Transcript LEUVEN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

GROUP T
Leuven School of Engineering
GMS-VU Workshop
Bangkok, October 29, 2002
Peter Demuynck
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Welcome to know Belgium
Brussels, capital of Europe:
• EU
• NATO
3 relatively autonomous regions:
• Flanders region (north)
• Walloon region (south)
• Brussels (center)
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Life in Leuven
An attractive university city in the center of Belgium
Cultural and lively atmosphere
Many foreign students
English is popularly used
Excellent Housing Infrastructure
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Education System in Belgium / Europe
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree
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GROUP T …
Invites educable students to experience their own engineering
education in the world
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Our views on Enterprising
Engineering Education
• Environmenting : plurality of worldviews
 awareness + autonomy to undertake own journey
• Ensembling : paradox-dialogue-group
 consciousness of inter-connectedness / in synchronicity
and resonance with the environment
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Enterprising
Educating
Engineering
• Enterprising : vision-mission-sense of mission
 empowerment to create sense of mission
• Educating to know, to do, to live together and to be
 educing own essence
• Engineering : from core to more and … encore…
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Teaching approach …
• On top of the theoretical explanations, emphasis on both
applications and implications in the environement
• Substantial teamwork
• In-company projects
• Open communication between students and professors
• Written and oral exams at the end of every semester
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Disciplines
Basic Sciences
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Physics
Chemistry
Biology
Mathematics
Areas of Technology
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Energy
Matter
Life
Information
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Degrees
Electromechanical Engineering (electro-mechanics & automation)
Electronic Engineering (ICT & Design Technology)
Chemical Engineering (chemistry and bio-chemistry)
Master in e-media engineering
Teacher Training
Language Training
Continuing Education in Technology and in Management
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Engineering curriculum also includes:
Economics
Introduction in Business Organisation
Marketing Management
Financial Management
Information Management
Project Management
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but also …
Communication Skills
Negotiation Techniques
Inter-cultural communication
Teambuilding Work
Presentation Skills
Job application Techniques
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Our professors & teaching staff
• Majority have doctor and masters degree
• They have relevant experience in their specific teaching field
• Their teaching style is very active and involved
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Current International Cooperations
• Joint Undergraduate Engineering Programs
with 4 chinese universities (USTB, NJTU, ZUT, HUST)
• Joint Master’s Program (USTB)
• Chinese/European Education Innovation Projects
• UniTeam 3B/3E-project
• GMS Project
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UniTeam – UniTwin 3B/3E
• Participants : signed declaration of 9 partners
– Bangkok
• Asian Institute of Technology
• Sukhotai Thammathirat Open University
• Thammasat University
– Beijing
• Beijing Normal University
• Norhtern Jiatong University
• University of Science and Technology
– Brussels (Europe)
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• Vrije Universiteit Brussel
• Universiteit Leiden
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UniTeam – UniTwin 3B/3E
• Objectives :
– establish network to dialogue on the synergy between Enterprising,
Educating and Engineering and spread the resulting ideas
– Enable bi-lateral and multi-lateral cooperations
• Potential outcomes:
– “educing engineer”-courseware
– ICT implications of 3Es
– GMS-VU realization (?)
– Other
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GT involvement in the GMS-VU pilot-project
• Initial meetings and contacts in 2000
• Attended the STOU-hosted workshop in August 2001
• Substantial financial investment in GMS-VU project by providing 7
students of different GMS countries the opportunity to study Master in
E-Media Engineering program at Group T in Leuven
• Establishment of a GMS-workgroup at Group T
– 2 students already in Leuven (from Thailand and Cambodia)
– 2 students to arrive next week (from Vietnam and Lao)
– 3 students to arrive in November (from China and Myanmar)
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Our views on GMS-VU pilot project
• Process : agreement on expected outcome + action plan
• Content : ICT / E-media, Tourism, Civic Education, …
• Delivery medium : CD-rom, VCD, …
• Target Groups : University teachers / administrators
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Our Commitment
• Additional scholarship for 2 students of each GMS country
to study at Group T and ensure continuation of the efforts
of current GMS-VU workgroup
• Coordination of EU funding applications
• Possbile integration of GMS-VU project in UniTwin
3B/3E
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The objectives are only worth
achieving if we also enjoy the
journey … together
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Any Questions?
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Thank You
Peter.demuynck@group_t.be
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