobility barriers and to distribute outgoing placements efficiently among students. It gives an overview of participation structure and evaluation results of the 9 info sessions conducted during the last four years. The program's overall performance will be considered as well as its acceptance among students and faculty employees.

The university-learning environment in engineering is not sufficient for students to become engineers. The practical role of engineering is working on real world problems in an industry environment. Industry-university collaboration seems to be actively increasing in the development of engineering education in various parts of the globe. The close relationship between industry and university is a vital component of engineering pedagogy in Australia. This research paper is focuses on analyzing students and staff perspectives of academic-industry partnerships. The students and staff are playing vital role in academic and industry partnerships. It is always worth analyzing students' and staff perspectives about their experience on academic-industry partnerships. This research inclined to conduct a paper based survey with a cohort of students in second year undergraduate engineering course and also conduct face-to-face interview with staff members in the School of Engineering at Deakin University.

Laboratory experiences should be available for a great number of students in engineering education, especially at times when the number of students is even more increasing. Virtual Labs and Remote Labs are innovative tools used for improvement. They are either simulating experiments (Virtual Labs) or remotely operated plants (Remote Labs). At Ruhr-University Bochum, the implementation of eight new labs was supported by the project ELLI (excellent teaching and learning in engineering sciences). Didactical concepts as well as sustainable implementations were among the criteria of the independent jury's decision. After their setup, the management of the variety of labs is the next step. This short paper reports the work in progress in the year 2013, the whole process is to be continued and improved.

A shortage of skilled people and engineers is one of the most critical issues facing South African government today. One of the problems facing South Africa is the old curriculum, which is outdated and could not address some of the developments in engineering and related fields. The country is embarking on a joint effort by the Department of Education (DoE) and Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), and the different non-governmental organisations (NGOs) such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and Zenex in addressing the situation. Due to non-coordination of all the efforts, the Department of Education developed a national strategy on mathematics, science, and technology (NSMST) to create schools of excellence or focused schools, 'Dinaledi' schools with targets to produce more mathematics and science learners. The first white paper of 1995 after the democratically elected government, proposed the development of alternative curricula, the national curriculum statement (NCS) based on principles of access, redress and equity. In this paper, the creation of focus schools known as 'Dinaledi' schools, the role played by engineers in the development of a country, and the support given by industry is addressed.

A review of the College of Engineering core curriculum indicated a need to improve the communication skills of undergraduates. As a "pilot" students were given a writing exercise in a sophomore Statics class. The initial form of the writing exercise was a short paper (three to five pages) in which students wrote about a structure they had observed. This exercise was used for three semesters (until Spring 2000) when students indicated in the course evaluation feedback that the exercise lacked value. Accordingly, a new exercise was introduced in Fall 2000. A longer paper (5 to 8 pages) was required (worth 15% of the final grade) that again focused on a structure, but this time one of historical significance. Students were given feedback by writing consultants after both a first and second draft, including a one-on-one meeting. The new exercise substantially improved the quality of the papers, but some concerns still exist.

Reliability is an engineering discipline that encompasses a broad array of tools and techniques useful for answering durability and robustness type questions. Product development teams often rely on reliability engineering professionals to guide, advise and manage reliability programs. Reliability is a facet in nearly every function of an organization. This implies the knowledge and skills required for the reliability engineer is comprehensive and the knowledge breadth may have to span aspects of material science in design constraint considerations to warranty reverse logistics. How do engineers become reliability professionals? What are the knowledge transfer options available to the reliability profession? How do we get started and maintain our knowledge? In this short paper, I summarize what's available, a couple of common paths taken to become a reliability professional, and highlight the strengths and a few weaknesses concerning reliability education. Note: This is my view of the state of reliability education.

The authors describe a course designed for engineering undergraduates in their first year that also enrolls a significant number of liberal arts students. The course explains the great engineering events that have transformed American life over the last two centuries: the steamboat and the textile mill, the railroad, the telegraph, and the steel industry, the rise of the electrical, oil, automobile, and aircraft industries, the restructuring of regions such as Metropolitan New York, the Tennessee Valley, and the Colorado River, and finally the growth of information technologies in the last half century. Typically about 70 students enroll in the course and the small classes have about 12 students each. The students do a series of calculations in civil, mechanical, electrical, chemical, and aeronautical engineering that do not require calculus. They write a 3000-word term paper on an engineering object or system, and they take a final examination on the lectures, readings, and calculations. The course has been given five times, and it receives high student ratings. >

Innovation is considered a key factor for companies operating in competitive markets. In consequence, the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) considers it as one of the crucial skills that newly graduated engineers should be educated on. It can be seen as a responsibility of universities’ staff to provide the needed knowledge, skills, and attitudes that would enable graduated engineers to identify the companies' needs to obtain effective innovations. To develop this last aspect, the University must allow students to have the opportunity to get acquainted with students from other countries working in the same innovation development project.In this paper, an experience is presented that analyses the collaboration among five university partners. Students of these institutions have collaborated in 8 innovation engineering projects that were carried out in the fall of 2019. In February 2020, a symposium was organized in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, where students showcased their innovations. In total, about 67 students from different nationalities collaborated in these 8 projects. This paper will cover the experiences of students and teachers in these international innovation engineering projects.

This paper analyzes the key issues in the training of computer professionals under the new situation, creatively thinks about computer professional education, and puts forward the concept of diversified talent training. Using engineering education professional certification as a starting point, it discusses the construction of computer majors under the background of artificial intelligence. This paper provides new ideas for talent training, and designs a talent training program to better cultivate innovative talents in computer science that can adapt to the development of the times and face the needs of applications.

According to the “FIVE NEW” i.e. new engineering construction new concept, new structure, new mode, new quality and new system put forward by the Department of higher education of the Ministry of Education, this paper gives the renovation and construction scheme of traditional engineering specialty from three aspects of the guiding ideology of specialty construction, the goal of specialty construction and the path of specialty construction. According to the industrial chain and innovation chain, the paper focuses on the reconstruction of talent knowledge and ability system, deepening school enterprise cooperation, collaborative education, strengthening engineering practice, training innovation and entrepreneurship ability, paying attention to interdisciplinary disciplines and organic integration of new technology, and taking students as the center, establishing an evaluation system in line with the characteristics of engineering education etc. The implementation path of specialty construction is described in multiple dimensions.

This Innovate Practice Full Paper presents HPC and engineering educational development and practice. Educators and researchers are witnessing the emergence of parallel and high-performance computing (HPC) in many computing and engineering environments worldwide. Single-core processing is slowly becoming obsolete while parallel solutions to application development are now replacing serial solutions to achieve higher performance, particularly in many scientific, engineering, and computing fields. Some universities or research institutes worldwide have developed and have become centers of supercomputing. Most of these centers, particularly the world acclaimed Tianhe-2 supercomputer developed by China's National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), often have their own HPC educational approaches as well as their own curricula at both undergraduate and graduate levels. This paper presents some high-level HPC educational concepts, educational framework designs, and strategies for cultivating HPC talented graduates. In this work, the authors show unique perspectives and practical experiences on student capability, oriented toward HPC curricular development. They also show a step-by-step practical system in which real platform, real application, and research-teaching integration modes can immerse students into an HPC world for better understanding. The authors show how researchers with rich computing and engineering experience can become deeply involved in course design, in-class teaching, and in laboratory instruction. They also discuss the effectiveness of HPC courses at the NUDT and they show how HPC can become a stable element in computing and engineering education.

This Research-to-Practice Full Paper investigates the emerging perspectives for the 21st engineering curriculum, and discusses the crucial role that digital technologies will have in facilitating the management, evaluation, and development of such a curriculum. First, a vision for future engineering curricula is distilled from modern curricular perspectives and trends of future engineering professions, where the integration of non-cognitive competences and the increased individualization of study paths are central. Core requirements for future curricula are outlined, which pose significant barriers to curricular changes. Then, the role of technology in mitigating these barriers is discussed, by outlining key aspects of a data-driven digital approach to the management of future curricula. To illustrate the proposed approach, the paper presents a case example of a digital tool that analyzes curriculum coherency at the content level. The paper concludes with a discussion of future research directions regarding the conceptualization and management of future engineering curricula through digital technologies.

This Innovative Practice Full Paper presents a constructivist concept for engineering education for non-technical students. Global challenges and transformation processes lead to a rapid increase in problems at the boundary between technical and non-technical disciplines in higher education. Furthermore, new fields of work emerge due to the digital transformation. Graduates need to be prepared to identify and describe problems and to develop appropriate solutions in teams in order to contribute to change processes related to the future in a smart world. Engineering sciences have to take up the challenge to provide suitable educational programs for a broader target group, i.e. non-technical students, especially in light of the current shortage of qualified specialists. This paper contributes twofold to that discourse on transformation processes in Engineering Education: (1) by the development of a theory-based teaching and learning concept on electrical engineering for this special target group of non-technical students; and (2) by presenting the implementation of the undergraduate (bachelor) course with innovative project-based laboratory experiments.

In the past decade, reports such as the National Academies' "Engineering in K-12 Education: Understanding the Status and Improving the Prospects" (2009) have discussed the importance of – and challenges of – effectively incorporating engineering concepts into the K-12 curriculum. Multiple reports have echoed and further elaborated on the need to effectively and authentically introduce engineering within K-12; not just to address a perpetual shortage of engineers, but to increase technological literacy within the U.S.The NSF-funded initiative Engineering for US All (E4USA): A National Pilot Program for High School Engineering Course and Database curriculum was intentionally designed ‘for us all;’ in other words, the design is meant to be inclusive and to engage in an examination and exploration of ‘engineering’. The intent behind the ‘for us all’ curriculum is to emphasize the idea of thinking like an engineer, rather than simply to develop more engineers. Therefore, the focus is not on ‘how to become an engineer’ but ‘what is an engineer’ and ‘who is an engineer’.This paper will discuss the design of the first iteration of the curriculum. The initial design was based on the First Year Engineering Classification Scheme, used to classify all possible content found in first-year, multidisciplinary Introduction to Engineering courses in general-admit (non direct-admit) engineering programs. The curriculum provides progressively larger engineering design experiences relating to student fields of interest and real-world problems. Course objectives are broken into four major threads. Each of these threads is woven through seven modules. The threads are: Discovering Engineering, Engineering in Society, Engineering Professional Skills, and Engineering Design.The paper will describe the design and details of the initial implementation of the E4USA curriculum, focusing on the features that make this course suitable ‘for all.’

This paper analyses the curricula reforms initiated due to state policies and University structural reforms in the example of Estonia and Tallinn University of Technology. Although, the broader picture of both state and University policies is provided in the paper, the emphasis is put to the reforms straightly related to the Department of Electrical Power Engineering and Mechatronics in Tallinn University of Technology.

Since the Ministry of education put forward the construction of national top-quality online open courses, the mixed teaching mode has been widely used in the process of professional education, indicating a new direction for the development of college teaching. Based on the analysis of the gap between the traditional teaching mode and the cultivation of the comprehensive innovation ability of software engineering talents, this paper proposes to combine the national excellent online open courses with the intelligent classroom teaching, introduce it into the teaching process of software engineering, and implement "1 + n". It also introduces the application process of the mixed teaching mode in the course of "software design and architecture". This paper explores the overall construction process of the mixed teaching mode, runs the new engineering education concept through the software engineering professional training and teaching process, and trains the new software engineering talents to adapt to the industrial upgrading and the development of the software industry. This kind of teaching mode plays an important role in improving students' practical ability, strengthening the interaction between teachers and students, promoting teaching reform, and adapting to the needs of social development.

The paper describes the interaction between Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech, Tallinn, Estonia) and ITMO University (St. Petersburg, Russia) based on recently signed agreement. The purpose of the agreement is to record the intention of TalTech and ITMO University to cooperate on implementing a double master’s degree program, which involves confirmation of the master’s educational level absorption and the award of master’s degree and obtention of two diplomas, and to outline the organizational form, principles and terms of the implementation. The double degree Program is a two-year Master’s program of 120 ECTS credit points. Its structure and content meets the requirements that both TalTech and ITMO University have established for their master’s programs, in accordance with the government standards. Development and approval of the double degree Program is held by the Parties in accordance with the procedures established by them. This paper describes the procedure of implementation of a double-degree master program in mechatronics engineering.

The implementation of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the classroom had resulted in revolutionizing the methods of teaching and learning, where the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) made the use of such technologies in higher education institutes more practical. This conceptual paper presents a prediction for strategy of using artificial intelligence in higher education for promoting learning outcomes and educational quality. The paper addresses AI-based learning by trying to analyze and investigate how AI can be effectively exploited and adopted by universities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in accordance to the Kingdom's 2030 vision. Furthermore, this paper concentrates on challenges of teaching/learning process and benefits in the adoption of this old/new technology, empowering academic committee to an AI- powered context. In summary, a framework consolidated by a set of recommendations is presented in this work.

The forming art of paper pulp is popular in Europe, America, Japan, Asia, etc. even in Taiwan. There are many facilities and workshops for paper art, which provide an educational and experimental place for people to contact with the connotation of traditional culture and explore the possible expression of “paper” in the context of contemporary culture. The teaching of pulp plastic art and engineering in China is still in the early stage of development. In professional art colleges and engineering universities, although there are related teaching and creation desire, the lack of curriculum planning, and the need for teaching equipment and materials knowledge, leads to the invention of paper pulp in the development of pulp art in the current state of backwardness. Integrating the course of pulp plastic art and making into teaching will have a great influence on guiding students to understand Chinese culture, exploring new materials, developing innovative thinking and constructing design theories in art, design and engineering. The paper pulp material and forming arts are combined to make the unique aesthetic feeling of its form, texture, texture and color and the creative design of art, function and forming, so as to enrich the connotation of China’s art, design, engineering education and bring new ideas and new pursuit direction for innovative and creative education.