The railways were developed in Egypt since 1854 by Jorge Stephenson who invented the steam locomotive in the Great Britain. However, many technical and financial problems affected the operational performance indicators of the railway industry in the last twenty years. One among others of those factors is the drop in the level and backward outcomes of learning of the railway engineering. Thus, the main objective of this paper is studying the qualitative and quantitative demand of the Egyptian railway industry for graduated engineers from the different universities and higher institutes. Also, the paper focuses on the main impacts of the railway education methodologies on the performance of the railway organizations such as Egyptian National Railways and Metro Companies. Analyzing the natures of educational areas and other courses of railway engineering in some local and international universities has been conducted in this paper. Several railway educational aspects and levels of the learning outcomes have also been compared among the local, European Union and North American universities. In addition to clearly illustrating the results of the analysis; selected outcomes of the study were concluded to propose proper solutions for the problem of the railway engineering learning and its influences on the railway safety and levels of the operational service in Egypt. |
