New Trends of English Teaching in Outstanding Engineers’ Education

AbstractEnglish has become more important to learn than ever before with the development of the world. And English teaching is one of the necessary growing areas in outstanding engineers’ training education. The purpose of this paper is to discuss some issues associated with the new trends of English teaching when it comes to outstanding engineers’ education. The paper tries to give information about the requirements of outstanding engineers’ education for English teaching, and is also mentioned training English applicable skills, combination of professional knowledge, and development of faculty, which attribute English teachers to make educational environment more enjoyable. Outstanding engineers’ education provides various new possibilities and latest trends both for teachers and students

Computer anxiety : the development of tools to measure severity and type, and offer appropriate mitigation strategies

PhD ThesisComputer anxiety is a particular anxiety that manifests when the sufferer has to interact with a specific technology. It impacts on the performance and health of those who suffer from it. In spite of, or perhaps because of, the prevalence of computers and technology in the world today, computer anxiety is still presenting in about 25% of the surveyed populations. This work culminates in the presentation of a new instrument, which identifies the type of computer anxiety: operational, sociological or psychological, measures its severity and suggests a range of strategies in order to mitigate the effects of that anxiety, and that this will be the start point in conversations around that support. There are also suggestions for proactive strategies to be adopted by teachers or employers in order to reduce the personal impact, and help sufferers to develop their own mitigation strategies