Abstract
The first university in Syria was found in the early years of the 20th century, and the first faculty of engineering was found around the time of independence from France in 1946. Unlike Japan the engineering faculties in Syria are independent from each other and each faculty has several departments. All engineering students in all faculties study for 5 years to get the engineering degree; around 90% of the courses have a practical section that counts for 20 to 30% of the course degrees, where students work in laboratories, interact with teaching staff and visit factories or project sites. And in most faculties, 3rd and 4th year students have camps where they visit factories and working government facilities and work there for around a month as part of their education program. In this paper the Department of Spinning and Textile Engineering in the Faculty of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering in Al-Baath University, will be used as an example.
