For any enterprise, a key success factor is the quality of the product it delivers. In the education sector, this “product” is the delivery process itself, while in medicine, the customer – i.e. the student – actually takes part in the process as a “co-producer”.
This interactive aspect of the service delivery has a significant consequence for us as technology providers in medicine (actual and important now in engineering education), namely that any time a student fails to engage in the educational process, they suffer a kind of “loss” in this process.
More relevant to this report is the fact that the people trying to predict the future of the education often disagree on the trends and drivers affecting it the most, and hence they don’t draw the same conclusions about the direction of future evolutions.
Niels Bohr was right when he said, “Prediction is difficult, especially about the future.”
Engineering education must engage the students in both the cognitive domain – developing ability to perform the techniques – and in the affective domain – transforming the student’s belief to recognize the positive value of the engineering education methodology. We need to think how to fill the current gap in addressing the affective domain in music therapy and how to extend it to engineering education.
Speaker // Doru Urustiu
Prof. Dr. Phys. Doru Ursutiu (udoru@unitbv.ro) is the Manager of Center for Valorization and Transfer of Competence (CVTC) at Transylvania University of Brasov and coordinator of the CVTC Creativity Laboratory. He completed his studies of Physics at the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, with a specialization in Open and Distance Learning (LOLA course – Heriot Watt University, United Kingdom) and Noise in Electronic Systems.
The key qualifications of Prof. Ursutiu are physics, electronics (with a doctorate in Noise and Fluctuations in Electronic Systems and Devices), graphical programming and remote and virtual instrumentation.
He is an Associate Member of the Academy of Romanian Scientists (AOSR), Executive Committee member of the Central European Chapter of Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) and Past President of International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE). He is also a member of the Scientific Committee and a reviewer for many international conferences and publications, including REV, ICL, IMCL, EURODL, IJIM, IJ-SoTL and others. In 2013 at the IGIP conference was awarded with the “International Engineering Educator ING.PAED.IGIP” certification and at IGIP-ICL 2019 Conference in Bangkok with the “Nicola Tesla Prize with the Golden Chain” for International outstanding achievements in the field of Engineering Pedagogy. This award was in recognition of an activity in which Doru Ursutiu has been involved since 1999 – and from which he has never deserted – being the person totally involved in supporting the nucleus of scientists and their international activities, dedicated people and their ideas of remote engineering, e-learning, m-learning and other ideas that are sustained for many years around the increasingly larger collective formed over time.