Egypt
EU-Funded Project: INNOVATE
EU-Funded Project: MinSE
Educational lectures at conferences
Survey
Specific (‘vocational’) education and training in heat treatment and surface engineering are widely acknowledged to be increasingly important. Many IFHTSE members are direct providers of material and/or courses. IFHTSE itself is not directly an education provider, but it participates in appropriate projects and works to coordinate effort and ensure useful interchange of experience and ideas.
Outcomes are:
- Facilitation of short courses in Egypt
- Partnership in two EU-funded projects, INNOVATE and MinSE
- Short survey of opinion
- Encouragement of integration of short courses as added attractions at IFHTSE conferences
- Contribution on education and training to the Global 21 programme
Participation in the EU-funded projects involved or implied consideration of issues such as:
- The extent to which teaching material should or could be in some way ‘standardised’ globally or regionally
- The language in which teaching material is available
- Uniformity of qualifications / certification
- Internationally acceptable validation systems for teaching material
- The use of electronic media and online learning
- The growing need for validated, and probably globally uniform, training material for technicians / technologists, especially those involved in plant and process operation
IFHTSE accepts that regional or global ‘standardisation’ of teaching, training and qualifications is anything from difficult to pointless. However, there is increasing interest in gaining broad, cross-border, agreement on the subject scope for heat treatment and surface engineering, i.e. a general agreement on what a qualified and effective individual in the industry needs to know. A general view on this is being developed.
