Effective Way of Developing Professional Engineers

Developing Effective STEM Professional Development Programs

The Professional Responsibilities of Software Engineers

Registered Engineers are expected to be aware of their responsibilities as professionals. Those who practice Software Engineering often enter that profession without either an engineering education or professional registration. The primary responsibility is to make sure that their products are “fit for use”.

Developing ITV Best Teaching Practices and Effective Professional Development Programs

The purpose of this study is to explore the characteristics of an effective State Interactive Video (ITV) program relating to teacher qualifications and strategies, student research and involvement, organization, economical benefits, and technical support. Evidence from this study suggests that ITV instructors need more organization and preparation than is typically required for face-to-face te...

Communicative Competence: Novice versus Professional Engineers' Perceptions

The notion of communicative competence has been deemed fuzzy in communication studies. This fuzziness has led to tensions among engineers across tenures in interpreting what constitutes communicative competence. The study seeks to investigate novice and professional engineers’ understanding of the said notion in terms of two main elements of communicative competence: linguistic and rhetorical c...

The Decomposition/Recomposition Design Behavior of Student and Professional Engineers

This paper describes empirical research on the engineering design process as carried out by student and professional engineers. The use of design strategies plays a significant role in engineering design, and a commonly used strategy is decomposition/recomposition. This research studies design decomposition and recomposition strategies in the context of teams. This research differs from previou...