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This book explains how Taylor's University implemented a curriculum
in their engineering program that prepares students to address
challenges facing the world. Aim is to enable Engineers put their
knowledge into application to meet the 14 challenges of the century
as outlined by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) of the
United States. The research groups are organized around the 14
grand challenges for engineering The structure of their syllabi is
organized in a way that they address the 5 core competencies:
Research Experience, Entrepreneurship, Service Learning,
Interdisciplinary Curriculum, Global Dimension. It uses the CDIO
educational framework, a project-based learning approach that
provides students with the big picture of engineering. Through this
method, students are able to: Master a deeper working knowledge of
the fundamentals of engineering Lead in the creation and operation
of new products and systems Understand the importance and strategic
value of research work As the only programe of its kind outside
North America, it offers the brightest minds the opportunity to
face real-world issues and places them on the cutting edge of the
engineering world.
A city of stories - short, fragmented, amorphous, and at times
contradictory - Tehran is an impossible tale to tell. For the
capital city of one of the most powerful nations in the Middle
East, its literary output is rarely acknowledged in the West. This
unique celebration of its writing brings together ten stories
exploring the tensions and pressures that make the city what it is:
tensions between the public and the private, pressures from without
- judgemental neighbours, the expectations of religion and society
- and from within - family feuds, thwarted ambitions, destructive
relationships. The psychological impact of these pressures
manifests in different ways: a man wakes up to find a stranger
relaxing in his living room and starts to wonder if this is his
house at all; a struggling writer decides only when his girlfriend
breaks his heart will his work have depth... In all cases, coping
with these pressures leads us, the readers, into an unexpected
trove of cultural treasures - like the burglar, in one story,
descending into the basement of a mysterious antique collector's
house - treasures of which we, in the West, are almost wholly
ignorant.
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