scholarly journals Global Diversity and Inclusion in Engineering Education: Developing Platforms toward Global Alignment

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 56 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Antoine Delaine ◽  
Renetta Tull ◽  
Rovani Sigamoney ◽  
Darryl N. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Underrepresented Students ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Global Alignment ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
Stem Programs ◽  
Global Engineering ◽  
Exploratory Investigation ◽  
The World

This paper presents an exploratory investigation of global scale diversity and inclusion efforts within engineering education. The content is an expansion of work that was shared at the 2015 World Engineering Education Forum’s first special session on “Diversity & Inclusion in Global Engineering.” Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) are contextualized topics that shift objectives from country to country. The role of D&I in engineering education and practice has gained prominence in recent years due to the fact that engineers are facing increased need for global collaborations and are expected to be able to work in highly diverse teams and within different cultures. D&I initiatives in the field of engineering generally include gender, ethnicity, and national origin, and may include persons who are economically underprivileged and persons with disabilities. While the prominence of D&I has increased, international learning outcomes and collaborations within these efforts are limited. Within a global community a common platform would allow for the sharing of best practices and maximize learning opportunities and impact. By examining models from around the world, we can begin to consolidate, optimize, and disseminate the global benefits of D&I. In this work, various programs are reviewed as success cases because they have increased the numbers of underrepresented students who enroll in and graduate from STEM programs. The potential for solidarity amongst Diversity & Inclusion initiatives and programs in different regions of the world is explored. Efforts are made to determine what can be learned from synergies across D&I activities.

A Global Engineering Design Clinic Experience in Engineering Education: Lessons Learned

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Pezeshki ◽  
K. Racicot ◽  
H. Zbib
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Similar Work ◽  
Global Engineering ◽  
The World ◽  
Clinic Experience ◽  
Set Up

Though the establishment of clinics for students to participate in engineering activities with partners around the world has achieved a high profile recently, there are major difficulties to surmount in developing workable structures for such enterprises. As with many engineering education endeavors, the focus of initiating global engineering programs is often on the hard technology to enable students to work collaboratively across distances. Too often, the soft technology aspect, such as coordinated work practice, is overlooked during the process of set-up and initial operation. It is relatively straightforward (though not particularly easy) to acquire the necessary technology and apply it to a lab development scenario. But it is not ‘global engineering’ unless there are collaborative partners across the world, on the other end of the Internet cable. In this paper, we will discuss a case study involving the setup of hard technology, such as computers, telecommunications, and integration of video into the curriculum. Equally important, we will discuss the generation of partners with similar work practice, project management, and pedagogical styles, and ways to facilitate interaction between students in different programs in different international locations, while satisfying sponsoring institutions and corporations.

scholarly journals IEEE Engineering Education 2010 â?? The Future of Global Learning in Engineering Education

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Call For Papers
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Global Learning ◽  
Department Chairpersons ◽  
Engineering Technology ◽  
Global Engineering ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Practical Experiences ◽  
Education Conference

The 1st Annual Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), sponsored by the IEEE Education Society, UNED, UPM, and CTI will be held April 14th â?? 16th, 2010 in Madrid, Spain on the campuses of UNED and UPM. The Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON) will provide an interdisciplinary forum for academic, research and industrial collaboration on teaching methods, practical experiences and research towards the future of global Engineering Education attracting 200+ participants from all over the world. Participants will include university presidents, college deans, department chairpersons, faculty in engineering and engineering technology, and industry leaders from throughout the IEEE Region 8 (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and the world.

Diversity in engineering takes off with Airbus award

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 16-17 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Engineering Community ◽  
Global Engineering ◽  
The World ◽  
Engineering Problems

Purpose – Describes how Airbus has joined the Global Engineering Deans’ Council (GEDC), a worldwide forum for excellence in engineering education, to run the GEDC Airbus award. Design/methodology/approach – Details the background to the award, the form it takes and the initiatives of some of the prize winners. Findings – Explains that the award aims to increase the diversity of the global engineering community by rewarding proven initiatives in the field. Social implications – Highlights how the world needs innovative engineers who can propose new ways to solve the world’s engineering problems and explains that more needs to be done to promote engineering as a career. Originality/value – Explains that Airbus seeks to build more diverse teams for higher performance and an inclusive culture.

IFEES: Enhancing Engineering Education at a Global Scale

2008 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Morell ◽  
C. Borri ◽  
H.J. Hoyer ◽  
S.A. Rajala ◽  
S. Ramakrishna ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Global Scale

Future Directions in International Science Education

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 233-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
International Dimension ◽  
The World ◽  
Scientists And Engineers ◽  
Science And Engineering Education

The international dimension of science and engineering education is of paramount importance and merits serious consideration of the coherent skill set that is required to allow scientists and engineers more readily to transport themselves and their work to other locations in the world. 

Impact of Globalisation on Pandemics: A comparative study on SARS and Covid-19 (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johann Johann And Devika
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Close Relationship

BACKGROUND Since November 2019, Covid - 19 has spread across the globe costing people their lives and countries their economic stability. The world has become more interconnected over the past few decades owing to globalisation and such pandemics as the Covid -19 are cons of that. This paper attempts to gain deeper understanding into the correlation between globalisation and pandemics. It is a descriptive analysis on how one of the factors that was responsible for the spread of this virus on a global scale is globalisation. OBJECTIVE - To understand the close relationship that globalisation and pandemics share. - To understand the scale of the spread of viruses on a global scale though a comparison between SARS and Covid -19. - To understand the sale of globalisation present during SARS and Covid - 19. METHODS A descriptive qualitative comparative analysis was used throughout this research. RESULTS Globalisation does play a significant role in the spread of pandemics on a global level. CONCLUSIONS - SARS and Covid - 19 were varied in terms of severity and spread. - The scale of globalisation was different during the time of SARS and Covid - 19. - Globalisation can be the reason for the faster spread in Pandemics.

The Reasoning Structure in Legal Disputes on the International Trade of Biotechnology: From a Judicial Balance by Chance to a Judicial Balance by Design

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Alessandra GUIDA
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Trade Restrictions ◽  
Competing Interests ◽  
The World ◽  
National Economies ◽  
Biotech Products

The international trade in biotech products boosts national economies and advances scientific as well as technology innovation. However, while trading these products increases the spread of benefits on a global scale, it also increases risks to human health and the environment (ie biosafety). This is because the effects of this technology on biosafety are still highly uncertain. Against this background, the judicial bodies under the World Trade Organization (WTO) find themselves in the middle of an intricate and polarised debate in which a proper judicial balance between free trade and biosafety becomes fundamental in order to determine whether requests for ensuring human and environmental health justify trade restrictions. This paper aims to highlight that the WTO is institutionally unready for balancing economic and non-economic values. In suggesting how to rationalise the judicial balance between the competing interests in the context of biotechnology, this paper demonstrates that the judicial adoption of a well-structured proportionality analysis can turn the current balance by chance into a balance by structure.

Human Resource Management: For Humans

2021 ◽  
pp. 263145412098211
Author(s):  
Dilip Soman
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Managerial Decision ◽  
Incentive Design ◽  
Managerial Decision Making ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Behavioural Sciences

Marketing departments, governments and policymakers all around the world have increasingly started embracing the field of behavioural sciences in improving the design of products and services, enhancing communications, improving managerial decision-making, encouraging desired behaviour by stakeholders and, more generally, creating a human-centric marketplace. Within organisations, the human resources management (HRM) function is perhaps the one place that acknowledges that humans are central to the organisation’s success, so it is critical that HRM too actively embraces the insights and methods of behavioural sciences. In this article, I provide an overview of the behavioural sciences, discuss how HRM can benefit from an in-depth knowledge of the science and illustrate specific examples from recruitment processes, training and communications, incentive design, employee-oriented processes, and diversity and inclusion initiatives that could benefit from evidence from behavioural sciences.

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