1st World Conference on Technology and Engineering Education Proceedings

World Institute for

Engineering and Technology Education (WIETE)

SERVING THE INTERNATIONAL ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY COMMUNITY

1st World Conference on Technology and Engineering Education

Proceedings

Contents

	Front cover	0
	Initial pages	1-5
Z.J. Pudlowski & S.A. Mitkowski	Preface	6
H.P. Sjursen	The Future of Engineering Education: How should engineering schools in Europe respond to the re-entry of China and India into the world of technology? (Opening Address)	7
A. Porębska, A.M. Dąbrowski, S.A. Mitkowski & E. Kurgan	Female students - a challenge for technical universities	14
A. Lisowska-Lis, E. Wojciechowska & S.A. Mitkowski	Interdisciplinarity in higher education - natural science electives for engineering students	20
E.A. Danilova & Z.J. Pudlowski	Segregation by gender in technology and engineering education - in search of a one-size-fits-all solution	25
S. Wiak, D. Jeske, M. Krasuski & R. Stryjek	Business intelligence is not only for business purposes - business intelligence in e-matura	31
R. Špaček, H. Hasenritter, W. Friedl & L. Šíp	Sustainable architecture: its technologies and prospects	35
D.W.S. Tai, Y-C. Hu, J-L. Chen, R. Wang & L-C. Lai	The structure of teaching practice, learning motivation and learning satisfaction scales at Taiwanese technological universities	41
S.A. Mitkowski, A.M. Dąbrowski, A. Porębska & E. Kurgan	Electrical engineering education in the field of electric circuits theory at AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków	47
W. Nowak, S. Moskwa, R. Tarko & M. Skowron	Academia and industry cooperation: an example drawn from courses in electrical engineering	54
A.R.N. Molson	Expanding the integration of engineering and technology education and financial institutions with the incorporation of location cost modelling in construction cost estimations	58
A.M. Dąbrowski, S.A. Mitkowski, A. Porębska & E. Kurgan	Formulating structural matrices of equations of electric circuits containing dependent sources, with the use of the Maple program	66
R.B. Ward	Some illustrations of leadership for engineers from another source	71
K. Yoshida, R. Watanabe & M. Takasugi	Technology education through returnable toys	78
R. Watanabe & K. Yoshida	Manufacturing and analyses of a paper cup boomerang	86
P. Anastasiadis & G. Metaxas	Environmental protection and the sustainable city	91
E. Kurgan	Field visualisation as an aid in teaching electromagnetic field theory	97
S. Moskwa	Analysis of the popularity of technical engineering courses	102
E. Kurgan, S.A. Mitkowski, A.M. Dąbrowski & A. Porębska	Numerical simulation of circuits as an aid to better understanding of network theory by undergraduate students	107
D.O. Northwood	Training tomorrow’s leaders	114
	Index of Authors	120