A Blueprint for Future Electrical Engineering Education

Jan Vleeshouwers; Peter Baltus; Oded Raz

doi:10.23919/EAEEIE55804.2023.10181562

A Blueprint for Future Electrical Engineering Education

Jan Vleeshouwers
, Peter Baltus
, Oded Raz

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

4 Citations (Scopus)

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Abstract

Institutions for Electrical Engineering education are well aware that the quality of their efforts need permanent attention. This leads to regular program updates which recognize new insights. Still, a number of basic issues remain difficult to address and continue to affect the education adversely: (1) Electrical Engineering programs attract insufficient students; (2) university education generally suffers from insufficient practice opportunities; (3) the ambition to provide small-scale education is for most courses an impractical option; (4) employers regularly complain of graduates who lack skills, especially soft skills.This discussion paper analyzes these issues and offers thoughts on how to address them structurally. Though none of the individual issues and tentative solutions are new, an overall analysis is worth making and presenting, since it suggests an appealing general blue-print for educating Electrical Engineers in the future.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	EAEEIE 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 32nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering
Editors	Nico van der Aa
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages	1-5
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	978-90-386-5690-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.23919/EAEEIE55804.2023.10181562
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	32nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering, EAEEIE 2023 - Eindhoven, Netherlands Duration: 14 Jun 2023 → 16 Jun 2023

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Conference	32nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering, EAEEIE 2023
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Eindhoven
Period	14/06/23 → 16/06/23

Keywords

academic industrial cooperation in education
electrical engineering education
engineering education methods
learning by practice
scaling education
teaching as a learning outcome

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Vleeshouwers, J., Baltus, P., & Raz, O. (2023). A Blueprint for Future Electrical Engineering Education. In N. van der Aa (Ed.), EAEEIE 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 32nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering (pp. 1-5). Article 10181562 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.23919/EAEEIE55804.2023.10181562

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Vleeshouwers, J, Baltus, P & Raz, O 2023, A Blueprint for Future Electrical Engineering Education. in N van der Aa (ed.), EAEEIE 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 32nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering., 10181562, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, pp. 1-5, 32nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering, EAEEIE 2023, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 14/06/23. https://doi.org/10.23919/EAEEIE55804.2023.10181562

A Blueprint for Future Electrical Engineering Education. / Vleeshouwers, Jan; Baltus, Peter ; Raz, Oded.
EAEEIE 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 32nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering. ed. / Nico van der Aa. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2023. p. 1-5 10181562.

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Vleeshouwers J, Baltus P , Raz O. A Blueprint for Future Electrical Engineering Education. In van der Aa N, editor, EAEEIE 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 32nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. 2023. p. 1-5. 10181562 doi: 10.23919/EAEEIE55804.2023.10181562

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