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408 Views
21 Pages

9 January 2026

Under the background of “Emerging Engineering Education”, promoting reform in the practical teaching of Agricultural Hydraulic Engineering is a crucial task for cultivating water conservancy professionals with sustainability competencies...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,211 Views
15 Pages

7 November 2022

Engineering education plays a key role in the progress toward achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, engineering education faces many challenges worldwide, and the issues are becoming increasingly complicated because of the C...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,200 Views
31 Pages

Mechanics 4.0 and Mechanical Engineering Education

  • Eusebio Jiménez López,
  • Pablo Alberto Limon Leyva,
  • Armando Ambrosio López,
  • Francisco Javier Ochoa Estrella,
  • Juan José Delfín Vázquez,
  • Baldomero Lucero Velázquez and
  • Víctor Manuel Martínez Molina

Industry 4.0 is an industrial paradigm that is causing changes in form and substance in factories, companies and businesses around the world and is impacting work and education in general. In fact, the disruptive technologies that frame the Fourth In...

  • Review
  • Open Access
249 Citations
23,021 Views
14 Pages

The Application of Virtual Reality in Engineering Education

  • Maged Soliman,
  • Apostolos Pesyridis,
  • Damon Dalaymani-Zad,
  • Mohammed Gronfula and
  • Miltiadis Kourmpetis

23 March 2021

The advancement of VR technology through the increase in its processing power and decrease in its cost and form factor induced the research and market interest away from the gaming industry and towards education and training. In this paper, we argue...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,794 Views
16 Pages

3 April 2025

Engineers’ work impacts society and the environment and plays a central role in delivering on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. However, developing sustainability skills in engineering programs competes with a dense technical cu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
7,922 Views
16 Pages

3 June 2019

Sustainability and sustainable development are cornerstones of many of the greatest challenges that engineering faces in the 21st century. Yet, most engineering programs do not explicitly prepare students to engineer within the bounds of sustainabili...

  • Review
  • Open Access
166 Citations
22,466 Views
8 Pages

Prompt Engineering in Medical Education

  • Thomas F. Heston and
  • Charya Khun

31 August 2023

Artificial intelligence-powered generative language models (GLMs), such as ChatGPT, Perplexity AI, and Google Bard, have the potential to provide personalized learning, unlimited practice opportunities, and interactive engagement 24/7, with immediate...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,526 Views
20 Pages

Augmented Reality in Engineering Education: A Bibliometric Review

  • Georgios Lampropoulos,
  • Antonio del Bosque,
  • Pablo Fernández-Arias and
  • Diego Vergara

4 October 2025

The aim of this study is to examine the role and use of augmented reality in engineering education by examining the existing literature. A total of 235 studies from Scopus and Web of Science published during 2011–2025 were examined. The study f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
69 Citations
11,118 Views
22 Pages

5 September 2020

In this paper, we strive to provide a primer for students on how to thrive and learn effectively in engineering education in the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) times following the onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic, which has d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,525 Views
25 Pages

STEM Language Literacy Learning in Engineering Education in Kazakhstan

  • Damira Jantassova,
  • Daniel Churchill,
  • Zhuldyz Tentekbayeva and
  • Saltanat Aitbayeva

10 December 2024

The mastery of STEM (Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics) language literacy is essential for both engineering students and professionals as it enables effective communication using technical terminology and facilitates problem-solving, researc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,137 Views
17 Pages

14 September 2021

Engineers of today require a holistic understanding of the lifecycle of products and processes, from conceptualization to operations. Maintenance and reliability are areas receiving increased attention due to the contribution to sustainable industry...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,273 Views
16 Pages

Capacity Building for Engineering Training and Technology via STEAM Education

  • Damira Jantassova,
  • Daniel Churchill,
  • Olga Shebalina and
  • Dinara Akhmetova

24 October 2022

This paper reports the “Capacity building for innovative engineers through STEAM education” project conducted at Kazakhstan’s Saginov Technical University (‘STU’) and funded by the Science Committee of the Ministry of Ed...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,140 Views
27 Pages

Affordances of Technology for Sustainability-Oriented K–12 Informal Engineering Education

  • Mobina Beheshti,
  • Sheikh Ahmad Shah,
  • Helen Zhang,
  • Michael Barnett and
  • Avneet Hira

6 August 2024

The need for sustainability-oriented K–12 engineering education that expands beyond the classroom and the increased accessibility of educational technologies create an opportunity for examining the affordances of educational technologies in low...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
7,180 Views
22 Pages

Teacher Competences for Active Learning in Engineering Education

  • Renato Martins Neves,
  • Rui M. Lima and
  • Diana Mesquita

17 August 2021

The implementation of active learning strategies in engineering education still encounters barriers when facing conventional teaching-learning practices. This work aims to contribute to the discussion on teachers’ pedagogical competences required for...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,081 Views
19 Pages

Virtual Reality in Engineering Education: A Scoping Review

  • Georgios Lampropoulos,
  • Pablo Fernández-Arias,
  • Antonio de Bosque and
  • Diego Vergara

11 August 2025

The aim of this study is to explore the role of virtual reality in engineering education. Specifically, it analyzed 342 studies that were published during 2010–2025 following a systematic approach. It examined how virtual reality is used in eng...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
8,735 Views
16 Pages

Makerspaces in First-Year Engineering Education

  • Pooya Taheri,
  • Philip Robbins and
  • Sirine Maalej

27 December 2019

Langara College, as one of the leading undergraduate institutions in the province of British Columbia (BC), offers the “Applied Science for Engineering” two-year diploma program as well as the “Engineering Transfer” two-semest...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,892 Views
12 Pages

Does engineering design education in North America prepare students to address the major issues of our time? In today’s political and social climate, engineers are part of multi-disciplinary teams tasked with finding solutions to complex issues...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,121 Views
20 Pages

18 May 2023

With the understanding that the mining industry is an important and necessary part of the production chain, we argue that the future of mining must be sustainable and responsible when responding to the increasing material demands of the current and n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,814 Views
14 Pages

The Resurgence of Education in Railway and Metro Engineering in Brazil

  • Yesid Asaff,
  • Viviane V. F. Grubisic,
  • Regis K. Scalice and
  • Acires Dias

17 September 2015

In this paper, an overview of the history of education in railway and metro engineering in Brazil is presented, including its beginnings, its apogee, its near extinction, and its return at the beginning of the 21st century. The trajectory of the Braz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,646 Views
11 Pages

Inclusion of Education for Sustainable Development in Environmental Engineering. A Systematic Review

  • Pedro Mauricio Acosta Castellanos,
  • Araceli Queiruga-Dios and
  • Lina González Álvarez

12 September 2021

Sustainable development (SD) is a global commitment, in the economic, social, and environmental terms of the 21st century. The SD integrates conventional development models that seek economic growth and human development, within the framework of resp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,333 Views
33 Pages

Digitally Enabled Experiential Learning Spaces for Engineering Education 4.0

  • David Ernesto Salinas-Navarro,
  • Claudia Lizette Garay-Rondero and
  • Iván Andrés Arana-Solares

8 January 2023

Novel digital technologies have transformed societies, organizations, and individuals in diverse aspects of daily life, elevating their competency requirements in order to successfully develop, integrate, and generate value. To remain relevant Higher...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,912 Views
21 Pages

29 July 2025

This study, based on engineering education accreditation standards, addresses the supply–demand imbalance in China’s cybersecurity talent cultivation by constructing a sustainable “education-industry-society” collaborative mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,023 Views
17 Pages

Sustainable Development in Higher Engineering Education: A Comparative Study between Private and Public Polytechnics

  • Md. Abdur Rahman Forhad,
  • Gazi Mahabubul Alam,
  • Mamunur Rashid,
  • Afruza Haque and
  • Md. Sawgat Khan

1 July 2022

In Bangladesh, a four-year diploma program is the highest level of technical education provided by private and public polytechnic institutions. Using representative primary data of 1372 sample sizes from Dhaka University of Engineering & Technolo...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,258 Views
18 Pages

11 January 2024

Engineering education plays a pivotal role in cultivating the engineering capacity for sustainable development. Nonetheless, there has been no comprehensive review that examines sustainability as a distinct knowledge domain within engineering educati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
378 Views
29 Pages

21 February 2026

Engineering education is increasingly shaped by two converging developments: accelerating sustainability transitions and rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI). However, in many application-oriented undergraduate programs, sustainability lear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,624 Views
14 Pages

30 October 2020

The growth of undergraduate entrepreneurship education programs and research, both within and outside of business programs, has led to a diverse array of academic literature on this topic. The diversity of perspectives has led to many conceptual and...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,168 Views
27 Pages

8 June 2020

As technical and technological progress takes place, there is dissonance between teaching good engineering and technological techniques and respect for the landscape. Engineering students are educated to act as initiators and performers of activities...

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  • Open Access
518 Views
18 Pages

5 February 2026

Large Language Models (LLMs) now occupy a prominent role in science, engineering, and higher education. Their capacity to generate step-wise solutions, conceptual explanations, and problem-solving pathways creates new opportunities—but also new...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,508 Views
3 Pages

2 October 2020

Sustainability plays a key role in engineering education. Engineering students must learn to think long-term and understand that, in order to achieve a better world, they must situate their future professional activities within the framework of susta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,698 Views
17 Pages

Transitions of Student Military Veterans into Engineering Education

  • Michelle M. Camacho,
  • Susan M. Lord,
  • Catherine Mobley,
  • Joyce B. Main and
  • Catherine E. Brawner

15 June 2021

As student veterans transition to four-year institutions from the military, they navigate pathways that are often neither linear nor easy. Using Turner’s theory of liminality, we examine student veterans’ perspectives of the transition from military...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,939 Views
21 Pages

14 July 2025

Digital transformation has profoundly impacted engineering education, demanding new pedagogical approaches that ensure effective and sustainable learning. Educational psychology plays a fundamental role in strategically integrating educational techno...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,050 Views
19 Pages

3 August 2023

Higher education accreditation within the Washington Accord has played a crucial role in advancing the global recognition of engineering training, greatly benefiting the professional sustainability of graduates. However, the existence of substantial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,779 Views
11 Pages

Engineering Education for Sustainable Development: Evaluation Criteria for Brazilian Context

  • Izabela Simon Rampasso,
  • Osvaldo L. G. Quelhas,
  • Rosley Anholon,
  • Marcio B. Pereira,
  • Jocimar D. A. Miranda and
  • Wenderson S. Alvarenga

12 May 2020

Considering the increasing importance of sustainability in future professionals’ education and the role played by engineers in society, this paper aims to analyze the key criteria that should be considered in models to evaluate the insertion le...

  • Article
  • Open Access

17 March 2026

Engineering education often emphasizes technical competencies while underemphasizing and devaluing the social, ethical, and political contexts of engineering systems. This gap is particularly pronounced in middle-year courses, where students develop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
9,448 Views
13 Pages

The Naval Postgraduate School’s Department of Systems Engineering Approach to Mission Engineering Education through Capstone Projects

  • Douglas L. Van Bossuyt,
  • Paul Beery,
  • Bryan M. O’Halloran,
  • Alejandro Hernandez and
  • Eugene Paulo

4 August 2019

This article presents an educational approach to applied capstone research projects using a mission engineering focus. It reviews recent advances in mission engineering within the Department of Defense and integrates that work into an approach for re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
173 Citations
19,001 Views
13 Pages

Adapting Engineering Education to Industry 4.0 Vision

  • Selim Coşkun,
  • Yaşanur Kayıkcı and
  • Eray Gençay

Industry 4.0 is originally a future vision described in the high-tech strategy of the German government that is conceived upon information and communication technologies like Cyber-Physical Systems, Internet of Things, Physical Internet, and Internet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,597 Views
20 Pages

1 June 2023

Innovation in curriculum design at the system level is crucial for nurturing students’ sustainability skills. This study focuses on the teaching reform of a hydraulic engineering construction and management course, taking a sustainable developm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,823 Views
18 Pages

30 April 2025

This study examines the Chemical Engineering and Technology major at Nanjing Forestry University as a case study to explore a sustainable improvement and development model for the major, grounded in the principles of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,410 Views
30 Pages

22 November 2021

A study on the effectiveness of engineering education in the development of industry-ready graduate engineers was conducted among academics and industry experts of engineering disciplines who have relevant experience in work-integrated learning in Au...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
6,489 Views
29 Pages

21 October 2019

The incorporation of sustainability in universities finds the greatest barriers in the field of teaching. The curricula do not usually cover all dimensions of sustainability as most of the experiences are isolated and they do not reach all students....

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,353 Views
16 Pages

2 September 2021

Software engineering education plays an important role in keeping students educated with software technologies, processes, and practices that are needed by industries. Nevertheless, the nature of software engineering learning activities in traditiona...

  • Review
  • Open Access
41 Citations
8,486 Views
20 Pages

3 May 2022

Over the past decade, the use of AR has significantly increased over a wide range of applications. Although there are many good examples of AR technology being used in engineering, retail, and for entertainment, the technology has not been widely ado...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,724 Views
14 Pages

25 January 2021

The fourth industrial revolution has triggered a notable shift in engineering education, bringing the need to create new professionals. In this context, the active learning approach appears to be more important than ever. Nevertheless, to date quite...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,795 Views
27 Pages

One of the many features of three-dimensional printing (3DP) that contribute to its status as a cutting-edge technology is its positive impact on sustainability. Students in higher education can also use 3DP technologies to understand environmental,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,868 Views
20 Pages

14 January 2025

Engineering is a vital profession in our society as it provides innovative and creative solutions to problems faced by humanity to improve the quality of life. Engineering decisions and designs affect not only humans but they also affect the entire p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
4,948 Views
15 Pages

3 March 2023

Industry 5.0 and the associated transformation into Society 5.0 require a complete realignment of the skills required of the engineers of tomorrow. Thereby, the pre-dominant and policy-driven drivers of digitalization, and sustainability in particula...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
6,922 Views
17 Pages

A Design-Based Learning Approach for Fostering Sustainability Competency in Engineering Education

  • Zhiliang Huang,
  • Annan Peng,
  • Tongguang Yang,
  • Shuguang Deng and
  • Yuexia He

8 April 2020

This paper provides and illustrates a design-based learning (DBL) approach for fostering individual sustainability competency in engineering education. We performed two studies with engineering students in typical educational activities. The first st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,543 Views
14 Pages

22 August 2023

Engineering education accreditation is a developing trend in undergraduate education, which requires students to be aware not only of basic knowledge and techniques, but also of patriotism, global insight, law, ecology and environmental protection. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,812 Views
11 Pages

The purpose of this study was to develop e-learning activities that could facilitate the integration of sustainability concepts and practices in engineering and chemical education. Using an online learning management system (LMS), undergraduate stude...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
9,904 Views
19 Pages

6 April 2021

In this paper, we argue that an inclusive and effective community resilience approach requires empathy as a missing component in the current engineering education and practice. An inclusive and effective community resilience approach needs to be huma...

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