DEVELOPING ENGINEERING EDUCATION FOR A GLOBAL COMMUNITY

Abstract

The paper describes the trends of engineering education development, innovations and the best experiences of the world universities in training engineers, discussed at the eighth World Engineering Education Forum WEEF 2014 in Dubai. A special focus is given to the trends and experience in the Russian universities in training engineering educators and their professional development, globalization, internationalization of engineering education, problems of digital learning, training engineers for science intensive power engineering of the future.

Keywords

• инженерное образование
• инженерная педагогика
• глобализация
• интернационализация образования
• подготовка и переподготовка преподавателей инженерных вузов
• перспективы развития технических университетов
• новые модели обучения
• драйверы инноваций
• подготовка инженеров для наукоемкой энергетики
• engineering education
• engineering pedagogy
• globalization
• internationalization of education
• professional development of engineering educators
• prospects in technical university development
• new education models
• innovation drivers
• training engineers for science intensive power engineering