Engineering education for sustainable development: using online learning to support the new paradigms

Sivapalan, Subarna; Clifford, M.J.; Speight, Sarah

doi:10.1080/22054952.2017.1307592

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“…Besides the intrinsic challenge due to the transdisciplinary nature of the theme, the lack of integration among the disciplines of engineering courses also increases the difficulty of an ESD. In this way, issues related to SD are superficially addressed without the deepening that could occur if there were greater connection between the disciplines and greater freedom for students to explore knowledge different from those traditionally presented to them (Schneider et al 2008;Hopkinson and James 2010;Shields et al 2014;Guerra 2017;Sivapalan et al 2017). As a result of this lack of integration, there is an excessive focus on certain aspects of sustainability over other (Guerra 2017).…”

Section: Specific Challenges Faced By Education For Sustainable Develmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The absence of this training for engineering professors generates insecurity and lack of interest for the subjects related to SD. And, given their role in the training of future engineers, the consequences of this will have multiplier effects in the future (Schneider et al 2008;Rydhagen and Dackman 2011;Mulder et al 2012;Edvardsson Björnberg et al 2015;Iyer-Raniga and Andamon 2016;Guerra 2017;Mulder 2017;Palacin-Silva et al 2017;Sivapalan et al 2017). A proper training would enable professors to provide an enriching education to students on engineering courses.…”

Section: Specific Challenges Faced By Education For Sustainable Develmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is hoped that beyond the critical sense, the future engineers also possess communication skills, teamwork and be always open to new ideas, generating satisfactory solutions to all stakeholders. The insertion of sustainability in engineering courses can greatly contribute to this differentiated formation, especially when using practical and real examples experienced by society (Hanning et al 2012;Palacin-Silva et al 2017;Sharma et al 2017;Sivapalan et al 2017). The contact of engineering students with real world practices may develop in them the perception of the social relevance of their activities and their knowledge (Jamison et al 2014;Baroutian et al 2016).…”

Section: Specific Challenges Faced By Education For Sustainable Develmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Cavenett [1] criticised the tradition grading systems of engineering courses and mentioned that there is more focus on assessing the hard technical knowledge and narrow focus on soft skills including professionalism, teamwork and communication. Sustainable development concepts are also required to be included in the curriculum and assessment tasks to make engineering graduates ready for the twenty-first century [4]. According to Jikaran-Doe and Doe [5], utilization of appropriate technology in the teaching environment may influence learning outcomes of a course.…”

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Prediction of Students’ Performances Using Course Analytics Data: A Case of Water Engineering Course at the University of South Australia

Ahammed

Smith

2019

Education Sciences

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An association between students’ learn-online engagement and academic performance was investigated for a third-year Water Resources Systems Design course at the University of South Australia in 2017. As the patterns of data were non-parametric, Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests were performed using SPSS. It was revealed from the test results that distributions of students’ logins to learn-online site for all categories and sub-categories including gender, international/domestic students and grades were almost similar. Therefore, it is relatively unrealistic to use lean-online engagement data to predict students’ performances. A correlation test was further performed to validate the hypothesis testing results and a weak relationship (Pearson’s r = 0.29) between login to learn-online site and grade was observed. The smaller F ratios of one way ANOVA also validated the test results. Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests can be applied to course analytics data for face-to-face and online courses to understand a better picture about the uses of learn-online engagement data.

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“…Establish a new teaching system of decentralization and recentralization [3][4][5][6] and establish the teaching philosophy of new engineering.…”

Section: Establish a New Teaching System Of Decentralization And mentioning

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Research on the Cultivation of New Engineering Talents in Electronic Information Engineering

Zheng¹,

Chen²

2017

Proceedings of the International Conference on Education Innovation and Social Science (ICEISS 2017)

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Abstract-The development of new economy challenges the talents cultivation of traditional electronic information engineering majors. It is necessary to actively lay out talents cultivation for the future technology and industry, and reform in talents cultivation mode and practice content. This paper has made a preliminary exploration on the cultivation of new engineering talents for electronic information engineering major in three aspects of teaching system, curriculum teaching standards, training places to promote the reform and innovation of electronic information engineering major. The research results can be extended to the majors in electric engineering. Keywords-NewEngineering; Electronic Information Engineering; Talents Cultivation; Higher Education I.THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW ENGINEERING IN ELECTRONIC INFORMATION ENGINEERING MAJOR Our country has the world's largest engineering education. In 2016, there were 5.38 million undergraduates, 1.23 million graduates, 17,037 major distributions in engineering. Engineering students accounted for 1/3 of the total number of students in Higher Education. But the target of engineering talents cultivation in our country is not clear. Engineering teaching is like as science teaching. The recognition of relationship and difference between general education and engineering education, practical education and experimental education is fuzzy. Engineering education is too disjointed with industry enterprises. Engineering students have the defects of comprehensive quality and knowledge structure.The shortage of talents in new economic fields of current rapid developing big data, Internet of things, artificial intelligence and so on has exposed that there are some disjointed links between engineering education and emerging industries and new economy. The development of new economy challenges the talents cultivation of traditional engineering majors. Compared with traditional engineering talents, high quality compound new engineering talents with engineering practice ability, innovation ability and international competitiveness ability will be needed in the future new industries and new economy. They not only have a profound academic study in a discipline, but also have the characteristics of "interdisciplinary integration". They not only can use the knowledge to solve the existing problems, but also can learn new knowledge and new technologies to solve the problems of future development, and play a leading role in the future technology and industry. They are not only excellent in technology, but also can understand economy, society and management, both have good humanistic quality. It can be said that the new talents orientation and demand from new economy provide an opportunity for "new engineering" and the development of new economy calls for "new engineering".The construction of "new engineering" is an important measure of national economic transformation and upgrading. In 2017, the ministry of education issued the Higher Education Department of the ministry of education noti...

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Engineering education for sustainable development: using online learning to support the new paradigms

Cited by 25 publications

References 21 publications

Some of the challenges in implementing Education for Sustainable Development: perspectives from Brazilian engineering students

Some of the challenges in implementing Education for Sustainable Development: perspectives from Brazilian engineering students

Prediction of Students’ Performances Using Course Analytics Data: A Case of Water Engineering Course at the University of South Australia

Research on the Cultivation of New Engineering Talents in Electronic Information Engineering

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