Responsibility in Engineering Education

Grinter, L. E.

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“…However, this institutional peculiarity allows comparative analyses. As research in medicine and engineering has arguably been more successful than in business -there is no irrelevance discussion -it is interesting to compare these four reports (Flexner 1910, Grinter 1955, Gordon and Howell 1959, Pierson 1959). An overview is given in Table 2.…”

Section: Reviving Production As a Disciplinementioning

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“…Rather, there have been other influential and celebrated reports, of which Gordon and Howell (1959) even mention one, the Flexner report in medicine from 1910. In engineering, the Grinter (1955) report was published only a few years before the business education reports. It is an institutional peculiarity of the US higher education that changes are achieved through reports initiated by foundations or professional societies.…”

Section: Comparison To Medicine and Engineeringmentioning

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Why is management research irrelevant?

Koskela

2017

Construction Management and Economics

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At least since 1980, there has been a practically continuous, but somewhat fragmented discussion on the relevance of management research. This discussion has addressed practically all fields of management; here, besides general management, operations management, project management and construction management are examined in more detail. Although many different proposals have been made to rectify the situation, no definitive resolution has been found. In this paper, it is argued that prior analyses have not reached the root causes of the irrelevance problem. By an analysis of the recent history of management research, the following novel findings are reached. First, the root cause of the irrelevance is argued to lie in the 1959 reports on American business education, written by Pierson and Gordon & Howell. Second, while the proposed direction in the 1959 reports was deficient in several ways, the rejection of production as an integral part of organizations and management has been perhaps the most damaging feature of those reports. Third, current research on management suffers from a variety of immediate causes for irrelevance, insufficiently recognized by the scholarly community. It is suggested that reaching the root causes for irrelevance will facilitate finding suitable cures.

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Section: Reviving Production As a Disciplinementioning

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Section: Comparison To Medicine and Engineeringmentioning

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Why is management research irrelevant?

Koskela

2017

Construction Management and Economics

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“…Reconstructing knowledge refers to identifying gaps or errors in one's thinking, which first needs to be ASTESJ ISSN: 2415-6698 deconstructed before it can be reconstructed again in the correct way. One way of achieving this is by fusing theory and practice, which is mandatory in engineering education [2,3]. Students must be allowed to experiment actively in a laboratory, where theory and practice are linked to real-world problems.…”

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Promoting Continuous Professional Development Among Academics from A Vocational College by Using A Practical Workshop Based on Arduino Technology

Swart¹,

Hertzog²

2020

Adv. sci. technol. eng. syst. j.

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The internet of things has resulted in the design and development of many electronic sensors that need to be integrated with various technologies. Engineering academics need ongoing training relating to this integration as they need to subsequently teach their students. This relates to continuous professional development. The purpose of this article is to illustrate how engineering academics from a vocational college have been able to engage with the theory and practice of sensor integration with Arduino technology, thereby strengthening or reconstructing their conceptual knowledge of these electronic components. A case study is used where experts in electrical engineering designed and facilitated an academic development workshop (2 days in duration) to address a need for continuous professional development. Eighteen academics from a local vocational college attended this workshop where the first goal was to determine their conceptual knowledge of 10 electronic components using an electronic responsive system (pre-test). The second goal was to facilitate a "hands-on" laboratory session where academics had to physically integrate various sensors with an Arduino microcontroller. A post-test online questionnaire was then used to determine their conceptual knowledge again, in order to ascertain the impact of the workshop. Results indicate that their conceptual knowledge was reconstructed with regard to the purpose and use of capacitors, Zener diodes, transformers, ultrasonic sensors, reed switches and passive infrared receivers. A problematic question arose relating to photocells in the first workshop that was held in 2017, which was resolved by the facilitators prior to offering a second workshop in 2018. Positive feedback was received from the participants regarding the relevance and presentation of the workshops. The novelty of this work relates to the design of a practical workshop where all participants are engaged to either strengthen, or reconstruct, their conceptual knowledge regarding electronic components that may be integrated with Arduino technology.

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“…Curriculum changes introduced in the 1960's, as a result of the ASEE Grinter Report [2], were in some ways counter-productive. Quoting from Grinter (Appendix): "The Committee considers that scientifically oriented engineering curricula are essential to achieve these ends and recom-mends the following means of implementation."…”

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Educating for Engineering Design Using Design Science

Eder

Hubka

Benabdallah³

2011

PCEEA

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Using a description of product development, the general nature of designing for engineering products is discussed. The relationships among theory, method and object are explained. The scope of Design Science is outlined. The needs and methods for designing an engineering system are laid out. Similarly, the needs and methods of education are related to these factors. A brief description of the courses presented at RMC is given to show how this background is used, how students are assessed, and how the courses are evaluated within the given limitations of the college.

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Responsibility in Engineering Education

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Why is management research irrelevant?

Why is management research irrelevant?

Promoting Continuous Professional Development Among Academics from A Vocational College by Using A Practical Workshop Based on Arduino Technology

Educating for Engineering Design Using Design Science

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