Engineering Education – The Future?

2. Engineering Education – The Future? Dr.Miri Yemini miriye@sce.ac.il

3. The market is changing..

4. The world is changing.. Wikipedia Encyclopedia 15,000,000 Articles 65,000 Articles

5. From keeping to sharing.. 32 Million Users 100 Million User 400 Million Users

6. Technology Trends Driving today’s literacy challenge New Content New Connections New Communities

7. Workplace Expectations – What the employers need? • Creativity • Communication skills • A willingness to experiment • The ability to work on team • Passion and leadership

8. New ICT Literacy Standard Creativity and Innovation Communication and collaboration Research and information Critical Thinking and problem solving Digital citizenship

9. “…if we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow” - John Dewey

10. The GAP is widening

11. So, what is the right thing to do?

12. What is the right word for that?

13. College Next Generation Students College College Industry Community Entrepreneurship

14. SCE – Who we are?

15. Engineering Departments • Electrical & Electronics Engineering • Industrial Engineering & Management • Software Engineering • Chemical Engineering • Civil Engineering • Mechanical Engineering

16. SCE students - gender

17. SCE students - demography

18. SCE students - geography

19. SCE – who are we? • 4000 students, 6 Engineering departments • Truly entrepreneurial college • Agent of change • Educational leadership

20. Engineer - Entrepreneur Go no Go Mentoring Is it good? Novel Idea 2 courses

21. Engineer - Entrepreneur

22. Why Entrepreneurship at SCE? • Geographical Periphery • Socially Excluded Populations • The knowledge-competency gap

23. Three success factors:

24. Initial Funding Government P. Investors College Angels

25. Intellectual Property

26. It is all about the people Ofer Ben Haim Senior Executive, Verint Noam Wekser Senior Executive, Oracle Yossi Moldavsky CEO, Moldavsky Group Amir Raveh CEO, MG Equity Partners

27. SCE first in Iphone Applications

28. Money Money Money…

29. Students’ evaluation of the ‘Engineer-Entrepreneur’ program (2008-2009).

30. What do Students say? It’s the first time, during my all degree, I wake up with joy at 8 a.m Great course, Great teacher A+++++++++++++ One the most interesting and helpful courses of the entire degree the teacher was helpful and kind Interesting course but requires lots of investment I learned many things and expanded my knowledge not only in the professional field

31. What do Students say? Very interesting and "unusual" program , especially for college. Improves understanding of modern market and rises self esteem of young innovators Without you I was an idea with no title. Thanks A very important program. Gives the students many tools for the real life Great Teacher, gives us tools for life

32. Entrepreneurial Intentions of students participating in the Engineer-Entrepreneur Program

33. Entrepreneurial College

34. TEMPUS Trans-European Mobility Programme for University Studies

35. Numbers…2010 • 64 out of 450 proposals recommended for funding • Average budget size = €848,000 • Average consortium size = 14 partners

36. EFA – English For All in Academia, to Foster Education, Research and Innovation

38. EFA

39. Engineer - Entrepreneur Dr.Miri Yemini miriye@sce.ac.il