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Engineering Education and Curriculum Development

Engineering Education and Curriculum Development is a research topic within Media Technology. Science Explorer counts 31k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the development and assessment of engineering education, with an emphasis on outcome-based education, curriculum development, and the acquisition of professional skills. It explores topics such as accreditation, globalization's impact, and the importance of lifelong learning and teamwork skills in engineering. The papers also discuss competency-based models and various assessment methods in the context of engineering education.

  • Engineering Education
  • Curriculum Development
  • Outcome-Based Education
  • Assessment Methods
  • Professional Skills
  • Globalization
  • Accreditation
  • Lifelong Learning
  • Teamwork Skills
  • Competency-based Models
Research works
31k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-22%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
56% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Engineering Education and Curriculum Development

Which countries lead Engineering Education and Curriculum Development research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.5k and 511 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.5k works
  2. 2 China 511 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 385 works
  4. 4 India 226 works
  5. 5 Canada 181 works
  6. 6 Malaysia 175 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 162 works
  8. 8 Australia 147 works
  9. 9 South Africa 108 works
  10. 10 Philippines 90 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 55.9%China: 11.4%Indonesia: 8.6%India: 5.0%6 others listed: 19.2%56%largest
United States2,513 · 55.9%China511 · 11.4%Indonesia385 · 8.6%India226 · 5.0%6 others listed864 · 19.2%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Engineering Education and Curriculum Development research?

By volume in 2022-now, Purdue University West Lafayette publishes the most Engineering Education and Curriculum Development research, followed by Virginia Tech and Pennsylvania State University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 95 works
  2. 2 Virginia TechUnited States 70 works
  3. 3 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 58 works
  4. 4 Texas A&M UniversityUnited States 40 works
  5. 5 Tecnológico de MonterreyMexico 38 works
  6. 6 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 37 works
  7. 7 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 37 works
  8. 8 University of MichiganUnited States 36 works
  9. 9 University of TorontoCanada 34 works
  10. 10 Arizona State UniversityUnited States 34 works

Who are the leading researchers in Engineering Education and Curriculum Development?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Engineering Education and Curriculum Development include Seeram Ramakrishna and Jeffrey L. Cummings.

  1. 1 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k citations
  2. 2 Jeffrey L. Cummings United States 176k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Engineering Education and Curriculum Development?

The most cited paper in Engineering Education and Curriculum Development is "Engineering Design Thinking, Teaching, and Learning" (Clive L. Dym, Alice Merner Agogino, Özgür Eriş et al., 2005), with 2,805 citations. Next come "Inductive Teaching and Learning Methods: Definitions, Comparisons, and Research Bases" (2,451) and "Engineering design — A systematic approach" (2,132).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Engineering Design Thinking, Teaching, and Learning Clive L. Dym, Alice Merner Agogino, Özgür Eriş et al. · Journal of Engineering Education 2005 2,805
2 Inductive Teaching and Learning Methods: Definitions, Comparisons, and Research Bases Michael J. Prince, Richard M. Felder · Journal of Engineering Education Apr 2006 2,451
3 Engineering design — A systematic approach Kevin L. Edwards · Materials & Design (1980-2015) 1995 2,132
4 Understanding Student Differences Richard M. Felder, Rebecca Brent · Journal of Engineering Education 2005 1,706
5 Project-based learning: A review of the literature Dimitra Kokotsaki, Victoria S. Menzies, Andy Wiggins · Improving Schools Open access 21 Jul 2016 1,704
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Where is Engineering Education and Curriculum Development research done?

The largest centres of Engineering Education and Curriculum Development research in 2022-now are West Lafayette (United States), Blacksburg (United States), Washington D.C. (United States) and State College (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in San Luis Obispo and Glassboro.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 West LafayetteUnited States 95 works
  2. 2 BlacksburgUnited States 71 works
  3. 3 Washington D.C.United States 63 works
  4. 4 State CollegeUnited States 58 works
  5. 5 BeijingChina 56 works
  6. 6 MelbourneAustralia 46 works
  7. 7 TorontoCanada 45 works
  8. 8 PadangIndonesia 43 works
  9. 9 Shah AlamMalaysia 42 works
  10. 10 BangkokThailand 39 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. San Luis ObispoUS · 21.5 works40×
  2. GlassboroUS · 22.4 works32×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Engineering Education and Curriculum Development than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Engineering Education and Curriculum Development?

Among universities, judged by research, Swinburne University of Technology, Tecnológico de Monterrey and Aalborg University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%30%mean 17.77%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Eindhoven University…Swinburne University…Aalborg UniversityTecnológico de Monte…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Swinburne University of TechnologyAustralia 70.824.1%10.5×15 +65.6%
2Tecnológico de MonterreyMexico 67.014.4%28.0×38 +224.1%
3Aalborg UniversityDenmark 64.615.7%8.2×24 +17.6%
4Eindhoven University of TechnologyNetherlands 62.927.0%4.5×8 +51.1%
5National University of MalaysiaMalaysia 62.123.1%3.5×12 +49.4%
6Virginia TechUnited States 61.911.2%24.6×70 -15.8%
7Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 60.98.7%19.4×95 -51.9%
8Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaSpain 59.813.0%5.8×10 +61.0%
9University of TwenteNetherlands 58.425.6%5.4×8 +179.4%
10Florida International UniversityUnited States 57.614.9%11.0×17 +75.5%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Engineering Education and Curriculum Development, country by country

Is Engineering Education and Curriculum Development research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Engineering Education and Curriculum Development as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.045% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Engineering Education and Curriculum Development0.027% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Engineering Education and Curriculum Development over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Engineering Education and Curriculum Development10.2% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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