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 influence 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, engineering educators, educational planners and the cross section of the population, concerned with engineering education across globe for the development in its true sense.
Rajarshi Roy, a postgraduate in Education and Sociology and Doctorate in Education, is actively associated with Educational and Policy research for the development of the oppressed. His specific contribution is in the arena of Ethnopedagogy, Environmental Education and socioeducational studies for the life-improvement of the population at crisis, apart from Pedagogy of Engineering Education and Indigenous Technology. Dr. Roy believes in participatory research through observation and introspection. He possess to his credit more than four dozens of papers in various journals of international and national repute. He was offered with Professorship in a University-PG department of Education in 2008. Presently he is associated with National Institute of Technical Teachers' Training & Research, Kolkata (Under Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India).
Redefining Engineering Education
1.Humanizing Engineering Education for the Twenty First Century br>Josef Rojter
2.Engineering Education: Finding the Meaning
Mariana Ruiz Morales
3.Collaborative Writing Tools in Engineering Education: Challenges for Knowledge Management and Sharing
João Batista Bottentuit Junior and Clara Pereira Coutinho
4.Design and Production Engineering: Some Moving Frontiers of the Engineering Education in Brazil
Beany Guimarães Monteiro and Roberto 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 Paira and Rajarshi Roy
Part 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. Gray 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 Hlaváèková, Petr Horyl and Dagmar Juchelková
Part III
Organizational Climate and ICT in
Engineering Education
15.In Search of the Academic and Organizational Change in Spanish Universities
Mónica Edwards and Luis M. Sánchez-Ruiz
16.Quality Evaluation of the Engineering Education in Brazil: The Method Applied at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo
Giuliano Olguin, Haydée Svab, Ana CecÃlia Pontes Rodrigues and
CecÃlia Carmen Cunha Pontes
17.A New Way to Teach Mathematics in Engineering: New Challenges, New Approaches
Alonso Félix, RodrÃguez Gerardo and Villa, AgustÃn De La
18.Clients in Student Software Engineering Projects
Juha Taina
19.Learning Process Evolution Enhanced by ICT and Educational Technology: Universitat De Valècia Case Study and Open and Collaborative Software Experiences
P. Moreno Clari, V. Cerverón Lleó, DarÃo Roig and AgustÃn López
20.Enhancing Teaching and Facilitating Learning Using ICT
Shyamal Majumdar
Part IV
Revisiting Curricula and Allied Issues in
Engineering Education
21.Pre-Engineering Degree Programmes in USA: An Investigation br>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 Kutlaèa and Vojin Šenk
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