The Engineering Management Role Shaping and Constructing the Personality of Graduates in Gaza PDF

Keywords

Engineering Management, Need Assessment, Blended e-Learning, Moodle, Case Studies.

Abstract

Generally Engineering students need managerial training to be coupled with their intensive technical skills which they obtained during their five years engineering program at Islamic University of Gaza (IUG). There is always a legal marriage between academia and industry to reduce the gap between both of the them; therefore this paper presents the importance and the urgent needs for introducing an Engineering Management (EM) course as a technical elective in the curriculum of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at IUG, as it was assessed by both academies and practical engineering managers as part of the joint need assessment efforts, Hussein (2010). This article addresses the link between industry and the management skills that students normally gain. Several interviews were conducted as a research methodology instrument used to validate and give credibility to the main issue of this paper; therefore as a result some valuable comments from current and previous students who graduated as well local industry engineering managers are given, on the other hand current enrolled students fill a standard e-survey to evaluate the course as well. Finally the paper presents the implementation of the state-of-the art e-Learning virtual environment by using open source Moodle as an enhancement tool for the traditional existence course in addition to utilization Face Book to show the effect of the course on improving the case studies and projects.