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Towards harmonization of engineering education curricula in Europe to promote student mobility: a case study

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Alla Anohina,

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EE'08: Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS/IASME international conference on Engineering education

Pages 61 - 66

Published: 22 July 2008 Publication History

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The paper presents results of the research directed towards the improvement of the curriculum "Computer Systems" taught in the Institute of Applied Computer Systems of Riga Technical University. The description of the mentioned curriculum is given. Possibilities to provide academic mobility of higher engineering education students studying at the master level are discussed. Results of the comparison of the curriculum "Computer Systems" with the similar curricula of other countries of the European Union at the level of courses and their groups are presented.

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Towards harmonization of engineering education curricula in Europe to promote student mobility: a case study
1. Applied computing
  1. Enterprise computing
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
      2. Model curricula

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EE'08: Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS/IASME international conference on Engineering education

July 2008

478 pages

ISBN:9789606766862

Editors:
Jaime Lloret Mauri
Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
,
Azami Zaharim
National University of Malaysia, Malaysia
,
Andrei Kolyshkin
Riga Technical University, Latvia
,
M. Hatziprokopiou
Technical and Educational University of Patras, Greece
,
Athina Lazakidou
University of Peloponnese, Greece
,
Michail Kalogiannakis
Researcher University Paris 5, France
,
Konstantinos Siassiakos
Military Institutes of Univ. Education, ASEI, HNA, Greece
,
Nikos Bardis
Military Institutes of Univ. Education, ASEI, HNA, Greece

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World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS)

Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States

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Published: 22 July 2008

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