Engineering Education Quality Assurance: A Global Perspective

Book Overview

Overview/History.- The Background of Quality Assurance in Higher Education and Engineering Education.- Issues and Challenges (Global/Regional Perspectives).- Quality Assurance in European Engineering Education: Present and Future Challenges.- EUR-ACE: The European Accreditation System of Engineering Education and Its Global Context.- Toward Consensus Global Standards for Quality Assurance of Engineering Programmes.- Quality Assurance in the Preparation of Technical Professionals: The ABET Perspective.- Issues and Challenges (Country/Institutional Perspectives).- Quality Assurance in Engineering Education and Modernization of Higher Education in Russia.- Quality Assurance in Vietnam's Engineering Education.- Quality Assurance for the Engineering Paraprofessional in Thailand.- Quality Assurance in Higher Education in Chile: National and Engineering Dimensions.- Quality Assurance of Engineering Education in Sweden.- Assessment of Engineering Education Quality: An Indian Perspective.- Quality Issues Facing Malaysian Higher Learning Institutions: A Case Study of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.- Quality Assurance in Engineering Education in the United States.- Quality Assurance in Engineering Education: An All-round Perspective.- Engineering Education Quality Assurance: The Essential Pillar of Higher Education Reform in Lithuania.- General Approaches and Techniques.- Using a Measure of Student Holistic Development for Quality Assurance.- CDIO and Quality Assurance: Using the Standards for Continuous Program Improvement.- Using Soft Systems Thinking to Confront the Politics of Innovation in Engineering Education.- Real-Time Quality Control Methods in PBL-based Engineering Education.- Enhancing the Quality of the Engineering Student Experience.- Taxonomies of Engineering Competencies and Quality Assurance in Engineering Education.- Future Direction.- Internal and External Quality Assurance Approaches for Improvement and Accountability: A Conceptual Framework.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441905545
• ISBN13: 9781441905543
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"