Specific Topics
Suggested specific topics for the Conference include, but are not restricted to, the following:
- Curriculum design, implementation and evaluation;
- The nature of cognitive processes, heuristics and creative thought;
- The impact of specific new technologies on effective education and training;
- Problem- and project-based education and training;
- Community attitudes towards engineering and architecture design education;
- The importance of academia/industry co-operation in engineering and architecture design education;
- Advanced, innovative and alternative methods and programmes of education and training;
- The promotion of continuing and further education of engineers and architects;
- Work-based learning and the involvement of employers;
- New technologies and advancements in the education and training process;
- Management and administration in engineering and architecture design education;
- Effective information transfer in engineering and architecture design education;
- Teaching instructions, laboratory procedures, design studios and equipment devised, developed and applied in teaching practice;
- Innovative design strategies and methodologies;
- Specific case studies.
It is anticipated that Conference papers will cover a wide and diverse range of topics, issues and ideas concerning contemporary problems and challenges in engineering and architecture design education that need to be identified, addressed and discussed. The coverage of specific topics should include, and make references to, professional, pedagogical and methodological matters, innovation and talent cultivation, results of unique educational research and development, as well as practical experiences gained in education practice.
