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Anikó Csébfalvi University of Pécs Hungary

Workshop RUCE Zagreb - Croatia Restructuring and Updating of Civil Engineering Curriculum Tempus Joint European Project - No:17062 5 -6 November 2004 TOWARDS A EUROPE OF KNOWLEDGE. Anikó Csébfalvi University of Pécs Hungary. EUCEET European Civil Engineering Education and Training.

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Anikó Csébfalvi University of Pécs Hungary

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  1. Workshop RUCE Zagreb - CroatiaRestructuring and Updating of Civil Engineering Curriculum Tempus Joint European Project - No:170625 -6 November 2004TOWARDS A EUROPE OF KNOWLEDGE Anikó Csébfalvi University of Pécs Hungary

  2. EUCEETEuropean Civil Engineering Education and Training • EUCEET is a Thematic Network initiated by the Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest and coordinated by the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées Paris.  • EUCEET was granted a 3-year contract (1 September 1998 –31 August 2001) within the third round of applications for Thematic Networks under the SOCRATES programme. 

  3. EUCEET II • On September 2001, the European Commission approved the one-year extension of EUCEET for dissemination purposes (1st October 2001 – 30th September 2002). • On 24th July 2002, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées Paris, coordinator of the Thematic Network Project EUCEET, was notified by the European Commission that the application for a new project EUCEET II was approved.

  4. „The main objective of the project is to enhance the cooperation between universities, faculties and departments of civil engineering in Europe, ………..”

  5. THE TARGET OF THE EUCEETStudy on the Organization of Civil Engineering Education at Undergraduate Level in Europe - Study on the Curricula Structure for the First Civil Engineering Degree in Europe

  6. Description of the EUCEET II General framework

  7. THEMES OF EUCEET II • Curricula issues and developments in civil engineering • Development of the teaching environment in civil engineering education • Promoting the European dimension in civil engineering education • Enhancing the attractiveness of civil engineering profession • Recognition of academic and professional civil engineering qualifications • Lifelong learning in civil engineering

  8. SPECIFIC PROJECTS will be assigned to TASK FORCES composed of a limited number of persons

  9. THE EVOLUTION IN THE NUMBER OF PARTNERS

  10. THE CIVIL ENGINEERING EDUCATION SYSTEM IN EUROPE

  11. Harmonizing Civil Engineering Education Across EuropeStanisław Majewski  Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland   • Magna Charta Universitatum (Bologna, 1988) Autonomy & Freedom.  • We never can tell that our teaching is perfect. Thus the question: what should be taught and how should it be done must be always present in any educational activity. This question should be always considered in context of contemporary conditions

  12. What are these conditions now? Globalization studying abroad much easier if the curricula are similar global employment requires readable & comparable degrees Dominating impact of the technology on the human life Engineer becomes a leader of the society, his education should be broader, not loosing its’ technical depth and level

  13. EXTREME COMPLEXITY AND DIVERSITY OF CURRICULAR AND DEGREE STRUCTURES IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES FOUR RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE BOLOGNA DECLARATION • adoption of a system of easily readable and comparable degrees, • adoption of a system based on two main cycles, undergraduate and graduate, • establishment of a comparable system of credits, • developing comparable criteria and methodologies of quality assurance with view to accreditation procedures.

  14. CONCLUSION • No doubt that the uniformity never will be the objective of education, yet some level of compatibility can be useful or even indispensable, if we mind the globalization of employment. • Knowledge, skills and attitudes of a professional should be comparable irrespective to the place of his graduation. • The compilation of the Bologna Declaration, ASCE Body of Knowledge Committee recommendations and the results of EUCEET Core-Curricula Studies create a good basis to define, what professional qualifications every graduate of Civil Engineering faculty should receive during his studies.

  15. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

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