38^th IGIP Conference
September 6 - 9, 2009, Graz, Austria
Quality and Quantity of Engineering Education

Venue:

CAMPUS 02 University of Applied Sciences
Körblergasse 126
A - 8021 Graz, Austria

We kindly invite you to share your expertise in Engineering Education with us.
Therefore we welcome abstracts of all topics concerning engineering education.

The 38^th IGIP Conference is a major international conference devoted to improvements in engineering education. IGIP 2009 conference continues a long tradition of disseminating educational research results and innovative practices in engineering pedagogy. It is an ideal forum for sharing ideas, learning about developments on these topics, and interacting with colleagues.

Globalisation calls for engineers and other professionals who are innovative. Engineering education must meet this challenge innovatively with new pedagogies; new approaches that improve student learning of technical and cultural skills; integrative approaches to problem solving; course of studies abroad; curricular reform; and partnerships among academia, industry, and government. Faculty development is gaining more and more momentum, worldwide. Recent IGIP conferences have addressed the impact of global employment and the educational changes needed for students to master the essential technical, cultural, and learning skills required of graduates entering the global workplace. The venue for this year's IGIP conference will be Graz - a European cultural capital that fosters innovation and encourages creativity while maintaining a sense of history. The IGIP conference organisers are especially interested in continuing the dialogue about globalisation with contributions that address models of innovation in engineering education.

The motto of the Symposium Q² of E² = Quality and Quantity of Engineering Education deals with two major keywords, which have emerged recently.

Firstly the Quality. A lot of educational institutions are thinking about how to implement a Quality Management System, where the product is the knowledge of the graduates. As a consequence, some major questions have to be dealt with: how do we measure this knowledge, who defines the target values, the demands - teachers, economy or industry? What and who has the biggest influence due to these results? And what can be done to optimise these parameters?

Quantity: A simple solution would be to increase the quantity of time for teaching and studying, ignoring all the parameters mentioned above. Of course, this solution would be too trivial. Considering the effects of the Bologna Process increasing Quantity is not possible, and besides, does not guarantee success - better Quality of teaching does. This conference will search for the best educational process to minimise the Quantity of time and to maximise the Quality of the outcome. At the Symposium a lot of questions will have to be discussed to identify the control loop of engineering education.