The engineering industry
is the representative knowledge-based industry of a nation which
promotes the high technology of all industries of the nation,
and plays an important function and role in the entire economy
of a nation, and is also the representative industry by which
the national technology competitiveness be measured. Our engineering
technology capability still accounts for only 80% ~ 90% of that
of advanced countries.
Since the engineering industry is knowledge-based and engineering
technology capability highly depends on engineers with experiences
and know-how, nurturing good engineers is a prerequisite for
the improvement of engineering technology.
However, given our system of local engineer manpower management
where an engineer's position determines his ability as well
as his salary, it is often the case that he automatically promotes
to a higher level or is treated as a special engineer in the
current structure of the system. In a nutshell, although it
requires an engineer specialized technology and accumulated
expertise, the local system has its structural limitation.
The education of engineers is mostly done collectively, but
the attendance of the members at collective education and training
programs is slim due to the difficult conditions of the local
engineering industry and their frequent travels. In addition,
this type of education has a low effect on encouraging them
to develop themselves voluntarily. In order to facilitate self-learning
to improve an engineer's ability, an environment needs to be
created for continuous and voluntary self-development by means
of a self-learning modular system, which needs to be developed.
This study is aimed at presenting the priority of the development
of student-centered modular learning subjects and designing
a learning course needed in the process of engineers' career
development given the needs of self-learning of engineers, the
internationalization trend of engineering industry and the diversification
of engineering technology.
To that end, this study reached the following conclusions on
the basis of the analysis of local and overseas self-learning
modular systems, the self-learning needs of local engineers
and experts' opinions.
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Production of common subjects in the
specialization field |
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Production of common subjects by field |
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Production of the priority in the development
of subjects |
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Learning course design |
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An effective operation method of self-learning
modular system |
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The foundation for the career development
of engineers by modularizing the subjects which are essentially
needed for the technology improvement of engineers and codifying
them by subject so that engineers can advance from the beginning
level to the intermediate level and then to the high level or
the special level. |
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The foundation for the self-learning
system, which does not give time and space restrictions to engineers,
should be offered let alone the current collective education system
in which it is difficult for engineers to attend education programs
due to their frequent travels and the insufficient financial conditions
of engineering businesses. |
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It is also expected that the favorable
circumstances for engineers to learn by themselves will increase
the engineers' attendance at education programs, and at the same
time produce positive education effects. Namely, self-learning
modular system will make it possible for engineers to self-learn
through the modular learning centered on hands-on technologies
and improve the specialization and creativity of engineers. Moreover,
it can meet various needs for various levels and abilities of
learners. Therefore, the new system will raise the adaptability
of engineers to the job by providing various level study materials
to engineers. |
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At the same time, it will be possible
to train superior engineers through life learning, so that the
international competitiveness of local engineering businesses
can increase. |
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