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亟需的关于中东工程教育和实践的奖学金。由于语言、宗教、地理位置或石油生产方面的共同之处，美国工程师经常认为中东国家的工程教育是相似的。然而，每个国家都有独特的历史，包括独特的殖民斗争，以及与世界其他国家不同的政治和经济关系，这些反过来又以特定的方式塑造了美国的工程教育和实践。因此，该项目的主要学术价值包括为美国工程教育者和实践者提供有关中东工程教育和实践的新知识，重点是勾勒出世界这一地区工程文化的多样性。关于几个中东国家工程教育和实践的过去、现在和未来的内容的收集将在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协会2003年年会上进行三次小组讨论和专家小组成员的单独采访。在精选的熟悉中东的STS学者的参与下，小组讨论和对中东工程教育专家的个别采访将记录历史，并强调国家模式之间的相似和差异。演讲者还将确定工程教育者、工程机构和工程雇主目前面临的重要问题。该项目的成果包括：(1)通过因特网向有意学习中东工程学的个人和组织提供视频资料；(2)3-5个中东国家的工程学文化多媒体模块的框架；(3)未来中东工程学教育国际会议的组织框架。这个项目可以对工程专业的学生和从业者如何接触和理解他们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。另一个好处是扩大了网络，增加了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.