General workshop: A course for practical training or an introduction to engineering

Kaboli, Shariyar; Nasiri, Sayyad; Haghshenas Gorgani, Hamid; Mottaghipour, Mahdi; Jahantigh Pak, Alireza; Pircheraghi, Gholamreza; Arghavani Hadi, Jamal

doi:10.22047/ijee.2022.325828.1885

General workshop: A course for practical training or an introduction to engineering

Document Type : Scientific - Research

Authors

shariyar kaboli

Sayyad Nasiri ¹

Hamid Haghshenas Gorgani ²

Mahdi Mottaghipour ¹

Alireza Jahantigh Pak ²

Gholamreza Pircheraghi ¹

Jamal Arghavani Hadi ¹

¹ Sharif University of Technology

² Sharif University of Technology,

https://doi.org/10.22047/ijee.2022.325828.1885

Abstract

Engineering education is based on the technical methods in the present form. Information revolution causes to access the technical education materials as a widely spread form by the students. These materials are more effective than the traditional engineering education. Thus, it is necessary to change the engineering education methods from the classical form. General workshop is a first-year course for the engineering students and it is an introduction on the engineering regulations. Nowadays, this course is run to teach the practical training. However, this goal cannot be achieved because of the short period of the course, various topics of the course and improper education methods. In this paper, this course is revised based on the teaching of engineering concepts to the students. Various engineering concepts are explained which can be educated in this course without considerable changes in practice but with magnificent change in the course prospective. It is expected that this new design helps the students more to be familiar with the engineering concepts and methods.

Keywords

Education philosophy

engineering profession

general workshop course

common engineering concepts

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