Attracting More Students with New Engineering Programs

Author

Van Alsté, Jan A.

fYear

2007

fDate

9-11 Nov. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

The University of Twente decided to develop and offer new educational programs in order to meet new trends and attract more engineering students. They also wondered if they could increase the limited interests of females in studying engineering. The faculty Science & Technology, a combination of the former faculties of Applied Physics and Chemical Engineering started some new BSc and MSc programs in engineering. These include Biomedical Engineering (BME), Advanced Technology (AT) and Nano Technology (NT). In the following we focus on Biomedical Engineering as one of the new academic education programs. In this paper a simple input - output model is used for the description of the various elements.

Keywords

biomedical education; biomedical engineering; engineering education; Advanced Technology; Biomedical Engineering; Nano Technology; Science & Technology faculty; University of Twente; academic education programs; engineering students; Biomedical engineering; Chemical technology; Companies; Education; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Engineering management; Mathematics; Medical services; Physics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Meeting the Growing Demand for Engineers and Their Educators 2010-2020 International Summit, 2007 IEEE

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1915-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1916-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MGDETE.2007.4760370

Filename

4760370