Implementation of an engineering educator graduation program for the formation of new skilled engineering teachers

COPEC-Council of Researches in Education and Sciences education team has designed a new program in graduation level: the Professional Engineering Education. The goal is to improve the formation of the engineering educator providing them with all the competencies needed to teach at the state of the art with the best available teaching technologies. The PEE Program offers two graduate degrees: the Master of Science and the Doctor of Philosophy. It is a very dynamic and rich program, developed in modules, following the trend of global formation of professionals, mainly to attend the need of a prepared engineering educator to act in the several different cultural environments, which mobility has imposed as a fact of life for researchers and teachers at graduation level. Not to mention the necessary new competencies of educators such as: evaluation management; development competencies; communication skills; teamwork; ethics and intercultural competencies. So this program has been designed to fulfill this lack of engineering educators.