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Ensuring Quality in Professional Education Volume II

Engineering Pedagogy and International Knowledge Structures

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Editors:
  1. Karen Trimmer

    1. University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia

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  2. Tara Newman

    1. Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA

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  3. Fernando F. Padró

    1. University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia

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  • Analyses quality teaching in professional education within the engineering and international knowledge structure fields

  • Examines the choices academics responsible for delivering this education make to ensure quality

  • Emphasises the importance of the balance between the academic and practical for developing skills

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. How about Professionalism, Professions and Standards: The Creation of Acculturated Professionals

    • Fernando F. Padró, Megan Y. C. A. Kek, Nona Press, Karen Trimmer, Jonathan H. Green, Michael Hawke et al.
    Pages 1-28

  3. Evaluating the Student Experience: A Critical Review of the Use of Surveys to Enhance the Student Experience

    • Rhona Sharpe
    Pages 29-45

  4. ‘Quality’ in an Era of Austerity: Challenges for Irish Universities

    • Marie Clarke
    Pages 47-69

  5. Accessing Expert Understanding: The Value of Visualising Knowledge Structures in Professional Education

    • Ian M. Kinchin
    Pages 71-89

  6. Serving Ethically: A Developing Country Perspective on Quality Education for Professional Practice

    • Jeanette Baird
    Pages 91-113

  7. Interrogating the Value of Learning by Extension in Enhancing Professional Quality: The Case of Australian and Venezuelan Engineers

    • David Thorpe, Emilio A. Anteliz, P. A. Danaher
    Pages 115-137

  8. Developing Engineering Knowledge and Skills: The Advanced Engineering Project Management Course at USQ

    • David Thorpe
    Pages 139-160

  9. Designing Quality Engineering Curricula to Produce Industry Ready Graduates: A Whole of Course Approach

    • Neal Lake, Julienne Holt
    Pages 161-182

  10. Incorporating Sustainable Engineering (SEng) Within a Course Featuring Social, Political and Economic Contexts

    • Ian Craig, David Thorpe, Tara Newman
    Pages 183-200

  11. The Transformative Dimensions of Professional Curriculum Quality Enhancement

    • Sara Hammer
    Pages 201-213

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 215-294
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About this book

This book examines quality teaching in professional education in the fields of engineering and international knowledge structures. The second of a two-volume series, the editors and contributors structure the book around case studies which highlight the elements constituting good practice within professional education. While there is no one specific route to prepare well-qualified professionals, this volume explores the decisions the academics responsible for delivering this education make to ensure quality curricula. Ultimately, the key to effective preparations rests with the value employers place on the focus, emphasis and balance between the academic and practical in relation to their own expectations for skills that graduates must have. The second volume in this collection will appeal to students and scholars of professional pedagogy, and engineering pedagogy more specifically.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia

    Karen Trimmer, Fernando F. Padró

  • Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA

    Tara Newman

About the editors

Karen Trimmer is Professor in the Faculty of Business, Law, Education and Arts at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. 


Tara Newman is Lecturer in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Texas State University, USA.


Fernando F. Padró is Associate Professor and Director of Learning and Teaching Support at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.





Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ensuring Quality in Professional Education Volume II

  • Book Subtitle: Engineering Pedagogy and International Knowledge Structures

  • Editors: Karen Trimmer, Tara Newman, Fernando F. Padró

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01084-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-01083-6Published: 23 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-01084-3Published: 11 January 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 294

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Professional & Vocational Education, Higher Education, Teaching and Teacher Education

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