Publisher's Synopsis
The eduational method challenges to higher education engineering lecturers High education (HE) has become more globalized and is slowly changing from being teacher-centered to study-centered. Industry is ever more demanding of graduates' employability and value. Degree programs are required to address the learning outcomes their graduates should attain ( including: discipline and contextual knowledge, practice knowledge and skills and personal and professional attributes).What challenges to higher education engineering lecturers meet? For example, teaching core engineering concepts to assist student engineers to learn how to apply them to solve a problem sometimes supplemented with placements. This is traditional teaching method challenge, so engineering lecturers need to change to apply technological educational method to let engineering students to feel learning more easily. However, new technological teaching method is popular to be applied to lecturers, but it also encounter difficulty, such as students need to understand e.g. risk, critical thinking, business acumen, social desirability of designs and how to adapt their role in innovation to attract student engineers' attention. How to meet demand for engineering graduates? High education is growing into engineering qualifications, essential to attractive, creative, enthusiastic, engaged students from all backgrounds. Thus, higher education engineering lecturers are hoped to train engineering students who can have self-directed learning, transferable skills development. So, higher education engineering lecturer role of teacher is as an educator and learning facilitator. For example, engineering education needs apply new technological educational innovation. Innovation in engineering education can ensure transform students into graduates who are well prepared for future engineering practice, exploits new science and technology is responsive to change socio-economic and environmental contexts. Because nowadays, engineers are hoped creative, innovation ready, entrepreneurial, critically thinking, socially responsible engineers.
