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One of the major challenges facing the growth of South Africa, the largest economy in Africa and a member of the five major emerging national economies (BRICS) of the world, is unemployment. While there are other factors influencing unemployment, high dropout rates in universities are seen as a definite contributor to this challenge. Reflection and reflective practices have been extensively researched...
This article outlines an aim, a position and a need of engineering pedagogy tuition in university field of study technical profession subject tuition. Engineering pedagogy in practice and research realization in the Slovak Republic and in the Czech Republic. At the same time we try to show the place in international company for engineering pedagogy. Further benefit deals with common research and production...
Present existing education system and teaching methods are not completely ideal. They are suffering from many problems. This paper mainly concentrates on one of the issues regarding decrease in number of graduated students who choose teaching as their profession. Mainly concentrating on the reasons why students are not willing to enter this profession and its relevance to existing education system...
Engineers design new products, increase productivity, and thereby increase the standard of living worldwide. Although the common wisdom is that large corporations invest the most money in new product R&D, the surprising fact is that most discontinuous innovations come from small firms, and most engineers in the US are employed by entrepreneurial firms as well. In spite of the centrality of entrepreneurial...
Teaching techniques and contents at institutes of higher learning must be a dynamic and seamless experience. While new concepts and technologies do not find their way into textbooks long after the research is matured and/or commercialized, Professors at Universities are in unique position to bring them into classroom much earlier benefiting from their sponsored research. This is why perhaps high ranked...
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