This track aims enhancing discussion around Engineering Education especially concerned with young professionals.

Engineering Education must not only focus on educational context but also on professional aspects where senior students can engage in tasks close to those of young professionals. The perspective from these two worlds is often quite different. The point of view of academics is the most acknowledged, but viewpoints from young engineers and/or senior students, tutors and senior engineers who directly work with young professionals should be more documented. The sharing of successful practices among and between these communities is essential to gradually improve the success of young engineers.

It is intended to address problems like:

  • How may teachers improve the development of key professional competences in engineering students?
  • How can the gap between academic and professional worlds be minimized?
  • Which contributions can professional institutions provide for a better linkage with the academic structures to smooth transitions?
  • How can technology improve this interrelation?
  • Are these concerns multicultural?

Besides that, following the implementation of the Bologna declaration, several countries undertook serious modifications in their engineering curricula. The question is how did these modifications influence the relationship between these two worlds?

Topics

Some of the main topics regarding this track can be related to the following topics:

  • Project work in engineering education
  • First contacts with engineering profession
  • Improving engineering professional competences during education
  • Engineering graduate students competences versus companies professional needs
  • Long term vision about engineering education
  • Comparative studies in Engineering Courses following Bologna guidelines
  • Capstone projects versus professional internships
  • Successful merged practices from Academia and Industries

Paper language

English

Sessions: Presentation

Session will be organized in thematic threads. Each thread will be presented as an interactive panel in which the participants will have about 10 minutes to present their work followed by a brief discussion (2-3 minutes).
Language: English

Submission

Submission dates: September 10, 2016

Submission format: http://2016.teemconference.eu/submission/

Submissions must be done through https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=teem16, (choose this track before proceeding with submission)

Track Scientific Committee

Clara Viegas (Instituto Politécnico do Porto – ISEP, Portugal) – Chair
Arcelina Marques (Instituto Politécnico do Porto – ISEP, Portugal) – Chair
Gustavo Alves (Instituto Politécnico do Porto – ISEP, Portugal) – Chair
Alexandre Silva (Instituto Politécnico do Porto – ESE, Portugal)
André Fidalgo (Instituto Politécnico do Porto – ISEP, Portugal)
António Barbot (Instituto Politécnico do Porto – ESE, Portugal)
Bernardino Lopes (Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal)
Carlos Felgueiras (Instituto Politécnico do Porto – ISEP, Portugal)
Claudius Terkowsky (TU Dortmund University, Germany)
Cristina Ribeiro (Instituto Politécnico do Porto – ISEP, Portugal)
David Boehringer (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Diogo Ribeiro (Instituto Politécnico do Porto – ISEP, Portugal)
Dominic May (TU Dortmund University, Germany)
Francisco José García-Peñalvo (Universidad de Salamanca, Spain)
Isabel Brás Pereira (Instituto Politécnico do Porto – ISEP, Portugal)
J. P. Cravino (Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal)
Javier García Zubía (Universidad de Deusto, Spain)
Joaquim Alves (Instituto Politécnico do Porto – ISEP, Portugal)
Joaquim Filipe Oliveira (Healthyroad, Portugal)
José Fonseca (Universidade Nova de Lisboa – Portugal)
Juarez Bento da Silva (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
Manuel Castro (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain)
Manuela Azevedo (CIN, Portugal)
Margarida Ribeiro (Instituto Politécnico do Porto – ISEP, Portugal)
Maria João Silva (Instituto Politécnico do Porto – ESE, Portugal)
Paulo Couto (Bosch, Portugal)
Paulo Gil (Amorim & Irmãos, S.A., Portugal)
Ricardo Costa (Instituto Politécnico do Porto – ISEP, Portugal)
Rui Lima (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
Teresa Sena Esteves (Instituto Politécnico do Porto – ISEP, Portugal)
Valentina Zangrando (Universidad de Salamanca, Spain)