Title :
Attracting More Students with New Engineering Programs
Author :
Van Alsté, Jan A.
Abstract :
The University of Twente decided to develop and offer new educational programs in order to meet new trends and attract more engineering students. They also wondered if they could increase the limited interests of females in studying engineering. The faculty Science & Technology, a combination of the former faculties of Applied Physics and Chemical Engineering started some new BSc and MSc programs in engineering. These include Biomedical Engineering (BME), Advanced Technology (AT) and Nano Technology (NT). In the following we focus on Biomedical Engineering as one of the new academic education programs. In this paper a simple input - output model is used for the description of the various elements.
Keywords :
biomedical education; biomedical engineering; engineering education; Advanced Technology; Biomedical Engineering; Nano Technology; Science & Technology faculty; University of Twente; academic education programs; engineering students; Biomedical engineering; Chemical technology; Companies; Education; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Engineering management; Mathematics; Medical services; Physics;
Conference_Titel :
Meeting the Growing Demand for Engineers and Their Educators 2010-2020 International Summit, 2007 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1915-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1916-6
DOI :
10.1109/MGDETE.2007.4760370
