aims
arguments
Generate systematic
knowledge on the industry-
college relations under cross-
national context.
Generate knowledge on the
industrial influences to the
engineering educational
practices in colleges.
Assess the industrial,
educational, and social
influences to the personal
development of the
engineering students.
Provide insights for the
educational reform.
questions
What is the dynamics of the
industry-college interaction?
How does this interaction
change under different
governance?
How could industry directly
or indirectly influence the
education practices?
How does the direct
interaction with industry
shape students' objectives?
How does the pattern and
content of education change
students' expertise and
values?
How do different social
expectations and evaluations
shift the students' identities?
What reforms are necessary
to educate more socially
responsible engineers?
What changes in education
could facilitate the personal
development of engineering
students?
data collection
College funding documents;
Industrial donation
documents;
Educational policies
The history of curriculum for
engineering majors;
Interviews with college
administrative and faculty;
Interviews with industry
leaders
Interviews with students;
Interviews with parents;
Report on the labor market
of engineering graduates'
mobility;
Interview and media
research on the social
evaluation of engineers
emerging literatures
The reduced autonomy of Comparative Education;
colleges because of industry Industry-college relation
funding;
The “industrialization” of
academy
The exchange of personnel Industry-college relation;
between corporations and History of Engineering
colleges. Education
The project-oriented college
R & D;
The employment is leading
the education;
The global economic
situation influences the
higher education
The lack of ethic education Comparative Education;
for engineering students; Developmental psychology;
The usage of students as Biopolitics
labors in laboratories;
The idolization of business
leaders as “heros” among
students
In China, there is the Engineering Education;
discussion of increase
humanistic education for
engineering students