Engineering 2020: Preparing for future

Author

Brito, C.D.R. ; Ciampi, Melany M.

Author_Institution

Sci. & Educ. Res.Council, COPEC, Santos, Brazil

fYear

2012

fDate

26-28 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Taking into account the new era in engineering education the Engineering Education Research Team of COPEC - Science and Education Research Council has designed a program for an engineering school which main goal is to prepare engineers for the future work market, the engineer for future. The program has been designed in details in according to the present labor market for engineers, with its particular characteristics and with a need of engineers that is growing. The success of the program depends on the ability to inspire the students showing engineering as an exciting career, a personal upward path, and a way to affect local social and economic well-being. The implementation of the program is for 2012. The goal of this work is to show the engineering program developed with the objective to train engineers to enter and remain in the future labor market.

Keywords

educational courses; educational institutions; engineering education; socio-economic effects; COPEC; engineering education research team; engineering program design; engineering school; engineering students; labor market; local economic well-being; local social well-being; science and education research council; Cultural differences; Educational institutions; Engineering education; Humans; Organizations; Technological innovation; economic well-being; exciting career; program design; work market;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL), 2012 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Villach

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2425-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-2426-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICL.2012.6402058

Filename

6402058