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Volume 25 Number 2
Summer 2006
SPECIAL ISSUE: FROM REGION TO COUNTRIES

ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN BAHRAIN, EGYPT, AND TURKEY
Guest Editors: Juan C. Lucena and Gary Downey

DEPARTMENTS

3  Engineering Ethics
45 Book Reviews
64 News

Special Issue Introduction:
3 From Region to Countries: Engineering Education in Bahrain, Egypt, and Turkey
Juan C. Lucena, Gary Downey, and Hussein A. Amery

SPECIAL ISSUE FEATURES

11  Development of Engineering Education in Bahrain*
A-Amin Al-Sammak and Hisham Al-Shehabi

17 Engineering and Engineering Education in Egypt*
Osman Lotfy El-Sayed, Juan Lucena, and Gary Downey

25 Engineering Education and Practice in Turkey*
Ş. Birgül Tantekin-Ersolmaz, Ekrem Ekinci, and Gülsün Sağlamer

35 Struggles of Management Engineering Education in Turkey*
L. Özkale

Commentary on the Special Issue:
42 Today and Tomorrow: Engineering Education in Transitioning Societies
Bethany S. Oberst and Russel C. Jones


FEATURE
51 Designing Socially Robust 4G Wireless Services*
Simone Frattasi, Hanane Fathi, Antje Gimmler, Frank H.P. Fitzek, and Ramjee Prasad


*Refereed articles.