فصلنامه آموزش مهندسی ایران
پیاپی 53 (بهار 1391)

An engineering student who has not been in working environments and is not familiar with modern businesses may not know the significance of having an awareness of management knowledge and its various skills. An engineer who is involved in modern organizations, however, is fully aware of the importance and necessity of this knowledge. When an engineer is promoted to managing or supervisory positions and manages or supervises the other engineers of an organization, the necessity of having the knowledge of management becomes more obvious. Without having managing skills, an engineer who has just been trained technically will not be able to perform such tasks successfully. Concerning this point and the necessity of holding effective courses for senior managers, in this study, the training needs of senior managers with regard to triple skills of managers from Dr Ketzُs point of view (technical, human, and perceptive skills) has been related to a definition of management (reaching the goals and missions of the organization efficiently and effectively). This study also deals with the need for training managing skills to engineers with the goal of nurturing managers on the basis of Merit Model. Concerning the goal, the present study is considered as an applied research.

This article explores the effects of academic discipline on risk perception of technologies. The importance of this topic is that decision making about technologies depends on decision maker’s perception of technologies. In this study, risk perception of students of different academic disciplines including civil engineering, electrical engineering, computer engineering, mechanical engineering and MBA will be analyzed. Our actual aim is to find if there is any relation between these fields of studies and risk perception of technologies in terms of health, environment and society. In the next step, according to the growth in number of engineering and technical students who choose to continue their studies in MBA, we will discuss whether this field of study does have effect on risk perception of people or not. Four technologies compared in this study are renewable energies, genetic engineering, nanotechnologies and information and communication technologies (ICT). Results show that students in all fields of study have the highest risk perception in genetic engineering and lowest in renewable energies. Students from different fields of study differ on risk perception in process of socialization and self-selection. Students of MBA have the highest risk perception of social threats in the four groups of technologies.

Improving engineering education is an essential task for development, production, cultural and economic progress and social services in the future for most of developing countries. In today's world, universities can provide the necessary skills and technical progress by proper education and research programs. These programs have a dynamic state in developed countries. In these countries, besides proper education of theoretical and special courses, academic programs and laboratory works are considered to further participation of students in industry so that most units passed by students are in the form of laboratory or real time projects. In this paper, efficient environmental engineering educational programs and systems in different countries will be comprehensively investigated and compared with the situation in Iran. Then, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of different educational programs will be analyzed and strategies to develop the educational system in Iran in the field of civil and environmental engineering will be provided.

Nowadays, unemployment has known as a critical problem in various societies, especially among graduates of higher education system. This problem has been seen among agricultural graduates more that other disciplines. So, developing entrepreneurial abilities and competencies of agricultural engineers will be an important factor in their employment in future. The main purpose of this research is comparative assessment of affecting psychological traits on post graduate students of Ramin Agricultural and Natural Resources University (RANRU). The methodological approach was descriptive-survey. The statistical population consisted of 190 individuals of MSc students of (RANRU) of Khuzestan that 127 individuals of them using Takman table were selected as sample. Sampling method was proportional stratified random sampling technique from students of different disciplines. Research instrument was a questionnaire that its validity was proved on the basis of some faculty member's viewpoints with relevant specialties and its reliability was calculated using Cronbach's alpha coefficient that was in acceptable range. On the basis of research findings, among entrepreneurial psychological traits, two characteristics of risk taking and creativity were higher in female students in compare with male students. Also, there were no significant differences among agricultural engineering students on the basis of different disciplines, in all entrepreneurial psychological traits exception of internal locus. Finally, developing business skills and delivering entrepreneurship education courses to enhance student's entrepreneurial competencies and enriching the contents of these courses relating to different agricultural disciplines and the needs of market place through establishing entrepreneurship centers, incubators and science and technology parks are the suggestions of this research.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the external effectiveness of the project management curriculum in the College of Shiraz Electronic Industries, based on the eye of the competence model. Statistical population of this study was all graduated of project management courses in the College of Shiraz Electronic Industries. The instrument of this study was a researcher-made questionnaire. Questionnaires were distributed among statistical population and data were analyzed by descriptive statistics. The results indicated: 1) in technical competency, graduates’ knowledge, skill and attitude were higher than median level and were less than optimal level. 2) In behavioral competency, graduates’ knowledge, skill and attitude were higher than median level and were less than optimal level. 3) In contextual competency, graduates’ knowledge, skill and attitude were higher than median level and were less than optimal level.

In this article the essential of collaboration between academia and industries as a basis of economic growth has been emphasized. The role and function of these sectors and also the barrier of this collaboration are briefly described.The combined forces of academia and industry are recognized as driving economic growth. The main hurdles are connected with difficulties in our national strategic planning. In spite of these limitations, it is believed that this collaboration is essential for the benefit of both academia and industries.For attempting to establish collaboration endeavors and facilitate this collaboration a new model is presented.

The purpose of this research is the internal evaluation of Department of Electrical Engineering of Shahid Beheshti University by using a systemic approach to recognize its strengths, weaknesses and consequently to offer some suggestions for its quality improvement. The research methodology was descriptive survey. Statistical population were 8 subgroups including: Head of the department (the former and present), faculty members, the librarians and associate deans of education & research that were fully surveyed. Also the graduates (112), undergraduates (103) and post-graduate (38) students were selected randomly. In This study questionnaires and organized interviews were used. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics, one-way analysis of variance, and Scheffe testing were used. The results have shown that scores of input, process and outputs indicators of Electronic Engineering Department were:1/92, 2/16 and 1/86. Generally, the department status for all the factors were at relatively acceptable level, but requires further struggle and activities of deans and faculty members and officials for quality improvement of the department. For example attraction of faculty members with high experience, using various teaching methods, adjusting subjects with individual and community needs and creation of the Alumni Association.