New education challenges in engineering course programs

Development of engineering systems brought great changes in lifecycle modeling of products. These changes widened the area of model definition, made engineering processes more conform to new demands at communication with engineers, enhanced representation of knowledge, and resulted smart functions of product model such as self adaptive characteristic. It is inevitable that development of model based engineering is new challenge for higher education of engineers. At the same time, the new convergence of theory and practice which is enforced by recent engineering modeling offers more university program conform integration of university courses and engineering systems. In this paper, new contributions are introduced to prepare this integration. After introduction of the relevant new methods in engineering, new model is outlined for course program. Following this, changes of course programs are introduced which are enforced by changes of model based engineering. Finally, new approaches are provided for communication between course and engineering object representations and course configuration.