INDUSTRIAL TRAINING IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN SPAIN

2011 ◽  
pp. 72-84
Author(s):  
Urbano Dominguez ◽  
Jesus Magdaleno
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Global Approach ◽  
Industrial Training ◽  
European Higher Education Area ◽  
The World ◽  
Weak Points ◽  
European Higher Education ◽  
National Boundaries

Practical training in companies has been recognized for many years as an important component of the education of new engineering graduates all over the world. The format used to provide this education to students varies widely not only across national boundaries, but also within each country. This chapter deals first with the state of industrial training in engineering education in Spain, both in the old engineering degrees and in the new ones, following the European higher education area requirements, which are now in the process of introduction. An analysis is also carried out on the evaluation and assessment of industrial training when this activity is a part of first cycle engineering curricula, and the role played by the tutor is discussed. Finally, some weak points of industrial training in Spanish curricula are discussed, as well as some proposals to overcome that situation and to move towards a global approach of industrial training in engineering education.

THE APPRENTICESHIP IN CRAFT GUILDS IN PREINDUSTRIAL EUROPE: A MODEL FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN THE EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION AREA

10.6036/9821 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 96 (5) ◽  
pp. 460-463
Author(s):  
OSCAR MARTIN LLORENTE
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Term Survival ◽  
European Higher Education Area ◽  
Educational Methods ◽  
Apprenticeship Learning ◽  
European Higher Education ◽  
Craft Guilds

This work aims to carry out a comparative study between the apprenticeship system in the craft guilds in preindustrial Europe and the educational methods used in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), with the aim of highlighting the role, within the field of engineering education in the EHEA, of the practice-driven approach (learning by doing), which yielded excellent results during centuries to craft guilds, since their institutionalized apprenticeship system was one of the reasons for their long-term survival. The transmission of technical skills and associated innovation were effectively supported by craft guilds but not as a main objective and even, sometimes, as a cause of undesired effects (formation of future competitors, revelation of secrets or shift of control over the production process from the owners of skills to the owners of capital. It has been demonstrated that both the organizational modalities or scenarios and the educational methods of the EHEA (except the binomial scenario-method formed by the theoretical class and the master lecture) used in engineering education, have a clear precedent in the preindustrial craft guilds, which emphasize the learning process instead of the teaching process and established, several centuries in advance and without intending to, a model for the EHEA. Keywords: Craft guilds; Apprenticeship; Learning by doing; Engineering education; EEES

scholarly journals El Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior y su sello de calidad.

2020 ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
María Matarranz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
Educational Quality ◽  
European Higher Education Area ◽  
Higher Education Systems ◽  
The World ◽  
European Higher Education ◽  
The Bologna Process ◽  
The Impact

Two decades have passed from the Sorbonne Declaration in 1999 to the present day, a period of time in which we have witnessed the great changes that have occurred in higher education systems in many countries of the world, specifically the countries belonging to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA).Four countries started by signing the 1999 Declaration, today there are already forty-eight countries involved in the EHEA.In this article, a tour of the milestones that have been shaping and kneading the EHEA is made, addressing the most relevant issues addressed in the different meetings of the ministers of higher education. Next, we will stop at one of the most relevant indicators of the EHEA: the quality assurance systems that, because of the Bologna Process, have been deployed both at the supranational and national levels. We will make an overview of the implementation of educational quality in the countries. Finally, we will reflect on the impact that the perspective of educational quality has had in the countries of the European Higher Education Area. 

scholarly journals Academic Mobility as One of the Priority Areas in the Process of the Formation of the Common European Educational Space: the Ukrainian Experience of Cooperation

2017 ◽  
pp. 53-73
Author(s):  
Evgen Khan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
European Higher Education Area ◽  
Academic Mobility ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
European Higher Education ◽  
The Bologna Process

The integration processes, which take place in the world community in all spheres of the human activity have a great influence on the system of higher education. During this period, the common European education space is formed, which expressed particularly through harmonization of education standards, approaches, curricula, and specialties in different countries of the world. The open educational space provides for the increasing of student mobility and co-operation of university lecturers from different countries, which should help to improve the university graduates’ employment system and increase the status of these countries in the field of education. Academic mobility is one of the areas of the Bologna Process, which ensures the integrity of the European Higher Education Area and the European Research Area. At the same time the European space means not only the space of the states of the European Union. This space covers the territories of all member states of the Bologna Process. The course for the development of academic mobility is enshrined in almost all major documents governing the Bologna process. They note that the academic mobility of students, researchers and lecturers allows its participants to take advantage of European educational values (Prague Communiqué of Ministers of Education 2001), which forms the basis for the formation of the European Higher Education Area (Berlin Communiqué 2003), is an essential element of the Bologna process, which creates the new opportunities for personal growth, development of cooperation between people and institutions (London Communiqué 2007), etc. It is very important to find out how much our country is involved in the process of academic exchanges and international cooperation in the field of education, especially with European countries, as far as the international academic mobility is an important factor in the process of European integration.

International Recognition Of Engineering Education – Best Practice

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 421-424
Author(s):  
Grünwald Norbert ◽  
Krause Regina
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Quality Standards ◽  
European Higher Education Area ◽  
International Recognition ◽  
European Higher Education ◽  
Short Presentation

AbstractThe paper presents a case study of the implementation of the European Framework Standards for the Accreditation of Engineering Programmes in Russia. After describing the importance of the international recognition of engineering programmes a short presentation of the EUR-ACE system follows as well as the measures undertaken by the project consortium to adapt the quality standards of Russia to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). The opportunities and benefits for engineering education in Russia are presented at the end of the paper.

scholarly journals Charting Academic Freedom in Europe

2020 ◽  
pp. 455-464
Author(s):  
Liviu Matei
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
European Higher Education Area ◽  
National Crisis ◽  
Higher Education Systems ◽  
The World ◽  
European Higher Education ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study

Abstract The paper argues that the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) is currently experiencing a crisis of academic freedom and discusses the need to chart a course out of this crisis. The paper claims that the crisis, with its two dimensions (intellectual and empiric), is specific to Europe/EHEA; it is not a global or national crisis, although there are challenges to academic freedom in all other parts of the world and also within individual national higher education systems in Europe. Efforts have been started recently to address key challenges to academic freedom in the EHEA and eventually plot a course out of this crisis. The paper outlines how a comparative and applied interdisciplinary study of these efforts helps reveal their nature and scope, identify the actors/stakeholders involved as well as those, astoundingly, absent; it also allows to discuss and assess early on the chances of success and identify challenges and gaps in these efforts. The paper concludes that charting a course for academic freedom at present in the EHEA is an intergovernmental process. Higher education institutions and academics are not part of this process.

scholarly journals The Effective Action of Theatre in the Educational Mapping of Linguistic and Intercultural Mediators

2012 ◽  
Vol VI (2) ◽  
pp. 76-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Isabel Fernández García ◽  
Mercedes Ariza ◽  
Claudio Bendazzoli ◽  
Maria Giovanna Biscu ◽  
Yvonne Grimaldi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Effective Action ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Direct Link ◽  
European Higher Education Area ◽  
The World ◽  
European Higher Education ◽  
Intercultural Mediators ◽  
The University

This paper is based on the University Theatre experience at the Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators (SSLMIT) of the University of Bologna (Forlì campus) over the last twenty years. A great number of trainee translators and interpreters has had the opportunity to explore the world of theatre in a foreign language, which can be referred to as TiLLiT (i.e. theatre in language and language in theatre) or stage-classroom. This activity has been carried out within a comprehensive educational context, enabling participants to acquire both general and specific competences, as suggested in the European Higher Education Area. Evidence of this can be found in the final dissertations that some students-actors wrote to complete their curriculum. Four dissertations in total will be considered to illustrate the effective action of theatre, which enables its main protagonists to establish a direct link between theoretical notions and experience.

Strengthening Mobility for Better Learning

2015 ◽  
Vol 220-221 ◽  
pp. 1014-1017
Author(s):  
Algirdas Vaclovas Valiulis ◽  
Vytautas Bučinskas ◽  
Eligijus Toločka
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Education ◽  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
European Higher Education Area ◽  
The World ◽  
European Higher Education ◽  
International Activities ◽  
International Openness

In a modern environment, during the evolution of international activities, from mobility to international education hubs, universities are searching for new internationalization tools to implement those undertakings more effectively in terms of finance and time. Co-operation with other regions of the world and international openness are the key factors in the development of the European Higher Education Area. To illustrate the situation arising from student mobility of studying technological sciences, the paper analyses information about student mobility in the fields of mechanical engineering and mechatronics for the period 2009–2013.

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