The Current Status and the Improvement of Ecological Engineering Education in South Korean Universities

This work examines engineering education in Egypt provided by state (government funded) universities. There have been concerns from all stakeholders about the graduates’ knowledge and skills. The chronic problems with higher education in Egypt in general have been previously reported in the Literature, but this paper provides insights form engineering academics with many years of experience in Egyptian engineering education and a fresh look from a business perspective at the phenomenon. In this manuscript, the institutions are analyzed using the integrated business anatomy model, in order to identify the underlying causes of the problems observed. The structural, operational and environmental (both external and internal) challenges that lead to the current status are clearly detected. The analysis highlighted several constraints that hinder radical reforms. Amongst these constraints is the legal and organizational framework in which the state funded universities operate. Other social, technological and economic factors also play important parts. The recipe for improvement provided by the authors has taken all these elements into consideration. This work hopes to provide focus and direction for future reform efforts.

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Critical Issues in Requirements Engineering Education

Computer Systems and Software Engineering ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-3923-0.ch081 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 1953-1976

Author(s):

Rafia Naz Memon ◽

Rodina Ahmad ◽

Siti Salwah Salim

Keyword(s):

Engineering Education ◽

Requirements Engineering ◽

Current Status ◽

Development Projects ◽

Teaching Approaches ◽

Critical Issues ◽

Research Problems ◽

Software Engineers ◽

The University ◽

Difficult Subject

Requirements Engineering (RE) is the most crucial process within software development projects. In order to prepare skilled requirements engineers, Requirements Engineering Education (REE) needs to be provided to students at the university level before they become software engineers and part of the workforce. However, RE is considered the most difficult subject within the software engineering curriculum for students to learn and for lecturers to teach due to its uncertain nature. This chapter examines the current and potential areas for research within REE. It first presents the current status of REE provided in universities and the REE problems reported in the literature that lead us to the potential research problems in REE. The REE teaching approaches proposed by researchers are then elaborated. The proposed approaches are mapped back to address the REE problems. The chapter closes with recommended directions for future REE research.

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Software Engineering Education

Software Engineering ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-102-5.ch001 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 1-13 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Gregory W. Hislop

Keyword(s):

Software Engineering ◽

Engineering Education ◽

Historical Development ◽

Current Status ◽

Intended Audience ◽

Software Engineering Education ◽

Global Demand ◽

Develop Software ◽

Software Engineers

There is a strong and growing global demand for skilled software engineers. The institutions that educate software engineers are evolving and changing to meet this need. This chapter provides an overview of this effort to develop software engineering education. It discusses the historical development of software engineering education, provides some perspective on current status, and identifies some of the challenges faced by software engineering educators. The intended audience for this chapter is anyone interested in software engineering education who has not participated in the developments to the present time. The goal is to provide a summary background of how the discipline has evolved and pointers to key publications that are part of that history. Since this chapter surveys foundational topics in software engineering education, many of the topics touched on in this chapter are covered in more detail in other chapters of this volume.

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Nancy Abelmann: Anthropologist, Citizen, and Thinker in/on the Global University

The Journal of Asian Studies ◽

10.1017/s0021911818000979 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 77 (4) ◽

pp. 953-970

Author(s):

Jiyeon Kang

Keyword(s):

International Students ◽

Asian American ◽

Public Discourse ◽

Symbolic Capital ◽

Chinese International Students ◽

Global Institutions ◽

South Korean ◽

Global University ◽

The University ◽

Korean Universities

This article discusses Nancy Abelmann's scholarship on the university and includes a new study of the South Korean media discourse on Chinese international students—a work she planned but could not undertake. Abelmann studied the university, viewing it as a window to society's particular desires and anxieties regarding the future. Her research on South Korean university students reveals their personal fervor and struggle to stay afloat amidst the country's rapid modernization and globalization. Her later work on the American university considers the struggles of Asian American and Asian international students, illuminating the new realities of a global educational market and exploring new ethics of sharing the same university. The study in the second part of this article demonstrates how South Korean universities and public discourse have attempted to “optimize” the increasing numbers of Chinese international students as financial and symbolic capital. The shift between 2001 and 2016 from maximizing to distancing shows that Korean universities were straddling a line between the desire to become global institutions and the realization that they are a second-choice destination in the global higher-education market.

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