Engineering Excellence

Excellence in Engineering Education: Views of Undergraduate Engineering Students

The purpose of this study was to understand the views and perceptions of engineering undergraduate students on engineering education. The method of content analysis was used to analyze the language used by engineering undergraduate students, and to extract the underlying common factors or perceived characteristics of “Excellence in Engineering Education.” These common factors were then used to ...

Building Global Excellence in Engineering Education

Higher education in many countries is in a state of flux and universities have been under pressure to carry out structural reforms in order to become more competitive, as well as generate resources to fund programs. In some countries, where education is turning into a large commercial market, universities have to face competition from other types of educational institutions. Environmental press...

Motorola’s Engineering Data Analysis System: 10 Years of Analytical Excellence

In an effort to improve semiconductor product yields, an engineering data analysis application was developed in 1989 for engineers at Motorola’s Advanced Products Research and Development Laboratory (APRDL). This application was called EDAS – the Engineering Data Analysis System. What began as a small text-based tool providing a handful of statistical reports used in one laboratory has grown to...

Achieving excellence in engineering education: the ingredients of successful change

Ensuring excellence in centers of excellence programs.

Studies have found associations between better outcomes and a variety of structural and process criteria that help explain the wide outcome variations that occur across hospitals. In response, Centers of Excellence programs have been developed by multiple third parties. Despite this, programs have yielded disappointing results and can have unintended consequences. To outweigh potential harms, o...