Collaborative Learning In The Construction Technology Curriculum

As is the case for all disciplines, the skills that the workplace requires of engineeringkdmology graduates have changed over the years in parallel with evolving technologies and soeio-economic requirements. The National Science Foundations’s task force on TQM has the following definition for contemporary engineering education ‘: “Quality engineering education is the development of intellectual skills and knowledge that will equip graduates to contribute to society through productive and satisfying careers as innovators, decision makers, and leaders in the global economy.” It is expected that today’s engineeringkehnology graduates will be changing jobs several more times compared to a deeade or two ago. This inevitably leads to the requirement that emphasis given in higher education to skills and attributes that are transferable from one type of endeavor to another be as much as, if not more, than that given to purely technical skills, which beeome obsolete quickly in face of rapidly evolving and changing technologies.