Management of Change and Accreditation PhD. Eng. Daniel Hernández Jiménez Organizational change, understood as the modification of organizations in a dynamic that may involve the extension, evolution or radial transformation of them, is an aspect of increasing importance. The relevance is not only given because the depth of changes is seen as increasing, but because […]
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Premises of A Frame of Reference For the Accreditation of Engineering Programs
By: Dr. Eng. Daniel Hernández Jiménez When we mention the premises that should serve as a frame of reference for the accreditation of a training program, in a particular profession, such as engineering, what we are looking for is to answer the fundamental questions that underlie the model or framework of reference which is proposed […]
Evaluation of the Introduction of the Attribute Approach in Engineering Study Plans, according to the model by CFIA’s Accreditation Agency (AAPIA)
The introduction of the approach by attributes in the curricula is innovative for the training in Engineering. This approach obeys the consideration of the learning results as the axis of the training, being the attributes the results of a greater degree of generality and therefore those that guide all the teaching and learning efforts. The […]
A notion of Quality: Implications for Higher Education
By: Dr. Eng. Daniel Hernández Jiménez Head of the Accreditation Agency of Engineering and Architecture programs Federated College of Engineers and Architects of Costa Rica. 1. Introduction Quality assurance is a constant concern for higher education institutions. Faced with this concern, the analysis of international standards in the matter is imposed, which are proposed as […]
Best practices for accreditation of engineering programs, a synthesis of the model proposed by IEA / ENAAE.
Source: ENAEE-IEA, 2015: Best practice in accreditation of engineering programmes: an exemplar. By: Dr. Eng. Daniel Hernandez Jimenez. Head of the Accreditation Agency for Engineering and Architecture Programs. Introduction: Both the International Engineering Alliance (IEA) and the European Network for Engineering Education (ENAEE) jointly developed a model of best practices for the accreditation of engineering […]
Results of learning, attributes and training in engineering
The evolution of engineering education has come to focus its attention on learning-based education, moving aside, though not completely discarding, teaching-based education. In the first, the main focus is the student, in the second the teacher. This paradigmatic shift presents an important challenge for engineering professors, who are generally used to focusing their attention in […]
Objectives of Architectural Education
1. That architectural education develops the capacity in students to be able to conceptualise, design, understand and realise the act of building within a context of the practice of architecture which balances the tensions between emotion, reason and intuition, and which gives physical form to the needs of society and the individual. 2. That architecture […]