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Chapter 1 - Chronological and Ontological Development of Engineering Education as a Field of Scientific Inquiry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2015

By
Jeffrey E. Froyd  and
Jack R. Lohmann
Edited by
Aditya Johri  and
Barbara M. Olds
Jeffrey E. Froyd
Affiliation:
Center for Teaching Excellence and Academic Development in the Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Jack R. Lohmann
Affiliation:
Georgia Institute of Technology
Aditya Johri
Affiliation:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Barbara M. Olds
Affiliation:
Colorado School of Mines
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Introduction

Engineering education as an area of in-terest for curriculum development and pedagogical innovation emerged in the United States in the period around 1890 to 1910 with the founding of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education (SPEE) in 1893 (American Society for Engineering Education, n.d.). Founding dates for a few other engineering education associations may provide some indication of when interest in engineering education emerged across the world: Internationale Gesellschaft für Ingenieurpadagogik (IGIP, 1972); Société Européenne pour la Formation des Ingénieurs (SEFI, 1973); and Australasian Association of Engineering Education (AAEE, 1989). Other associations interested in engineering education include Associação Brasileira de Educação em Engenharia (ABENGE), Asociación Nacional de Facultades y Escuelas de Ingenieria (ANFEI), International Association for Continuing Engineering Education (IACEE), Korean Society for Engineering Education (KSEE), Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions (LACCEI), and Mühendislik Dekanlari Konseyi (MDK). Given the date of the founding of the SPEE and historical data available on the society and its growth, in relation to similar information about other engineering education associations or societies, the authors have elected to use the chronology of events in the United States as the principal framework to describe the evolution of engineering education as a field of scientific inquiry with references to similar events internationally.

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Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research , pp. 3 - 26
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2014

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