Learn how to become a Certified
Engineering Educator!
Michael E. Auer
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Definition of Engineering
Engineering represents creative thought and skilled actions associated with the use or adaption of natural materials and natural phenomena in the conceptualization, planning, designing, and disposing of devices.
Harms/Baetz/Volti: Engineering in Time
Engineering is the discipline, art and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize a solution to the needs of society.
Wikipedia
Short definition of engineering: exploiting basic
principles of science to develop useful tools, objects
and Services for the society.
Link between the Sciences and the Society
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Important Tendencies in Engineering
• Growing number of Engineering Disciplines
• Decreasing Innovation Cycles
• Technology Enhanced Teaching and Learning
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New Engineering Disciplines
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Software Engineering
Information Engineering
Data Engineering
Requirements Engineering
Medical Engineering
Neuro Engineering
Gen Engineering
Language Engineering
Social Requirement Engineering (!)
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Systems Engineering as integrating discipline !
New tasks within traditional engineering:
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Online Engineering
Remote Engineering
Virtual Engineering
Re-Engineering
Reverse Engineering
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Decreasing Innovation Cycles
How many years did it take to reach a market audience of 50 Million?
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Radio 38 years
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TV 13 years
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Internet 4 years
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iPod 3 years
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Facebook 2 years
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Tablet PC 1 year
Furthermore:
Virtualization of the design and development processes
(Single piece production)
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TEL – Technology Enhanced Learning
200 Years Chalkboard
20 Years Internet
The first website at CERN - and
in the world -was dedicated to
the World Wide Web project
itself and was hosted on
Berners-Lee's NeXT computer
in 1993.
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New Jobs in Engineering
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Today’s learner will have 10 to 14 jobs ... by the age of 40
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1 out of 4 workers today is working for a company for whom they have been
employed less than 1 year
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More than 1 out of 2 are working for a company for whom they have worked
less than 5 years
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The top 10 jobs that are in demand today didn’t exist 10 years ago.
This means:
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We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist
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… using technologies that haven’t yet be invented,
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… in order to solve problems we don‘t even know are problems yet!
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Albert Einstein
"Education is what remains after
one has forgotten everything he
learned in school"
Main challenge:
To Learn how to learn!
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New Pedagogic Questions
• What learning approaches have to be used to effectively response to
these changes?
• What are the pedagogies that provide the most effective learning
experiences for engineering students of the 21st Century?
• What learning skills in engineering education need to be developed and
how can engineering teachers succeed in guiding their students to
achieve them?
• What pedagogical approaches have been found to support the different
phases of the present life-long learning continuum?
• What are the approaches that enable competence in leadership skills in
a multi-cultural working environment, and what is the best way for
these competencies to be delivered?
• Ambient technology is becoming a reality. What does ambient learning in
Engineering Education look like? How can it be designed, delivered and
assessed?
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About IGIP
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The only International Society for Engineering Pedagogy
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Over 40 years tradition of contributing to Engineering Education and
Pedagogy
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IGIP provides certification for engineering educators
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IGIP provides accreditation for institution that deliver courses that
conform with the IGIP curriculum
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Mission of IGIP
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Improving teaching methods in technical subjects
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Developing practice-oriented curricula that correspond to the
needs of students and employers
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Encouraging the use of media in technical teaching
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Integrating languages and the humanities in engineering education
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Fostering management training for engineers
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Promoting environmental awareness
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Supporting the development of engineering education in
developing countries
IGIP is accredited by UNESCO
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IGIP Members
Austria
Russia
Tschechien
Deutschland
Schweiz
Kazakhstan
Ukraine
Slowakische
Republik
Slowakei
Estland
Portugal
Niederlande
744 Individual Members, 1.157 Affiliate Members
54 Institutional Members
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Branches and Training Centers
24 National Monitoring Committees
Austria, Bulgaria, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Egypt,
Estonia, Ethiopia, Germany, Hungary, India, Jordan,
Japan, Kazakhstan, Mexico, The Netherlands, Poland,
Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine, United
Kingdom, United States
www.igip.org
39 Accredited Training Centers
Austria, Brazil, Switzerland, Czech Republic,
Germany, Estonia, India, Kazahkstan, The
Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia,
Slovenia, Ukraine
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IGIP Contact Points
National Branches (24)
Training Centers (43)
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IGIP Scientific Journal
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Publication of scientific results of our members:
“International Journal of
Engineering Pedagogy”
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Open Access Journal
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First Issue in April 2011
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Access via
www.i-jep.org
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International Engineering Educator
ING.PAED.IGIP is a title, which certificates a certain educational
level for a teacher, trainer or instructor, which is given by the IGIP
Prototype Curriculum.
Any engineering educator who passes the curriculum at any
accredited training center for International Engineering Education,
and whose education, training and professional experience meet
the IGIP standards may apply for the certification as "International
Engineering Educator” - ING-PAED IGIP.
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Educational Competences
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Pedagogical, psychological and ethical competences
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Didactical skills and evaluative competences
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Organisational (managerial) competences
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Oral and written communication skills and social competences
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Reflective and developmental competences
A Modular System:
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Core Modules (7 CP)
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Theory Modules (6 CP)
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Practice Modules (5 CP)
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Elective Modules (3 CP)
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IGIP Prototype Curriculum (1)
60 ECTS credits are attached to the workload of a fulltime year of formal learning (academic year) and the
associated learning outcomes. In most cases, student
workload ranges from 1,500 to 1,800 hours for
an academic year, whereby one credit corresponds to
25 to 30 hours of work.
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IGIP Prototype Curriculum (2)
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Certification
Every Engineering Educator can apply for the title
International Engineering Educator – Ing.Paed.IGIP
in one of the national branches, the training centers or the
IGIP headquarters, if he/she can prove certificates in all
necessary modules of the Prototype Curriculum.
There is also a certification as
IGIP Acredited Training Center
Possible.
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Contact
Michael E. Auer
Prof. Dr.(mult.)
Vienna, Austria
Dresden, Germany
New York, USA
m.auer@cti-online.net
president@igip.org
President
International Society of Engineering Education (IGIP)
Founding President and CEO
International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE)
Secretary General
Global Online Laboratory Consortium (GOLC)
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