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Engineering Education in Higher Education in Europe

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Part of the book series: Innovations in Science Education and Technology ((ISET,volume 24))

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The present chapter concerns engineering education in higher education in a European context. It comprises two main strands: in the first, we present an overview of engineering education in Europe from historical and sociological perspectives, and in the second, we present country-specific examples of engineering education from three European countries—Denmark, Turkey, and the UK, representing three different traditions of engineering education. This chapter contributes to research on the cultural dimension of engineering education, while it may also inform stakeholders on the history, politics, and diverse practices in the European context. We provide a short comparison of the engineering education systems in Denmark, Turkey, and the UK across several criteria. We conclude these different European countries’ innovation levels may stem from their differences in their educational programs and teaching methods: diverse and interdisciplinary in Denmark and the UK and uniform and traditional in Turkey. Finally, we provide recommendations for policy makers, educators, and researchers based on our review.

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  1. Graduate School of Education, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

    M. Sencer Corlu

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Kjeld Svidt

  3. Department of Learning and Philosophy, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Dorina Gnaur

  4. Faulty of Education in Science and Technology, Technion, Haifa, Israel

    Rea Lavi

  5. Department of Industrial Engineering, Istanbul Commerce University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Oğuz Borat

  6. Department of Mathematics, Istanbul Commerce University, Istanbul, Turkey

    M. Ali Çorlu

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Corlu, M.S., Svidt, K., Gnaur, D., Lavi, R., Borat, O., Çorlu, M.A. (2018). Engineering Education in Higher Education in Europe. In: Dori, Y.J., Mevarech, Z.R., Baker, D.R. (eds) Cognition, Metacognition, and Culture in STEM Education. Innovations in Science Education and Technology, vol 24. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66659-4_11

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