Paper ID #8374AAEE Plenary - Engineering Education: A National Integrated ApproachMs. Lyn Brodie, University of Southern Queensland Lyn Brodie is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Surveying at the University of Southern Queensland. Her research interests include engineering education, Problem Based Learning, assessment and the first year experience. She is a board and founding member of the USQ Teaching Academy and Director of the Faculty Engineering Education Research Group. Lyn was the academic team leader for the teaching team which successfully designed a strand of PBL courses for the faculty
-tertiary education. Learning in the future has to be an integrated part of the job! People of all ages have to renew their knowledge in decreasing cycles. This is what we understand as "Life Long Learning".New Questions of Today’s and Future Engineering Education Page 21.30.4All these realities require a concerted effort to evolve engineering education into what today’sreality is demanding of practicing engineers. In other words, many traditional educationalmodels and practices are no longer functional. For this reason, the importance of pedagogy isgrowing at an enormous pace. The need to innovate and apply new paradigms to the teaching
of IGIP.Because of its cooperation with IGIP, KNRTU was one of the first institu-tions in Russia toestablish a center for re-training and advanced training of engineering edu-cators, which isaccredited by IGIP as a training center for "International Engineering Educa-tors" and conformsto IGIP's curriculum for engineering pedagogy. About 70 leading profes-sors, including someuniversity presidents, rectors and chancellors have completed this course. Professor VasiliyG.Ivanov, the first Academic Vice-Rector of KNRTU, is a member of the IGIP RussianMonitoring Committee.For many years now, the KNRTU team has been an active participant in IGIP events, includ-inginternational annual conferences on engineering education, where delegates from all