The officials of Qatar University at CENG’s Engineering Education Week.
Qatar University (QU) College of Engineering (CENG) launched the “Engineering Education Week” this month, for the first time at QU, to highlight the expertise of research and innovation in Qatar.
The week-long activities expose professionals and researchers to the latest findings in engineering to relevant parties. It also involves a number of stakeholders with the concept of Engineering Education, which teaches knowledge and principles to the professional practice of engineering.
CENG Dean, Prof Abdelmagid Hamouda, said, “With reference to the main themes of Engineering Education Week, I think that we need to re-frame the main concepts of studying and working in engineering, science, and technology fields within a broader context in coordination with stakeholders and partners. This event conference is considered as one of the methods that CENG is pursuing to support the educational learning systems and mechanism, in line with Qatar National Vision 2030.”
The Professor of Unesco Learning Technologies, Prof Piet Kommers, said, “Universities need a higher didactic quality awareness nowadays. Industry and societies have an ever growing need for workers and citizens who can cope not only with domain and communicative skills, the need for conceptual skills for creative problem solving is greater than ever.”
“As students need to manifest acquired expertise in teams, it is needed to let them study in teams and benefit from sharing expertise rather than solo actions.
Assessment practices need to value students who showed to make team members learn as well. For this sake PBL (Problem-Based Learning) and Learners’ Intrinsic Motivation rather than the drive for obtaining a certain certificate has appeared on the agenda of higher education.”
The Professor and Director of the Centre for Engineering Education (CEE), Prof Khairiyah Mohd Yusof, said, “Efforts by the College of Engineering to hold the Engineering Education Week is commendable. The whole week of events, starting with the collaboration between the College of Engineering and the College of Education to jointly host the “Education and Instruction Technology Conference” sets a good example on the kind of multidisciplinary requirements to nurture quality future leaders and talents in engineering.”
