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的选择中产生中东地区急需的工程教育和实践奖学金。美国工程师通常认为，由于语言、宗教、地理位置或石油生产的重要性，中东国家的工程教育是相似的。然而，每个国家都有一个独特的历史，包括独特的殖民斗争和与世界各地其他国家的不同政治和经济关系，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涉及为美国工程教育工作者和从业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。在过去，现在和未来的工程教育和实践在几个中东国家的内容的收集将发生在三个小组讨论和专家小组成员在2003年6月22日至25日举行的美国工程教育学会年会，在田纳西州纳什维尔，与个别采访。随着选定的STS学者了解中东的参与，小组讨论和个别采访专家在中东工程教育将记录历史和突出国家模式之间的相似性和差异。演讲者还将确定工程教育工作者，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）通过互联网向有兴趣了解中东工程学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框架;（3）未来中东工程教育国际会议的组织框架。该项目可以对工程专业的学生和从业人员如何接近和了解他们的同事从中东，无论是在教育或工业产生重大影响。另一个好处是扩大网络，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.