This workshop main objective was  to present the experience and thoughts of some international and local specialists in this area in order to disseminate awareness in the Arab World, such as deans of engineering schools, faculty members involved in program design, employers and government representatives influential in defining educational priorities.

Main topics of the workshop:

-International status and trends in engineering education: different approaches to engineering education worldwide and the need to rationalize. The training of engineers in different countries and the transferable knowledge and skills required of graduate engineers to satisfy the demands of the international workplace.

-Engineering education systems: worldwide developments and the present status in the Admission policies for degree level engineering study in general, including specific policies in some parts of the region .

-Academic reference standards for engineering education: an overview of the knowledge, skills and ethics that an undergraduate engineer should acquire.

-Program development methods, essential core content, development of open ended problem solving, development of self learning, and assessment methods including external input.

-Relationship between engineering institutes or universities and the industrial sector and/or-Quality of engineering education: presentation of quality systems and best practices in education in general and in engineering education in particular.

-Institutional and departmental resources and procedures required to support a quality assured engineering education.