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the participation of patients in the training of health professionals constitutes a paradigmatic break, not only with regard to what is going on in this particular field but also with regard to what can be observed in all training courses for the helping professions. The purpose of this article is to consider this mobilization of patient trainers both as an actual change and as a potential operator of change. To do this, we will rely on an intervention research aimed at promoting partnership in health and on the functioning and productions of one of the working groups dedicated to the training of health professionals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

implemented gradually since 2002 and following in the footsteps of the "Bologna Process" initiated in the late 1990s, successive reforms of university education in France have profoundly changed the landscape of higher professional degrees. The Diplômes d'Enseignement Supérieur Spécialisé (DESS) (Specialized Higher Education Diplomas), which have become professional Masters, offer a paradigmatic example of the tensions between the former aims of professionalization in universities and the teaching to, by, or for research present in these diplomas. The case of the professional Master's degree in "Strategy and Engineering in Adult Training" (SIFA) at Rennes 2 University illustrates this problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The interview transcribed in this article was conducted with Thierry Ardouin, a great witness and actor in the history of training engineering in France. Through the evocation of his journey and his reflections, the aim here is to give an account of a singular journey, but also of the timely grasping of ingenium as a dynamic of analysis and action in the field of education and training science. "With our feet on the ground and our head in the stars" is the approach he proposes to us, in order to link this history to the current and future perspectives of a reflection that is still under construction on training engineering, driven by an ethical vigilance with regard to world movements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

the concept of continuing professional development (CPD) for teachers combines issues of training, recognition, and professional effectiveness. In this article, we examine the conditions and effects of the implementation of CPD policies at the international and national levels, before looking comparatively at concrete CPD training provision in two "academies" in France. We seek to identify certain conditions for the renewal of in-service teacher training engineering devices and, more broadly, to document major contemporary issues for the teaching profession: attractiveness, recognition, renewal, mobility, and professional development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

the theme of training engineering is still relatively absent in Brazilian academic writing, appearing only in the early 2000s. In Brazil, research on "didactic engineering" is more frequent. In this article, we study the uses of the construct of didactic engineering in Brazilian scientific writing. This exploratory study is based on an analysis of theses and articles in Brazilian scientific journals. In Master's and doctoral programs, references to didactic engineering mask an uncritical and unoriginal appropriation of ideas most often imported from French didactics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

distancing itself from most of the works devoted to training engineering, which identify its beginnings in the 1980s, this article proposes a different interpretation, which situates the appearance of practices, methods, tools, and actors dedicated to this field in the industries of the interwar period. Training engineering is then at the service of the rationalization of production in order to train and stabilize qualified personnel. Since the 2000s, it has had to adjust to the new situation represented by the individualization of the wage relationship, which makes training and employees' career paths a condition of their employability, thus raising the question of its transformation into an engineering designed to support individuals who are required to be autonomous and responsible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Training in the teaching-learning process is a permanent task of education. Usability evaluations in the world have increased, and therefore the Professional Practice discipline places its emphasis. A methodological proposal is made to contribute to usability evaluations during the training of the Computer Science Engineer in the Research and Development Project subject taught in the second year of Computer Science Engineering at the University of Computer Sciences. Theoretical-methodological references of good practices and international trends in software testing are addressed. Recommendations are offered with a high degree of professional motivation, based on experiences in previous processes. Its objective is to familiarize teachers with the process and help them interpret the Usability characteristic according to ISO IEC 25010:2011. Scientific methods are used to support the stated objective. The bibliographic analysis and surveys carried out set guidelines for the research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this work is to implement educational guidance actions in the teaching learning process for training engineers at the Technological University of Havana. Theoretical and empirical research methods that integrate the quantitative and qualitative paradigms are used. It is proposed to carry out educational guidance actions in the first year of the Telecommunications and Electronics Engineering career, as part of the teaching learning process, responding to the needs of university students. The whole methodological procedure allowed the reduction of the number of students with difficulties after the application of the actions. The result was possible thanks to the cooperation of teachers, the group and the protagonist participation of the students in meeting their needs. The achievements obtained demonstrate the need and effectiveness of educational guidance in the teaching learning process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: To present suggestions for behavioral competency development for engineers and Engineering students to work in Industry 4.0. Originality/value: A human-machine collaboration model (with artificial intelligence application) is proposed for training engineering professionals for the workplace. The behavioral skills for Industry 4.0 to be developed in Engineering degree programs and the quality of evidence of their inclusion in such programs of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro [UFRJ]) are assessed. Design/methodology/approach: The engineer-machine collaboration model draws on Design Thinking (Brown, 2010) and cognitive modeling of engineers based on a model of logical reasoning (Paul & Elder, 2002), integrating the cognitive model with a model of information flows in human-machine interactions (Riley, 1989). A competency model for Industry 4.0 (Prifti et al., 2017), interviews with leaders of Engineering schools of UFRJ, addressing their planning for the implementation of the new National Curriculum Guidelines for Engineering programs (Resolução no. 2, 2019), and application of the GRADE approach (Balshem et al., 2011) supported the identification of evidence of behavioral competencies for Industry 4.0 in the undergraduate programs. Findings: Engineering professionals train their critical analysis and decision-making skills while the machine searches for and processes information and performs simulations. Low quality evidence was found for the training of undergraduates in emotional intelligence, decisionmaking, and customer relations. No evidence was identified of training in self-management, entrepreneurship, and understanding of the business model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present work has two parts: a historical account of engineering as an area of knowledge and as a profession, and the consequent evolution in the university education of engineers from the disciplinary view until to the globality, at a general level and in Venezuela, to highlight the complexity that currently presents the study of the profession and its relationship with sustainable development as a technical and social responsibility. In addition, an analysis of the profiles and engineering study programs in a sample of Venezuelan universities composed of public and private management institutions is presented, with the purpose of identifying, in the offer consulted, characteristics of the training related to ethical aspects, legal, and on sustainable development. This analysis was based on a documentary search in reliable digital sources. The results allow us to conclude on the need to have institutional and updated web portals that disclose official information, including graduation profiles and degree study plans, and the importance of renewing engineering study plans to incorporate in them, explicitly and obligatorily, ethical, legal aspects and experiences on sustainable development in technical and social fields, since this is considered an irreplaceable duty in engineering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The origin and development of engineering pedagogy as a subdiscipline of pedagogy in Ukraine and in foreign countries is analyzed. The outstanding role of the founder of IGIP Professor Adolf Melecinek in the processes of formation of an international scientific school of engineering pedagogy and creation of conditions for professional-pedagogical and psychological training of teachers of technical disciplines as a factor in training competitive engineers is discussed. The essence, content and structure of professional training of future engineers with the aim of forming professional competences are highlighted. The features of the cognitive and practical activities of future engineers are revealed. The components and conditions for increasing the efficiency of the formation of the engineer’s professional competence and his readiness have been determined. Particular attention is given to the quality of academic teaching is decisively determined by the qualifications and competencies of the teaching staff, which also include university pedagogical capabilities. Therefore, it has been substantiated that with the growing environment and consciousness of “outcome-based education”, the importance of engineering pedagogy has increased manifold. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In today's dynamic, rapidly changing world, a bachelor's engineer needs to have creative thinking skills in order to be successful in their professional activities. A future graduate must learn to see the problem as a whole, and not in the context of one area of science or technology. This causes the education system to develop and implement innovative forms of engineering personnel training aimed at solving practice-oriented, research problems. The authors considered the issue of applying an educational model that combines natural sciences and engineering subjects into a single system in the process of teaching engineering bachelors. The issues of effective formation of critical thinking skills based on an integrative approach are analyzed. The results of experimental work convincingly prove that the majority of students studying on the basis of the author's methodology have achieved an average and high level of creative thinking skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The quality in the training of engineering professionals constitutes one of the key factors for the achievement of the technological and economic independence of nations. In this sense, the formation of investigative competence plays a fundamental role. The objective of the present research is to develop a pedagogical model for the formation of research competence in Electrical Engineering students, as a theoretical basis for a pedagogical strategy that achieves the transformation of the research performance of students. The structural and conceptual description of the research competence was carried out, which consists of its identification and the determination of the contextual problems it addresses, the performance indicators or criteria, and the evidences. A pedagogical model consisting of three subsystems was developed. The dialectical relationships that are established between them lead to a new quality of the training process: formative suitability of the research competence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Training the engineers and managers of tomorrow means preparing them to act in the world of labor and corporations as it will be; knowing how to cooperate facing the complex challenges (ecology, geopolitics, health, etc.) of our societies. Based on a business game played in an engineering school, this article exposes a comprehensive analysis of a game session and draws lessons from it, both operational and scientific. How does the meccanism, which allows simulating an experience making reflexivity possible, contribute to developing a professional posture - competent, relevant and ethical - in the making? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is a deluge of AI-assisted decision-making systems, where our data serve as proxy to our actions, suggested by AI. The closer we investigate our data (raw input, or their learned representations, or the suggested actions), we begin to discover "bugs". Outside of their test, controlled environments, AI systems may encounter situations investigated primarily by those in other disciplines, but experts in those fields are typically excluded from the design process and are only invited to attest to the ethical features of the resulting system or to comment on demonstrations of intelligence and aspects of craftmanship after the fact. This communicative impasse must be overcome. Our idea is that philosophical and engineering considerations interact and can be fruitfully combined in the AI design process from the very beginning. We embody this idea in the role of a philosopher engineer. We discuss the role of philosopher engineers in the three main design stages of an AI system: deployment management (what is the system's intended use, in what environment?); objective setting (what should the system be trained to do, and how?); and training (what model should be used, and why?). We then exemplify the need for philosopher engineers with an illustrative example, investigating how the future decisions of an AI-based hiring system can be fairer than those contained in the biased input data on which it is trained; and we briefly sketch the kind of interdisciplinary education that we envision will help to bring about better AI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The cultivation of emerging engineering talents in light industry is an important topic related to the development of national economy and the improvement of quality of life. This study aims to fill the gap of talent training in the pen manufacturing industry, explore the emerging engineering talent training model to solve the practical problems of missing courses in bachelor’s degree based on the background of specialized new industry talent training and the characteristics of industry, technology and academic fields. This study explores and achieves a continuous improvement in practice of a higher engineering education mode of cross-background strengthening basic disciplines plan, improvement of science and education and strengthen capability between industry and education, which sheds light on the development of emerging engineering talent training for the researchers and stakeholders in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According to the need of emerging engineering education, University of Science and Technology Beijing has promoted the comprehensive and in-depth reform of physical chemistry experiment through ideological construction and project-drive in terms of curriculum system, teaching content, teaching mode, assessment method, etc. This practice drives the training of new engineering talents and has guiding significance for the transformation and upgrading from traditional engineering to emerging engineering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to meet the requirements for training of new-type engineering talents, the reform practice for the course of inorganic materials synthesis method was carried out. The teaching contents were integrated based on the characteristics of the optoelectronic functional materials researches; the teaching mode of presentation-assimilationdiscussion class and various teaching resources were adopted to cultivate students’ creative thinking, comprehensive ability and practical ability; ideological and political education materials were introduced into teaching activities to enhance students’ native land emotion; the rating scale was further refined for objectively evaluating students’ learning effects. The course construction practice provides references for the curricular reformation of other courses of the same major. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reveals some approaches to the interpretation of the concept of the cognitive component of mathematical competence, reveals some ways of forming the cognitive component of mathematical competence of students of technical specialties. Based on the analysis of literature sources, the purpose and objectives of the study, the research hypothesis are substantiated. The purpose of the study is to check the effectiveness of the proposed method of improving the level of mathematical training of students of technical specialties (STS) in the form of checking the formation of the cognitive component of mathematical competence of STS. The method of improving the level of mathematical preparation consists in its fundamentalization. The paper also presents a statistical verification of the reliability of the obtained results. The methodological apparatus of the research covered modern principles and approaches of higher school pedagogy. The main approaches to improving the quality of mathematical training through its fundamentalization include: synergistic, systemic, activity, competence, knowledge-activity, personality-oriented; teaching and research approach. Also, the idea of forming professionally oriented mathematical competence is substantiated in the work. The work describes the structural scheme of the concepts of the proposed methodological system for improving the mathematical training of students of technical specialties through its fundamentalization. The obtained results of the study clearly confirm the effectiveness of the proposed concept of improving the quality of mathematical training of STS, and confirm the impact on improving the cognitive component of mathematical competence. The obtained results of the study indicate the need for further development in order to improve the quality and level of mathematical preparation of STS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the project on capacity building for training of engineering and technical specialists via STEAM technologies at the Saginov Karaganda Technical University (STU) in Kazakhstan. The project, entitled "Capacity building of engineers innovative training via STEAM education" was supported by the fund under the "Research in the field of education and science for 2021-2023" priority of the Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Grant No. AP092600338). The current research presented in this article addresses the issues of assessing the level of professional communication and collaboration skills among teaching staff. The article describes the identified communication gaps and recommendations in three areas of training, presents the key statements of the theory of communication and collaboration formulated on the basis of the results obtained within the integrated educational STEAM space, structured as the core of the STEAM education framework. Additionally, a list of competencies according to advanced STEAM approaches have been developed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyses the curricular plans of the Agricultural Engineering Degree in the Republic of Argentina, focusing on the objectives of these training plans. It also identifies the fields of work for which their professional preparation is encouraged. A sample of universities based in Buenos Aires was taken and an analysis of the content of the curricula was carried out. Six broad thematic areas were identified for which Agronomy is oriented in these universities. Most of the objectives of Agricultural studies are oriented towards Agricultural production design and management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research sought to gain insight into the state of art of mathematics education in the mathematical education of engineers. An empirical method was developed to confine the review to 132 articles from 1968 to 2020. The results yielded eleven themes, with 70.5% of articles dealing with teaching and learning mathematics in basic sciences. The findings show that engineer education involves different types of mathematics and disciplinary knowledge working in coordination; the professional development of mathematics teachers who train engineers remains a pending issue; and research both in and out of schools is essential to identify other meanings of mathematics needed by engineers to perform better. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The fourth industrial revolution is one of the most significant challenges of the past decade in Hungary as well. Its driving forces are Industry 4.0 technologies, which result in radical changes in all areas of life. This also affects the spheres of the triple helix (university-industry-government) and how they cooperate. Based on various databases and qualitative research, the main goal of the study is to explore these changes in the field of higher education in technical vocations. We will also examine how all this affects the geography of Hungarian industry. Analysing the description of the technical courses, we have identified a new course (mechatronics engineering) and a new form of training (dual training) as a response to the new technological challenges. German companies, which are at the forefront of the application of Industry 4.0 technologies, have not only encouraged the introduction of dual training, but also the cooperation between the spheres. This is evaluated from the perspective of a multi-site German company (Continental) and a university (the University of Miskolc) using the example of mechatronics engineering training to present the major characteristics of cooperation in connection with new technologies. The main result and novelty of the study is that it points out that the changes in the spheres of the triple helix and their cooperation, which were also motivated by the technological revolution, can also reshape the spatial structure of Hungarian industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents challenges of the internship programme among civil engineering training in public universities of Ethiopia based on students' experiences and comments. Sample students from two major public universities in Ethiopia shared their experiences. Validated standard questionnaires were used to collect quantitative and qualitative data. Data were discussed in line with the objectives of the internship. Results indicated that more than 85% of the students arranged their hosting company by themselves, considering the distance to their hometown as the main criterion for their choice of hosting company. Almost half of the participants rated their internship hosting company as not welcoming. The average stay of the students in their internship was found to be only 64.31% of the total internship period of the curriculum requirement. A statistical test indicated that students' satisfaction level and their period of stay were related at a significant level of 5%. Students commented that industries were unwilling to support them and there were usually too many internees on projects. Students advised universities to work closely with the industries, supervise the students and improve the budget. The results implied that there are considerable challenges in internship programmes that require the attention of the parties involved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Construction drives the economic development of a country, so it seeks to minimize the environmental impact by implementing sustainable construction practices, being traditional construction an effective, economical and environmentally friendly alternative. Higher education in its teaching process seeks to train professionals in construction with skills and capabilities, where actions, processes and methods respond to the existing and emerging needs of the industry and the population. The Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander, generates spaces of pedagogical practices so that civil engineers are trained in values and ancestral knowledge as construction with tapia, using the methodology of learning by doing through practical workshops, creating the necessary competences for the future professional. The pedagogical practice was carried out in Barichara - Santander possessing a wealth of materials, from its territory. With this practice, the appropriation of technical, regulatory and cultural knowledge of the area was achieved, with the transmission of the knowledge of experts in Barichara and the realization of construction processes based on earth such as the construction of walls in walls. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Emerging technologies represented by artificial intelligence, blockchain, and big data have comprehensively promoted the improvement of education quality and the reform of teaching models. The comprehensive and efficient integration of advanced technology and teaching courses is conducive to the implementation of different teaching modes and breaks through the constraints of traditional teaching modes. Using Virtual Reality (VR) technology to teach practical training courses can significantly enhance students' interest in participating in practical training, improve teaching effectiveness and quality, reduce the risk of misoperation in practical training, avoid teaching risks, improve teaching quality, and has high promotion value in the existing engineering training courses. This study designed a questionnaire on the impact of VR technology on the teaching effect of engineering training, and analyzed the impact of five aspects of VR technology (teaching objectives, teaching design, teaching resources, teaching process, and assessment methods) on the teaching effect of engineering training. The variance analysis method was used to measure the different effects of VR teaching frequency on the effect of engineering training. Results show that the overall reliability coefficient value is 0.834 and the convergent validity and discriminant validity are very good. Specifically, teaching objectives, teaching design, teaching resources, teaching process, and assessment methods in VR teaching have a significant promoting effect on the teaching effect of engineering training. The frequency of VR teaching has a 0.05 significance level for the effect of engineering practical training (F=2.340, p=0.042). In addition, the relationship between the frequency of VR teaching and the effect of engineering practical training showed an inverted U-shaped curve. Conclusions provide a valuable reference for using VR technology to support engineering training teaching and the improvement of engineering training teaching methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper adopts the DEA model to conduct in-depth research and analysis on the evaluation of the quality training of engineering English translation talents. The BIM application performance of nine engineering projects is empirically analyzed, including slack value analysis, correlation validity analysis, and BIM application performance path optimization. The nine cases have an unreasonable allocation of resources invested in BIM application in the early stage so that the performance path optimization is carried out to find out the key paths for the reallocation of resources. Further analysis of BIM application performance improvement strategies, including strengthening the training of BIM application professionals. The fuzzy two-stage DEA model with adjustable fuzzy opportunity constraint constructed for the situation where both intermediate and final processes have non-desired outputs. First, the additive efficiency decomposition model in the exact number environment is extended to the non-desired output situation. Second, the generalized fuzzy measure and opportunity constraint planning are applied to further extend the model to a non-expected output fuzzy DEA model, and a two-stage DEA model with adjustable fuzzy opportunity constraints is constructed. There are still some differences between the two. Strengthening practice is the general trend of current curriculum reform in our country. Finally, the proposed model is applied to the evaluation problem of quality training of engineering English translators. The adjustable fuzzy opportunity-constrained DEA model proposed in this paper can effectively evaluate the efficiency of real production and operation activities. The research results of this paper not only enrich the existing DEA model theoretical system but also have broad application prospects and values in practical problems. We provide a reasonable guarantee in terms of system and funding and pay attention to the follow-up communication with employers to strengthen the implementation of the influence of social forces on the quality evaluation of English teaching in higher education. To a certain extent, this study enriches the theoretical research on the quality evaluation of English translation talents' quality training and can play a role in strengthening and improving the quality evaluation of translation talents' quality training at the present stage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Under the background of national promotion of innovation-driven development and Hubei Provincial Department of Education's proposal to adjust and optimize the layout of higher education disciplines and specialties to serve Hubei as an important strategic pivot for the rise of central region, and based on the regional advantages of Yichang in the urban agglomeration of "Yichang, Jingzhou, Jingmen and Enshi" and the discipline characteristics and construction process of landscape architecture, the exploration and practice of "integrated emerging engineering" talent training mode of landscape architecture in College of Science and Technology of China Three Gorges University are comprehensively summarized from the aspects of teaching system construction, teaching staff construction, curriculum ideological and political construction, service industry and locality, deepening integration of production and education, transformation of scientific research achievements, and second classroom construction, in order to provide a reference for the training of emerging engineering talents in colleges and universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the midst of changes related to Industry 4.0, the preparation of engineers is essential. Thus, this paper aims to point out the effectiveness of evaluation instruments of Brazilian universities or courses to portray the adequacy of production engineers' training to the needs of production methods for Industry 4.0. This paper analyzes two systems: the ENADE, an official evaluation of higher education, and the RUF, a university ranking applied by a large Brazilian newspaper. ENADE intends to evaluate the absorption of specific program content in accordance with national guidelines, in addition to the assessment of general knowledge related to contemporary issues of social and economic impact; it is mandatory and applied throughout the National territory. The RUF is an annual assessment of Brazilian higher education and is subdivided by institutions and courses. As a result, it was identified that the joint application of these two systems promotes a reading of the adequacy of the courses to industry 4.0. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Engineering education is based on the technical methods in the present form. Information revolution causes to access the technical education materials as a widely spread form by the students. These materials are more effective than the traditional engineering education. Thus, it is necessary to change the engineering education methods from the classical form. General workshop is a first-year course for the engineering students and it is an introduction on the engineering regulations. Nowadays, this course is run to teach the practical training. However, this goal cannot be achieved because of the short period of the course, various topics of the course and improper education methods. In this paper, this course is revised based on the teaching of engineering concepts to the students. Various engineering concepts are explained which can be educated in this course without considerable changes in practice but with magnificent change in the course prospective. It is expected that this new design helps the students more to be familiar with the engineering concepts and methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The quality of teachers and their teaching is an important factor in accounting for the student's learning outcomes at the end of their engineering training. This article presents the results of a case study on the implementation of a tutoring plan for new teachers at Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería Julio Garavito. The objective of this research was to design and execute a tutoring plan as a teacher training strategy for novice teachers, which would allow them to experience what it means to learn to teach and to develop relevant strategies and methodologies to achieve the expected learning results in the subjects they teach. The results obtained were a preliminary adjusted version of the tutoring plan with a set of recommendations for its implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a model for the implementation of cell phones as a functional component of educational robotics. With this, a massification of the educational practices of robotics can be achieved, and an approach to innovative solutions with the use of everyday components. The above constitutes an easily adaptable model to develop specific skills of students in STEM areas with a low investment. As a result, it was evidenced that robotics facilitates the possibility of introducing technology in the teaching and learning processes through these kits that have sensors, mechanisms, parts and characteristics that can be coupled and integrated with a cell phone to assemble a functional robot. Through an online questionnaire on the integration of educational robotics and cell phones, the interest of engineering students and teachers was verified, so that their higher education institutions include robotics in their training processes, thus contributing to the preparation to face the challenges of the Education 4.0 line within the context of Industry 4.0. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Covid-19 era, with all its restrictions and conditions, has put challenges in all spheres of society and education has not been the exception, especially for teaching engineers who are trained as engineers but work as teachers and who share their knowledge in engineering programs. One of those challenges is the conception, design, and performance of evaluations through virtual means. This article addresses some reflections in this regard and proposes a conceptual and practical methodology to be successful in this new environment mediated by ICT. The results raise the need to reconceptualize the evaluation in the disciplinary subjects of engineering. It is concluded that it is possible to achieve even greater learning if a series of strategies are used that allow the teacher to evaluate fairly, within a coherent framework, and making the evaluation an instrument for learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Active student engagement, teaching via experience in real-life settings and learning by doing, are pedagogical strategies appropriate to improve student-reasoning skills. By building models, performing investigations, examining and explaining experimental results, using theoretical and computational thinking, constructing representations, undergraduates can acquire a deeper understanding of fundamental disciplinary concepts while reinforcing transversal abilities. In this framework, Engineering courses should be designed with the final objective to develop practical skills, focusing on hands-on activities. This contribution presents two different inquiry-based learning environments recently experienced at the University of Palermo in the context of bioelectronic and biomedical Engineering. The first study describes a laboratory activity about digital ophthalmologic signal classification; the second laboratory focuses on the analysis of the prefrontal cortex activation during a memory task using functional Near InfraRed Spectroscopy (fNIRS). We introduce and discuss the learning workshops, with the research objective of improving current instruction and training in Engineering courses. Indeed, this contribution aims to suggest a conceptual framework in the form of a structured elective suite of modules tailored to meet the needs of Engineering graduates. The outcomes of both studies seem to highlight that self-directed learning activities could enhance students' enthusiasm to learn and engagement in engineering investigations, contributing to improve the achievements of students and acquire a more effective learning approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Engineering education is based on technical science and aims at training engineers who can transform science and technology into productive forces. In recent years, due to the emergence of new technology revolution, engineering science and production technology have achieved new development, and higher engineering education is also facing new challenges. Engineering education is to cultivate talents in an international environment and update the traditional engineer training model from the aspects of educational philosophy, mode, goal, approach, and means. The author believes that in the process of exploring the new talent training model, we must first change the educational concept and correctly understand and deal with various relationships in engineering education. To solve various decision-making problems in engineering construction, this study introduces the concept of engineering education certification under the background of new infrastructure and engineering education certification, analyzes the current situation and existing problems of engineering education understanding in recent years, and carries out reform and exploration from different aspects. The achievements in engineering education are analyzed. The engineering education project is analyzed and researched using the engineering decision-making scheme. It can be seen from the experimental analysis that the method has a good effect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research is developed in a public university in northeweast Mexico. The objective of this research is to analyze, from the perspective of the students, the presence of the pillars of industry 4.0 in their training process as engineers. The study carried out was descriptive, exploratory, non-probabilistic, it was developed through an instrument that was validated by experts, students from 11 different engineering educational programs were invited to participate. The sample consisted of 111 students. The results show the strength in certain pillars such as robotics, simulation, artificial intelligence, and additive manufacturing as well as the need for implementation in augmented reality learning units, cybersecurity and the cloud. The conclusions reveal the importance of training students with the bases and skills that allow them to perform in multidisciplinary teams, which allow them to implement the use of these technological innovations in the workplace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rapidly increasing university number causes difficulty in distinguishing a qualified university and it starts debates over the quality of the education. The fact that there are so many more graduates from the university when it is compared to the past, can be followed by evaluating a graduate according to her/his university’s quality. Thus, it is necessary to be aware of the academic performance while choosing a university to study. In this article, it is aimed to investigate and rank the state universities, in Marmara Region, which provide a training for industrial engineering; in terms of universities’ academic performances and in terms of providing ideas and in terms of some other points that we don’t pay attention. Eight different criteria are taken into consideration and the criteria weightiness has been determined by CRITIC Weighting Method. By using the weightiness acquired and the data collected from this study, ten alternative universities are ranked both fully and partly by data from 2019 and PROMETHEE method. Results from this study are interpreted and following researches are advised. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]