Iranian Journal of Engineering Education
Year:2019 | Volume:21 | Issue:83|Papers Count:7

The purpose of this research is to investigate the emphasis on the educational ethics at the engineering universities of Iran and comparing with top engineering universities of the world. The research community consists of 100 top world engineering universities (based on THE World university ranking) and 127 engineering universities of Iran. Also, the sampling method of this study is taken to be complete. The research methodology in this study includes documentary and library studies that using benchmarking and best practice. Findings of the research indicate that engineering universities of Iran are not at an acceptable level in educational ethics (ethical documentation). They should consider the ethical programs of top engineering universities of the world and, ultimately, localization should be taken in this regard. Finally, based on the findings of present research, some strategies for creating a comprehensive ethical document for the engineering universities of Iran is suggested, which is the bases to promote ethics in the universities.

Today, technology development is not only a straight forward approach to create wealth, but is a means for superiority of countries in military, industry and economy. In this paper, as a part of a project entitled: Future studies of mechanical engineering, the status of technology development in engineering field, and specifically in mechanical engineering, has been investigated in Iran and compared with some other countries. The aim of this study is to provide a realistic picture of technology development in Iran including its strengths and weaknesses. In data collection for technology development in engineering field, the specific statistics related to mechanical engineering has also been noticed. Some major indices to assess the status of technology development in a country include the number of granted patents, the expenditure on research and development, and the number of researchers (scientists and engineers). Although the number of registered patents is not necessarily enough for a country to be considered as a technology developer, but the lack of enough patents in a country is definitely a sign of poor condition in technology. A brief look at the statistics shows that the global share of Iran in patent registration is very low. In this paper, challenges related to technology development in Iran has been analyzed and the its strengths and weaknesses have been mentioned. This paper has merely shown the current status of Iran and has compared it with other countries. The roadmap of future and suggestions for current challenges will be provided in later researches.

The purpose of this study was to determine a listening level based on Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for undergraduate students of engineering and also to compare the self-reporting of their listening comprehension on the DIALANG and the CEFR listening self-assessment descriptors with their level on the academic and general listening tasks. The participants of this study were 200 Iranian male and female learners (male=148, female=52) at the BS level at the Iran University of Science and Technology. The instruments of this research were the CEFR and the DIALANG listening self-assessment grids and eight listening comprehension tasks at four levels (i. e., A2, B1, B2, & C1) and in two different genres (academic and general). The results revealed that female learners performed better on the general and academic listening tasks than male learners did. The results also indicated that the learners' self-assessment did not correspond closely with their performance on the listening tasks as both groups rated their listening comprehension higher on the CEFR and DIALANG grids. The number of matches on the DIALANG grid was also greater than that of the CEFR, and the matches on the academic tasks were greater than those of the general tasks.

Today, with the Iranian academic system, the industry and lack of conformity of academic functions to the needs of external society on the one hand, and the lack of financial resources on the other hand, has faced a number of challenges for the academic systems. The disruption of the academic system of the industry, in addition to waste of resources also has the country's persistence in achieving development. Therefore, the aim of present research is to design an entrepreneurial university model at Tehran University. In the methodology section, qualitative exploratory and content analysis methods have been used. In the first part, interviews were conducted with purposeful sampling and semi-structured interview with 8 faculty members of Faculty of Entrepreneurship of Tehran University and 4 managers of companies in Science and Technology Park. In the content analysis section, internal and external articles in the territory of the University of Entrepreneur were selected from databases after searching in the time period (1385-1397) (1998-2015), which resulted in a total analysis of 30 articles after the publication of the papers. After reading their main concepts, they were analyzed and classified. Based on the findings of this research, a total of 184 concepts were extracted and in the components of the University of Entrepreneurs altogether, 11 core categories, 30 sub categories and 88 concepts were considered. In the factors affecting the entrepreneurial university; 4 axial categories, 12 subcategories and 31 concepts were extracted and categorized and then depicted in the schematic model.

Energy simulation is one of the most commonly used methods in energy analysis of buildings and architectural environment which has been widely used by students and professors in our country during the last decade. Simulation training is done either formal or informal in colleges especially to master degree students. Although the application of building energy simulation has many advantages, due to the complexity of these tools, achieving precise and accurate results requires considering several main issues. Unfortunately, in our country, no research had been done on the methodology and training quality of buildings energy simulation and urban environment. The present study aims to investigate training quality of building energy simulation using qualitative research method to analyze students' awareness about this most important issue. Data were collected by means of interview and semi-open questionnaires. The statistical population of the study was students and graduate students in architecture from four universities of the country. The results of the research indicate that the students' awareness of the main categories of energy simulation is low. Based on the results, the students' attention to the fundamental issues in building energy simulation in some cases such as basic knowledge, internal validation, and uncertainty of results are scarce.

Now days, having creativity in architecture, especially in the course of architecture design, is one of the challenges that students deal with it. One of the neglected capacities in the education of architectural students is creativity training in learning environment. Applying a model that can nurture creativity and sustain it in architectural design students is the most important aim of this paper. This research is a kind of applied study. The statistical population of this research is all B. A architecture project students 3, 4, 5 of Qazvin Azad University. By available sampling, 116 of students were selected and randomly put in two groups control (40 persons) and intervention (76 person). The control group was trained based on traditional design training and intervention group based on creativity continuing model. The research cool includes creativity estimation researcher questionnaire and data analysis were done by SPSS15. About the constituent components, the effeteness of results showed that students were trained according to creativity continuing model, had more creativity compared with common method during the design process. Consequences of this research indicate the effeteness of creativity continuing model. Creativity continuing model can be an introduction for wider research and more comprehensive design models.

Nowadays, the cooperation between universities and society as a tool to increase and reinforce innovation through exchanging knowledge is receiving more attention than ever before. The wide range of studies in this area focusing on the different aspects of this topic proves this fact. However, the available knowledge in this area is not integrated and lacks a comprehensive and effective perspective. Therefore in this study we proposed a useful and effective model to develop cooperation among vocational universities, industry and society. This qualitative study is conducted using a grounded theory approach. Experts inside and outside of universities and managers of vocational universities were statistical population of this study. Using a purposeful sampling method fifteen people were selected as study participants. To collect data general interview guide method and semi-structured interviews were employed. Collected data were analyzed using MAXQDA software. To meet the validity and reliability of data experts audit and member check techniques were used. The central theme of this study is to move towards a society-centered university. Considering causal, contextual and mediating conditions, strategies were designed and then based on these strategies the final model was presented.