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The demands of modern industry contexts (so‐called Industry 4.0) are going to reshape the working world of future engineers. It seems obvious that these technological developments will affect higher education institutions with increasing intensity. For years, there has been a vivid discussion on the IT competences, which need to be developed by students in order to face emerging technology changes...
A concept for a Manufacturing Technology Online Course, which combines the MOOC approach and the use of a remote laboratory is presented. Hence, this online course is a combination of a MOOC-concept and a physically existing but tele-operatively usable experimentation laboratory for real engineering experimentation. Developing this online course can be either used as an advertising for mechanical...
Within the last years the demand for intercultural awareness and intercultural competences among the working force in engineering grows significantly. Even if engineers more than other professions have always been working in international settings, the situations of international collaboration in engineering work increased. Moreover, strategy papers on European and national levels endorse the rising...
The integration of online remote laboratories is still an emerging field in engineering education, especially in the area of manufacturing technology. Over the last years and in different project contexts the Institute of Forming Technology and Lightweight Construction (IUL) and the Center for Higher Education (zhb) at TU Dortmund University developed a laboratory environment, which gives the opportunity...
Due to Demographic change universities, vocational trainings, and advanced trainings are challenged to educate learners with diverse backgrounds such as age, country of origin and educational achievement. These groups of learners are supposed to have different, individual learning requirements. However, there is still only sparsely knowledge about their needs and how to take them into account in appropriate...
In German higher engineering education the meaningful use of mobile devices is still underrepresented and seldom goes beyond simple technology provision. This is the case although the use of mobile devices offers completely new opportunities for teaching and learning contexts. The course “Fit for Science” wants to change this. Hence, it is developed to give the students the opportunity to use tablet...
Students who are leaving their home country for taking part in an international study program face several challenges. Not only the new course of studies can be very challenging but also their whole living conditions may change significantly. This can be a severe clash especially for students who are moving to a country with a totally different cultural background in comparison to their home countries...
The world is becoming more and more globalized. That has an important impact on the working environment of engineers. Designing, producing and distributing products either in international companies, in international working-teams or at least for international markets is part of today's economic reality. Even if goods have been sold or purchased all over the globe for centuries now, today's markets...
The teachers' job at universities is to give students the chance to develop knowledge, skills and competences. In many cases this is summed up by a general discussion on competences. With this paper we combine various approaches to the term ‘competence’. On the one hand we discuss competence development and integrate the discussion on taxonomies. On the other hand we present different alternatives...
Nowadays, university students are facing a large number of highly diverse media, including conventional books as well as online-based mobile applications — all used to support learning. Especially the internet with its connected social media services or e-learning possibilities induced significant changes in society and in the landscape of higher education during the last years and still do so. The...
The question “What should engineering students learn for being successful engineers?” is and always was a driver for intense discussions about curriculum development in engineering education. Contributions to this question differ between various types of education institutions and organizations, various fields of specialization, and even various countries. Such differences make it necessary, that...
Contemporary laboratory learning in combination with state-of-the-art ICT can provide a vast variety of novel opportunities for creative experimentation and inquiry learning. Fostering and encouraging creative laboratory learning in engineering education may not only breathe life into what is learned but also involves the chance to consolidate students' understanding as well as creative self-efficacy...
Cultural competency is a priority for engineering education in todays world. Nevertheless it is often difficult to engage students in immersive international experiences that develop inter-cultural awareness. Especially undergraduate engineering students have to deal with packed curricula with little or no room for languages and an often unforgiving structure that puts them a year out of course sequences...
Within laboratories in Engineering Education students have the chance to do own experiments and by that gain own experiences in their learning processes - means that they are an adequate opportunity to implement experiential and research based learning. Recently finished research projects - e.g. like the PeTEX project done by universities in Dortmund (Germany), Palermo (Italy) and Stockholm (Sweden)...
The use of laboratories in Higher Engineering Education is an adequate opportunity to implement forms of experiential learning like research-based learning in material sciences. Introducing remote laboratories gives the opportunity to the student to do self-directed research and by that having own and unique learning experiences. Recently finished research projects e.g. like the PeTEX project implemented...
This paper presents how Problem Based Learning is integrated in Industrial Engineering higher education provided by the Industrial Engineering Laboratory at TU Dortmund University in Germany. After pointing out the necessary asset of competences for Industrial Engineers as the intended learning outcome, Problem Based Learning is presented as one appropriate concept for competence development in higher...
Cultural competency is a priority for engineering education but it is often difficult to engage students in immersive international experiences that develop inter-cultural awareness. Undergraduate engineering students face packed curricula with little or no room for languages and an often unforgiving structure that puts them a year out of course sequences if they do travel for a study abroad. In this...
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