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Teaching engineering studies students about diversity issues as part of the curriculum in engineering programs is an essential part of preparing the students for their professional life. By teaching them what this is and what it means for their (professional) lives sensitises them towards more responsibility. The idea is to connect diversity issues with technical subjects. Topics like technical development, human-machine communication or power management and other topics relevant to society are very suitable for this purpose. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today we are confronted with a new challenge in product development: "Diversity" needs to be implemented in the engineering design and development teams. Such diversity means to "mirror" within the teams the characteristics of different customer groups: the two genders, the different age groups, and the different cultural background corresponding to the cultural differences represented in today's society. Thus the products and services developed in this way are expected to serve more specifically the different customer groups within society. This approach has already been proven successful, e.g., in some areas of car design and consumer goods. Therefore, science and engineering should in this sense become concerned with diversity across society. In particular engineering education needs to focus on different student groups, especially women. Both enterprises and universities have to put emphasis on co-operation in order to achieve such focus on these new and different customers groups. But what sounds so easy in a pragmatic view, becomes more and more difficult under considerations of the traditional patterns in engineering education, It means accepting different motivations and experiences of students, especially women. It means also to accept different ways of teaching and learning and thus, different strategies in both engineering education and research. One way to develop engineering education further as suggested here, shows the new approach of "Gender Studies in Engineering" to be described in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper the relationship between new technologies and structural changes in society and the economy are discussed. The roles of engineers are described within this revolution of information technology. Through comparing the international patterns of engineering studies, the German model of engineering education is being questioned. It becomes evident that only a consecutive model of higher education studies can be the goal of further university development in Germany. Subsequently, system analysis will be used to draft a new campus structure of the university: the virtual campus consisting of a system of largely independent entities that are linked by different technological and organizational means. Further education needs to be integrated into this virtual campus university. In this way, Germany may serve as an example of how countries around the world are challenged to change fundamentally their educational systems in order to respond to the ongoing revolution in information technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the implementation of creativity and communication processes on engineering education. Components of socio-technical approach used in engineering profession; Characteristics of socio-technical systems; Engineering department as a socio-technical, self-similar and creative system.

The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one by Felicitas Sagebiel on organizational culture in engineering education in Europe and another by Susan Viefers on gender equity in higher education.

The article presents an introduction for this issue which focuses on gender studies in engineering education.

Editorial. Introduces a series of articles on the integration of creativity into engineering education. Relationship between technical knowledge and creativity, on the one hand, and university and industry, on the other; Design and development of different kinds of robots.

An introduction of the journal is presented in which the editor discusses engineering education, organizational changes at universities, and cooperation between schools and universities.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including engineering education, women in engineering, gender differences in education.

The author discusses the plans of the journal "European Journal of Engineering Education" (EJEE) to publish papers on innovation and research in Engineering Education. The author states that there is difficulty in funding Engineering Education research in Europe, wherein their educational research depends on local funding. Moreover, the author mentions the changes in the editorial committee of EJEE, wherein Maria Fernanda Ramalhoto of Portugal resigned as editorial committee member.