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Culture and the development of a unique sub-system for the education for engineers in the UK: A historical study. Part 2. Its accidental evaluation.

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Conference

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Minneapolis, MN

Publication Date

August 23, 2022

Start Date

June 26, 2022

End Date

June 29, 2022

Conference Session

ERM: Conceptualizations of Engineering and Engineering Education

Page Count

16

DOI

10.18260/1-2--40460

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https://peer.asee.org/40460

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362

Paper Authors

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John Heywood Trinity College Dublin

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John Heywood completed 60 years of membership with ASEE in June. His first paper to ERM was in 1973. He has some 190 authored and co-authored publications including 6 books on aspects of engineering education. His "Engineering Education. Research and Development in Curriculum and Instruction" received the best research publication award from the Division for the Professions of the American Educational research Association" . His most recent book Designing Engineering and Technology Curricula. Embedding Educational Philosophy was published by Morgan and Claypool as an e book this year.
He is a Professor Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin (The University of Dublin) where he was for twenty years Director of Teacher Education. Prior to that he was a member of the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Industrial Studies at the University of Liverpool. He directed the first attempt at a multi-dimensional analysis of the jobs done by engineers published in 1978 as "Analysing Jobs". His particular interests in engineering are in radio astronomy and space research and he participated in one of the radio observation programmes of Sputnik I. He is a Fellow of ASEE and a Life Fellow of IEEE.

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Abstract

This evidence based study follows from a previous paper that described the origins of a unique sub-system of higher technological education that was fortuitously established by the British government in England and Wales in 1955 and lasted for a decade. Although it was not subject to official evaluation, it was the subject of a number of evaluation projects initiated within the colleges that offered the new qualification for which the system was established. This discussion provides a synthesis of some of the results of those investigations, and those investigations alone. It does not take into account the results of other related investigations; these are the subject of the broader inquiry. Nine of the institutions offering this new qualification became universities in 1965/66. While their teachers might have regarded this is as “success”, there were industrialists who believed that they had failed to achieve the goals for which they were established. It is considered that the opportunity to develop a new approach to the curriculum was lost.

Heywood, J. (2022, August), Culture and the development of a unique sub-system for the education for engineers in the UK: A historical study. Part 2. Its accidental evaluation. Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--40460

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