A DECADE OF RESEARCH WITH “UNESCO CHAIR ON ENGINEERING EDUCATION”

Memarian, Hossein; Memarian, Hossein

doi:10.22047/ijee.2024.186827

A DECADE OF RESEARCH WITH “UNESCO CHAIR ON ENGINEERING EDUCATION”

Document Type : Research Report

Authors

Hossein Memarian ¹

Hossein Memarian ²

¹ Professor, Tehran University

² Professor of Geo-Engineering / University of Tehran

https://doi.org/10.22047/ijee.2024.186827

Abstract

Nearly ninety years have passed since the beginning of modern higher education in Iran. During this period, engineering education in the country, along with a large quantitative expansion, has gone through many ups and downs. Improving engineering education depends on identifying its challenges and providing solutions to overcome them. And this is possible only with organized research. One of the envisaged measures in this field is to create a center for communication between the activities carried out in the engineering education of the country and the educational centers of other countries and international organizations. In this connection, following the approval of the United Nations Scientific, Educational and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the UNESCO Chair on Engineering Education was established at the University of Tehran. The UNESCO chair, as a think tank, has put research and futures studies in various fields of engineering education, at the top of its goals. In this paper, while introducing the objectives and scope of activities of the UNESCO Chair on Engineering Education, the achievements of a decade of its activities have been reviewed.

Keywords

Engineering education

UNESCO chair on engineering education

College of Engineerings

University of Tehran

Iran

20.1001.1.16072316.1403.26.101.7.2

Subjects

Research on Engineering Education

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