Computer defined description of course programs in higher education of engineers

Connection of higher education programs with industrial engineering activities in order to establish practice oriented bachelor and master degrees is an old wish of education in engineering. In a trend towards more problem solving specific and laboratory intensive programs for engineers, earlier concepts and methods in computer system based higher education are revised and new possibilities by using of information technology are assessed. The authors of this paper joined to these efforts and revised their former results in virtual classroom definition for computer modeling of higher education programs. They recognized new demands and trends in the problem solving centered higher education for engineering and outlined a new concept for entities and their connections in a new computer defined course description. Recent results both in model based engineering and higher education modeling are compared with outcomes of their earlier published principles and methods for course definition in computer system. The resulted problem solving intensive concept for course description is concluded.