Many faculty believe that engineering education in America is at a crossroads and much change is needed. International competition in engineering and the global economy have major potential impact on the engineering workforce of the future. We must find ways to educate U.S. engineers to be competitive and creative contributors in the worldwide arena. Recent national reports are sounding the alarm that the U.S. is losing it leadership in technology and innovation, with consequences for economic prosperity and national security. The report Rising Above the Gathering Storm discusses this dilemma in detail and offers four recommendations to U.S. policymakers. The report Educating the Engineer of 2020 discusses new ways to prepare American engineers for the 21^st Century. Furthermore, changes in ABET accreditation, along with new paradigms of teaching and new technology in the classroom, are changing the scholarship of engineering education. We must find ways to promote change in engineering faculty for this new opportunity in engineering educational scholarship. Future engineering students are now in K-12, which is becoming an increasingly diverse population that in the past has not been fully represented in engineering education. Current trends show disaffection for pursuing studies in science and engineering in the youth of our U.S. society. We must find new ways to portray engineering as an exciting and rewarding career, and certainly as an educational platform for professional careers beyond the baccalaureate degree.

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The roots of engineering education lie in the workplace. It was not until the 19th century that higher engineering education moved to a more scholarly environment. True to its origins, research in the applied sciences never aimed at pure understanding alone. The goal of engineering investigations has always been to devise solutions to practice problems with a mixture of design, construction and innovation. If the establishing of a research tradition in engineering has taken quite a long time, the time needed to apply an academic mode of thinking to the approach to teaching and learning has been much longer. In fact, most of the design choices concerning the curricula in higher engineering education were made based on intuition, rather than on insight, until well over the half of the last century. Aiming at to support the development of engineering education in Europe, in 1973 the European Society of Engineering Education was established (labelled SEFI according to the French acronym Société Européenne pour la Formation des Ingénieurs). Presently the society represents 196 institutional members. SEFI promotes cooperation between higher engineering education institutions and other scientific and international bodies on issues of research and development in Engineering Education, for instance through participating in European network projects such as the SOCRATES Thematic Network "TREE" (Teaching and Research in Engineering Education in Europe). SEFI is also engaged in policy development regarding engineering education publishing statements regarding issues like the Bologna process and the proposed European Institute of Technology. In the future SEFI aims to consolidate and strengthen its role in the European arena and to represent Europe on the Global stage.

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In this study, the constituents that compose basic engineering competency are examined that is required for desirable engineers and technicians The drawn elements were categorized into three major parts: (1) the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), (2) the Creative Engineering Design (CED), and (3) Engineers' Competency Development (ECD). Each part and its essential points were verified through Delphi Technique inquiry that was performed by engineering and technology professionals who currently work in the Korean industry workplace. With such processes, the constituents of basic engineering competency that should be nurtured in Korean engineering schools were deduced and studied.

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Cooperative activities on engineering education between the Center for Innovation and Creativity Development, The University of Tokushima and the Center for Innovation of Education, Korea Maritime University are introduced. Interrelation of both centers have held by mutual visiting of teachers and students. Student's projects of Tokushima University and capstone design activities of Maritime University were introduced each other. This coalotion is planned to be enlarged by including partner universities in both countries.

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Today, the using of natural energy is expected popularly. The radiation from the sun is 1.395KW/m2 under the condition of perpendicular plane. Solar powered electric propulsion is a practical, economic alternative to diesel engines on lake water boats. High performance solar panels, batteries, chargers, motors and motor controllers are more affordable than ever. In this study, we will try to make a sailing on ocean water by solar boat without crew according to adopting new technology.In the structure of boat, composites are expanding the use on transportation vehicles like automobiles, ships, and aircrafts. The main factor of this expansion is high specific strength. It can supply a high quality and efficiency of energy. VaRTM process can offer a high quality the same as autoclave products, and low cost like hand lay-up process. So, VaRTM process can practically apply for FRP boat. This paper shows that the building of boat was made by VaRTM process and the student was engaged building process by checking of technical point for all mechanism.

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The economic depression during the last decade of the 20th century caused various drastic changes in the social structure, including employment and educational systems. Japanese universities have devoted much effort to research activity and the development of teaching methodology for engineering education was not a major effort for professors. Decrease of 18 years old population, however, forced universities to change this attitude. University education is no more for only elite but is becoming very popular among young people. Another impact came from the 'globalization' of industrial societies such as establishment of WTO and APEC. Japan Accreditation Board for Engineering Education (JABEE) was established to cope with both domestic and international problems in 1999, and JABEE was admitted as a full signatory member of the Washington Accord in 2005. The Professional Engineer Law was amended linked with JABEE. The importance of engineering ethics has been recognized with these social structure changes. This paper describes the problems now Japanese engineering education is facing and the role of Japanese Society for Engineering Education (JSEE) in order to reorganize the engineering education in Japan.

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The wide spread of knowledge is a major aim of learning/education (L/E), for which it will be the basics of modem L/E to provide every person over the world with opportunities for accessing open knowledge resources via virtually unlimited communication capability. To cope with the recent 'explosion' of knowledge associated with highly complicated social activities, it is necessary to integrate and visualise the related knowledge and learning experience, within a bigger picture, each piece of knowledge clearly positioned and related with each other. Furthermore, in order to make world-wide knowledge and intellectual activities mutually linked according to the concept of knowledge structuring, rapidly advancing ICT should be best utilised as a powerful means. The paper first discusses the progress of open knowledge sharing and structuring/visualisation. It then analyses the issues of global cooperative activities in the L/E arena, and finally presents a variety of specific collaboration examples.

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