فصلنامه آموزش مهندسی ایران
پیاپی 52 (زمستان 1390)

ABSTRACT- Students learn course material via different styles. Education and instruction methods are also diverse. Students’ learning in class depends on the conformity between students’ preferred learning style and the professor’s education method، among other factors. In traditional university education method، most of class time is spent on professor lecture and students listening. Students do their homework alone and group work is not encouraged. On the contrary، in student-centered methods، the focus of activities is shifted from instructor to student. In other words، the responsibility of organizing what should be learnt is given over to the student him/herself. The most important of these methods is active learning، in which students are effectively involved in what they are taught، answer questions، raise questions، participate in discussion، and explain the material. In collaborative learning، students work as teams on homework and projects، so that both their individual responsibility and effective group work is satisfied. In problem-based learning، first a question is raised and then required knowledge and skills to solve that problem is gradually provided to students. Student-centered methods have a clear advantage over traditional instructor-centered methods. This advantage can be observed in instances like faster and more lasting learning، deeper comprehension of course material، application of critical thinking or creative problem solving skills، and establishing a positive attitude toward lectures.

The increase of global competition has forced the companies to make a transition from the routine mode of operation to a creative mode of production. This qualitative changes together with the dominant situation and the type of active industries in each country required reorganization of engineering education. The aim of this article is to determine the requirements of engineering education to meet the needs of Iranian industries. For this purpose a survey method is used and a population includes 30 distinguished Iranian engineers are interviewed. The specified role and importance relation of industry and engineering education، then the data collected from semi-structured interviews with the above engineers through the coding and categorize techniques are analyzed. Results indicate that for solving the difficulties and problems between engineering education system and industries، continuous interaction and relation between university، industry، and government should be improved through; using a variety of channels as training، research، consultancy، and mutual conferences. Moreover technical knowledge and specialization، ability in the field of design and ability of implementation، problem solving، team working، communication، creativity and innovation، lifelong learning، engineering ethics، and having adequate motivation are very important for engineers and their professional success. Finally in order that the system of engineering education be met the present and future needs of the industry''s requirements، more collaboration and interaction with industry، integration of theory and practice in engineering education، more flexibility، more focuses on the industries needs should be considered. Also development of advanced educational plan، continuous reform and improvement of engineering education programs، and the system of student admission are the other issues that must be considered for the future of engineering education

What knowledge، skills، and attitudes should students have upon graduation? And how can we ascertain that they have acquired these capabilities? These have been fundamental questions in engineering education during the last two decades. Attempts to answer these questions have led to considerable changes in engineering education and accreditation of its outcomes. Excessive emphasis on education of engineering sciences in the final decades of the twentieth century widened the gap between the presented education and the real needs of the skilled manpower. In order to fill this gap، several pioneer universities in engineering education formed a novel innovation to develop a new viewpoint. Among the most important aspects of this program، which is known as CDIO، is the emphasis on practical activities and directing university education toward the needs of industry and job market. The new approach is based on this hypothesis that engineering graduates should be able to conceive، design، implement، and operate (CDIO) complex engineering systems within a modern and team work-oriented environment with the aim of creating products and systems. The general trend of this program can be used to promote country’s engineering education programs، and harmonize them as much as possible with new engineering education outcomes in the world.

The overall goal of this is was to measure internal and external effectiveness of GIS training for local departments in the field of agriculture، construction and geology in Shiraz، Iran. Statistical research community includes randomly-selected organizations whose experts have passed GIS Course. The Research tool is a researcher-made questionnaire to measure the effectiveness of course content outline and the quality of internal performance plans to assess external effectiveness of work. The Results indicate that the effectiveness measures of GIS training are not significantly different in terms of gender، educational background، work experience and job careers، while there is a significant difference between employee groups of agriculture and engineering in the terms of “Technical Use”.

The evaluation and rankings of world’s universities in recent years have drawn the attention of higher education researchers and authorities. One of the consequences of these rankings is the appearance of world class universities concept. With their particular characteristics، these types of universities that are listed at the top of world rankings are considered as having the best scientific and research outputs. For this reason، many universities are after modeling their universities to achieve the status and characteristics of such institutions. This article evaluates conceptual dimensions of world class universities and describes rankings’ methodologies and characteristics of these universities

The present study is categorized as an applied research. It is going to identify the deficiencies in the production of automobile industry and to investigate the role of human factors (knowledge and skill of employees) as well as to estimate returning on investment of in-service training in IKAMCO company. The statistical population included all the technical-engineering courses of this company; using simple random sampling where four courses were selected as the research sample. The data collection instruments consist of a questionnaire، case study and interviews. To analyze the data، SPC and SPSS software were used. The results showed that not only planning training programs can solve the problems in performance but also it will affect the other aspects directly or indirectly. On the other hand، training can be considered as an investment strategy. It has been estimated that 37،000،000 Rials (Iranian currency) investment in in-service training had 672،000،000 Rials return on investment.