Conference Session

Partner Organization Plenary I

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Marwan T. Abdelhamid, World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO)

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Partner Society Plenary

Engineering Education(ABET) now requires programs to gradate engineers with the ability to function inmultidisciplinary teams and for broad education to understand the impact ofengineering solutions in a global and social context.In fact, engineering education across the world is already broadly similar in manyrespects. Where two distinct types of engineering curricula are offered, one moretheoretically oriented and the other more application oriented. In spite of thisengineering students must be trained in line with the evolution of a more abstract andchanging working environment. Decades of service in one single profession are nolonger the norm. Therefore, students should be given the opportunity to develop otherskills outside their field of study

Conference Session

Partner Organization Plenary III

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Lyn Brodie, University of Southern Queensland; Frank Bullen, University of Southern Queensland

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Partner Society Plenary

(Metallurgy), BE (Hons) (Civil Engineering), a Research Masters, a PhD and has over 30 years experience in teaching and research around the world. He has lectured and practised in 5 universities, 6 countries and has an extensive international and national publication record of over 160 refereed articles. His research focuses on engineering materials and on teaching in the areas of problem based learning and the construction of first year engineering design competitions. Frank also pretends that he is a good gardener and an expert angler. Page 21.7.1 c American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Partner Organization Plenary II

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Michael E. Auer, International Society for Engineering Education (IGIP)

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Partner Society Plenary

demanded of engineers. The work of ASEE, IGIP, IEEE ES, and otherassociations focuses on improving the quality of Engineering Education. But what is exactly isengineering?In the literature we can find different definitions of the term Engineering. In Wikipedia we canfind:„Engineering is the application of scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge, inorder to design, build, and maintain structures, machines, devices, systems, materials andprocesses. It may encompass using insights to conceive, model and scale an appropriatesolution to a problem or objective." 1ABET has defined engineering as:“The creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines,apparatus, or manufacturing processes, or works