Meeting the Challenges of Electrical Engineering Service Courses

Wilson, Rachel; Georgakis, Steve; Hu, Xingyu

doi:10.1080/22054952.2011.11464062

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“…The three other courses are: Sustainability, Economy and Politics where they learn and discuss standard literature on sustainability, and then discuss it critically in the context of their project; Fluid Mechanics, that is difficult to couple with the project unless the project deals with any kind of fluid; and Applied Statistics, which has the potential of being coupled with the project as systems are only knowable partially and through statistical more than deterministic methods. However, because of the standardisation of general service courses (Wilson et al, 2011), this has not been achieved yet.…”

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The Challenges of Teaching Sustainable System Design

Pineda

Jørgensen²

2018

Proceedings of the DESIGN 2018 15th International Design Conference

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We present the program Sustainable Design Engineering, where Science and Technology Studies theories are a core element among design and engineering approaches. Our main claim is that existing product centred and short-term oriented solution tools and knowledges are inadequate for system design in a sustainable transition perspective. To achieve this goal, design theory and practices need to be further improved to be able to tackle controversies and engage in proposing how to navigate conflicting matters of concern and partial systemic clashes with a long-term scope.

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The Challenges of Teaching Sustainable System Design

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Jørgensen²

2018

Proceedings of the DESIGN 2018 15th International Design Conference

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“…Thus, new approaches have been recommended in various engineering disciplines; e.g. Mechanical Engineering (Fernandes Teixeira et al, 2007), Electrical Engineering (Wilson et al, 2011), Civil Engineering (Murray and Tennant, 2014) and Chemical Engineering (Glassey et al, 2013).…”

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A possible reconceptualization of food engineering discipline

Niranjan

2016

Food and Bioproducts Processing

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Food industry is critical to any nation's health and well-being; it is also critical to the economic health of a nation, since it can typically constitute over a fifth of the nation's manufacturing GDP. Food Engineering is a discipline that ought to be at the heart of the food industry. Unfortunately, this discipline is not playing its rightful role today: engineering has been relegated to play the role of a service provider to the food industry, instead of it being a strategic driver for the very growth of the industry. This paper hypothesises that food engineering discipline, today, seems to be continuing the way it was in the last century, and has not risen to the challenges that it really faces. This paper therefore categorises the challenges as those being posed by: 1. Business dynamics, 2. Market forces, 3. Manufacturing environment and 4. Environmental Considerations, and finds the current scope and subject-knowledge competencies of food engineering to be inadequate in meeting these challenges. The paper identifies: a) health, b) environment and c) security as the three key drivers of the discipline, and proposes a new definition of food engineering. This definition requires food engineering to have a broader science base which includes biophysical, biochemical and health sciences, in addition to engineering sciences. This definition, in turn, leads to the discipline acquiring a new set of subject-knowledge competencies that is fit-for-purpose for this day and age, and hopefully for the foreseeable future. The possibility of this approach leading to the development of a higher education program in food engineering is demonstrated by adopting a theme based curriculum development with five core themes, supplemented by appropriate enabling and Highlights:  Food engineering is not perceived to be a strategic driver of food business.  A new definition and scope of food engineering as a discipline is presented.  A theme-based approach to higher education curriculum design is also presented.

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Meeting the Challenges of Electrical Engineering Service Courses

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The Challenges of Teaching Sustainable System Design

The Challenges of Teaching Sustainable System Design

A possible reconceptualization of food engineering discipline

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