SGER--Engineers and Engineering Education In The Middle East: Symposium June 2003

该项目的目标是从阿拉伯和伊斯兰国家中挑选出中东地区急需的工程教育和实践方面的奖学金。由于语言、宗教、地理位置或对石油生产的重视，美国工程师通常认为中东国家的工程教育是相似的。然而，每个国家都有自己独特的历史，包括独特的殖民斗争和与世界其他国家不同的政治和经济关系，这反过来又以特定的方式塑造了其工程教育和实践。因此，该项目的主要智力价值在于为美国工程教育工作者和实践者提供有关中东工程教育和实践的新知识，重点是概述世界这一地区工程文化的多样性。将于2003年6月22日至25日在田纳西州纳什维尔举行的美国工程教育学会2003年年会上，通过三个小组讨论和专家小组成员的个人访谈，收集有关几个中东国家工程教育和实践的过去、现在和未来的内容。小组讨论和与中东工程教育专家的个人访谈将记录历史，并突出各国模式的异同。演讲者还将指出当前工程教育者、工程机构和工程雇主所面临的重要问题。该项目的成果包括：(1)通过互联网向有兴趣了解中东工程的个人和组织提供视频档案；(2) 3-5个中东国家工程文化多媒体模块的框架，以及(3)未来中东工程教育国际会议的组织框架。这个项目可以对工程专业学生和从业者如何接近和理解来自中东的同事产生重大影响，无论是在教育领域还是在工业领域。一个额外的好处是扩大网络和增加美国和中东工程师之间的合作。

The goal of this project is to produce much needed scholarship on engineering education and practice in the Middle East, from a selection of both Arab and Islamic states. U.S. engineers often assume engineering education is similar across Middle Eastern countries due to commonalities in language, religion, geographical location, or emphasis in oil production. Yet each country has had a unique history, including distinctive colonial struggles and varying sets of political and economic relations with other countries around the world, which have, in turn, shaped its engineering education and practice in particular ways. Hence, the main intellectual merit of this project involves providing U.S. engineering educators and practitioners with new knowledge about engineering education and practice in the Middle East, with a focus on outlining the diversity of engineering cultures in this part of the world. The gathering of content on the past, present, and future of engineering education and practice in several Middle Eastern countries will take place in three panel discussions and individual interviews with expert panelists at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education, to be held on June 22-25, 2003, in Nashville, TN. With the participation of selected STS scholars knowledgeable about the Middle East, panel discussions and individual interviews with experts in engineering education in the Middle East will both document histories and highlight similarities and differences among national patterns. Presenters will also identify important issues currently confronting engineering educators, engineering institutions, and engineering employers. The results of this project include (1) a video archive available via the Internet to individuals and organizations interested in learning about engineering in the Middle East; (2) frameworks for multimedia modules on engineering cultures in 3-5 Middle Eastern countries, and (3) the organizing framework for a future International Conference on Engineering Education in the Middle East. This project can have a significant impact on how engineering students and practitioners approach and understand their colleagues from the Middle East, whether in education or in industry. An additional benefit is to expand networks and increase collaborations among American and Middle Eastern engineers.