In the context of software engineering education, there is a recurrent demand for new approaches and techniques that support the application and transfer of knowledge to real-life situations with the aim of encouraging a more active learning among students. In particular, serious games have recen...

In this chapter, education about standardization will be examined chronologically to the development of Bulgaria: from the socialist era, during the transition period to the present day market economy, at the beginning of the 21st century with the necessary discourses on sustainable development. ...

This chapter describes the development of the curriculum of an academic course on standardisation management integrated into an innovation management masters at a business school. It turns out that the systematic way of designing this curriculum automatically leads to the inclusion of sustainabil...

Context: In recent years the interest in using serious games for software engineering, software process, software project management and software process standards education has increased significantly. The ISO 21500 standard is an international reference standard that provides generic guidance a...

This chapter offers an image on how standardization is reflected in the curriculum at different levels of the educational system in Romania which is mainly public. Standardization is of great importance in the context of a globalized world and in more and more areas of life, such as education, he...

In this chapter the author shares his initiatives and methods in education about standardization, enlists concepts and relevant bodies of knowledge related to standardization, and identifies challenges and opportunities for education about standardization in the fields of Informatics and Informat...

This book examines education about standardization in the context of sustainable management. It shows the role of standardization education in the global economy, and in markets, industries and businesses. The book presents knowledge on standardization for sustainable management, describes measur...

Building a challenging curriculum for future engineers in a changing technological landscape is one of the missions of the BRUFACE master programme in engineering, offered by Brussels Universities. The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)’s long tradition in electric vehicle research, which str...

Serious games involve applying game design techniques to tasks of a serious nature. In particular, serious games can be used as informative tools and can be embedded in formal education. Although there are some studies related to the application of serious games for the software development proce...

Information security deals with protecting data and information in all of its forms. The information security topic has been an area of growing research and educational interest for years. Many universities started to incorporate security concepts in new or existing courses, following the ecommen...

Companies’ actions are increasingly influenced by standards which, for various reasons, are becoming more important. Against this background, the requirements on employees have increased, as standards influence ever further reaching areas of their tasks. On the one hand, products and proces...

In the modern world of rapid and continuous industrial development, standardization plays a considerable role in shaping the global economy. Standards establish quality benchmarks, resolve connectivity problems, fuel innovation and by these means, enable technological advancement and facilitate i...

Sustainable development is no longer a luxury, but a necessity. Sustainability standards and certifications are voluntary, commonly third party assessed, agreed upon norms and values relating to environmental, health, wellbeing, social, and ethical issues. From medical devices, to coffee, to fuel...

This chapter provides new empirical proof for the relationship between education and research and argues that research can lead to education and the other way around. The two concepts re-enforce each other and can increase the quality of both. This paper adds practical relevance as a concept in t...

Education about Standardization (EaS) has tried to establish it as an independent discipline, but T. Kurokawa advocates that the EaS should be an inter-disciplinary discipline to achieve a goal of intellectual infrastructure for the industry and society. He refers to other inter-disciplinary educ...

This paper makes an illustrative review of programmes underway in the field of education related to standards and standards related issues. It introduces in detail the work carried out by the UNECE “Working Party on “Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies”—an ...

A natural step in the development of disciplines is that practitioners establish communities to share knowledge and experience, and further develop the field. This chapter presents literature on such Communities of Practice and Networks of Practice, and applies the findings to the field of standa...

The Republic of Korea is a forerunner in integrating the topic of standardization into engineering education at the academic level. This study investigates developments and evolutions in the planning and operating of the University Education Promotion on Standardization (UEPS) in Korea. This pape...

This chapter aims to provide more insight in specific aspects of teaching about standardization and addressed teaching methods to better teach in order to facilitate a new generation of students—generation Z—to learn about standardization. Adequate teaching methods for teaching about ...

The Scoping study for supporting the development of a Code of Practice for researchers on standardisation aims to identify elements of good practice for researchers dealing with standards and standardisation in the course of research projects funded by Horizon 2020. Results indicate the existence...