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The Future of Geodetic Engineers ANNUAL 2004 OF THE CROATIAN ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING CROATIAN ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING Annu. Croat. Acad. Eng. ISSN 1332-3482 ANNUAL 2004 OF THE CROATIAN ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING Editor-in-Chief Zlatko Kniewald Zagreb, 2004 Published by: Croatian Academy of Engineering Kačićeva 28, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia Editor-in-Chief: Zlatko Kniewald, President of the Croatian Academy of Engineering Editorial Board and Reviewers: Zlatko Kniewald Stanko Tonković Tomislav Filetin Miljenko Lapaine Technical Editor: Miljenko Lapaine Editors of Who is Who: Miljenko Lapaine Miroslava Lapaine Melanija Strika Dražen Tutić Cover Design: Ivana Žiljak Proof-reading: Melanija Strika ISSN 1332-3482 Annual 2004 of the Croatian Academy of Engineering Annu. Croat. Acad. Eng. Printed by: ITG, Zagreb Circullation 500 Foreword Dear Reader, The Croatian Academy of Engineering is especially glad to welcome you to exam- ine the «Annual 2004 of the Croatian Academy of Engineering», hoping that you will find here a lot of interesting and mostly new information. At this moment we can say that, in the 12th year of our existence, we are a rather young institution, but with the strong orientation and desire to be an active partner to the Croatian Gov- ernment, industry as well as to the educational system and all international institu- tions and individuals. Besides lot of recent information at our website, we would also like to present some up-to-date new information about the HATZ efforts to be present in the ongoing «Bologna Declaration» procedures. Therefore, the first part of the «Annual» com- prises the discussions held during the Colloquium «Current Approaches to the Edu- cation of Engineers», which took place on February 27, 2004, the same day as the Annual Assembly of the HATZ. We hope that you will find this part of «Annual» to be very informative and interesting. Considering the fact that the first part consists of the communications of our members and is not an official position of the Acad- emy itself, we are open for all your possible comments and discussion on the sub- ject. However, we are fully aware that the engineering education is one of the cru- cial points in the future higher education in Croatia, because this, at the same time, is a prerequisite of the future industrial modernization. The second part of the «Annual» is also a kind of novelty, because each year we will inform you about the up-to-date status of all categories of membership and the names of the members of the Governing Board, the Presidency and all Departments, Standing Committees and Centers of the Academy. We would like to inform you that the members of the Academy, aside from their rich scientific and educational experience and international recognition, are also participating in the activities of the Government of the Republic of Croatia and the Croatian Parliament as ministers and state officials, ambassadors, parliamentary representatives. Our members are also directors of the state institutions, members of the Croatian Academy of Sci- ences and Arts, deans of the faculties, rectors of the universities, experts of the UN and the EU, members of the international bodies, laureates of domestic and interna- tional awards for scientific and professional achievements... and it would take too much time and space to mention all duties and functions that our members are or were engaged in. Beside this, we are particularly proud that we have been welcomed as a Member Academy to the International Council of Academies of Engineering and Techno- logical Sciences (CAETS) at the Beijing Meeting 2000, and that, starting from January 1, 2005, we are to become an Associate Member Academy of the European Council of Applied Sciences and Engineering (Euro-CASE). We are particularly grateful to our Supporting Members for providing their finan- cial support that helps us realize our annual programs, but also for their awareness that among the HATZ members they can find internationally recognized experts to solve any problem related to the production, monitoring or technology and know- how transfer. In the future we shall make further efforts to realize the closer rela- tions with the supporting members, but also to promote their participation in all contacts that our Academy is engaged in abroad. Serving the Academy, we are serv- ing the better future of Croatia. Zlatko Kniewald President of the Croatian Academy of Engineering Contents Foreword Part I: Current Approaches to the Education of Engineers Problems Enforcing the Bologna Declaration Kurt R. Richter 1 Reform of the Education in Croatia Vjekoslav Jerolimov 9 Role of Engineers in the Modern Economy Zlatko Kniewald 15 E-Learning Paradigm & Intelligent Tutoring Systems Slavomir Stankov, Ani Grubišić, Branko Žitko 21 Mining Engineering Education – A Vision for the Future Branko Salopek 33 Trends in Chemical Engineering Education Marin Hraste 43 Experimentation in Modern Education of Chemical Engineers Alojz Caharija, Goran Galinec, Denis Stjepan Vedrina 49 Education of Modern Engineers of Metallurgy in the Context of the World De- velopment of Metallurgical Industry Prosper Matković, Josip Črnko, Tanja Matković 57 Course of Study of Materials Engineering at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Tomislav Filetin 71 Mechatronics and Robotics Mladen Crneković 81 Application of Engineering in the Study of Human Locomotion Vladimir Medved 89 Health Care in New Technologies Environment Stanko Tonković 109 Opening the Discussion on the Introduction of eLearning Principles in the Life- long Education in Printing Vilko Žiljak, Mladen Lovreček 117 The Future of Geodetic Engineers Nedjeljko Frančula, Miljenko Lapaine 127 High Education Mission in the Field of Wood Processing Technology Mladen Figurić 137 Engineering Education for Environment Protection Đurđa Vasić-Rački, Jasna Kniewald 145 Education of Food Technologists for the Future Vlasta Piližota 155 Education and Training of Technologists and Biotechnologists and Their Ef- fects on Educated Expert Position in Production Plants Marijan Bošnjak 161 Part II: Who ih Who in the Croatian Academy of Engineering 171 Supporting Members Part I Current Approaches to the Education of Engineers Annual 2004 of the Croatian Academy of Engineering 1 Problems Enforcing the Bologna Declaration Kurt R. Richter * Honorary Member of the Croatian Academy of Technical Sciences Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences IEEE Life Senior member Abstract In this presentation a short review on the aspect of the Bologna Declaration is given. Some problems which can arise during the implementation are described and in particular those originating from the changes existing structures of educational programmes for engineering. Some of these problems may be specific for different countries depending upon the particular educational system. The problems may even differ from one progamme to the other. Introduction No other international or bilateral agreement before has ever influenced universities in as many countries as much as the Bologna Declaration. In many countries in Europe some objectives of this political agreement between governments did not receive the full support their universities. However, industry was and is very much interested in restructuring of the traditional engineering programmes for various reasons as there are shorter study time, more practice oriented graduates, mobility of students and engineers etc. In fact the consequences of such re-structuring are manifold leading to a change of paradigms which sometimes could not be foreseen. Over centuries universities were developing very independently and so were the various faculties and curricula. The quality was very much defined by the teachers and most of the students were primarily interested learning as much as possible in order to increase their knowledge and skills in the scientific or technical field of their choice. They also attended lectures of professors of high reputation in a differ- ent discipline and registered at universities abroad where these professors were teaching. We still find this approach at students of music and art who want to get to a high level of their skills in order to have a promising future. In most other fields * em.o.Univ.-Prof. „Dipl.-Ing.“ Dr.techn. Kurt R. Richter, IGTE TU-Graz, A-8010 Graz, Kopernikusgasse 24, Austria 2 K. Richter: Problems in Enforcing the Bologna Declaration and, in particular in science and technology I sometimes get the impression that an increasing number of the students study in order to get a degree as fast as possible which very often is recognized for employment by industry and governmental insti- tutions without sufficiently checking the quality of the graduate. Variety of European Programmes The European universities were based on the freedom of research and teaching, however, without too much interference or involvement by the government. Engi- neering programmes evolved very much individually and organically within geo- graphical and/or political units, (e.g. Skandinavia, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, COMECON States etc.). As a consequence, of course, this lead to a confusing vari- ety of systems and degrees within Europe (see Table 1 and 2, respectively). Table 1. Some European degrees in engineering (Hernaut, 1991) Akademiingeniør Diplom-Ingenieur Insinööri Okleveles üzem- Bachelor of Arts (FH) Ingénieur civil mérnök BEng Diplomi-Insinöör Ingénieur diplomé Sivilingeniør BSc Doktor-Ingenieur Ingénieur industriel Teknikfræðingur Civilingeniør Dottore in Ingegneria Ingénieur technicien
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