"Community Service Engineering" - Postgraduate course for engineers
Tue, 01/10/2013
Would you like to contribute to a more inclusive world as an engineer?
Are you convinced that confrontation with the field of social work and close cooperation with a variety of audiences will broaden your view on society and enhance your employability skills?
New postgraduate course for engineers Thomas More/KU Leuven focuses on the societal role of technology. Read all about it below or at http://associatie.kuleuven.be/cse
Have you already heard about the brand new additional training for engineers Thomas More and KU Leuven are organising together? It allows to combine work and study.
We would like to introduce it to you:
This programme is a collaboration between Thomas More and KU Leuven. It will start for the first time in October 2013 and will run until April 2014 (30 ECTS credits).
Graduated masters of Engineering Science (Architects), Technology, BioScience and Business Engineers have fathomed the technique. "Classical" engineering curricula focus indeed on mastering a comprehensive scientific basis with topics such as mathematics, chemistry, physics, electricity, mechanics and electronics. But an engineer solves problems for ... people and sometimes these (end) users get (too) little attention.
Confrontation with, empathise with, adopting an appreciative approach towards, knowing about and working for end users and organisations in the social profit sector are key. Once opportunities for technology have been discovered, the challenge is to develop them, to (help) implement and sustain them in order to change and improve the lives of people and organisations. That is easier said than done and multidisciplinary is an important asset.
The engineer and the social profit sector have seldom come together. That is what this programme wants to change.
We believe in ‘learning by developing’. Therefore we combine course contents and project work. In the projects, students work on ‘real life’ challenges of target groups of and organisations in the social profit sector.
We are convinced that engineers with an additional certificate of "Community Service Engineering" are particularly widely employable in the labour market because they have been trained at the crossroads of additional disciplines and have interacted with a variety of audiences and organisations.
The training is conducted in English with focus on an international perspective; so students immediately enhance their English language skills as well.
- • Are you an engineer and are you interested? Please let us know.
- • Do you have a project idea that could fit within the programme? Please submit your project proposal via this link.
- • Do you know engineers who might be interested? Please tell them about this course.
- • Are you a Human Resources Manager, concerned with honing the talents of engineers? Please refer them to us.
- • Do you know an engineering association? Please ask to inform their members.
Thank you!
http://associatie.kuleuven.be/cse
Any further questions? Please ask them via [email protected].
Your application for the programme is preferably submitted before September 1th via our website.
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