"Outlook into Modern Engineering Education" Seminar
The Center for Special Studies and Programs (CSSP) organized a seminar entitled "Outlook into Modern Engineering Education" on Monday, 21 December 2015.

The seminar was part of the Visiting Scholar Program (VSP). The seminar aimed at discussing the recent changes in the Engineering education and how the industry was a factor in such change.

Seminar Steering committee:

Lecturer:
Professor Mohamed A. El-Sharkawi, Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, USA.

Moderator:
Professor Yousry El-Gamal, Former Minister of Education, Egypt

Participants:
Academic and professionals from Engineering background. Who are concerning with engineering education and curricula development as well as representatives from the industry sector.

Total number: 37

Represented organizations:
  • Arab Academy for science and technology and Maritime Transport(AAST).
  • Egypt Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST).
  • Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University.
  • Egyptian Navy (Engineering section).
  • UNITEL Egypt.
  • Helwan University.

The seminar was divided into two sections:

Section one:
The lectures discussed: 
  • How engineering education has changed greatly over the last decades, and the factors contributed to these changes.
  • The changes in engineering industries and universities, based on the lecturer experience, as scholar and professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington in the USA.
  • The use of modern tools in interactive engineering education and the implementation of several modern pedagogies.
  • The impact of multi-media education and web learning on the low level learning (knowledge, comprehension and application) and the high level learning (analysis, evaluation and synthesis).
  • The input modality (verbal vs. visual), as one example of modern learning domains as well as the perception (intuitive vs. sensing), the understanding (global vs. sequential), the processing (active vs. reflective) and the organization (inductive vs. deductive).

Section two:
Open discussion with the seminar participants who communicated their views and comments concerning the raised points in section one.

Location: Bibliotheca Alexandrina Conference Center, Delegates Hall
Time: 10:00 am-2:30 pm

The seminar was by invitations only.


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Industry representative commentary