Track 1: Engineering Education Reform and Innovation

• Role of engineering education for a knowledge economy.
• Innovative Curriculum development approaches: CDIO approach (as followed by MIT and other top universities), problem and project based curricula, interdisciplinary programs, modularisation of engineering curricula.
• Engineering education accreditation issues.
• Perspectives on engineering education in different countries.
• Engineering education issues in public education.

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Track 2: Technology Education

• Role of Technology education for a knowledge economy.
• Technology education curriculum focus in different countries.
• Technology education standards from the primary education to university level.
• Curriculum innovation issues for emergent technologies education.
• Assessment of learning in technology education.

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Track 3: Vocational and Technical Education

• Role of vocational and technical education for a knowledge economy
• Hybrid qualifications: Building pathways from vocational to higher education in a dual system country experiences.
• Hybrid qualifications in a credit-based system.
• Moving from technical to technology education.

Abstracts should be sent by email to:

dr@jubailengineering.com.