The graduate of the architecture department is the final product that is introduced to the work market after preparing and qualifying him for five continuous years and he remains in a bitter struggle with his peers from other universities. With the application of the GATT, the work markets will be open to incomers from various countries and nationalities. This will cause a competitive struggle that is even stronger and fiercer than it currently is between the graduates of Egyptian universities, which have not to date achieved competitiveness at the global level. It has been generally observed that there is a decline in the level of graduates in general in the field of developing implementation designs, which are considered to be the foundation of construction of various forms of buildings, and which provide graduates with job opportunities that are many times more than those in the field of design. This deficiency, as observed, is the outcome of a number of affecting factors throughout the student's period of study. To identify the elements of the problem, we can focus on the student-staff-venue and equipment trio. The continuous preparation of students before and after their study in the department, providing them with information, and training them in bureaus and contracting companies; and the preparation of staff members and providing them with the latest in the field of pedagogy, construction technology and its logical sequence and order and curricula have direct and indirect effects on the teaching of the implementation designs subject. The third element is the educational value, with its physical and psychological equipments, such as equipped drafting rooms, labs, workshops, audiovisual instructional tools, etc. This paper studies the measurement of the extent of interaction between these three elements, highlights the negative aspects of such interaction, and observes that positive aspects, with a view to remedy the shortcomings and maximize the positive aspects. In this research, models of the study programs of three architecture departments at Shobra Engineering, with which the researcher is associated, Cairo Engineering, as a college with an extensive history, and the Aalul Bayt University, as an external indicator, are overviewed and analyzed, and the positive and negative aspects of each are introduced from the point of view of the researcher. Questionnaires were also used to poll opinions about the problem from students, staff members, engineers, and bureaus operating in the field of specialization. Finally, the research concludes with an identification of the dimensions of the problem, and hence introduces a number of remedial suggestions and recommendations |
